The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1881-09-23
NEW NOR

Do the duty which lies nearest to thee
Goethe.
Four hundred Jews have passed through
Hamburg for America.
The pine railroads which end at Boston
carried 34,500 900 passengers last year.
Three thousand different people claim the
prize offered for the discovery Of comet q.
The Central Pacific railroad is replacing
its iron rails by steel ones through Nevada.
A lawyer should never burn coal. He
gets along better with Coke than Blackstone.
1t is one of the worst of errors to suppose
that there is any other path of safety but
that of duty.
The new ministry In Egyrt includes Hadai
Pasha, finance, Baronde Pasha, war, and Ma
rashly Pasha, public works.
A fruit-dealer advertises peaches by the
basket-every basket warranted-but Is wise
ly silent about the peaches.
There are BIOS centenaiians in Europe in
q total population of 242,OO0,OOO. In this
number 1854 are women and l PA men.
VIM. Pixley was burned 70 death last week
in brush fire at San Rafael, Cal. He was
brother of Frank Pixley, Of the Argondus.
James r. Keene has purchased for $4,000
an English estate, upon which he intends TO
build stables for the purpose of training his
horses.
j. B. Hume, the boss detective of the Pa
ci6c coast, was robbed by highwaymen near
Bodje recently. He held his hands as high
rs anybody.
"Yellow jackets" are so numerous on Dry
creek, Umatiila county, Oregon, that the peo-
pie there despair of drying the usual quausi-
lies of fruit.
One thousand coolies are expected from
China i'm few days on the Oceanic, to work
OH railroads in Texas and New Mexico, at
$l.25 per day.
1t is a curious arrangement that compels
people 10 90 to bed at night when they are
not sleepy and TO get up in the morning
when they are.
ANY coward can fight a battle when he's
sure of winning; but give me the man that
has pluck 10 fight when he's sure Of losing.
George Eliot.
Dan VOORHEES, doesn't say that he thinks
Beck's fool, but he thinks any one who
look Beck's position has good deal Of capital
to start out with.
The Pos thinks that O'Dynamite Iossa Is
"working the English side of the Irish ques-
ton with great success" There Is not the
least DOUBT OF that.
An incapable man Is simply man In The
wrong place. He is not entirely worthless
who fails In one occupation unless he insists
upon remaining in it.
New York papers disclose that mussels are
destroying the oysters. The muscles most
destructive 10 oysters, however, are attached
TO the New York jaw.
In the great stallion race at Bosom on he
18th, Santa Claus won ihe first and bird
heats in 2.17s and 2.20!, Piedmont iakiny
the second heat in 2.20t.
Rev. II. J. Thomas, piomioent Metho-
dist cle-gymaa Of Chicago, has oeen on trial
for he. .esy and on the 9th inst. was found
gully on all The charges.
Detmopico left two million dollars, of
which about one-half goes to his wife, QUE
fourth 20 his nephew, and the balance TO
other relatives and friends.
Mayor Leathe,man and James Ruckei,
p,omiueat attorneys of Arkansas City. fought
duel Oh the 18th ias,. Both were wound
ed, Ruckee probably fatally.
1t is thought by many that there will be
travel enough through Salt Lake next season
10 justify the opening Of the Wasatch, which
was originally erected for hotel.
Near Corfu forest, N. Y, fires have a.
tackled clearings, compelling families TO aban-
don their houses. Horses and stock have
been lost. Many animals are dying.
The Rev. DR.. Leonard Bacon's pockets
were picked at New London, Conn.,, the other
day. The thief got quarter and the notes
Of a special prayer for the President.
A Salt Lake man has sigpi6ed his iniep-
ION of putting up six saw-m.lls in Montana
next spring. He thinks The demand for luu-
ber will justify it.-Sat: Lake Tribune.
General Garfield Is now under the p,otec-
ton of the English flag. The cottage iu
which he lives Is the property of foreigner,
Francklyn, the agent of the Cunard line.
When you aIe told story, my son, never
remark. THAT isn't the way heard IT," eic
Don't you know that stories are told to give
pleasure 10 the teller, and not to the hearer
The st. Louis people are anxious for the
summer to come To an end. They have had
| no such weather for twenty-five years as has
been experienced there in July and August
Siduey Lanief, musician, poet and scholar
| died last Thursday at Lynn, q little hamlet
| among the hills OF North Carolina, whittier
he had gone in search Of health. He wa.
but thirty-nine years old.
Doctors disagree. Some say whisky hard
ems The brain Others say 1t softens II. Mean
while, people without brains will keep righ
on drinking It, as 1t don't make an a.om d
difference 10 them, not an atom.
| At Osceola, Iowa, recently, Major Little
| finger, thjrty-two inches high, and Mollj'
Shade, thirty-one inches high, were unitet
| In marriage, the ceremony being performed
in circus-ring before large audience.
It js reported that The o. r. & N. Co. vii
take up the foreign-made iron on their tract
along The Columbia river, and then ,ransfe
the road to the N. p. r. r., IN order 10 OBJ
tain the land grant to be ed. Ued by she latter
lt don't make half so much difference I,
the summer boarder at the seaside as to wha
the wild waves are saying, as IL does 10 know
| what the clerk of the hotel will say If tia
weeks board isn't paid on The day 1t become
| due.
The Irishman has his brains close to his lips
aPat," said couceited coxcomb, "tell m.
the biggest lie you can on The Instant ant
here are two shillings for you." "Ah,' sal,
Pat, with significant leer, "your honor Is
gintleman."
The liquor men of Illinois in convention
last week determined to combine for the de
feat of every candidate for the Legislature
| who would not be pledged 10 give The liquo
business an equal chance with o.aer mercan
tile pursuits.
Prof. Tyudall has now chance 10 test hi
prayer. gauge practically at merely nomina
expense. The Rev. Mr.. Marshall, . coloret
divine Of Clarke county, Tenu., announce
his readiness TO pray for anything or anybody
for the tri6ing sum Of seventy-ive cents
prayer.
A box left as security for board with |
Philadelphia hotel keeper by man who i
now convict In the Maryland penitentiary
was recently opened by the police and found
| TO contain diamond ring, with nine stones
worth fully $1,000, and United States bond
worth $4,000.
| j. Childs, better known Is "Cariboo,n af
| ter whom the Cariboo Mountains were namet
died ct Soda Springs, Utah, last week, from
| the effects Of wounds received in tusslt
with Q bear ct Idaho Bar, Oneida county
| Idaho. He was about forty years old and
| leaves . wife and child.
Mr.. James Garnble, who recently passet
| through Montana with the Oakes party, hai
| become general manager Of the new Mutua
| Union Telegraph Company. Lines ALREADY