The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1884-09-05
NEW NOR'-wESTERS.
Bavaria has beer brewery to every 1000
Of her Inhabitants.

1856 titles to the peerage.
Over l,40O, 900 men are engaged in rail
roading In these United States.
The funded debt of New York Is nearly
ninety.o one and q half millions.
Gen. Butler Is said TO have been originally
intended for the Baptist ministry.
Say no man Is good until he has run for
the Presidency.-Boston Transcript.
Gen. Longstreet has gone back to his old
business Of keeping an inn at Gainesville,
Georgia.
Francis Murphy, the temperance orator,
proposes to carry the war into Kentucky
next month.
Stephen II. Tying, Jr.. having given up
the ministry, has dropped the "Rev." and
I'D. D." from his name.
The milking qualities Of q COW depend
more upon those of her sire's mother than
upon those Of her own mother.
Remember dat de man who sots on de
garden fence must steal some odder mans
cabbages or 60 widout-Lime-Kitn Club.
An idea u the extent to which cotton
thread is used can be had from the fact that
one mill made, In one month, over II 100000
spools.
"Eight hours labor, eight hours sleep,
eight hours play and 50 day." Is the motto
OF the Miners Amalgamated Association of
Pennsy sylvania.
In 10 years we have reduced our national
debt 53 per cent. nearly. 1t stood at $s,756,-
431,57l in 1865, and on July /, 1884, itstood
at 81 ,450, ,050,235.
Oliver Wendell Holmes has been asked to
write the poem for the dedication OF the
Washington monument, which Is set for the
22d Of next February.
The writer Of "Jennie, the Flower OF Kill
daire," died In a poor house about week
ago; the author Of "Peek q. Boo" has real.
lied ST., 900 in royalties.
What we do ourselves always possesses
for us an attraction which no one else's
work, be IL ever so brilliant and successful,
can command.-N. Y. Hour.
Quite q sensation has been caused here on
account OF Belle Boyd, the "Confederate
spy" and her husband, j. S. Hammond,
each of whom has sued the other for divorce.
A good cleansing Of the entire body with
soap and warm water once . week Is all the
bathing the human system requires for pur-
poses of health, in ordinary circumstances.
Frisbee the absconding teller of the First
National Bank of Portland, Is supposed TO
have gone to the Sandwich Islands. His
defalcation Is not yet determined, but sup
posed to be less than $1,000.
Robert Hall, when once asked how many
sermons q preacher could prepare In week,
replied: "If he is q man Of pre- emisent
ha Ia nf nrdf nv
ability, two; IL he Is an ass, six"
Strawberry plants set out this month will
give q good yield next season. II ordered
from distance, plant them thickly in hot
bed or protected place and keep well watered
for few days, and then transplant where
wanted.
A Philadelphia court has decided pictures
are not liable 10 taxation as household fur
niture, on the ground that, though by the
usage Of the best writers furniture includes
pictures, yet the assessors have for forty
years limited 1t to housekeeping appliances,
and the public could not be taxed under this
head for articles serving exclusively for orna-
ment.
The total muster of the House Of Lords Is
5lS. or these five are members Of the royal
family, who, In accordance with usual prac-
tice, abstain from divisions on . political
question. OF the remainder 2sS rank as
Tories, and 2lS are usually classified as Lib.
era's. But many nominal Liberals, like
Lord Bradbourne and Lord Dunraven, usu-
ally vote against the Government on party
questions.
Nothing, it Is said, is better TO clean sill.
YER with than alcohol and ammonia, finish
Ing with o little whiting on q soft cloth.
VI hn Oitv tau nnf
Dot which Is not in use every day, lay little
stick across the top under the cover. This
will allow the fresh air to get In, and prevent
the mustiness Of the contents familiar 10
hotel and lodging house sufferers.- Cham
bers.
II is worth while keeping supply Of am
monia In the household, in case we wish TO
remove finger marks from paint or require to
cleanse brushes or greasy pans. A teaspoon
full In q basin of water will make hair
brushes beautifully white; but care must be
taken not to let the backs of the brushes dip
below the surface. Rinse them with clean
warm water and put In q sunny window to
| dry.
The latest telephone dspenses with elec
| tricity altogether. Its diaphragm Is split
willow or other wood closely woven, dried
and vanished. The drying contracts the
fibers and produces q very high tension. In
| the center OF the diaphragm IS strong cop
per plate to which the wire Is attached. For
distances less than two miles the new tele'
phone conveys sound better and more dis
| tinctly than the Bell. The difficulty In
"switching" the wires, however, limits Its
use.
SAYS Gath In the New York Tribune: al
saw Gen. John A. Logan on Thursday foi
the secoad time since memorable night In
May, 1864, when his restlessness drove me to
forsake b 8 bed which be shared with me on
the battlefield Of Resaca, Georgia. could
| detect little change In him In the twenty
| years. His hair Is as black rs 1t was then,
while mine--and am many years his junior
lis grey. He does not age rapidly In Other
respects, and the lines about his eyes do moi
indicate that be Is nearly CO."
In 1864, when religious festival was ir
progress here at Kali CHANT, cyclone swept
over the coast In this vicinity, destroy ins
$1,000 lives. Seventy one or seventy-twf
cyclones in all are said to have devastated
the province Of Bengal. In October, 1876
tidal wave carried of nearly 100, 900 lives
and did millions of dollars worth Of damage
to property. The force of the wind was toe
great to be measured by any thermometer
vet constructed. 1t took the Indian govern
ment many weeks to bury or burn the vic
Tins OF this fearful calamity. Calcutta Cor
Inter. Ocean.
An English critic who has been describing
the genesis of the famous ballad. "Anlt
Robin Gray says that Lady Anne Lindsay
who wrote It, told her little sister one da.
that she was writing q BALLAD, aud was op
pressing her heroine with all manner OF mis-
fortunes. IL have already sent her Jami
to sea, broken her fathers arm, made he
mother fall sick, and given her auld RobsI
Gray for lover; but, poor thing. wish y
add another misfortune to her In five lines.
aThen steal her COO (cow)," pped up he
little sister, and accordingly the COW wa
stolen and the ballad completed.
The tenth census shows, for instance, ths
there are In this country 64 COS, or In foun'
numbers 5000 clereymen. Suppose, T.
the sake OF Illustration, that each on
breaches but two sermons week, which
per haps rather below Than above the average
and We shall have in the course OF singl
year total Of Z 100000 sermons. Further
suppose each sermon Of only thirty minute.
duration, also perhaps less than the averae
length, and at the rate of hundred word
. minute, each sermon will have about 100
| words or twelve book pages each OF 70