The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-04-21
NEW NOR-WESTERS.
Affiiction, like the iron smith, shapes as i
smites.


smites.
Afog Is worth SCI, 900 per day to the Lon
don gas companies.
Tombstone, Arizona, has 500 gamblers
among its population.
A Philadelphia has invented q paper
pigeon for trap-shootlng.
Charles ID. Williams has been postmaster
at Naccochee, Georgia, for fifty-one years.
The name Connecticut, spelled Qu,n-neh-
tukqut, means .'land on long tidal river"
A Georgia cow climbed over a curb Eve
feet high to fall down a well thirty feet
deep.
1t is believed Guiteau's respiration will
trouble him more than his inspiration next
June.
General Grant and Bob Ingersoll are in
terested in mines In Lake Lelley, New
Mexico.
The present ruler of the Republic of San
Domingo is = Catholic priest, Father F. A.
de Merino.
Habit is cable. We weave a thread Of
1t each day, and it becomes so strong we
cannot break 1t.
All the original MSS. of Longfellow's
works, both In prose and verse, have been
preserved and bound by him.
The American Bible Society refuses to aid
In sending out, a certain Burmese Bible be-
| tha ard al, iy..y,; L. Cd
merse."
Twelve boxes Of young monkeys arrived
in New Ysrk recently. They were sea-sick
all the way over, which makes the evolu-
tlonists happy.
Arab proverb: The idle word that
speak to-day, shall not meet it again and
again at the crossings of the ways until the
world shall be no more.
Nicaragua will enter the postal union
May l. There Is nobody in Nicaragua can
write, but the natives enjoy opening the let
ters of the American consul.
The late Mr.. Longfellow was four times
rendered a foreign mission, and as many
times declined the proffered honor. The
last offer came from President Hayes.
On a recent computation made by the
municipal authorities, it was found that iu
twenty flour consecutive hours 7S,943 pas
sengers and 0,733 vehicles crossed London
bridge.
An American writes from Nice: ''Las,
week we went TO a review of the army oi
Monaco. There were on the field at one
time sixty men, six of whom were armed
, with guns.
Poet Paul Hayne, of Georgia, does not
rally, as he has been wont to do, from hi:
recent hemorrbage, land 1t is feared that there
is prophecy in the closing words of his las
poem-"For strength grows faint and hops
Is low"
The man who sells four quarts to the gal
lon Is the best product of the christian relig
the gate of Paradise while the man witt
prays at the street corners is trying in vail
to pick the lock.
Mr.. Alex. H.Stephens will not run for Con
gress again. He is over seventy years o
age, and says that infirmities will compe
his retirement from public life. He define
his position As that Of an Independent Jefier
}, sonian Democrat. - .-sF'
The Washington Star of Thursday says
A member of the Mason court martial sal
TO Star reporter this morning: 81 woul
have great deal of sympathy with Maso
and his family, too, If he had not said tw
:, weeks before he fired the shot that he WI
going to do something that would bring biz
= 100000.
The st. Petersburg correspondent says
. Gen. Skobeleff: 81 have never come in col
tact with any man who has left SO charmir
70 an impression upon me. An interview wit
Il Skobeleff would have made Carlyle your
again. It would have revived the extin
n fires of hero-worship. As for Thackeray,
u think he would have made him his ideal
II perfect gentleman"
m General Grant has absolutely no vani
g In the mstter of dress. A stranger, who W
D. waiting with several others to see him in Z
corridor outside his business office in WI
)" street, asked colored porter how he shou
recognize the General whrn he came
ct "Jess yo' watch out TO- de fust gemmen
le looks as eff he nebber had his clos brusht
m an dat's him." was the reply.
u The New York Star alleges that within
lis few hours of the appearance in the N
&c York Sun of the famous ante-elect ion e
lis torial In which Hancock was sneeri ugly
scribed as "a good man weighing about
pounds" Samuel j. Tilden paid 1000
ng Charles A. Dana. The man who wot
shield the author of the infamous MOI
'y letter forgery is capable Of selling his inf
er ence to the highest bidder.
- The story circulates that Rev. Her
Ward Beecher seriously contemplates ret
al ing from the pastorate of Plymouth chure
!. and permanently from the ministry, on c
IN completion of his 10th birthday, which W
"A be June "a next year. This is not becau
sr he is not In full physical and mental vigor
his admirers say his present sermons I
:. among the best he has ever preached,-t
because, rs Is reported, he Is unwilling
IN run any risk of intellectual decline in
ar pulpit, of which he seems to have dres
a. His father, Rev. Lyman Beecher, lived to
no more than 81, but had not preached regul
~ ly for q number Of years previous to
"A death. No man can be sure Of preservl
his mind at Its best after three score and u
hit The forms of oath now in use in the ]
islative assemblies Of various foreign col
he tries are as follows: Bayaria-'I swear.
I'll help me God and His Holy Gospel" D
ant mark-"I promise and swear. so help
to Gsd and His Holy Word" Greece-"I sw
he in the name Of the Holy and Consubsfanl
Lhe and Indivisible Trinity" Hesse-Darrnsts
Of Holland, Coberg, Baden-"I swear.
AT ~x.