The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-01-20
NOTES OF THE DAY.

Denver has just discovered Chinese ne
gro.
There are 5000 saloons in Chicago, and
Sl6,o00.000 spent yearly for drink.
A uook with a loose leaf should be bound
over to keep the piece.-N. o. Picayuae.
Patti wears fur coat the late Empress of
Russia gave her that cost IS 200, and yet she
is not happy.
The balance of trade in favor of this coun-
about $1o0, 100000.
Omaha charges $1,000 for a license to
sell liquor, and yet has more drunken men
than any city charging one tenth thai sum.
A New Jersey man couldn't see any dam
ger in smoking while weighing powder"
There will be an Inquest in case any frag-
ments are found.
The number of deaths in Salt Lake City
for the yeas 1881 were 5s2, or about twenty
a fearful death rate.
Senator Miller last Frida introduced .
resolution to investigate the causes Of the
negro exodus; 5000 negroes left one county
during the past six weeks.
Professor Nordenskjold contemplates an
Arctic expedition next summer, mainly for
the purpose of proving the possibility Of reg
ular communication " it'll Siberia.
Beecher has once more distinctly an
nounced his disbelief in future punishment.
1t is limited that this much-tried preacher
may have to undergo a new trial for hetero-
doxy.
Some crusty, rusty, musty, fusty, dusty
gusty, curmudgeon of a man gave the fol-
lowing toast at a celebrations: "Our fire
engines-may they be like our old maids
ever ready but never wanted"
The standing army of the United States
numbers 10000 men, rank and file, and costs
$4,000, 900, or 81, 800 per man. a year, while
France maintains an army of 100000 at
a cost of 10000, 0OO or about 500 per
head.
Intelligent servant to caller "Will We
kape still for q minute While | look at ye?
No, missus amt at home. She told me If a
woman came with q wart on the end Of q
red nose to say she wasn't home-an' there
is no mistaking that wart."
couple of red-nosed old topers were
complimenting each other on their temper
ance, when one asked the other: Have
you eve, seen me with more than could
carry?" "No; but l have seen you when
thought you had better have gone twice after
it," was the reply.
Venus is still a morning star, and rises
about forty three minutes ahead of the sun.
Ninety-eight hundredths of It's disc is now
illuminated. 1t is rapidly approaching SUI
perior conjunction with the sun, which will
occur about January 20th. Jupiter aud Sat-
urn still continue to be conspicuous objects
in the evening sky. They are both near the
end of their retrograde motion, and will
soon turn eastward. Mars is rapidly retro
grading, and will soon enter the constelIa-
ton Taurus. With Jupiter and Saturn NOV
ing towards it, the three planets will vie
with each other in lending beautiful APP
pearanee to the early evening sky.
This Man is School Teacher. He is 60
Ing to sit down in Chair. There is Bent
Pin IN the Chair, and it will Bite the School
Teacher. The School Teacher is a very
Able Man, and He will fluid 1t out as soon as
the Bent Pin tackles Him. Will the School
Teacher rise again? We should Smile.
But the School Teacher will not Smile. He
will Play a Sonata with the Ferule on the
Boys Back. The Boy who put the Bent
Pin in the Chair. He is trying to be =
Humorist. When the School Teacher gets
through with Him, the Boy will eat his
Meals from the Mantel-piece for Week
Denver Tribune Primer.
In a notice Of the death of Gustave de
Neveu. the Vancouver Independent saws:
In the days of the American revolution the
Count DE Grasse commanded the ship on
which Mr.. De Nevau's father was wounded
when ST arting to assist the American patriots.
few years after merchant vessel and pas
senger packet was built and named the Sill
via De Grasse, in honor of the youngest
daughter of Count De Grasse. In this ship
Mr.. DE Nevau lin 1880 came to America.
To-day the Silvia De Grasse lies in the
sands at Astoria, wrecked there many long
years ago. and buried deep by the rolling
waters of the Columbia He also lies buried
OH its shores.