The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1884-04-11
NEW NOR'-wESTERS.
Jay Eye.See Low has q new sulky that
eighs only forty-six pounds.


Optic" 10 confined to his room with weak
eyes. ...
Mr.. Henry Watterson is authority for the
startling statement that "either we have or
have not Democratic party" Il
Telephones are said to improve the hear
ing and strengthen the power of attention In
those who use them constantly.
The Washington Critic believes the cigar
ette is the insidious monster that threatens
the intellect of the rising generation.
George Eastman, the inventor of the ma
i chine TO make percsssion caps, Is living, o.
the age Of 10, in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
The dates on some of the rare old books
offered for sale in Paris show that they were
issued before the invention OF printing.
| A director of the Oregon Railway & Navi-
CATION Company denies that the Central Pa
cific has obtained control of that company.
This is the time of year when the average
| householder wishes he hadn't dumped the
ashes in quite SO conspicuous part OF the
yard.
| Mark NJ. Pomeroy, the "Brick" Of years
gone by, lives quietly in New York, what he
writes going by post westward to bis Denver
paper.
Onions may 90 In the ground as soon as
| the first signs of frost are over. They are
hardy and can endure the cold TO certain
| extent.
New Yorx, imported 100000 cabbagss
from Europe last year. How would Bis
marck like it If we shut out his favorite veg
| etsble?
Major III. r. Hershberger, once drill mas
ter of Grant, Mcclellan and Burnside at
West Point, died at Chambersburg recently,
aged 73 years.
The son of Edwin Arnold, the Indo-Eng-
lish poet-editor, is in Boston, on his way to
Colorado, where he will engage In cattle and
sheep ranching.
Farm implements, when occasionally
brushed over with crude petroleum, will
last longer and be protected from changes
Of weather when exposed.
The Governor of Maryland has vetoed the
bill reducing the price Of marriage licenses
from $3.50 to go cents. He has no bowels
Of compassion for impecunious lovers.
Grant said 81 would not 60 to any din.
ner gotten up for the special purpose Of
bringing Blaine and myself together. In
case we were both present, could not OBJ
ject."
There Is no use In cleaning your poultry
houses unless YOU burn the old nests. They
will harbor more of the various kinds Of
poultry parasites than you can ever exter-
inmate with whtewash brush.
Mr.. Johnston, the latest successful explo-
rer of the Ozark Continent" Is described as
looking like little slip of q boy about Is
years of age. In realty he Is 25, and Is an
authority on all matters pertaining to the
Congo region.
Roscoe Conkling has sued the Commercial
Manufacturing Company Of New York for
$4,000 fee. The company demanded an
ltemized bill, which the ex-senator could
not give because he had no precise business
methods IN his Office.
A Dexterville, New York, man sold his
wife TO a neighbor for So. The wife asserted
that she wouldn't give that much for the
husband she was leaving, and went along
with the purchaser when he had paid the 81
and taken a receipt in full of all demands.
The New York Herald says: "Judging
by the opinions Of Republican members,
Senator Edmunds and President Arthur
divide between them the preferences Of the
members Of both houses. Members In gen.
eral know little and care less about tariff
issues"
Gen. o. o. Howard, who sailed on the
Belgenland for Antwerp, recently, now takes
his first furlough since the war. He goes
directly to Egypt, and thence, II possible, to
Khartoum to Join Gen. Gordon and witness
the further operations in the Soudan. He
will probably be absent from this country
about six months.
From reports from all the camps and
streams Of the upper Mississippi, 1t is esti-
mated that the log cut above Minneapolis,
now waiting for water TO bring them down,
Is 17,000, 900. Besides these, there are
21l 500 900 feet held over from last year,
making . total of 52S,500,000 feet of logs
uncut. At least three fifths Of these logs
will be sawed in Minneapolis mills, Anoks
and Gull River using the next largest guam
| titles.
As has often been remarked, the uses of
electricity seem to be illimitable. II has
more than once been suggested as the best
agency for the infiction Of capital punish
ment, and IL has just been used with great
success as o means of self destruction. A
young man of jamestown Pa, the other day
delibera ately committed suicide by taking !
plain iron rod and holding 1t TO an exposed
point on an electric light wire. Death was
instantaneous.
The names of John @. Adams and Jack
son will be handed down TO posterty. They
are not the immortal American statesmen,
though. These were both citizens Of Ala
bama and both loved the same girl. Jack
son, having the good will of the girls parents,
got her and moved to Texas, where she be
game the mother Of nIneteen children,
Adams found another to love snd TO cherish
and he became the father Of twenty-nne
children. His rival, Jackson, and bis own
wife died recently, and he has gone to Texas
| to marry his first love and preside over the
| destinies of household made lively by the
presence Of forty children.
On yesterdays d. & r. G. train that
passed through this city from Ogden on the
way East, there were seven plates of Japan
ess plants that had been shipped from Toxic,
Japan, to be exhibited at the Russian Inter-
national Horticultural Exposition TO be held
1t st. Petersburg. The plants were shipped
from Toxic to San Francisco by Wells, Far
20 q Co., and thence East by the d. q r. G..
Express Company to New York. Thence
| they will be shipped direct to ST. Petersburg.
| The plants weighed 5000 pounds and occu-
pied one-half Of D.. IL Z. G. express car.
The charges we're paid from TOXIC 10 Qg-
/ den, and the plants guaranteed to destins-
tion.--lSaH Lake Tribsme, 1st.
Gustave Dore's last large picture, the
"Vale of Tears" was intended to be . rem
dering of the verse, aCome unto Me all ye
that labor and are heavy laden, and will
| give you rest.n The background represents
shsdowy valley, fanked by IN enormous
crsg, It the entrance TO which Christ stands,
/ clothed In white, bearing Q cross. His hand
raised a. IL In invitation TO the great pumber
Of sorrowful figures who fill the foreground,
representing almost every class Of human
su5erers-the aged, sick, manned, halt and
blind--all looking toward Christ with the
spirit that animates the faces In the fore
ground of "Raphael's Trans6guration."
| E.V. Smalley writes In the Manhattan:
One feature Of the present phase Of journals
ism is especially satisfactory. The news
papers are more free from the influence Of
the politicians than ever before. Even the
strong party papers display robust inde-
pendence. They critIcise freely the meas
ures and leaders OF their own party. Indeed,
they are themselves the leaders Of the organ
izAtions they support. Except In the case OF
. few obscure sheets that live upon munIci.
pal patronage, the daily papers do not care
for the views nf this or that party Fboas" or
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