The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1883-04-13
NEW NOR-WESTERS.
No intelligent lawyer will ever take Il
will for the deed.

No intelligent lawyer will ever take the
will for the deed.
A Denver Indian has just been convicted
Of forging a check.
According to Mr.. George w. Cable, there
are seven distinct dialects spoken in Louis
lana.
Fashionable Philadelphians do not ride TO
church In their carriages, as is the custom in
New York.
The movement started some time ago to
do away with sermons at funerals is encour-
aged In many places.
The Rochester Express calls for a new
coin, value cents, for the convenience of
newspaper men sued for libel.
Pele Hyaciathe, accompanied by his wife,
will spend the coming summer in this coun-
Try, and will lecture in various cities.
A cattle raiser in Texas requires fifty miles
of wire fence to enclose his plantation along
the line Of the Texas Mexican railway.
A Connecticut judge has decided that
! police officers are not entitled to any reward
which may be offered for the detection and
arrest of criminals.
1t is said that John Sherman is weary of
public life. Congress has become stupid and
uninteresting to him. He aspires to make
name in Wall street.
The Germans have such q dislike to Amer
ican pork that ii has been found necessary
TO pack 1t IN England and send It over as the
pork of English hogs before IL will 70
down.
Every twenty four hours LAO trains pass
the signal tower of the Pennsylvania railroad
on Filbert street, Philadelp lphia-a record that
can be equalled by no other point on the
globe.
man in Georgia is cultivating a crop of
mullen, probably the only cultivated one in
the country. He is going to make patent
medicine from II for the cure of hydrophobia,
hog cholera and chicken -pox, and says there
are "millions in it."
Mr.. Edward Atkinson, illustrating the ad-
vantage of machinery, says it would require
G,000 900 persons, using the spinning wheel
and hand-l loom of less than century ago, to
make the cotton cloth used by our people,
which is now manufactured by 100000.
The milk Of cow in her third or fourth
calf is generally richer in quality than a
younger one, and will continue so for sew.
cral years. In dry seasons the quality is
generally richer, although cool weather
favors the production of cheese. Hot weather
increases the yield of butter.
All the big poker is not played in Denver.
Last Thursday young Thomas A. Scott, of
Philadelphia, bet $500 in 4 quiet gentle
mans game i'm the Quaker city, on four
queens. And he would have raked in the
pot, too, II John Tucker hadn't filled to a
straight flush.
General John A. RawliDs, Secretary of
War, who died September 7, 1869, was the
last Cabinet Minister to die In Office until
the death Of the late Postmaster General
Howe. He died also of 40 affection Of the
lungs, and, like Mr.. Howe, was a compare
lively poor man at the time of his death.
From the annual return of the British
army, just issued, 1t appears that the average
effective strength Of the regular forces dur
Ing the year 1882 was ISS.S96. This number
comprises 1T,099 cavalry, 33,397 artillery,
5,51O royal engineers, and 49,, 792 infantry
of all branches. The average number of |
officers was 1912.
Pierre is the delectabe spot that Governor
Ordway Is expected to select as the tempor-
ary capital Of Dakota. The hopes born of |
this prospect are that the permanent capital |
may also be located there. An itinerant
capital is good idea to sell off town lots, |
and Pierre may not be the only place that |
will enjoy Ordway's favors.
Harper IL Brothers promise to publish soon |
q book on the "Games and Songs of Ameri- |
can Children" IL will contain elaborate de- |
scriptions Of the amusemeuts-to the num- |
ber OF one hundred and slxty-which are in |
vogue among children in various sections Of |
the United States, together with the text of |
the songs, recilatlons, Jingles, formulas, and |
the melodies which constitute the most fas- !
cinaiing portions of mary fayorte games.
The Albany Lar journal discusses pleas. |
antly the alarm felt by some well disposed |
people Oh account of the presence in tha |
country Of so large number of lawyers as |
the census shows TO be dwelling in the |
United states. This alarm the Lac Journal |
says is wholly unnecessary. 1t asserts that |
on the whole the lawyers seem To get along |
pretty well, being, as q class, neither richer |
Lor poorer than their fellows Of other occu-
pations.
At the recent municipal election at Utica.
q voter who could not possibly get out tied |
his ballot on q string and let it down from
his window, political friend then took 1t,
held 1t above his head and carried 1t across |
and down the street to the polling place, the |
vster paying out the string, and then the in
speetor took the paper, looked at it, at the
string, and at the man holding the other end,
and deposited 1t In the box.
England's wealthiest baronet is said to be
Sir John Ramsden, of Byram, Yorkshire.
His rent-roll is computed at SS50,000 year.
He owns almost the whole of Huddersfield,
the great manufacturing center. The little
bit he doesn't own was q very Naboth's vine-
yard TO his father. who, according to popular
tradition, once offered to its Quaker owner
TO cover it with sovereigns If he would sell
1t. "Edgewise, friend Ramsden?" quote the
Quaker; " in that case IL is thine; otherwise,
all HuddersHeld must still belong TO thee
and me-" "Edgewise" was rather more than
the baronet could swallow.
The Cincinnati Enquirer publishes an In.
terview between George Alfred Townsend
and son of the inventor Morse, in which
the latter says that the first sentence ever
publicly recorded by the telegraph and pre-
served, was iuthese words: .Attention the
Universe! BY Kindoms Right Wheel" This
was sent through ten miles of wire IN 1897
aud not till May 1874, when over the wires
stretched ON poles along the Baltimore and
Ohio track, the telegram announced from the
Whig National Convention, which met In
the nomination Of Henry Clay
and Theodore Frelinghuyscl, was the tele
graph q solvent institution. In 1S45 Con-
gress could have bought the entire invention
from Morse for 100000. 1t was intended
originally to place the wire in tubes un.
derground. Ezra Cornell, father of Governor
fNnrnalt % fnu far tLot /