The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1881-07-22
NEW NoR'-wEsTEgs.

"A Detroit doctor says that people witt
light eyes and hair are those who hav
:. warts.
-Two-thirds of the actors on the American
stage are Irish.
Senator Malone is said to be the pos
SCISSOR Of s2,0O0,0O0.
Sir Edward Thornton, the English Min
lister, never made speech.
There are flaws In diamonds, flies In
amber aud faults In every man.
1t rains so hard In some portions Of Cali
fornia that the fish scoot under rocks to keel
dry.
Alexander II. Stephens, at his home In
Georgia, is keeping . stenographer very
busy.
Bets 0ftgo to one are now offered that the
world won't come 10 an end within the mex,
i year.
Queen Victoria has refused to accept Z
barrel Of Kentucky whisky named In her
honor.
A mind quite vacant Is mind DISTRESSED.
t-C0Dper.
j. ii. Hill, the theatrical manager of Bos.
ton. pays the newspapers 100000 year for
advertising.
NO matter how truthful a man may be
throughout life, he Is bound to lie at the
point Of death.
The Postmaster-Generaln now commands
q much larger force than our combined
army and navy. II numbers about 65, 900 In
all.
MIR. Carl Schurz is revising the proof
sheets Of his novel, soon to be published by
Boston house. Its title Is "Max Under
soul" ..
"A pair Of scissors were found in an OK
just killed In Pennsylvania, and IL Is feared
the animal has made food Of some green
editor
Steele Mackaye and Judge Tourgee have
made drainatization Of the lstter's story,
"A Fonl's Errand," and it will be one of the
fea ures Of Mr.. Mackaye's repertoire mex.
season.
A Government clerkship, In Germany,
involves $50 days Of waiting, sixteen exam
ations, and enough red tape to reach across
the Atlantic.
MIR. George ii. Williams, formerly At
torney General, is candidate for election as
United States Senator from Oregon, to fill
the next vacancy that occurs.
General Hawley is authority for the state
menl that In the late war there were only
about twenty cases Of recovery from intesti-
nal wounds, among them that Of General
Kinks, Of Massachusetts,.
Whisky Is smaggled into Canada In bar
rels painted the color of oil barrels. Several
are tied together, aud IS they go almost en-
tirely under water they are towed across. In
case Of alarm the barrels are anchored.
ithaca, N. T., had performed q rather heavy
selection the minister opened the Bible and
began reading In Acts xx, sand after the
uproar had ceased."-Neso Fork Musical
Critic.
Senator David Davis, In reply to the
QUESTION "he'her tue rresiaeht shouid mol
"efeai'er oe proViaeu WIN oouy gaara.
said that this being free country, with the
au"oies. cs'i1ens the peer oi Tue rres'oen''
il would hardly be practicable.
Last week one OF our townsmen, who
has an extensive ranch iinlosed with bsrbed
wire fence, FOUND ihiee cows lying dead by
tue renee 'ha' hau oee'' kii'eu oy s.roke OF
,s"'n'''s running .'"'e 'ne "'ie'. ihis
ne" ""Jes''on W iicios''g 'Arge a'eas ""h
wire renee 'na' mas hos oeeh ahIicipated'-
o"'u''o" -'e"''
General Meade, 1t is said, had wound
somewhat like the ffesidcnt's, from which
he recovered. He was shot through the body
Al Frazier's farm, below Richmond, In 1862,
while commanding brigade Of the Re
serves, anu wss-aosent from the held about
TWO months. len years iater ne died OF
pneumonia, and the autopsy maze oy the
iale Dr. 'ohh Neiii sno"eo that the Dali mao
p'efcedthe iSer.
1T L. said to be the fact that In those few
countries where people habiually take OPT
um the children are born healthy, sound and
not too numerous, while in the countries
further west, where the inhabitants find COM
fort not In opium, but In alcohol, the pre-
portion Of idiocy and disease among the chill
dren is abnormally large, to say nothing Of
the brutality and crdelty which excess In al
cohol produces.
II lO,OOO fankees get settled In Mexico