The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1884-02-15
NEW NOR'-WESTERS.
\ hotel waiter AYERS that the first named
souu IL = bili of fare Is always the best.

\ hotel waiter AYERS that tine nrst named
soup III bill of fare is always the best.
No man who was not lawyer or soldier
ever became President of the United States.
On the best authority the word "depot"
is pronounced de-po, with the long Q, rs In
mete. ..a... ..z=.-.
There were Sc, 900 deaths from diphtheria
In the province of Kharkoff, Russia, between
1878 and 1882.
Canada sleigh-riders keep warm by plac-
ing a common coal oil lantern between the
feet and covering the lap with large
blanket.
| Il Is said that Robert Harris salary as
President Of the Northern Pacific road is
SIC, 1000. As vice president of the Erie he
received $4,000.
The largest sheets of plate glass ever
brought TO America were lately imported
| House In New York. They are IL feet by
II feet inches, and three-eighths thick.
The United States has the only poisonous
! lizard known TO science. II Is called Hello
derma and is a native of Montana. They
are said to be hostile TO the rattlesnske,
which they frequently attack and destroy.
Matthew Arnold says too many people
flock into the cities here. We like to see
country people flock into the cities. But, of
course, they should 60 out home again when
they have seen the sights and bought what
they want.
Brass pins were made by hand may cen.
turtles ago. A Massachusetts man invented
those with a solid head, but their first manu-
facture was in England in 1888. The crook
ed pin for the use of the school boy Is of
unknown origin.
John G.. SAKE wrote:
Men make their wills, but wives
Escape a work so sad;
Why should they make what all their lives
The gentle danes have had?"
Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote:
The man who has Il thousand friends
Has not a friend to spare;
But he who has an enemy
Will meet him everywhere"
In public document refusing to grant
woman license to run Mississippi steam
boat, Kenneth Raynor, Solicitor of the
Treasury, was made TO say that he bowed to
the necessity of woman" He hastens to
explain that he wrote ''majesty" Of woman.
But necessity is, after all, the better word.
They are q necessity. As some one has said
~ uu cannot do anything with woman;
and YOU cannot do without her."
A British book on etiquette contains this
solemn warning: "Don't blow your nose in
the presence Of Others if you can possibly
avoid it," People concerned will be thank
ful for the saving clause. This valuable
book also says: "The aristocratic circles Of
a European court were much horrified few
years ago by the American Ambassador
moistaning his thumbs and fingers at his lips
in order TO facilitate the dealing Of the cards.
Therefore don't practice this very vulgar,
common habit"
The time honored recess has been abau-
doned in the Rochester city schools, not per-
haps definitely as yet, but the experiment of
.'no recess, according TO some authorities, has
proved sgch a success as to make Its discon-
iiHuance highly desiTable< Among the ad
vautages said to be derived from it are con
tinuous school session without interruption
in school work, better health Of pupils on
account Of freedom from exposure 10 cold
and wet weather In the midst of each ses
sion, discipline easier on account of freedom
from recess trouble, less tardiness and ab-
senteejsm, etc.
Ii is reported that branch of the South
ern Pacific Railroad built to a salt mine in
The Colorado desert is partly ballasted with
salt. For Twelve hundred feet the builders
were obliged to grade the road-bed with
beautiful blocks of crystal left by the ancient
sea which dried up ages ago. Grasshoppers
of enornons size and giant centipedes may
be seen lying in the salt in which they have
been perfectly preserved for centuries. So
saws the Los Angeles Herald. There is an
H.. ipo
The part Of the Southern Pacific that WAS
built by SIR. Huntington in Washington Is
supposed TO have been ballasted and graded
entirely with "sLgar."
If any book deserves the name of "irre-
pressible," IL is the almanac. Notwithstand.
ing its great antiquity. it is still important:
and though We grow old, IL renews Its youth
every year, and greets us regularly with a
kind Of good. .nathred, "Here l am again!"
The oldest almanac in existence 10 an Egypt
ian one, and may be seen In the British Mu-
scum. Buried nearly 5000 years ago with
some human contemporary OF Rameses the
Great, IL has been brought TO light again,
and copied in fac simiIe. Twenty five col
umns are wholly or partially preserved. The
fortunate days are marked Ia black ink. and
the unfortunate in red-a curious instance !
of superstition which European nations
have reversed. lt contains observations
about religious ceremonies, cautions against |
unlucky times, aud predictions as TO the fate
of children born on certain days.-Chambers
Journal.
The rival Vanderbilt and AstoT balls in
New York City have settled an interesting |
social question. There was not much differ |
eDce In the costliness of the entertainments |
"a, f,,slI I'll
those who attended them. IL was drawn |
battle, so TO speak, as far as the menu, the |
music, the lights and the flowers were con-
cerned, but when the Astor plate was brought |
out-plate of gold and silver and precious |
decorations, which had accumulated In the |
family since the original Astor sold his first |
sheepskin-when all this massive richness,
much of ii antique In design, was brought |
out, there was All end of all rivalry, and the |
Astors were, and still remain, decidedly on |
top. The Vanderbilts and Goulds, and |
other miilionaires OF recent fame, appear as |
parvenus beside the Astors and their gor- |
geons plate Cincinnati Gazette.
A curious letter, found among the papers |
Of the late Thurlow Weed, is published. It |
was written by Judah p. Benjamin in Au- |
gust, 1860, TO the British Consul In New |
York, and Is in the nature of an overture for |
the return of the Southern States TO their /
allegiance 10 the Crown in case Abraham |
Lincoln should be elected President. Ac.
cording to Mr.. BENJAMIN the idea was very |
popular among the planters of the South,
though there was no public agitation of it. |
One very characteristic touch In ths letter is,
that in view of the possible return to the |
Crown, the planters already began to salute |
each other with aristocratic titles! The /
rage for titles lie illustrated in the South,
where every person above the grade of a hod
carrier is either major, captain, q colonel,
a general or judge.