The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1881-05-13
NEW Noa'-wrsTERs.
Perpetual motion--Scandal.

The city council Of Denver have voted
sIO0, 600 for q city hall. f
Nevada City, CAL, has contracted for
the Brush electric light.
Denver Is to have park with lake In
1t half mile In length.
Alexander LII. is correct and almost
a,lstere in his private life.
A Utica Plymouth Rock hen lays eggs
weighing quarter of pound each.
A few Florida farmers who have planted
arrowroot make as much as $ 1000 on an
acre. %e~
President Garfield calls people By their
baptismaI names as soon as he finds out who
they are. .#
Moscow has now more than 400 Churches
and chapels, andyet wicked people are still
found there.
Editor Aldrich, of the Atlantic, wakes his
mustache and parts his hair in the middle
very prettily.
A kind Of sandstone strongly impregna-
ted with petroleum has been discovered In
Southern Utah.
-vergennes, VT, has a negro sheriff,
French mayor, two Indian policemen and a
" oman city clerk. ,.
The Ceylon Observer says that in the
Island 5000 are planted In cinchona and
10000 acres In tea. ""..
The Cleveland Leader says one-half the
murders of this country are caused by the
carrying of concealed weapons.
The Washington monument is going up
at the rate of three courses Of stone.a week,
when the stone can be obtained.
james Russell Lowell Is regarded by
many of his readers as young man. He Is
62, and as bright as man of 35.
Timothy Maher, the strongest man in
New Haven, is dead. lie could hold GOO
pounds suspended from his middle finger.
-AKeene Richards, who died In Kentucky
recently, spent more than 100000 to Inn
prove the breed of race horses In this coun-
try. .s..
Garfield Is poor-his intimate friends not
worth over SIC, 900 If every item Of his per-
sonal property were brought to the auction
block.
-Ex-Millionaire Thomas +. O'Brien, oi
Montreal, has been sent to the penitentiary
for five wears for uttering forged receipt Of
$4,000. 's
-Brignoli Is angry with Utica critic who
said that he ate garlic, and that as Romeo he
could not climb TO Juliet's balcony without
a derrick. -.
San Francisco ships thousands Of pounds
Of honey to France and England, and buys
thousands of tons Of beer from milwaukee,
and st. Louis. .e..a q
Senator Vest says there Is more solid ar
gument In loaded shotgun than In all thu
decisions of the Supreme Court, and he tell
several amusing stories 70 prove what b
says.
The Truckee Republican reports that al
attempt will be made this summer to get al
the survivors Of the Donner party togethe
at Donner Lake, the scene of their suffering
In the winter of 1S46.
| Wall street gossip has 1t, ac,ordiug Il
the New York Sun, that James Gordon Ben
net, during his recent sojourn at Nice, made
heavy losses at cards, dropping In on
evening as much as $4,000.
The only buildings I'm Council Bluff
which are considered safe from the food ar
the Deaf and Dumb Asylum and the Hig
School. The name should be changed +
Council Bottoms. Bee.
The family of Colonel Bob Ingersoll ar
happr, jolly, liglt-hearted and cultured pee
pie. The daughters have never been a
school, but have been educated at home
One Of them, who Is handsome girl of tn
English type, has rich contralto soice. /
Ingersoll's library Shakespeare is regarde
as his Bible and Burns as his hymn book
Some pious people are very angry to kno'
that the Ingersoll people dare to be happy
But the Colonel continues to "Dob UP 81
, renely." Il
A catarrh doctor thus concludes his eli
ctllar to the afflicted: "When look at thu
vast field, filled with the pale nations of tf
!, dead and the bending stones covered wit
moss, shed tear and say, 'Ignorant
ushered thousands here. They sleep unds
: the solemn pines, the sad hemlocks, the tea
f,il willows and the embracing vines. The
sleep beneath the shadow of the cloud
careless Of sunshine and shadow, each In q
windowless palace have one sentimei
for catarrhal people living or dead. Chez
for the living; tears for the dead"