The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1881-03-04
NEW NOR


The tax collector of San Francisco states
that there are 400 places in that city where
opium Is sold. s..... .s.r astf ss,. s.a
Detroit, Michigan, as q city, Is said to
contain more handsome residences than any
other In the United States. ..5a 4
The Union loss during the rebellion was
327,1s4; the rebel nearly 100000. This IL
the recently verified account.
The scarcity of fuel during the recen,
cold snap forced Waco, Texas, to burn 10000
bushels of Gotten seed to keep warm.
The only real bull fight the Spanish ma.
tadores indulge In, In New York, Is a strug.
gle with tough steak at the cheap restaurant,
The Northern Pacific railway, when
completed will have cost about $1,000 900;
that is 1t the rate Of $2s, 900 y mile for . zoo
miles of road. f..- ..... 5a#
General Hancock has advised the inau-
guration committee that he will be In Wash
ington and at the committees service on the
4th of March.
1t Is said that pork fed on Cincinnati
whisky Is never affected trichrnesis. When
the parasites get Whit of the whisky they
take pity on the pig and leave.
Citizens of Milwaukee, Wis, claim that
when their enlarged and improved Touring
mills are in motion the city will produce
about 5000 barrels of -four daily.
Another fast trotter, on record at 2:19a
named Parana, Is expected to show great
speed next season. A New Ysrker has Of
fered $25, 900 for her, but the offer was de-
clined.
| Lieutenant Colonel Marter, who cap
tured Cetewayo, has been made a Queens
aide-de-camp, with the rank of Colombian
elevation over seven hundred Lietenant
Colonels.
Kentucky proudly boasts that she has
furnished Gov. Cullom to Illinois, Gov. Crit
| tenden TO Missouri, Gov. Churchill to Arkan-
sas, Gov. Hawkins to Tennessee and Gov.
Murray to Utah. '@
| A Philadelphia quack informs the pub
lie that he Is not exclusive: "If man wants
it gentle and mild Pm homeopath, and
when anybody wants thunder and Lightning
I'm an allopath."
The Northern Pacific railway for the
last six months of 1880 shows its total gross
earnings to be $1,829, ,sO5.25, an increase of
$334, ,491.64 over the corresponding period Of
the preceding year. ....
Major Hay, formerly editor and proprie-
tor of the Idaho Araianche, has purchased
two new papers at Hollister, California-the
Observer and Teiegrdm-and has consolida-
ted them under the name of the Pacific
Coast.
The center of population has moved a
little south as well as west In the last decade.
1t was ten years ago near the city Of Colum-
bus, Ohio. 1t is now just over the Indiana
border on bee line drawn between Cincin-
natl and indianapolis. s"-'v'--'-
George Jones, of the New York Times,
has issued a printed notice to the subscribers
of the General Grant fund, announcing that
the entire amount of $250,0O0. Messrs.
Mackey, of California; Jay Gould and Will
liam III. Vanderbilt each subscribed $25, 600.
and Sidney Dillon $4,000.
The famous monastery of Mount St. Ber-
pard is about to be closed. The reason for
this Is the railway under the Alps. As the
hospice was carried on TO aid unlucky trav-
elers obliged TO cross the mountains, now
that travel on that route Is over, the historic
monastery Is to be abandoned.
-Evangelist Dwight L. Moody writes
from San Francisco denying that he ever
spoke Of his grandmother as being in hell.
He says that he has never mentioned that
excellent lady in public discourse and adds:
"I have heard the story for twenty years and
1t has been attributed to half dozen evan
gelists and ministers"
I'm regard to the teaching of primary ge-
ography, an Ohio teacher said that It should
be taught before going into the book. He
does not permit his pupils to use the books
until they are eight or nine years old. He
teaches them the points Of the compass,
transferring them to table on the floor, and
illustrates the movements Of the earth with
an apple or ball. @~+' b" ..
H. Sibley, the Rochester, New York,
millionaire, is said TO be the largest farm
owner in the world. He owns the 10000
acre Sullivan farm in Ford county, Illinois; !;
the 4,0C0-acre Rowland Island farm near
Syracuse, New York, and 400 other farms of
different sizes In New York, Illinois and
Michigan. He is also extensively interested
In southern railroads. .s
Gov. Porter, Of Indiana, visited the
State Senate Chamber in indianapolis the
other day, and, because he couldn't find .
seat, turned angrily to the doorkeeper with !:
why don't you bring me chair, sir?" The
doorkeeper, who new Porter very well,
stared at him for moment, and then said
In voice that was heard all over the cham
Der, /. Who is that little red-headed cuss ask
ing for chair?" ss @ .@..ss&
-"Plague take it'll" exclaimed Henderson,
scowling at the dictionary; "'tain's here"
What isn't there?" "Why philosophy"
ssAnd no wonder!" said Fogg, looking over
Fenderson's shoulder. "It doesn't begin
with an f; look under p and you'll find it..
You must learn to spell If you would find
word in the dictionary" Learn to spell!"
yelled Henderson; lido you suppose I'D hunt
in The dictionary for ) word ii / knew how
TO spell IL? What are dictionaries for, l
should like to know?" 14 ~
Fernando Wood was . member Of the
Congress which appropriated $50 600 In aid
Of Professor Morse's experimental telegraph
line between Washington and Baltimore.
Mr. Wood voted for the project, and was, in
consequence, defeated in bis next race for
Congress by the intelligent voters Of his dis
trict, who couldn't tolerate representative
who would waste public money on such .
chmericai project as that Of transmitting m
telligence upon wires strung upon poles.
DIR. x. is IN eminent physician Of Phil
. deiphia, and, as il often the case with emf
nent physicians, Is brusque and overbearing
In manner. Among his ofiice patients one
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