The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-11-24
NEW NoR'-WEsTERs.
Gen. Butler is now 64 years old.

A reporter says Signor Salvini looks like
General Butler.
The Council Bluffs artesian we'll is now
down 1888 feet.
A busIness man In Rochester 10 seven feet
two inches In height.
The public mind is educated quickly BY
events, slowly by arguments.
In adversity 1t Is easy to despise life; he is
truly brave who can endure o wTetched life.
A man can profess more religion In fifty
minutes than he can practice by working
hard for fifty years.
Ex-Governor Young, OF Ohio, says that
within ten or fifteen years there will be no
Sunday In this country. .
Quill pens are fashionable, and the old
peacock blue and brick red paper and envel-
opes have been revived. ..s
The State Of Arkansas recently wanted to
borrow $l00, 600 and advertised for proposals
for loan. Not single bid was received.
1t Is said the sunrise and sunset guns fred
periodically at the United States military
posts costs the Government $1S,250 year.
A st. Louis man deprecates . death-like
stiffness In the school room, and prefers
"business like buzz" indicative of activity.
Herbert Spencer says the American people
do not grumble rnough. But then he has
not met the American people At breakfast
time.
The National Zietung thinks the European
csntroi being abolished, France 10 virtually
expelled from Egypt aud has been duped by
England.
Moses Taylor was the richest man ever
laid In Greenwood cemetery, Brooklyn. The
next richest man buried there was Stephen
Whitney.
Mr.. Bennett. Of Mississippi, felt that his
cook bad done more for his happiness than
his wife, and he therefore left her Sc, 900 and
his wife 5000.
George Wilkes wants to limit the acquisi-
tion Of wealth TO $5,000. 900. He will ex.
perence but little opposition from the ma.
jority Of people.
| Sir Garnet Wolseley has changed his mind
and will enter the British peerage as Baron
! Wolseley Of Cairo instead "of Egpyt," as was
A al first intended. =, -"
\ The widest plate glass that was ever put
Il up In America Is claimed to have been put
\ In position At Indianapolis the other day. Ii
4 10 13xl3S inches. =.
81. Louis society has diamond mania. 1t
/ claims to have the largest pair Of matched
\ diamonds In the United 81 ates, but they are
Of grsenish yellow shade.
Richard Coughian, Of Paterson, aged
seventy -one years. was the first conductor on
the Paterson and Hudson river railroad, a6d
10 said TO be the oldest conductor in the
world.
Mr. II aka,,n -.
calculated to promote temperance and sobrie- |
ty; that the juice of all fruits has that effect,
and that the best fruit for the purpose 10 the
orange. o.,
Mr.. Ii. II. Bancroft, the "historian or the |
Pacific coast," intends TO write thirty volumes |
OF coast history before he drops his pen. Mr. |
Bancroft has private library which cost him |
$500,000.
In spite Of their clamors against the Re |
publicans and their yearning for q change,
the Democrats have made their best fights |
with material cast out Of the Republican
camp.-Inter Ocean.
Mayor Grace of New York failed TO regis.
ter and could not vote. His Democratic
friends, whom he had deserted, threw it in
bis teeth that President Arthur came on from
Washington - register.
Unfortunate Mr.. George s. Peters, of Iowa,
got stuck on milliner, paid bis wife $500
for divorce, and had been free only two
weeks when his wife fell heir to 500, 600,
and the milliner robbed him Of $500 aud
skipped.
The proprieton Of q well-known cosmetic
soap made In London, England, have ordered
100000 photographs of Mrs. Langtry and
Patti, for gratuitous distribution In the
United States. The weight Of the cards 10
about four tons.
Emerson's grave is said to be kept con.
stantly covered with flowers by the young
girls OF Concord. Hawthornes, with stone
at head and foot bearing simply his name, Is
thickly overgrown with myrtle; while. Thor
eaus Is anadorned save for Its thick sod of
grass.
Who wouldn't be . Snowman and own
Jumbop Barnnm, Bailey IL Hutchinson
closed their summer campaign at Chester,
Pa, recently and the treasurer says that their
profits for the season are 100000 which Is
third more than they made last year. The
show Is safely housed in winter quarters at
Bridgeport. ++ i.
According to New York dispatches the
General Missionary Committee Of the Meth
odist Episcopal church has just appropriated
and $11 500 for Montana. for the year 1883.
This is al advance Of $500 for the Utah
mission and Of $6,000 for the Montana mis-
sion over the past year. r
A young man ofKenten county, Kentucky.
has applied for patent for device to tele-
graph train running at the highest rate Of 1S
speed at any point on the road. He is also
at work on o safe lock to be operated by
electricity, and which will require no key.
hole In the door. A burglar could by no I
possibility open the safe by operating on the
lock. -... fa .l:.-t 2. "a" +,
"A great part of England Is now flooded by ,
heavy rains, which have been falling Of late
almost without intermission, SO that rin
scarcely single district has autumn wheat
been sown, 1t being absolutely impossible {
for farmers 10 get IN the land. The traffi. |
Of some parts Of such towns as Canterbury ,
aud Reading Is carried on In boats, and the
country on each side Of the railway looks
like large lake. ~.
From high English authority 1t is learn
ed that nearly $500 sailing vessels aud steam 8
ers have been lost throughout the world dur ,
H.. the last two years. and that of these /
more than 500 have never been, heard from
since their fast sailing, and were long ago f
classtd as 'mlssifgF Disasters ON rivers J.
have swelled the list greatly,> far beyond
what might reasonably be supposed. q
According to the Boston Globe the follew- (
ing incident occurred in that city, but il | .
might have occurred anywhere else. An out Z
"f town druggist entered an apothecary :
store and handed . clerk simple recipe..l
.'One dollar and 6fiy cents," said the latter, c
as he handed the medicine over. pIsn,t that q
pteity steep?" asked the customer. sim In the i
business myself and know somewhat about :,
the cost Of these Ingredients" "Oh that
alters the case, was the response; seventeen .
cents, please" o
Rev. DR.. Scudder, whs goes from Brooklyn
to take charge cf the Plymouth Congreea- >
tional church Of Chicago, was one OF the. .6rst d
men who opened the eyes Of the average /,
American 10 the wonderful clearness md
keenness Of the Hindoo mind. His lectures
about twenty-two years ago were lit.ls less D
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