The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1883-10-19
NO. 16. DEER LODGE, MONTANA, OCTOBER 19, 1888
NEW NOR'-wESTERS.

There Is one lawyer for every TOO people
| In the United States.
The District of Columbia has no Law
against miscegenation. #'
The fattest man In Virginia keeps hotel
at Bristol. He weighs 800 lbs.
George Washington weighed 200 pounds at
the close of the Revolutionary war.
A California farmer has raised three water.
melons, weighing 104, 9S and Sd lbs. g
Some of the Arizona mining companies
are about 10 use the electric,aight in their
mines. 49,
Bonanza Flood will import Drown stone
| from New York for hts house on Mob Hill,
San Francisco. aa #~ -raa -
Sixteen hotels in Chicago are assessed &c.
500, 200. The theatres of the city are valued
at about $4,000.
Judge Hoadly thinks little good whisky,
| with q tansy flavor, Is not bad to take early
in the morning.
Bancroft, the historian: is as hearty as ever,
and fairly surprised his guests at Newport
on his S3rd birthday.
The invention of harness is ascribed to
Erectheus, King of Athens, who lived 300 or
400 years before Christ.
Chow can l expand my chest ?" asked a
stingy fellow Of physician. "By carrying
larger heart in It," was the reply.
At Port Jervis, he who has fancy for it,
may, at low water, stand on a rock In the
river with one foot In New York, the otherin
Pennsylvania, and touch with his hand New
Jersey.
Galusha A. Grow, of Pennsylvania, now
90 years of age, Is described as q "slender,
bald-headed, silver-bearded, thin-voiced,
pleasant-spoken old gentleman" whose po-
litical sun Is set.
The man who bought German edition of
Shakespeare because he wanted the works of
the bard In "the original" belongs to the
same family as the fellow who enjoyed the
novels of the late Peter Cooper.
Sir George S. Mares, the Commander of
the English Polar expedition of 1875, writes
to the London Times that In his opinion the
Greely party will be able to pass the coming
winter without great suffering.
A Massachusetts, man has tried the expert
ment for 20 years, and is convinced that q
man can support a family of six on 8 acres
of land, cultivated properly. At first he
thought the farm too small, but now he finds
1t large enough.
The Peruvian war has resulted In 800 Gen.
erals, /, 400 Colonels, ,210 Majors, 1900 Cap
tains, and so many Lieutenants that no one
can make a list of them. All want back pay
In such sums that the country wouldn't sell
for enough to square up.
Leather may have its color restored by an
application of good blacking, a subsequent
brushing, very slight oiling, and an after
dressing Of gum tragacanth. II Is surprising
what an effect this treatment has upon old
and shabby looking leather.
Henry Clay Thurston, of Mount Pleasant,
Texas, Is 7 feet u inches in stature, and
weighs 2S0 pounds. He has got his growth,
for he is So years Of age. At the Grand Ar
my reception at Nebraska the other day an
other large man came to the front. He was
7 feet inches In height.
Ex-senator Jerome b. Chaffee says that 90
years ago, when he entered Denver, he
invited his tired fellow passengers of the
stage coach to take drink, and laid down q
twenty dollar gold piece, concerning which
the barkeeper said, "All right" That lit
tie transaction made him temperance man.
The Directors of the Northern Pacific,
elected at New York on the Goth Of Septem-
ber, were the following: Frederick Billings,
Ashbel Ii. Barney, John w. Ellis, Roosevelt
G.. Rolston, Robert Harris, Thomas F. Oakes,
j. PierpoDt Morgan, August Belmont, Henry
Willard, New York; j. L. Stackpole, Ben
jamin p. Cheney, Boston; John c. Built,
Philadelphia, and Henry z. johnson of Bal
timore.
There Is on exhibition at San Luis Obispo
an ear of corn grown In the exact form of the
hand of child, showing the wrist, hand,
thumb and fingers all perfect excepting the
little finger, which is double. It is covered
with small grains of corn to near the tips of
the fingers, which are bare prongs of cob,
giving the appearance of a hand clad with .
mitt. In total length 1t is five and q half
inches and three inches broad across the
palm.
Mayor Carter Harrison, of chicago, has
returned from the Willard excursion. 1.-THE
trip was not only princely," he says, shut it
was royal and barbaric in its magniticence.
1t was one continual ovation from the begin
ming to the end; the viauds were as elegant
as though prepared for banquet, all kinds
of wine flowed without stint, and cigars--im-
ported, not domestic-were furnished in
abundance"
George +. Barstow, of San Francisco, who
left an estate valued at $4,000, gave these
injunctions In his will: "Having observed
that ostentation and expensive funerals are
injurious to the people, after absorbing
money which poverty cannot we'll spare TO
vanity and pride, therefore, by way of exam
pie, for which beg pardon of the undertsk-
ers, let my coffin be plain redwood box,
put together with common nails or screws,
without paint or varnish, with plain iron
handles, and all else about the funeral TO
correspond with this plsinness. Let there
be cheap shroud and no flowers. What is
dead man but handful of dirt? Instead
of hearse may as well be carried to the