The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1883-03-02
NEW NOR-WESTERS.
Senator Bayard is said to be worth $780,

of his first efforts will be "Romeo."
Appropriation bills amounting to 81 900,
600 passed the Colorado Legislature.
Under the new law, the State Treasure
| of Colorado has to give bonds in the sum o
half million.
DIR. Yates, of Shanghai, says the Chimes
pay sl54, 900 annually to quiet the spirit
of their ancestors.
The oldest member of the British Cabine
Is Mr.. Gladstone, who is seventy-three; ant
ihe youngest. Sir Charles Dixie, who j
thiry-nine.
| IL is said that the death of Mr.. Critchett
the eminent English oculist, was hastenet
by remorse for a grave mistake made by hin
In an operation.
| Remarks upon the personal appearance o
others are in bad taste. They are likely Il
draw attention TO your own, which may no
stand criticism.-LoDeI Citizen.
Edward Flynn, the new managing editor
Of the New York Herald is only thirty fivi
years Of age. He has been connected wifi
the paper since he was fifteen years old.
The extreme western boundary of the
| United States Is in the Island of AttoO, as
far beyond San Francisco as that city is from
Maine. San Francisco is thus only the half
way station In the journey across our country
There are about 10000 working men In
Boston whose average pay is four dollars q
| week, and whose board costs them an aver
! age Of three dollars and fifty cents week
| This leaves them twenty-six dollars a year
for clothing and incidentals.
Mr.. Edward Atkinson, illustrating the ad.
vantage of machinery, says it would require
100000 persons, using the spinning wheel
and hand loom of less than century ago to
make the cotton cloth used by our people,
which is now manufactured by 100000.
General John b. Gordon, of Georgia, sees
a rainbow arching the South from the Po-
tomac TO the Rio Grande. Business Is good,
manufacturing establishments are being
built, foundries are making trip-hammer
marks and the colored people are becoming
accustomed to new habits of industry.
Scotland is becoming more aud more i'm
portant every day in the political world.
Lord Beaconsfield used to say that "what
Lancashire says to day, England will say TO-
morrow" bnt the popular rendering of that
phrase is now, "what Scotland says to day,
Britain will say tomorrow" - Glasgow
EelrS.
Four tramps secreted themselves in a
freight car near Tucson, A. T., recently.
The car was loaded with gentlemen's cloth
ing, and durIag the short ride the vagabonds
INDUCED in ther took occasion to exchange
their seedy and tattered clothing for the styl-
ish cut and brand-new raiment. The rail-
road detectives are looking for the thieves.
A party of young loafers entered Metho-
dist church at Waseca. Wisconsin, and began
a nights carousal with whiskey and cards.
As there was no police force that could be
called in; the pastor wrapped himself In a
sheet, emerged from the pulpit. and spoke
In a ghostly fashion but couldn't scare them.
Then he fisbed out an old sermon and went
to preaching, and they fed in no time.
One Of the New York City members In the
Legislature at Albany has introduced in the
Assembly bill allowing everybody in the
State TO practice medicine. His name is
Quinn, and, according TO the terms of his
bill, any man who has sense enough to come
in out Of the rain may be called on to attend
a dying man, no matter whether he be i'll of
small pox or q SPAWN on his leg.
A criticism from the Boston Herald ::
"Senator Ingalls, said in his euiogy on Ben
Hill that me has gone 10 the undiscovered
country How can a man go TO an undis-
covered country? The contradiction is none
the less plain because the phrase is Shakes
peare's." Now, where was Columbus going
when he left the shores of Europe and had
not yet found America Commercial Ca
zette.
Governor Stephens has futtered the legis-
tors of Georgia by his action regarding the
resolution providing for life sized oil paint
ing of the late Senator Benjamin III. Hill.
The preamble to the resolution was full of
hyperbole and exaggeration, which many of
the legislators felt to be in bad taste when
they adopted it, Governor Stephens returns
the bill to the Legislature with this indorse-
ment: "Without reference to the preamble,
the resolution Is approved by me-"
Five times as many kinds ofinsects are es-
timated to exist as there are species of oil
other living creatures together. Four hun
dred and fifty species are fostered by the oak
tree alone, and two hundred by the pine.
Humboldt, In 1S49, estimated that between
10000 and 10000 species were preserved in
collections, and It Is now supposed that the
number may be something like 10000.
With how large a part of Natures produc-
tioa In this one field can any single individ-
ual hope to become familiar?
The editor of the new Gennesee Farmer
nails into hard seasoned timber, fairly dried
through q pine board, entered about one
inch and then doubled down under the ham
mer; but on dipping the points Of the other
six or eight nails into lard every one was
driven home without the least difficulty.
Carpenters who are engaged in repairing old
buildings sometimes carry a small lump of
lard or tallow for this purpose on one of
their boots or shoes.
A misspelled word NAV lead whole gen.
GRAFTON of the right track. "Nine tailers
make a man." is an odd saying, and good
illustration of our statement. To look down
on the worthy profession of the cloth cutter
because Of such a proverb shows a want of
proper instruction. In the olden times,
when a person died the church bell telled
once for every year the departed had lived.
But from the tolling Of the bell no one
could tell whether the deceased was a man
or woman. To satisfy public curiosity, per.
haps, on the subject. the sexton, after tolling
the age, gave eight quick strokes of the bell
II the deceased was woman, and nine If IL
was man, and these quick strokes at the
end Of the tolling were called " tailers, - be-
cause they were at the tall end of the whole
business. Hence the proverb, "nine tailers
make q man.
"Fat Contributor" of Cincinnati, In imi-
tation of the peoples Lawyer" volunteered
to act as counsel for man whose COW had
been slain by railway train. In summing
up he exclaimed: do you believe that q
COW brought up in this country, as this COW
was, with every facility for knowing the
character of this bloody minded railroad, its
locks dripping with gore Of your property
and mine, gentlemen, will willfully go ..on
Its reeking track. and stand there while one
OF the defendants carnage stained engines
rushes upon her with its mouth watering for |
warm blood? tell you no, gentlemen, you |
will notl as well ask you TO believe that |
smiling Jehovah looks down approvingly, |
and bids the work proceed while this gore
stained railroad rushes beadlong upon the |
dearest rights Of man, and clatters up to the |
very gate OF sweet heaven with The bones |
and pelts of the best cows that ever strad- |
died milk pail.'
Mr.. Bell, Of telephone celebrity, has been /
improving and adorning bis new house in /
W ashineton ever since its purchase from |
Mrs. Jessie BIosdhead last summer. Rare |
s.aluary and paintings, collected during /
many visits abroad, have BEEN added 10 the /
many beautiful things already in bis col /
lection. The most exqisite piece OF statuary !
10 life size Cupid veiied, ard the marble /
solored. The roguish, laughing eyes, as
blue rs an April sky, red lips and golden
.urls. the dimples and curves and frolic-
ZONE grace Of childhood are ali akin 10
nature, and the veil, though Of marble,
vx.tst a. 1orn~ liLo and dali