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The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1884-07-04
WHY WE LAUGH.
The English newspapers are pretty gener
ally boiling the nomination Of Blaine.

ally boiling the nomination of Blaine.
Snoring is common complaint, though
clothes.pins can be manufactured at the rate
of twenty-five for cent.
A Denver physician has failed financially,
and has thus acquired the title Of cdr" at
both ends of bis name.
A Frenchman is teaching donkey to talk.
What we want in this country is man who
will teach donkeys not to talk.
Mrs. PotIphar thought Joseph's coat was a
crazy quilt and she rallied for 1t the best she
knew how.-Nep Orleans Picayme.
1t will not be accurately known until the
end of the season how many unlicensed dogs
60 to the pound.-Neac York Commercial
4drertiser.
This is the season when the glass factories
are busy manufacturing pure Cape Town
diamonds for the summer hotel clerks
baltimore american.
"No, my son, Hdrper's Weekly will not
support Mr.. Blaine. 1t supports Mr.. Curtis,
and you couldn't ask derrick to do more
than that.-Buriingto Hd,ckeye.
This is the season when the men have
their hair cut so short that their wives can
use the top of hubby's head for nutmeg
graters.-Philadeiphia Chronicle- Herald.
A member of the Harvard class of 1888 has
just been appointed a pitcher for base ball
club at 5000 year. Still there are people
who turn up their noses at college-bred men.
--Colrier- Journal.
"Did you meet young Dudee of Cortland
yesterday ?" asked one Marathon man of an
other. ayes" "Well, how did he strike
youp" "Just as he does everybody. He
struck me for a dollar."-Mardthon Inde-
pendent.
After all, what does the detection of George
William Curtis and Carl Schurz amount to ?
Neither of them are larger than pound of
soap after hard days washing, and both are
more than offset by David Davis, who kicks
the beam at 350.-Portland Ne1cs.
There wasn't single plumber in the Ba-
laklava six hundred. That explains, at this
late day, why the charge failed. Had the
entire six hundred been composed Of plumb
Russian nation, and left mortgage on the
Black Sea.
Helm what respect does billiards change
my usual disposition?" She (naively)-
"Does it change your disposition" He
eyes," in billiards never kiss when can
hept 1t, whereas ordinarily" She-"Yo You
never kiss If anybody else can help tip
Hdrrdrd Lampoon.
There is a statue of Henry Clay in the
Capitol Square at Richmond, Va. Two col
| ored girls were promenading the Square one
afternoon, when one was overheard to say to
the other, "Dat's Clay" "Who you trying
to fool? OATS marbul; an you knows 1t "
replied her indignant friend.
"You are very late sending your evening
male out" said the editor to his daughter
when he came home at 2 O'Clock in the
morning and met a timid, shrinking young
man between the front door and the gate
"Not at ALL" answered the thoughtful girl
"Charles Henry is now a morning edition.
| --MiddletOlrn Transcript.
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The Man-Frog and Man-Goose.

The man-frog was first exhibited in 1866,
at French country fair. He had stout ILL
shaped body, covered with q skin like q
leather bottle, and face exactly like frogs
large eyes, an enormous mouth, and the
skin cold and clammy. lie attracted good
deal of attention from the Academy of Medi
cine, and delegate was deputed to make
him study. He went all over France, and
at the end of a few years retired to his ma
tive place, Puyre, In Gers. The man with
the goose's head was first shown at the Gin
gerbread Fair of 1872. He was 27 years of
age, had round eyes, large and fiat nose the
shape and size Of goose's bill, an immense.
~ long neck, aud was without hair on his
head. He only wanted feathers to make
him complete. The effect Of his intermina-
bly, long neck twisting about was extremely
ludicrous, and was so much appreciated that
his receipts were very large. He now passes
under his proper names Of Jean Rondlsr,
and is established at Dijsn as aphotogra-
pher. He is married; and, thanks to enor-
mously high collars and a wig, is now toler-
ably presentable.
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An Argument for Cremation.
Edmund Yates in London World.

