The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-06-09
NEW NoR-WEsTERs.
Peoples intentions can only be decided by
their conduct.

their conduct.
He who waits to do good deal of good at
once will never do any.
Guiteau intends TO close ont his autograph
business on the 30th of June.
The noblest and the most useful lives are
made up Of small acts well done.
There are troubles enough In life without
adding of your own manufacturing.
The whole of our life depends upon the
persons with whom we live familiarly.
Circumstances are ths rulers of the weak;
they are but the instruments of the wise.
Darwin was great reader of novels, and
was satisfied with any author whose story
| interested him.
The American Bible Society distributed
over 100000 Bibles among immigrants dur
ing the past year.
A good deed is never lost; he who sows
courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants
kindness gathers love.
There is no sphere of life so narrow or
confined that 1t does not afford opportunities
for doing good to some one.
One reason why tame alligator at Savan-
nah is let alone is because of sign reading:
'ldiots will please stir him up"
If man has good health it is unfair for
him TO ask the Lord to give him anything
else, because he ought to get 1t for himself.
A poet asks: "Why is the nightingale's
sor.g so sad?" Perhaps it is because the
nightingale has to get up SO early in the
morning.
The subject of the preservation of the
Sabbath has been earnestly taken up by the
ministers aud laity, both in England and
Scotland.
An eminent Republican United States
Senator asserts that the trouble with the
present Congress is, it is weighed down with
mediocrity.
Lewis T. Frye, the champion bicycler of
the United States, was probably fatally hurt
by fall from his bicycle at Marlboro,
Mass, last week.
The way the doctors 90 to work to get a
billiard ball out Of mans mouth is to oil
his jaws and pull out his front teeth. 1t is
an operation requiring a great deal Of pa
thence and deep thinking.
The Town Improvement Society of Wal
than, Mass, has planted an elm on the COM
mon In that town in memory of Ralph
Waldo Emerson. A tablet will be erected
near the tree commemorative of Mr.. Emer-
sons virtues.
Tom Ochiltree, who has announced him.
self as a candidate for Congress in the Gal
weston, Texas, district, is the man who, dur
ing visit to London, approached the heir
apparent to the throne with the remark,
"Come in, Wales, let's take drink"
The Ksiping coal mines in China have
been closed in Difference to the opinion ex-
pressed by the Censor that the continued
working of them would release the earth
dragon, disturb the names of the empress
and bring trouble upon the imperial family.
In 1864 an Indiana man bought a black
walnut tree for ST. and in a few years sold 1t
for S65 TO man who let It go to Cincinnati
lumber dealer for ST00. A New Yorker took
1t off the Cincinnatian's hands for $4,000,
and shaved 1t into $27 900 worth of veneering
for which he took the cash.
The land agitation In Scotland is spread
ing. The Farmers Alliance of Aberdeen
shire numbers nearly 1000 members. At a
recent meeting held at Aberdeen, a commit
tee was appointed TO wait upon Mr.. Glad
an immediate reform In the land laws.
Secretary Teller says he does not contem-
plate the general and forcible disarming of
the Indians, but favors the policy of encour-
aging them to deliver their arms voluntarily,
even to the extent of offering a tempting
bonus, If necessary. He would then take
care that they should be kept, so far as prac-
ticable, from getting arms again, and their
attention turned to more useful pursuits
than hunting and rowing.
The Associated Press has dismissed w. P.
Phillips, Its Washington correspondent for
four years, for having allowed Mr.. Blaine to
revise the reports sent out of the testimony
In the Shipherd investigation. Mr.. Phillips
claims that Mr.. Blaine made no corrections
which were not warranted by the steno-
graphic report and that Perry Belmont and
the editor of the New York World also had
access TO the reports. The Associated Press,
jealous Of the integrity of its views, were
probably not pleased with the ainformal ar
rangements" by which the report was asub-
mitted daily" to Mr.. Blaine.
A remarkable case was that of the steamer
Rio Grande, from Galveston to New York,
loaded with cotton and carrying 81 passen-
gers, Captain Burrows commanding. When
off the Capes of Delaware the cotton was
found to have taken fire. The captain hailed
an Italian vessel, transferred all his passen-
gers safely, ran to shallow water, sunk his
ship, extinguished the flames, then pumped
1t out again, overlook the vessel with his
passengers, took them on board again and
brought all into New York without loss and
with little damage and delay.