The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1881-06-03
.TE7V NcR'-WgSTERS.

over 81, 100000.
Mature has written letter of credit on
some mems faces which is honored wlIen-
ever it is presented.
A smart little boy being. asked to give
the name of an article of utility, replied,
"an umbrella at a picnic"
Judge Robertson is fifty-eight years old.
His hair is a gray-white, and he wears large
goatee. His eyes are blue.
The New York Sun predicts that the
day is not ten years distant when families will
! have to club together for their meals.
In thirty-seven years the Church of Eng
| land has erected 1851 churches and has ex-
pended on church buildings S200,000,0O0.
| Henry Ward Beecher says he doesn't
know anything about evolution, and doesn't
care whether he descended from monkey or
not provided he has descended far enough
We rise bv things that are meath our feet
| Bv what we have mastered of good and gain;
| By the pride deposed and the passion slain,
And the vanquiShed ills that we hourly meet.
| HOLLAND.
The appraisers of the estate of the late
Mark Hopkins, of the Central Pacific Rail
road, have filed in San Francisco their ac
count, which foots up a total valuation of
$40, 100000.
--TIccough effects some person very per
sistently, and where a simple remedy does
not check it, half teaspoonful of inter in
half turnbler of water is recommended as an
instantaneous remedy.
New York has given Latin and Greek
names to its seven new iron excursion boats.
man who will jump over square, sensible
Saxon names for such cognomens as Pegasus
and Taurus deserves bankruptcy in one sea-
son.
-Lonis A. Cooley, Of Godey,s Lady Book,
left an est ate inventoried at $22l ,S54. AS
distinguished Frenchman said: "Let me
publish the fashions of nation, and care
not who loses money by.publishing its clas-
sics.'
The last words they remember who
stood around Beaconsfeld's dying bed are:
"I would rather live, but am not afraid to
die. have suffered much. Had | been
Nihilist | should have confessed ALA say
ing worthy of Vivian Grey.
The Secretary of the Massachusetts,
House of Representatives has received from
a farmer five stalks of rhubarb, four feet in
length, with a note saying: "When rhubarb
is four feet long it is time to close the house
have found this 50 every time"
1t is as natural for some American hu-
morists to make money as TO make joke
John Hay is a millionaire. Mark Twain is
worth 100000. The Burlington Ha,ckeye
man is well off. 1t is easily enough done
Marry the girl and live with the rich old man
at home.
A Boston paper, with "Christian" in its
name, confesses that it has "sometimes
; thought that If Wendell Phillips, In mo-
ment of enlightened remorse, should sting
: himself with his own sarcasm, he would
r quickly die of the effect of selfacquaint-
ance."-[Buflalo Express.
A silver casket, weighing nearly two
and half pounds, containing the latest
portrait of the Earl of Beaconsteld, was
placed in his coffin. The silver was coverd
with strong plate of nickel silver, and had
the following inscription: This casket con.
tains the latest portrait of the late Right
Hon. Earl of Beaconsfield, April, 1881"
A venerable rector in the diocese oi
+ Canterbury, who has repeatedly complained
/. of the smallness of his ofertories, took al
A eiiectuel step to remedy his grievances on 8
= recent Sunday. After the church warden:
a had delivered the bags he emptied the con,
q tents into the basin and exclaimed: "No
y enough 90 around again. II is added tina
b the result was very satisfactory.
h AN English clergyman called out hisse
e and howls from his congregation by compar-
Y. ing Beaconsfield to the rich man Dives whit
II asked Lazarus to get him some water to coo
n his tongue. The minister said it was sliI
1t of his own. The papers had been so full o
,r of the name the past week he had spoken o
E. 1t unintentionally. And so this English at
j. tempt to initiate Talmage came to an igno
4 minious end.
Is 1t is gratifying to find that in conse
III quence of the abundant supply of bromd
r of potassium, that admirable sedative TO
m nervous affections, its price during the pas
ie fifteen years has fallen off from S. to abou
r so cents a pound, especially when our habit
Is and the demands of life make such hideou
drafts upon the nervous system of our people
The yield of the wells of Pomeroy, o., ha
been, it seems, chiefly instrumental in low
ering the price of this salt.
i. The Cunard Steamship Company nun
r. bers 50 vessels, aggregating OF, ,370 tons, wit
u an effective horse power of 1908. Beside
,a these, three new vesseli of unusual size Ali
h, power are building Ii is al interesting all
4, not generally known fact that the number {
IF ships in the United States navy cruising ali
10 In actual service is only 81, aggregating 81
- 500 tons. The total value of the Cunar
steamers Is at least three lines that of til
he United States navy afioat.
ne 1t Is ruinored that the insurance comps
Il nies have discovered that whenever an ele'
lis tric light wire touches a telephone wire til
lis current will run along the telephone wire
en melting them, destroying the instrument
o. and even setting fire to the buildings; thu
ke i'm consequence the insurance companit
", make all property using The electric ligl
mt extra hazardous. This may be true, or
~ may only be trick of the gas companie
Of If true, 1t will make it absolutely necessai
to inclose all wires and put them und.
ground.
The use of the electric light on ocea
steamers is one Of the most valuable uses
which the new method OF illumination ca
o' be put, and the public will be glad TO kno
en- that the experiment rs tried on the City
ne Richmond on her last voyage from Queen
set town was success. Ii was not alone In r
~ placing the dim oil lamps In the main saloa
'n- that the electric light proved valuable an
- useful, but In furnishing illumination +
NJ dark and comparatively inaccessible place
IN where Ii ID dangerous to carry an open lam
gh and where very little can be seen with aT