The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1881-01-28
NEW Noa'-wEsrIRS.


Bob Ingersoll says that 1t was drlnkin
hotel coffee which first made him an atheis'
Nine centenarians died in Philadeiphl
last year. The Oldest was Margaret Aale
! 108.
1t is difficult thing for dog without
tail to show his master how much he think
Of him. ya eff 'z#s Il.
The average deposits in the Salt Lak
banks In 1880, were more than double thos
of 1879. ffr=
Won Moltke has been decorated within
Porrugese order Of "The Tower and tin
Sword Il,
The inkstand In daily use on the poe
Longfeliow's study table used to belong Y
coleridge. Longfellow prizes Il YER
highly.
! --Gambetta Is fat, has grey hair and beard
and q black mustache. He dresses plainh
and always wears q white flower In his but
tonhole.
Two, and probably three new State'
will be admitted during Garfeld's admins
tration. Dakota takes the lead, with New
Mexico second, and Montana as probable
third.-E1.
A smile may be the bay-window Of thu
human heart, but the uncommon good, WHIT
think 1t wicked to smile, manage to pull
down the blinds.
The Superintendent of the Census. Wal
ker, makes the calculation that the popula
tion of the United States In 1890 will b.
about "a, $4,000.
A Philadelphia speculator kept eight
boys at u theatre entrance all night to secure
Bernhard tickets, and thus obtained $40 d
the rate of S3 each.
-Adolph Sutro has presented the Free
Library Of San Francisco with 81 900 to b.
invested In the purchase Of books on mining
metallurgy and kindred subjects.
Georgia is gradually arranging millen
MUM of its own. The new Constitution oi
that State provides that the Legislature shall
meet but once In two years, and then sit but
40 days.
Richard A. Proctor Is about to try I
journalistic experiment. Immediately upon
his return to England from Australia he in
tends to start a new weekly journal of science
and literature.
The most ancient manuscripts are writ
ten without accents, stops, or separation be.
tween the words, nor was 1t until after the
ninth century that copyists began TO leave
spaces between words. -.ss
1T Is asserted that the horse which John
Wilkes Booth rode to the place of his capture
after President Lincoln's assassination be.
longs to an Abingdon, Mass, man, and Is q
good traveller, though twenty+hree years
old. a
-"Died of comfortable income," Is the
epitaph that must be written over the tomb
OF one Of Sacramento's young men. A few
days ago legacy made him coEfsstaisls- and
he took to drinking, and died at last with
four empty whiskey TASKS In his pockets.
General John +. Miller, Senator from
California, Is q native Of Indiana, and was
appointed Collector Of the Port Of San Fran
cisco by President johnson. He was strong
friend OF Senator Morton, and stalwart In
his Republicanism, having been q Hayes az
well as Garfield elector.
Mans shattered idols strew his path
Like wrecks flung on n beaten strand;
They mock his hopes, they rouse his wrath
Yet vain he lifts his yengeful hand
Lo! nature scorns his weak disdain
Where shall he strike with feeble pride,
When winds his empty rage deride
And skies but smile at his mad pain?
-Afew days before the close Of this month
high winds are likely to prevail, with gales
around New York, Long Island Sound and
other points, with blustery weather In Can.
ada and the Northern United States. The
last two days are, however, likely to be fair
and the month will end with little snow on
the ground.
The richest mine In New Mexico Is said
to be in the White Oak district. II was orig.
inally sold for $3 In silver, a little dust, AMI
an old revolver, and il is now said TO be
worth $3,0O0,0O0. The Tribune says: In
Chicago it works differently. The mine /.
sold for s., ,0oO. 900, and proves to be worth
an old revolver.
One ofthe growing industries Of Austria.
lila Is the cooking and canning Of rabbits
The Colas Preserving Company, near Mel.
bourne, had on an average !, 1000 of these agile
rodents brought in every night ut the begin.
ming of the past season, and the supply In.
creasing, orders were given to limit the daily
quantity TO 2,700 pairs. During the season,
which lasted for 25 weeks, 675, 900 rabbits
were canned by this establishment alone.
George Peabody, the philanthropist
never married and for single reason. He
was In love with girl and was standing on
the porch At the house Of her parents one
night when his rival ran frantically up,threw
his arms around the girls neck, kissed hel
and disappeared in the darkness. The 70.
mantle sensation SO pleased the girl that she
Tilted Peabody and married her amatory -
sailant. .If Cleopatra's nose had been
longer tine whole political face Of the world
might have changed" and IL Peabody had
married Baltimore would probably have lost
its munificent present.