The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1884-03-21
NEW NOR'-WESTERS.
George W. Cable, The novelist weighs only
100 pounds

Hugh }. Jewitt is director ir twenty rail-
road companies.
| 1t is believed that The earthly curse Of the
venerable Victor Hugo is nearly run.
The copyright of the late HeTi Martins
history of France was sold for $4,000,
The Queens book is a failure. There IS
now no demand for 1t at the LoIdon book
stalls. #
The Northern Pacific Railroad Company
has purchased twelve new locomotives at q
cost of Sl29, ,7SO. -----'
Charles Bradlaugh, the English parlia-
mentary Atheist, Is said to resemble Henry
Ward Beecher in appearance.
Lieutenant Danenhower, of fame as an
| Artic explorer, was married TO Miss Helen
Sloan in Oswego, N. Y, March II.
Among the curiosities OF beggary in Paris
| Is an old man who plies his trade on horse
back, because his legs are paralyzed.
| A man in Beaver, Pa, dug his own grave
| In 1876 and is alive yet. Some men seem
never to have any lucS.-Lo,ceU Citizen.
Mr.. John Morley having, in one of his
books, persisted in spelling God with small
z, a reviewer spelt Morley with small m.
W. Bum, who has just been appointed
| Governor of Idaho, Is the editor OF Phila-
delphia Sunday paper called the City Item.
The distance from Trinkitat to Tokr is
twenty-miles; Trinkitat to Suakim, tweaty-
five miles; Tokar to Suakim, forty-eght
miles.
DR.. Newman says that the American peo-
ole spend annually SS00,000,O00 for rum
and only $12,000,00G for the support of the
| clergy.
Col. Lounsberry has severed his connec-
| tion with the Bismarck Tribune, aud Is
prominent candidate for the Goyernorship OF
Dakota.
The fare of the New York cheap cabs is
twenty. five cents q mile, and twenty-five
cents for every fifteen minutes the driver is
kept waiting.
We regret to learn that Mr.. Barnums sa-
cred elephant Is fond Of strong liquor. A
! drunken elephant would bring scandal on a
great moral show.
In New York City there are six hundred
| thousand depositors in the savings banks,
and they own deposits aggregating nearly
| $500, 900 OF $500 apiece.
The Atlanta Constitution, a good paper,
| denounces al elopemeDt as "a diabolical
| crime" They must be hard up for crimes
down that way.-LoeCeH Citizen.
The Senate Committee on Territories has
| agreed to give the name OF "Lincoln" to the
| Territory, which it is proposed to make out
of the northern portion Of Dakota.
Mr. Bright has written another letter TO
| the papers in which he disdains all sympathy
| with doctrnaires Of the stamp Of Henry
| George and Others wIrO are seeking TO abol-
Ish all property in land.
President Arthur says every employe of
! the Government will be protected In tue cx-
ercIse or the widest political liberty In assist
| ing 10 secure the nomination of the man he
prefers for the Presidency.
A not unimportant question is, have lynch
iprs a good effect on legal courts? One
thing is certain, whether the courts bear
share of the responsibility or not, the puelic
sentiment is not now so much shocked and
horrified by lynchings as il once was.
Rev. DIR. Deems says the Old Testament
is true, word for word, from beginning to
end, and that if he didn't believe il he would
leave the pulpit. The reverend doctor
would be a good man to meet when you
return from a fishing excursion.-Locett
Citizen.
On the proposition to start another bank
at Pendleton the East Oregontdn says "lt
is much better TO have one good bank, one
coed church, one good newspaper and one
good institution of every kind in town than
have two of kind that are always on their
last legs"
| A St. Louis clother, having lately offered
to give a stem winding watch to every buyer
of o suit of clothes, his next.door neghbor,
who Is a jeweler, has reveuged himself by
offering to give a suit of clothes TO every pur'
chaser of a stem-winding watch? What are
clothes and watches worth, anyhow ?-St
Louis Critic.
IL Ia said that day or two ago, to perfect
| n transfer of Washington real estate, Capt.
| Howgate's name was necessary, and within
"a hours the document, with the required
signature. was returned. The belief has
been general for weeks that the fugitive
Captain has been In hiding at some place
convenient Of access to his friends.
A Coustockrr, writing from Eagle City
saws: "The Cnur d'Alsne liar is the bos'
liar of the Western world. The ArizoDs
liar. the Colorado liar. the New Mexico liar
: nor vet the Nevada liar cannot stand befor'
the Crur d'Alene liar half round. lie ha
| the cold, har I cheek Of marble mule, aiiC
the eve Of a tasiltsk.s When he goes for th'
, poor pilgrim, it is equal to stroke Of par
alysis."
! The following letters we're written owe
the ten commandments in the chancel Of {
, Welsh church, and remained there who'll
century before they we're deciphered. b.
the use of the vowel they foIm two-lin
verse:
= PRSVRY YPRFCT TMN,
KPTHSP RCPTSTN.