The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-08-25
NEW NoR-WESTERS.


Secretary Folger will run for Governor of
New York II nominated.
"Bicycular vehiculation" Is the lsest
atrocity on the English language.
s. S. Prentiss's grave, near Natchez, Is
overgrown with briers and weeds.
The Philadelphia Times expects to live
long enough to see everybody In this country
sleep in hammocks during the summer.
The latest thing In insurance comes from
Neumunster, Germany, where q company
has been formed for insurance from singing
bees.
One reason why you don't see more bald
heads may be found In the fact that there
are $4,000 wigs being worn In this country
daily.
Cuba bears an enormous burden In the
way of taxation. The rate for the coming
year Is something over $26 to each man,
woman, and child In the island.
1t is always easier to pay an undeserved
compliment to rich man than TO be COM
monty courteous to q poor man. Human
nature Is thus proven to be not entirely
success.
The New York Sun says II the winter
wheat turns out as we'll as the spring wheat
Is doing, we may expect an astonishing yield
this year, exceeding, perheps, that Of the
46s, 600 900 bushels In 1880.
He that will lose his friend for . jest de-
serves to die beggar by the bargain. Such
let thy jests be that they may not grind the
credit Of thy friend, and make not jests 80
long till thou becomest one.-Fuller.
1t Is reported that Lucky Baldwin has lost
nearly all of his colossal wealth. He has
had so many irons In the fire with such bad
managers that his millions of . few years
ago have dwindled down to nearly nothing.
John Bell, founder of the London Belle
Weekly Messenger, which has Just changed
hands, was, according to Leigh Hunt (once
Its editor), the first printer who confined the
letter sss' to Its present shape, aud rejected
altogether the old f-like form.
virchow, the eminent German professor,
denies that he Is, as charged, the opponent
| of soup. He says he merely declared that
| meat broths are neither nutricious nor sub
| stantial, and he further says 1t Is the height
Of absurdity to eat hot meats.
A portrait of Mark Twain, drawn from
| life by Abbott Thayer and engraved by T.
Cole, will be the frontispiece Of the Septem-
Der Century, to accompany Biographical
and critical sketch Of the author Of "Inno-
cents Abroad" by W. D. Howells.
From the counters and warehouses and
the parlors of the hotels the best talent Of
modern business life has been transferred to
the road. The successful commercial trav-
eler combines within himself very eminently
the genius and elements of success In life.-
81. Louis Republican.
| The Dublin police receive, taking clothes
and everything into account, only % . week.
| They are magnificent body Of men, and are
said to show q degree of forbearance and
proprety not to be found In any police force
| In the United States, whose members receive
as much as $25 week.
There Is something appalling In the state
ment that twelve and half million false
teeth are made every year In Philadelphia,
and that gigantic total Is still more impress
I've when considered In connection with the
fact that the same city produces annually
five tons of powder designed TO prevent the
necessity Of false teeth.
Ex-senator Conkling attracted much at
tention In the New York Supreme Court last
week. He vas clad faultlessly, was in the
full glow of health, and seemed to be at his
best. Crowds flocked to the courtroom to
hear his argument. He Is said to be
changed man, striving to win where two
years ago he gave rebuff.
Soon the work of reclaiming the Zuydei
Zee will begin. A dixie twenty-four and q
half miles long Is to be made Of sand, faced
with clay, and SO high that 1t will be six ant
| half feet above the greatest tide level. Tht
time for the completion Of this undertaking
. Is estimated at from seven to ten years, anc
the cost about SAC, 900, 600.
, General Mcclellan, who spent some time
In Egypt several years ago, has written fol
the forthcoming Century paper on the pres
ent war. 1t is understood to contain some
| severe criticisms on the English military
methods there still they are very much az
ter the pattern set by Mcclellan on the Pen
insula - dillydallying while the enem!
strengthens bis position.
There are fewer Jews In Norway than II
, any other country in the world. The tota
population In 1881 was 1,9I3,500, Of whicl
, only "a were Jews, while there were 81
. Mormons, 502 Roman Catholics, II Greel
. Catholics, 432 Quakers, and 2,759 Metho
dists. The Lutherans numbered /, 300, ,S46
: The classification of population Is rs follows
!. Farmers, 100, ,39l mechanics, 1924; sn'
54,244 mariners.
Mr.. Thomas Dana, an educated Indian
: saws: "The Indians never cook anything II
! the house where they live. They cook out
:, side, and they give as = reason that II the,
i cook inside the steam collects In their cloth
a | Ing and draws the lightning Whether thi
Ia SO or not, do not know, but know tha
: an Indian wigwam is never struck BY light
q ming, and no Indian has been killed by light
/ ming In hundred years"
Q The cause of Arabi's apathy during tn
n last few days il that his soldiers have beel
observing the fast Of Ramadan, which cut
of all food from sunrise TO sunset. As ful
r stomach Ii the basis of all valor, and th
u Egyptian soldiers persisted In observing tn
' fast, Arabi was forced to inactivity. he will
probably give the show troops that Englan'
: has landed something to do after Tomorrow
i when the fast comes to an end.-San Fran
= cisco Chronicle, 18th. a"
: The four officers Of the Austrian arm
!, highest In command In Bosnia are lrshmen
q The Governor of Livno Is Major Genera
O'Reilly. The second in command Of th
the cavalry is Colonel O'Herlihy, and ther
are two Captains O'Sullivsn under him. On
OF the Generals Of Brigade Is Rudolph OH
yer Swanston, who comes Of . West Cor
family. 1t seems that still In far foreig
| FIELDS, from Dunkifk 10 DetSEaucs tnc A1is
7 soldier Ii foremost In the path Of honol
0 glory, and small pay. ,-..s ... a.
{ A royal appetite has Cetawayo, the ex
: King Of Zululand, and no boarding-hous
: keeper would take him at regular rates. "
deyours three pounds Of beef day. but th'
cold air Of London freezes him TO the mar
Q row, aud he longs tor the fierce hest Of Soutl
!, Africa. He gets any amount Of public sym
4 pathy, but no real alhelptoward his old throne
The next thing We may expect ID that som
American Snowman will capture him ant
' bring the royal exile across the Atlantic
y m adjunct TO "moral circus. s'
There 10 man In the State Prison Il Wau
II pun, Wisconsin, who has spent most OF hi
!, life behind the bars. He has been impria
: oned as follows: In jails, six yean; tw
= terms in Michigan prisons, six years; on
. term at jefferson, Iowa, nne year; one tern
at Joliet, Illinois, eighteen months, and b
Is now on his ffth term In the Wisconsin
prison. He 10 now ifty.four years old, IN
when his present term Is concluded, whlc
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