The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1885-10-09
NOTES OF THE DAY.

The Missouri river Is cutting disastrously
! into the shore In the eastern part OF Kansas
City.
Mother Hubbardyille Is the name of
Georgia town. The drummers oil spend
Sunday there.
Great distress Is reported from Switzer-
land, on account Of the failure Of the Amer
lean tourist crop.
A wire fence near San Andreas, Cal, has
several signs upon 1t reading thus: "Horses
beware! This Is wire fence"
Belle Boyd, the famous Confederate spy,
will shortly take to the stage, and appear IS
"Daisy Brown" in "The Professor"
The wife of "Adirondack" Murray has ap-
piled for divorce. II Is strange that the
idea has not occurred to her before.
A boy at KNOXVILLE, Ohio, ate six water.
melons the ether day and died. The reason
of his death is believed to have been heart
disease.
The new explosive, uril, . chlorate pow
der, emits no smoke, Is much stronger than
black powder, does not heat the gun barrel
nor foul It.
There is great deal Of red tape in the
| French army. 1t took a French soldier, wh,
was reported to be dead, five years to prove
that he was alive.
The assets of James d. Fish brought
$3,7S1 at auction. The old man was
"worth" several millions short time ago.
Such Is the difference between the real and
the high deal.
The Boston Globe has solved the much
vexed question of why pennies were invent
ed, by the discovery that they were invented
to enable New York millionaires to contrib
ute TO monument funds.
81 see," said an opposing counsel to the
late Emory A. Storrs, "you hate TO meet the
truth In this matter" II never meet IT,"
was the prompt reply; "the truth and al
ways travel In the same direction"
A paper presented before the French Acad-
envy of Sciences estimates that man of so
yesrs of age has slept an aggregate of 5000
days, worked the same length Of time, eaten
1900 days, walked 800 days, and has been
i'll 500 days.
Mr.. Bancroft, the historian, celebrated bis
eighty fifth birthday at Newport Sunday.
He Is enjoying good health, and is daily at
work upon his "History Of the United
States" He received bis friends at his cot
tage on Bancroft avenue and the Cliffs.
1t is estimated, taking the report OF 1880
as basis, that there are now 100, 900 prsc.
ticing physicians In the United States. 1t is
also estimated that IS per cent. Of them
carry and dispense, in whole or in part, their
own remedies.
Cholera failed to strike q single one of the
1900 women employed In the National to-
bscco factory at Valencia, Spain, though the
disease ragged violently In that city, and the
| Medical World recalls that tobacco workers
were also noticed to enjoy exemption from
attack during an epidemic at Amsterdam.
Around the French communities In Can
ada runs roaring chorus, psrodied from
Trelswney:
Shall Louis Riel die
Shall Louis Riel die
Then forty thousand
French Kanucks
Will know the reason why.
A man who had tried farming In Montana
for two years, gathered together his goods
and chattels, consisting mainly of q wife,
nine tow beaded children, aud six lean dogs,
and got himself hence. He left the follow
ing lines on the door of his dugout:
$50 Feet to Water.
so Miles to Fuel.
Inches TO HI.
GoD BLESS OUR HOME.
-Stockgroaoers' Journal
The explorers Of the Congo Valley are
surprised by the crudity of life there. The
natives have no domesticated beasts Of any
sort, nor do they raise or catch any animals
to eat, as they know nothing of flesh as food.
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