EDMUND lQteS IN LONDON HoTtu.
No argument worthy of the name, or that
could be Immediately refuted, has yet been
adduced against cremation. We have been
told that the system is and must remain
costly, and that 1t will offer premium TO
scientific poisoner. 1t has been conclusiyely
demonstrated that body can be cremased
for the moderate sum of 10 shilllngs, and
that an absolutely infallible safeguard against
poisoning with impunity and without detec-
tion can be taken. There remain the objee.
tions to cremation on sentimental or theo-
logical grounds. The first are completely
disposed Of If cremation Is made optional
and not compulsory. The second are con-
tanned In the first. If man when he Is alive
has no religious compunctions on the subj act
of reducing his body to ashes in certain
number Of minutes by the agency Of fire, and
thus anticipating the process of nature, no
person else has right to protest against 10.
In the epitaph which Charles Read las
written for himself, the solemn and pathetic.
words occur, ~ hope for a resurrection, rot
ifom any power III Nasuto, oos HUN bho WIN
Of the Lord God Omnipotent, who made
Nature and me. He created man out of
nothing, which Nature could not" II the
supreme miracle of the resurrection of the
dead Is worked at all, as, according TO the,
creeds of the Church, we are bound to be.
lieve 1t Is, 1t must be immaterial whether
the body Is buried In the earth or consumed
in the flames. To take exception to crema-
tion from religious reasons is materialistie
superstition.
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The. English Premier
Scenes in the Commons.

There, in Office Con the treasury bench),
sits the first Lord of the Treasury and leader
of the House of Commons, stretched ont,
with his legs straight before him, and his
toes turned up to the lantern roof. His
hands lie llstlessly crossed on his lap. His
head droops over his right shoulder. His
face is pallid. The corners of his mouth
droop as If in pain. His scant gray hair
clings like fringe of floss about the base of
his great skull. His eyes are closed. The
powerful features, touched with a tinse of
sweetness and overworn with half century
of politics, mutely engender pity. His ILL.,
fitting clothes hang loosely about his figure,
always 1.-the and active in motion, and with
the free stride of a wild thing of the woods.
But when Mr.. Gladstone is once aroused by
attacks of his opponents, "the lax figure,
which seemed to sleep, suddenly sits bolt up.
right, chin IN the air, and hands clasping his
knees. There are only three fingers on the
left hand, the bare knuckles being concealed
with circular black patch kept in Its place
by a narrow black ribbon, drawn back and
front Of the palm. All traces Of fatigue pass
away, the eyes, large and luminous, keen
and gray, rest with anger upon the enemy.
The nostrils dilate, the lips, still close,
work impatiently, the body leans forward
the hands glide upon the knees pressed out
ward. .--.... .s.-
sIn moment Mr.. Gladstone is on his feet.
Say it is field night and that he has come
from some political reception. He wears
evening clothes and flower. When he
comes down to the house decorated with the
spoils of the garden, the reporters sharpen
their pencils and members wait about the
Hobbies to hear him. By what process the
Liberal chief rufies the fronts of his dress
shirts Is secret as close as that ofthe age of
the world. With couple Of quick steps he
comes to the dispatch-box at the corner Of
the table, and for an instant beams upon the
House. Then he opens the food-gates Of
his oratory and deluges the Commons with
superb eloquence."
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Dio Le,cis' Monthly.

Deo Ae"so "VaSs's'
Nothing Is so terrible as severe neura raig!a,
and beyond doubt girls acquire 1t often
enough by the condition Of school life.
Headaches In school girl often mean ex-
hausted nerve power through over-worE, /,
over-excitement, over-anxiety, or bad air.
Rest, . good laugh, country walk will usu-
ally cure It readily enough TO begin with.
But to become subject to headaches is avery
serious matter, and all such nervous diseases
have nasty tendency to recur, to become
periodic, to be set up by the same causes, 70
become an organic habit Of the body. For
any woman to become liable to neuralgia
Is terrible thing. 1t means that while 1t
lasts life Is not worth having. 1t paralyzss
the power to work, 1t depriyes her Of the
power to enjoy anything, IL tends toward ir-
ritability Of temper, 1t tempts to the use Of
narcotics and stimulants. So says DR.. Nell
son, and so say I. A girl who finds herself
subject to neuralgia should at once change
her habits, II but TO grow strong In body.
or what use Is education with ill.health A
happy girl must be healthy one. The
Greeks educated their girls physically; We
educate ours mentally. The Greek mother
bore the finest children the world ever pro-
duced. DR.. Holbrook, In his great work on
marriage and parentage. gives chapter on
the Grecian education Of girls. he claims
1t comes very near to the education We need
for them to-day, and We quite agree witl
him. It developed beautiful women, and
their beauty lasted till old age. The beam
.iful Helen was = handsome at 80 - ~
sxeet sixiee6.
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Gala Lily Brocade.

