The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1881-11-18
NEW NOR
Poor whiskey makes rich divorce law

Poor whiskey makes rich divorce law
yes.
1t is sand that Mr.. Froude, the historian,
Is to have peerage.
Secretary Blaine will shortly make an
extended tour of the South.
IF time Is money, why isn't a note at
four months as good as cash9
The level headed Jerseymep have estab-
lisbed tree-planting holiday.
The President of the French Republic
receives salary of 100000 per annum.
According to London Life Walt Whit
man expects to visit England next spring.
Father Ryan, the poet priest, has de-
cided to pass the rest of his days at Biloxi,
Miss. ..-
President Grevy gave 10000 francs to
the poor Of Paris In honor Of his daughters
wedding.
There are $4,000 Chinese on the Sand
wich Islands. Their principal article of
food is rice. o.
Captain Boyton is reported to have
made $4,000 by padding around in his life
saving dress.
"A manufacturing concern advertises that
1t has separate room for girls two hundred
and foity feet long.
In the last letter that Charles Dickens
wrote (on the day before he died) he said:
~ will have leisure tomorrow"
Lieutenant Schwatka is suggested by the
Boise City Statesman as a candidate for
the United States Senate from Oregon.
"A Japanese gentleman visiting America
has stated that he believes that within five
years Japan will be Christian nation.
Daniel Webster was born on January 1S,
1882. 1t Is proposed in Boston to make
proper observance of the centennial anni-
versary.
Mast, the artist, is said to have invested
SAC, 1000 in Colorado silver mine, which he
finds, on personal inspection, to be almost
worthless.
The Boston Globe asserts that when
joaquin Miller misses his name for q day
or two from the papers he has himself ar
rested for libel.
Secretary Blaine, along with Justices
Swayne and Bradley, have sons in the civil
service. -Four sons Of Secretary Hunt are in
the service Of their country.
| Senator Morrill, of Vermont, now II
years of age, is the senior member Of the
Senate, and the youngest is Senator Aldrich
of Rhode Island, now 40 years of age.
| "A Rockland man saw advertised "a sure
cure for drunkenness" He forwarded The
necessary dollar and received by return mail
written on postal card the words, "Dont
drink"
An Eastern paper calls the attention Of
farmers to the value of seed wheat of those
varieties which produce three grains to the
spike as compared with those which yield
only two.
The death Of DIR. Holland was sudden,
but scarcely unexpected. The doctors had
told him year or two ago to set his house
| in order, as the final summons might come
at any time.
No man can 60 into bad company with
out suffering for 1t. The homely old prov
erb has 1t very tersely, "a man can't bite
out the bottom of flying pan without
shutting his nose"
! --"The only two men of the present CEN
tury who knew what they desired and willed
| 1t strongly" says an English critic, 'have
been Bismarck and Cavour. The one Gre
ated Italy, the other Germany"
Walter d. Davidge, who has been Sc
lected by Attorney General Macveagh to sp-
pear with Colonel Corkhill in the prosecu-
ton of Guteau, has for quarter Of cell
tury stood, with few other lawyers, at The
head Of the Washington bar.
--Murat Halstead: "Ope of the serious
Affections Of the country is the number Of
men who carry around under their hatbands
the conviction that they were born to admin.
lister the affairs of the nation little better
than any one has yet DONE"
Mr.. Tennyson publishes in the Nine
teenih Century, just issued in London, a lone
dramatic monologue entitled "Despair.'
The speaker is an unbeliever who, with hi.
wife, resolved on suicide. The woman /,
drowned, and the man Is rescued by the
minister Of the sect he has abandoned.
/ Mr.. Beecher, says the New York Mail
sold his house on Columbia Heights yea
ago, aud now he has sold his interest in th,
Christian Union and resigned his edtotja
chair. Eut Mr.. Beecher is becoming tor
old man TO work as hard as he once could
wonderful rs is his remaining vitality.
So many seized pistols have accumulate,
in the Memphis (Tenn.) Court that Judg
Horrigan has issued an order directing tn,
clerk to throw all, except Army or Navy pis
tolls that have been in bis hands more thar
six months, into the Mississippi, and int,
such deep water that they cannot be fishe,
out.
The steamers started on the Grand Cana
or Venice by the enterprise Of some Frencl
company are not, 1t seems, attracting mucl
custom. All well-to-do Venitians have gon
dolas Of their own, and the steam craft carr.
1t each trip only poor half-dozen Of Amer
ican priests, tourists, and other unromanti
persons.
DIR. E. r. Heath's discovery Of vast fol
ests Of cinchona and caoutchonc in his ex
ploration Of the Benz river, in Bolivia, ha
attracted 1t least 10000 men to the forme
unknown region. The export Of rubber ha
! greatly increased, and will probably amoun
to six million pounds by next year. DI
Heath is sangnine Of finding rich deposits Q
precious metals and medicinal plants alon
the Nadrc de Dois.
Il "A Boston paper has discovered that
clerk In hardware store in that city sol
: during the past twelve months pistols :
!. twelve persons, who purchased the weapon