The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1881-04-22
NEW NoR'-WESTERS.

Motto for tramp's lodging house: ale |
who enters here leaves soap behind"
The sawdust from the mills on the
Truckcc river are killing the trout in that
river.
"A Truckcc river angler recently landed
twelve trout, weighing in the aggregate 40
pounds.
There are eighteen posts of the Grand
Army of the Republic in California and one
in Oregon.
The colored people of the United States
increased 1,Gy7, ,4SS, or 35 per cent, between
1870 and 1880.
1t is said the Westinghouse air brake is
to be attached to all freight cars OH the Penn
sylvania railroad.
The Nevada Legislature has enacted 300
new laws for the government of the O,OOo
inhabitants of the State.
1t is estimated that there are 10000 OPT
um eaters in St. Louis and 1000 in Chica-
90. A large number of these are women.
-Leadvllle has a company formed for the
purpose Of lighting the streets with electrlci-
ty. The capital is 100000 in 1000 shares
Of $50 each.
Two daily overland trains will be rum
ming on the Union Pacific and Central Pa
ciflc in order to overcome the opposition OF
| the I" Banana route"
The very newspapers that are abusing
| Hayes because he saved good portion OF
| his salary are the ones that abuse Grant be-
cause he didn't save cent.
Horses must be cheap in Oregon. The
| Pioneer says: John Durham, of Horse
heaven Creek, recently sold his band of 2lO
horses at an average price of twelve dollars
per head.
| There is no Ohio man In the Cabinet,
but Blaine came very near being an ONO
man when he was boy. lie lived on
stream that flowed into the into the Ohio,
and on a road that led from Ohio into Wash
| ington City.
| Secretary WINDOWS name was original
| ly Windham, but he changed it while living
|
Maryland he would long ago have attained
high honors had he spelled his name
| Whynndham.
Senator Conkllng is reported to have
said "Gcntlcmen, may not live to see 1t;
INV children may not live TO SEQ 1t; but my
children's Children will live to see Chicago
the greatest city on the face of the earth"
Mr. Garfield is reported as saying to a
Senator: "Polygamy must end-shall be
stamped out. This plague-spot on our insti-
tutions must be banished. | ask you, as
my friend, to take your stand in the Senate
and fight this evil until it is crushed out OF
existence.
Six members Of the Senate are foreign
born. Messrs. Farley, of California; Jones,
of Nevada; Jones, of Florida, andSeweIl, OF
New Jersey, are Irishmen. Senator Jones,
| of Nevada, was born in England, and Scna-
tor Beck, of Kentucky. in Scotland.
A Czar-killing bomb is not 50 handy q
thing to carry around in ones pocket, after
all. The affair weighs over six pounds and
if the party who has it in his pocket should
happen to trip and fall he would be blown tC
| atoms. A chance collision with another per
son might prove agsravating.
Edward A. Freeman, the historian, doe:
not think it possible that man should mas
= ter the details of universal history, but h
, advises each student to choose for minute
t study some period or periods, early or late
from original sources, knowing well, mean
while, the general outline Of the periods.
A young lawyer who was appointed b!
t the court to defend pauper criminal cam
y to grief few days ago. When the prisone
: was asked by the judge if he had anythin!
e to say, he looked at his lawyer and said "
! wish your Honor would have my lawyer
e mental condition examined, just for the GU
h riosity of the thing"
' The Texas Legislature is now consider
ing plan for providing school money b
leasing the public school lands, no lease I
be for longer term than year and not fo
less sum than $3.50 per section. Thi
o plan also makes it a misdemeanor to graz
. cattle on Unbiased school lands-a thin
:. which has long been done.
The meaning of the ''ss."-seen in nea
t ly all legal documents and advertisements
n not generally known. Many have inquire
q the use of the cabalistic device, until I'll
o question having got into the newspapers,
e correspondent of the st. Louis Gt0de-Dem'
,s crdt, after much research, has decided thu
4 the symbol is derived from the Latin phras
% suos suldtdns-i. e., greeting or addressing Il
+ own, those within jurisdiction.
a MIR. E. B. Harper, of Kentucky, has lat
it ly held his stallion, Ten Brock, at $1,000
l. but the offer not having been accepted,
e has withdrawn it. The horse is nine yea
,e old, and the Kentucky Stock Record says
a. him: ale has done what no other horse ev'
l. did, and retired from the turf without fla
ID or blemish, and is to-day as sound as a do
r lar. He has the fastest mile, 1891; the fas
re est two miles, 3:27a; the fastest three mile
III 5:2G!; and the fastest four miles, 7:l5s-tl
re latter 81 seconds faster than any horse hi
e ever run four miles"
le Lord Beaconsfield made an amusing mi
take the other day as, buried in thought,
re entered the House of Lords. He abstrac
IL edly rolled up to the ministerial bench al
y was about to take his old seat as leader
y the house when he recognized Earl Granvil
=, u already in possession. He Immediately n
u, tired and, skirting the table, took the Sc
~ opposite The mistake caused great meri
s ment, Lord Beaconsfeld himself hearti
joining in the laughter.
g Ben Hill, when he was bowling traito
!. seel out, treachery, and dishonor to Virgi
a ia at Malone, forgot that the national Del
II ocratic Committee, an organization that W
a national blunder, took special pains, at
70 certain stage of the late Presidential cal
r. paisn, to recognize the debt-payers as Il
a, only real Democracy of Virginia, and re;
m Malone out of the party. The commits
No. kicked him out and now Ben wants to XII
o. and cuff him in again. And this is CALI
va leadership.
he The statement has been made that q
70 use of postal cards has decreased the sale