The Philadelphia Times describes dress
made of the calla lily brocade, and says:
"An exquisite realization is illustrated In
a toilet for charming, fair-faced, golden.
haired belle ofNew York. The dress was
designed and created In Philadelphia. The
lower edge of the skirt Is finished with
knife.plaiting of most delicate spring leaf
green satin; above are plastrons of cream
satin, cut In the exact shape Of Gala lily pet
ais and placed so as TO surround the entire
skirt, the spaces caused by the undulations
of the lily petals being filed with fan plait-
Ings of the green satin like that on the lower
edge. The font top finish and hip panieIs
assume the shape Of the lily calyx, while the
black drapery falls In leaf form over the
cream petals, resting upon but not conceal
Ing them. The cordage and overy drapery
are formed of the American brocade In deli
cate green, figured with cream gold Gala
lilies, combined with cream and green satin.
The corsage Is very old. The basque por-
ton of brocade has skits out front and back
In leaf shape, and the waist Is closed ut the
threat and cut over the bust In calla lily
shape, whith appliqued cream petals al
ranged over fullness Of point lace with lily
design. The standing wide naring collar,
with lower portions sleeves cut like lily pet
ais, in cream satin over full plating Of point
lace. The naring collar Is worn closed with
. gold lily pin, with each stamen tipped with
n
a large diamond. This toilet Is particularly
noticeable for It's remarkable beauty, as well
ss the fact that the materials are all oi
American creation, the silk being spun and
woven In New York, while the dress and
even the jewelry we're made In the city q
Philadelphia"
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RACHEL.
BY DIR. }. 4. ANDERSON.

In Ramah, DER her infant dead,
Wspt Rachel, sore, uncontrolled.
Above, the sky arched, blue, serene;
Beneath, the yine-clad hills were green.
Soft breszes, fresh from Galilss,
Brought grateful kisses from the sea.
All fair things thronged about the spot;
Yet what avsiled when they were not?
The harp, swept DER by fingers skilled,
Seemed mockery, with their voices stilled.
The twitter OF the nesting birds
Recalled their broken, childish words.
A thousand unexpected things
Brought sudden, sharp romemberings.
o Jewsss mother, centuries
Still echo thy despairing cries!
Thy life is not-is passed, apart;
Yet still thy wailings haunt each heart.
Still we who weep withered flower
That bloomed one trsnsitory hour,
In our new grief but voice the woe
That wrung thy heart SO long ago.
Still Is tho tear our eve that fills
Old As Judsa's hory hills;
And white lips humble words Of faith
With each set phrase that conforteth.
But in our hearts Deaths dust to dust"
Meets voiceless plant, Unjust, unjust|
And Time, who heals all wounds but death
Fields helpless hands, nor answereth.
And SO, like thse, with bowed head,
We mourn our dead, uncontrolled.
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Silent Woe.
Corr. Boston Transcript.

An intelligent writer of Salt Lake City
Mrs. Paddock-in letter which lies before
me, tells this story: "a few years ago an
educated young journalist came to Salt Lake
City from Europe with his young wife. Both
became sincere believers 10 Mormonism.
Then strong pressure was brought to bear
by the priesthood upon the husband TO force
him into polygamy. The wife, finding opps-
sition In vain, at last gave her nominal con-
sent. A second bride was brought into the
house. In short time the first wife became
q mother, but the infant never cried aloud.
It came voicelcss into the world, but II wept
In secret all the time. Sleeping or waking
the tears flowed from its closed eyes, and in
few weeks it died. The mother said It
dice Of Q broken heart. Every day OF It's life
il shed the tears that It's mother had rsSfsssed
before its birth. Its weeping face Is the SYM
boil OF the face Of Utah. A Territory Of pre-
cious minerals and wealth Of soil. with in
toxicaiing air and blue sky, but filed with
silent woe."
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Suicide and Sleeplessness.
London Lancet.

