The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1881-08-05
NEW NOR
Blind Tom can play 1000 pieces by ear.
-Immemoral custom is transcendent

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One person out of every 246,822 is yearly
struck by lightning. -
America is the cradle of liberty, and so
we rocket on the Fourth.
There Is no charity in helping a man
who will not help himself.
The Dry Tortugas is suggested as place
of punishment for Guiteau.
The mcustache is a great epicure. 1t is
bound to get the first taste Of everything.
BY the new census there are in Ireland
1861, ,SSS Roman Catholics and ,lGS,S42 Pro-
testants of all kinds.
1t Is so hard to find word to rhyme
with Guiteau that most poets say ''hemp'
aud let IL 60 at that.
"A chimney 200 feet high is to he built at
La Sale, Illinois, to Cary off the noxious
fumes of n soda ash foundry.
A French company with 100000 CAPT
tai has been formed in Paris 10 develope the
mining resources of Canada.
ALI the chief French light.h will
soon bn lit by electricity, and provided with
powerful steam trumpets for fog signals.
The American News Company suppress
ed a recent edition of the Dramatic Ne,rs
for a brutal and libelous assault on Edwin
Booth.
1t has been found in the West that cy-
clones follow blue clay streaks, and thunder
storms have decided preference for streaks
of gravel.
The New York Herald calls the Brook
lyn Seaside Home for poor children at Coney
Island .'the most important life saving sta
tion on the coast"
The following is the way an editor would
put IL: "Men may come and men may go,
but "Heayen defend us from the man who
comes but never goes"
The Gardner machine gun has been IA
vorahly recommended by military commis-
sion after exhaustive trials at Shoeburyness
and will probably be adopted in the British
army.
No license can he granted for a liquor
saloon In Rhode Island within 400 feet OF a
school room. IL there are a dozen school
houses in Rhode Island, this restriction must
be considered almost prohlbitory.
An Emglishman who has just published
his observ atlons during tour of this coun.
try, concludes that the most striking and
thoroughly American products he saw across
the water were Bob Ingersol and Maud ).
In February last a tramp printer, with
out a cent in the world, walked into the of1ce
of the SIN. Socorro, y. NJ. After borrowing
twenty-five cents aud earning 50 he went
prospecting, located claim, and has lately
sold two-thirds Of it for $4,000.
The cutter in large tailoring house says
that hardly one man in fifty is of well bal
anced shape. Writers, he says, are low Ia
the shoulder, aud seemingly short In one
leg the arm on the misshapen side being ap
parently longer than the other. Butchers,
lie said. have usually low left shoulder, aud
violinists are high in one shoulder.
A Telegram from Bloomington, H., says
that Senator David Davis before his depart
ure from home to the seaside, said that he
ir tends to retire to private life at the expira-
ration Of his present Senatorial term, aud ur
| der no consideration will be q candidate fol
| reelection. He intends to reside the re
mainder Of his days in Bloomington and de
| vote his time to the attention OF his private
| business.
w. q. Bagnall, of Stafford, England, ha'
| lust completed the smallest LOCOMOTIVES eve.
| fitted together. for actual use. IL has 3
| inch cylinder and 135 5.inch wheel, and 1T
max imum width is only 81 inches. 1t is o
three horse hover and lS-inch gauge. 1t i
| TO be used on some road in South America
| Locomotives by the same builder of the SAM
| type, but q little larger, are employed II
South Africa, Java and India.
San Francisco is the possessor of tn
| only Chinese newspaper published IN TIT
word outside of China. The JVah hee. ed
tied by Yee Jemm, has a circulation OF ,OO'
copies, and had publishing Office, consisting
/ of three rooms, which, If thrown together
| would make room twelve by fifteen. Tn
Tong Fan San 30 is the other paper, AM
boasts circulation of $50 copies. Neithe
paper has a political, social, or religion
policy.
Some years ago great London merchan
who lived little way out of town frequenti
failed to get his letters. Investigation 500
showed that the postmen often destroye
them rather than ascend slight hill to th
merchants house. A similar case has jus
occurred M in Birmingham. Edwin Parson
was charged with delaying 2,031 letters
MANY cont aimed money, but none had bee
opened. When he didn't feel like walk
sometimes suppressed whole delivery.
The Bishop of Exeter, in England, re
Gently opened a coffee tavern IN Exeter, an
was assisted at the ceremony by the Mayo
who, although brewer, stated that b
thought 1t would meet long-felt want. II
would not admit that coffee was as good .
beer. but he did agree that too much bet
was a bad thing for some people. Bisho
officiating in the cap city above allnded !
| must have been a somewhat odd sight, bt
IL is presumably for that day only that /
acted as superintendent for ." bun-racket.
! in the year ending June 1st, twent,
: eight deaf people were killed OH the railros
tracks In the United States. In the san
year two were shot for burglars while Prov
ing around houses, and fourteen were ru
over by vehicles In the public streets. 1t
/ asserted Oh eminent medical authority th
sadness usually accompanies blindness, viii
y obstinacy goes with deafness. When de
man will ptod along on the railroad trac
1 heal down and eyes on the rails, he do
: more than most men with two good Ga
i would attempt.
Since the Derby Archer, the jockey, h
been more talked about than any man
: England. Everybody seems TO be anxio
: to know what he SAYS. what he does and ho
4 he lives. He is the pet OF all classes.
!, tied men are proud Of repeating what Arch
: said to them. Archer II the income OF .
Lord Chancellor. and his life is round
$ pleasure, for he loves the sport. The publ
q opens It's eyes In anazement when q pain'
or sculptor gets fl000 for work of art th
y has required. perhaps, years Of labor Al
d Thought. but Archer gets fl000 for thr
+ minutes tide. Aud such Is popularity.
i The noble st. Bernard dog Is doomed
v extinction, at least as the friend aud rescu
!, Of the poor foot traveller over the st. Got
ard. In few months the benefcent a
time -hcnored hospice will be closed. II
= railroad under the gigantic Alps will dr'
= : all wanderers away from the mountain roa
= = for The poorest pedler pursuing bis CONNER
I between Italy ard Switzerland, and the mt
= :, desperate searcher after employment
: : from home will rather pay his small rallro
= fare than risk the avalanche and the wea
walk. So ends great Catholic charity,
of the most beautiful, brave and seif-sacrii
ing which the world has ever seen.
Good Editor.