The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1872-04-27

-An lIuoOO AoeloJetOI OSOe1o0 W.
culvert" a.. a.
Leap year he's produced female serena.
ders in Georgia.
Tho average depth Of the Atlantic
ocean 10 three miles; that Of the Pacific.
four miles.
1T is computed by IN English journal
that London will contain 4, 6,000. 900 of In.
habitants In 1900
Our great lakes swallowed up ono hun.
dred and nineteen lives and ten millions
worth Of property last year.
80 Smear me one ON the mouth" 10 the
way in which Cleveland swain asks his
blushing swsiness to kiss him.
Colonel King. Of Texas. has farm of
"a. l39 acres. stocked with 5000 head Of
cattle, 10000 horses, 1000 sheep and 5000
goats.
Jacksonville. Florida. papers make the
allegation, that two hundred and thirty alli
gator skins were received there the other
day.
The oldest and largest chain bridge In
the world 10 said to be that Of Kingstung,
China, where It forms cafe and perfect
r,'ad from the top of one lofty mountain to
another.
The deepest water found by the U. 8.
Coast Survey on the chain of Great Lakes.
was near Cooper Hsrbor on Lake Superior.
where soundings were made at depth of
II, 900 feet.
Bunker Hin monument may he seen, on
. clear day with good glass, from the top
of MOnadnOck. In the town of Jeffrey and
Fitzwilliam. New Hampshire, about 80
miles distant
Glass h,ttlee were made in England
about 1863. but the art was practiced among
the Romans in the year 70 A. D.. as they
have been found plentifully among the
ruins st Pompeii.
Curling .'soap root" - substitute
for stuffing hair mattresses. is IN extensive
branch of manufacture in California. and Is
rapidly increasing. Matrasses filed with It
ought to be self-washing.
On matter of weight IN the United
States Supreme Bench. Judge Clifford, of
Maine, outweighs Judge Davis, Of Illinois.
80 pounds former turning the beam At
$40 pounds, =, the latter At se5 pounds.
-Bierstadt, the artist. has received from
the Emperor Of Russia the Cross Of the
Order of st. Stanislaus, In recognition of
his picture of Monnt Hood, which was ex.
hibited in Russia last winter aud spring.
Jay Gould's last access of fortune was
so to speak-the financial Moses Of the
recent game of Pharaoh played with Erie.
At least II was Graded In the bull rushes"
on the New York and other Stock Ex-
changes.
-silss Wright. Chief of the Cherokee
nation. is . Presbyterian preacher; Lewis
Downing. chief of the Choctaws, and John
Jumper, Chief of the Seminoles, are Bap
tis, preachers. and Samuel Checol, chief of
the Greek nation is Methodist Episcopal
preacher.
Mr.. John 0oss, the organist Of St.
Paul's Cathedral in London, il u he made
" Sir John" for the skillfui way in which
be played ON the occasion of the Thanks.
giving for the recovery of the Prince OF
Wales. Won't Lady Goss think all her
little Cos. lings cygnets sitter thats
A Philadelphia publishing firm are the
anxious holders Of $4,000 for the author
of Z" "WhIte Rocks" the manuscript of
which Was left with them five years ago by
boy who has never been eeen since the
book was published. The author was to
receive royalty Of ten cents per copy, and
10000 copies have been sold.
Here is au illustraton Of the great
power of steam: The great pyramid Of
Egypt weighs -. .761 .0o0. 900 tons. and &C.,
cortiing t0 Heroditns. it took the labor of
10000 men twenty yenrs 10 build 1t. DR.
Lardner affirms that $50 tons of coal with
an engine and hosting machine, would
have raised every stone to ito position.
. The deliberate manner in which Chica>
20 10 beinR rebuilt is thus illustrated in An
exchange: LET me see," said y Chicago
boss mason reflectively. to burnt out mer'
chant. have got to put up block for
Brown this morning, and dwelling house
this afternoon for Smith. Yes. guess We
can jerk up your store this noon by takin'
only half an hours noonin'." .a.
The weeping willow has romantic his
tory. The first scion WIS sent from Smyr.
No IN box Of hgs:to Alexander Pope.
General Clinton brought . shoot from
Pores tree to America. in the time Of the
Revolution, which, passing into the hands
of John Psrke Gusts, was planted on his
estate in Virginia. thus becoming the pro-
eenitor of the weeping willow in this coun.
try. ..... .r
George Leaman, submarine diver,
employed on . wreck in the North River at
New York. came to his death last Thurs.
day while At his perilous work. He had
made no signal to those above for about
ten minutes, when fears were felt of some
accident having happened and he was haul
cd up. Il was found that the breathing
tube had burst, and that he had suftocsted
In HE air.tight suit of rubber mail