The circumstances attending the death of
the Dean Of Bangor-albeit they are infinite
ly acknowledgements no novel features.
The reverend gentleman was man of con-
siderable intellectual "power," which Is the
same thing as saying that he was constitu-
tionally liable to intervals of mental depres-
sion. All highly intellectual men are ex-
posed to this evil. A pendulum will always
swing just as far in one direction as 1t does
in the other. Great power of mind implies
also great weakness under certain condi-
tions. The marvel is not that great minds
occasionally become deranged, but that they
so often escape arrangement. Sleeplessness
means not merely unrest, but starvation of
the cerebrum. The brain can not recuper-
ate, or in other words, IL can not rest. Phys
iologically, recuperation and rest are the
same thing. Sleep Is simply physiological
rest. The only cause for regret in these cases
is that the blunder should ever be commit
ted of supposing that stupefying drug
which throws the brain into condition that
mimics and burlesques sleep can do good.
1t is deceptive to give narcotics in case of
this type. The stupor simply makes the
danger. Better far let the insomnious pa
tient exhaust himself than stupefy him.
Chloral, bromide, and the rest of the posons
that produce q semblance of sleep are so
many snares in such cases. Sleeplessness is
a malady of the most formidable character,
but it is not to be treated by Intoxicating the
organ upon which the stress of the trouble
falls. Suicide, which occurs at the very out
set Of arrangement, and is apt to appear a
sane act, Is the logical issue of failure of nu-
triton that results from want Of sleep. 1t IS
curious to note how a sleepless patient will
set to work with all the calmness and fore
thought of intelligent sanity to compass his
death. He is not insane in any technical
sense. He has no delusion. He does not
act, or suppose himself to act, under an "in.
fuence." He simply wants to die, aad, per
haps, not until after he has made an attempt
to kill himself will he exhibit any of the
formulated symptoms of mental disease.
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Blankets Made Of Cow Hair.
Neto York NQil and Express.

Neic York Mdh and Express.
"Have you any COW hair 70 sell?" wan
dering buyer asked tanner In the presence
of reporter for the Mail and Express few
days ago. The tanner did have some Of the
curious commodity asked for and submitted
1t to the would-be buyen's scrutiny. The
latter critically examined the lot and offered
the owner cents pound for 1t.
Wondering what use COW hair could be
put to, the reporter sought to satisfy his curl
osity by questioning the buyer. "What do
l do with 1t ?" replied the individual. "I'll
tell you. first blow the hair by peculiar
process, which separates the long hairs from
the short ones. The long hairs are then
woven into fabric with other material, which,
upon completion, becomes the genuine all
wool blankets which Uncle Sam presents to
the Indians"
Sand the shorter hairs ?"
"Thsy are worked into felting."
"Did you ever pay more than four cents .
pound for the hair? ?"
"Oh, yes; white cows hair Is worth II
cents ) pound.n
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oil Tanx struck by Lightning.

BRADFORD, Pa, June 2ls-During aheavy
thunder storm this afternoon tank OF the
National Transit Company containing $1,000
barrels OF oil was struck by lightning and is
new burning. The tank Is at Coliegeville
and In the midst Of 100 other tanks. Cannon
balls are being fired into the burning tank 70
let the oil escape. 1t is expected to succomb
before morning. None others are regarded
in dat ger. Three wooden tanks, containing
1.0Oo barrels each, the property Of the Tide
water Company,at Indian Greek, were struck
this afternoon and are now burning. The
frs does not endanger adjoining property.
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Neto Orleans Times-Democrat.

