The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1881-06-17
NEW NoR'-wEsTERs.

! NEW NOR -wESTERS.
Genius is eternal patience.-Michael
Angeto.
General Butler and General Roger A.
/ Pryor are about TO form new law partner
ship.
Senator David Davis is in poor health.
He started for California and Oregon last
week.
Run, you like, but try to save your breath,
| Work like a man, but don't be worked to
| death. Holmes.
in the cadet Whitaker court martial
1902 pages of testimony have been taken
already.
| 1t Is now fashionable for the musicians
| to sing for dancing. The idea comes from
Paris, Of course.
In Saxony they make cheese from pota-
toes. In America it's hard to tell what they
make cheese from.
In Wall street they call them Windows
1.-The new stamped three and a half per. cent
bonds. A bright and breezy name.
Queen Victoria wrote with her own roy
! al hand the obituary notice of Beaconsfeld
that appeared In the London Court Jour
nal.
-"Not one hotel in forty, large or small,
places good cup of coffee on the table"
says a New Yorker who has travelled for 20
years.
A Fond du Lac banker absconded with
$500, 1000, but his tender conscience COM
PEELED him to send back $3.50 belonging to q
cemetery fund.
jay Gould's profits last year were S6,-
100000. How nice 1t must be to be able TO
buy whole custard pie at once and not feel
that you have to suffer for the extravaganza.
A paper lately read before an English
society states that British heads are growing
smaller, the dimensions having shrunk on an
average one seventh of an inch in the last
quarter century.
A Maine ieweler has been made serious
ly i'll by inhaling the dust from an old clock
which he was repairing. Paris green had
been put in the clock to kill bugs and it came
near killing the jeweler.
The dairy business In California is
largely in the hands of the Swiss. They
generally settle together and form small col
onies, helping one another, so that in few
years each has a small piece of land aud
few cows.
Oakley Hall, when he was asked the 9th.
er day If he liked newspaper work, said
ayes, Cor 1t has no yesterdays" This sums
up very forcibly the charm there is in news
paper work. 1t is always the work of the
morrow. No retracing of steps, no delving
into the past; in fact, no yesterday-always
tomorrow.
Forty thousand wax candles are instan-
tapeously lighted by single match in the
Royal Palace, Berlin. The wicks are previ-
ously connected with athrcad spun fromgun
cotton, on igniting one end of which all the
candles In the seven hundred apartments are
instantaneously lighted.
Professor Hemholtz expresses the epin-
ion that our planetary system must sooner or
later come to an end by the exhaustion Of
its forces. The sun must ultimately "run
down." like clock. He thinks that the ex-
isting stock of power available for the main
tanning Of life may last some 100000
years.
After all the worry over Mother Ship
toms prophecy of the end of the world, 1T is
rather aggravating to learn that not only the
prophecy was forgery, but even the old lady
herself was myth. Some anxious London
er has been ransacking the British Museum
TO make biography, and he finds her sort
Of historical Mrs Harris-"there never was
no sich person."
The Oldest specimens of timber in the
world are supposed to be the dowel pins con-
tanned in the ancient temples of Egypt.
These dowel pins are Incorporated with the
stone work, which Is known to be not less
than 1000 years old, and are believed to have
been made from the tamarack or shittim
wood tree Of ancient Egypt, a tree now often
found in the Nile valley.
A Washington telegram reports the find
ing of cipher dispatch among the war rec
ords being complied for publication which
General Burnside, then In command at
Knoxville, Tenn, sent to General Halleck
in September, 1868, proposing that march
be made by way Of Atlanta to the sea, to be
undertaken without trains, and the troops to
be subsisted on the country.
"A suggestion to employ artificial lights
for the capture and destruction Of noxious
insects has found considerable favor. A
medal was awarded at the last exhibition of
agriculture and insectology in Paris for
lamp especially adapted for catching insects.
The electric light has been found to be
very effective insect trap, and its eventual
coming into use for this purpose in bug-in.
fected gardens and orchards may be regarded
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