The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1885-11-27
NOTES OF THE DAY.

Jonn Mackays uaiIy income - |oo,o"'
The mint at Carson. Nevsds, will probably
be permanently closed.
Miss kellogg Is 90 III that she has Cancelled
her concert engagements.
The mightiest of sea monsters ID Russian
ram now being built a. cost Of $4,000, OOo.
"Adirondack" Murray has sold his Mon.
treal restaurant, and will reside In Burling-
ton, Vt.
Sarah Bernhard never thinks Of going on
the stage without taking = stiff glass OF old
Cognac.
Montreal business nen say they have lost
So, 00O, 900 by business stsgnation caused by
the smallpox epidemic.
The subscriptions to the Gordon memorial
boys home At Ora, esend, Eng, are 30 iight
that the project has been abandoned.
The Swiss authorities have prohibited the
purchase, sale and expectation Of edelweiss,
In order to prevent the utter determination
Of the plant.
President Cleveland went into the White
House conservatory for the FIRST time In bis
life last week, when he was showing 1t TO
Archdeacon Farrar.
The French pension rolls show that Lit
veterans Of the first empire are still drawing
their sunusl stipends. They are dying of
ct the rate of five week.
Mrs. A. T. Stewart's splendid picture gal
lery in New York Is opened once Q week to
visitors who secure CARDS. Vanderbilt IS
going to adopt the same plan.
Fashionable New York girls are learning
tn Gpt usipn unld paatlaa ttnnai with
pearls. Now let them learn to scrub, using
9 wooden handle tipped with rag.
Officials in Washington deny any knowl-
edge of the Whereabouts OF Guiteau's bones.
It Is supposed they are secreted somewhere
in the Government medical museum.
A New England editor declares that q
woman who knows how to cook beef steak
and boil potato Is more to be admired than
the best "angel" that ever tapped wing.
Some seeds of an unknown variety, re-
Gently found In the ruins Of Pompeii, are to
be planted in the White House conservatory
At Washington, in the hope that they may
terminate.
A Camden. N. j., halter has Just compile.
ted hat for Mr.. Higgins, Of Jacksonville,
Fla, which measures 32a inches inside the
Dand, has brim 10t inches wide and q
crown 10 inches high.
Brsndon, Miss, q few nights ago, had upon
It q So, 900 gnu. Some negroes, who had
fallen in love with the curious beast, un-
coupled the car, and running the gnu of
into swamp, stole 1t.
Mr.. Harrison, the old fellow who styles
himself "the boy preacher" has what the
unregenerate call . "snap." He receives
$l00 week, besides the proceeds of the sale
toiling for the glory Of God, and Doodle.
Mr.. Moody does not approve of church
fairs. al think they are an abomination.
The idea of rafting and voting fer the best
looking man, and having girls sell cigars.
saw church fair advertise that man would
kiss any girl for rs cents. l had rather you
would worship in barn than to resort to
any Of these methods"
An actor who knows Clara Morris idosyn.
crasies, says: "Her Authorizations about her
health have become chronic. She is sur
rounded by medicine bottles, and she thinks
she has to keep up by hypodermic injections
of morphine and other things. tell you
she Is killing herself, and that half her phys
zeal troubles are the vsgaries of hypochon-
driac."
The curry. comb should not be used at all
at shedding season. II irritates the skin,
and quite often causes eruptions to appear,
and other unpleasant symptoms. A good
brushing will help the horses circulation.
and not irritate, but stimulate. Among
other acts do not forget that Of kindness.
Even to an indisposcd horse 1t gives great
comfort.
VIM. Clewson died recently at Franklin,
Macon county. aged So years. During his
life be never bought q pound Of meat, or .
barrel of corn. He didn't owe q dollar
when he died. He never wore spectacles,
never saw railroad, had q SOW q years old,
never snapped horses, never was out of
money, wore one pair OF shoes IS years, kept
one pair Of plough lines 10 years, and never
moved from the place he settled in when he
was young man. He was married In 1928
to Miss Cynthia Gupton, who died last year.
The county authorities talk of erecting q
small monument to mark his resting place.
A rapid penman can write 80 words In
minute. To do this he must draw his pen
through the space of rod, 16a Feet. In 4S
minutes his pen travels fnrlong. We make,
on an average, 10 curves or turns of the pen
In writing each word. Writing 80 words In
q minute, We must make 4S0 turns In each
minute; In an hour, $4,000; in day of only
five hours, $4,000; In q year of 500 such
days, Al, 2OO,O 600. The man, therefore, who
made 100000 strokes with his pen was not
oil remarkable. Many men-newspaper wri.
tiers, for instance-make 100000. Here
we have In the aggregate q mark 300 miles
long to be traced on paper by such writer
In year.-Erchdnge.
Upward of 100000 carbon points are
consumed every week In the United States,
and the manufacturers are endeavoring to
combine to prevent ruinous competition.
Carbon points are the sticks of carbon used
In the arc electric lamps. They are abou. @
inches long and inch In diameter. They
are made Of compressed coke which has
been pulverized and mixed with molasses
and other substances. When these carbon
points first became an article of commerce
they were sold by the manufacturers al SOS
. thousand, and Is late as two years ago
they sold ct SIS. Since then, however, the
large profits In the business have resulted In
the establishment of at least dozen facto.
ries, and the price has dropped from SOS
10 SIS.
Ruling Relating to Land Entries.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 22.-Commissioner