NeD orleans IEmes-Denocrdt.
MOAILE, ALA, May 24.--John Lawrence,
whose death at the pcor-house near this city
was announced in the Times. Democrat of to-
day, was noted character in the history OF
the famous naval battle In Mobile Bay. A
Times Dem ocrat reporter sought and found
Capt. Benjamin Lancashire, of the schooner
Arcturus, in his vessel this evening. Capt.
Lancashire was the pilot of the monitor
Manhattan, of the Federal fleet, when she
steamed past Fort Morgan on that memora'
BILE 9th of August, 1864. The deceased wa:
first keeper Of the well.known Florlds
House, which existed many years ago at
Pensacola, and afterward was Captain of 9
| schooner between New Orleans and Pensa
cola. His familiarity with this coast induced
his employment by Admiral Farragut In
1861, and he remained In the navy until aftel
the close of the war. He was second pilot o.
the Federal feet when 1t approached Mobile
but change of programme few hours be
fore the engagement made him famous q.
the pilot of the Brooklyn, the first vessel o
| tuc L cucIai HCCL W cnLcE bO
spite the rain of shell, he conducted hel
safely past the heavy guns of the fort and
through the raking fire of the Confederate
ram Tennessee, the Morgan, Gaines, and thu
Selma, composing Admiral Buchanan's feet
while the monitor Tecumseh was sunk by
torpedo Immediately across her bows.
Capt. Freeman, the first pilot of the feet
on Admiral Farragut's flagship Hartford
came second, with his vessel under the guns
He is now the keeper of the Horn lslant
light. As before stated, Lawrence died
aged So years, after two years Of torture from
paralysis, in the county poorhouse, near this
city. His services for the Union were una
vaillng to secure him even the pittance of ,
paupsr. DR.. Rhett Goode, who ATTENDED
him during his last moments, says he dice
unwept and unknown, even his fellow-suf
ferers expressing for him no sympathy o.
concern.
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Colonel Robert G. LngersoR.

The situation seems to be this. There Is
now contest between Blaine and the men
whose candidates we're not nominated at
Chicago. But Blaine is not running against
the men who were not nominated al Chicago,
By and by the Democratic Convention will
nominate man who viii be running against
Blaine. The men whose candidates were
not nominated will begin 70 contrast these
two candidates, and from contrasting The
men they will finally get 70 contrasting The
parties, and thon Blaine will get them all.
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Right OF Women to Desert Land
Dillon Tribune.

The following letter from the Acting Com
missioner of the General Land Office at
Washington, in relation to married and sin
gle women making final proof in desert land
entries, will be found to be fully explana-
tory:
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
GENERAL LAND OFFICE,
WASHINGTON, ID. c., June @, 1884.
Hon. Martin Maginnis, House Of Representa-
tiues, Washington, ID. c.:
SIR: an. in receipt by your reference of
letter frsm Phil. Shensn, dated Bannack,
N. T., the 18th ultimo, in which he asks for
Information as to the right of single and u Ar
ried women to make final proof In desert
land cases, stating that 1t 10 reported that =
decision adverse thereto has been rendered.
In reply, you are advised that / am not
aware Of any decision of this Office, or of the
Department, by which the rights of single or
married women, who have legally entered
public land under the desert land act, and
who have properly reclaimed the same, to
make final proof are abrogated or in any
manner abridged. Very respectfully,
L. HARRISON,
Acting Commissioner.
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ATcHIsoN, Kas., June 20.-An authenti-
Gated case of fasting comes from White
Cloud. 1t is in substance as follows, and is
vouched for by w. II. Farrow, a practicing
and reputable physician Of that place: Miss
Lizzie Bradley, aged SO, has gone forty-siI
days without taking nourishment or speak
ing word: The cause of the freak Is stated
to be family quarrel between herself and
father. Her communication Is with pencil
and paper. Her father is an aged well-to-do
citizen, and fearing that her determination
might prove fat al he effected a reconciliation
and she then attempted to eat chicken broth
and q few berries, but nothing would remain
on her stomach. She became discouraged,
and has since then refused to eat a morsel.
Her death is inevitable. She Is mere skel-
eton and few more days will end her chosen
misery.