The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1881-12-09
NEW EcR'-WEsTERS.
Abuse the weather as we may, it is the
best made.

Abuse the weather as we may, it is the
best made.
Senator Logsn's seventeen-year-old son
will enter Harvard College next year.
The president Of the French republic
receives salary of s2O0,OoO per snnum.
Telephones, which sre little used in
London, rent for tvcnty-eight cents - day.
The de'e Of the annual metssric display
during the month Of December is the 11th.
In England the Congregatioualists are
endeavoriug to make $3.50 the minimum sal
ary Of minister.
I'm Germany, carpets are woven Of the
hair of cows, aud in Norway the peasants
make socks Of it.
Judge Davis has a large quantity Of land
in central Illinsis, and his riches are sup
posed TO amount to s2,000,00o.
/ There are $4,000 Methodists in lows, and
they are building churches in that State at
the rste Of one every two weeks.
Governor jerome saws the Michigan spf-
ferers from the fire will want $500, 900 more
to carry them through the winter.
An elephant in . North Carolina circus
receally draus pailful of whisky. There
is same fun in being 6 circus elephant.
-Talmsge says that what sils the minis
! try is the fact thst when a boy isn't good
for anything else they try to make . preach
or of him.
In some Of the western cities the papers
pay SO much attention to society matters
ing the fact mentioned.
The Louisville Cowier-JounqI init
mates that while Cashier Baldwin willingly
goes to The peuitentisry the depssitors rath-
er un~ilingly 60 10 the poor house.
sir John Lubbock estimates that 2,0O0,-
600 animal species have existed on our globe
of which only $4,000 are as yet on record.
He places the number Of recent species at
100000.
st. Albans, the first and most prominent
of the Ritusistic churches Of New York
| Silyy IHS pIOfcO TIC
has been sold to the Church of Epiphany, AN
extremely Low Church.
No less than eight men not related to
each other, by the name of Morgan, have
made immense fortunes in New Orleans DUR
lug the last fifty years. This is not so much
nominal IS phenomenal.
The notorious Brick Pomeroy went to
Colorado two years ago "dead broke" BY
lucky ventures he made 500. 200, but is now
s'bust" again. He don't drink or gamble;
his weakness is ''splurging."
| The last piece OF rustic laziness encoun-
tered is that of man who, being asked what
allied his eye, answered, "Nothin'; / shut il
coz can see well enough with one. Some.
times shut one, sometimes t'other."
The Orlof diamond was stolen from
India in the early part sfthe eighteenth cen
tury by French soldier, who fed with it to
Madras and sold ii for 5000. 1t was after
wards bought by Catherine H., of Russia,
for s4ls,5o0 and an annual pension for life
of $751;
Mr.. Joseph Jefferssn,tbe actor,say after
enunersting the various parts be has played,
suddenly recalls the fact that "Trip Van
| Wrinkle" Is one Of them, which he declares
he ba. played "about $500 times" aud for
which he hspes to be forgiven In - better
world where there are ne matinees and no
managers"
Six feet tall, broad shoulders, broad,
straight back without the slightest inclina-
tion TO stosp, and taperlng toward the waist,
q high forehead, blue. eyes, prominent brows
and cheek-bones, nose like an eagles
beak-such are the physical characteristics Of
Jesse James, the notorious train n-robber, out
law, and general devil.
About fifteen miles from land in tie
Gulf of Mexico is a harbor which is called
the "Oil Pond" BY some process Of nature
the water is covered with kind of oil that
rests on the surface in thick scum. In the
most severe storms the water in this harbor
is always smooth, and so when gale CEN
mences to blow small vessels always lay to
in this oil pond.
The cities healthiest in the United States
are said to be in the order following: Knox.
vile, New Haven, Portland, San Francisco
Cleveland and Lawrence. The unhealthiest
are Charleston, Memphis, Lynn, New York
and st. Louis. st. Petersburg is the un.
healthiest city in the wsrld, and is followed
by Malaga, Alexandria, Warsaw and Buds
Pesth. In New York the deaths exceeded
the births by 1000 a month, or $4,000 9
year.
When we were young, said Sir John
Lubbock, recently, we knew that the tiger
was striped, the leopard had spots and the
lion wastAwny; but why this was so 1t did moi
occur to us TO ask, and if we had asked nc
one would have answered. Now we see Al
glance that the stripes of tiger have ref
erence to its life among the jungle grasses
the lion is sandy like the desert, while tn,
markings of the leopard resemble spots o.
sunshine glancing through the leaves.
"A Mr.. Hsrgrave calls the attention of the
resurrection Of tree. few years back
great elm tree was blown down with large
ball of earth at its roots, on the property o
Mr.. Symth, the rector Of Little Houghton.
Men were set to work to remove IL, but wher
they bad saw on the great limbs, to their IS
tonishment and almsst terror, the tree ros'
UP of its own accord and went back to it
original place, and there 1t stands to thi
day. 1t is throwing cut q fresh bead, and i
psiuted cut as . curious case of resurrec
tion.
"A church which is described. with loca
pride, as 'sstsnding in architectural beaut!
without an equal in the United States," ha
just been dedicated TO Protestant Episcopa
worship in Lynn, Mass. IL is memorial u
+ to the late e. Rodington Nudge by his heirs
. The omar walls are reddish ruhhle stones