The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1873-03-29
new NOR WESIeRS,

--Agassiz dis''kes popular education.
-Chicago now has population Of $780,.
600.
Forty. nine operas failed in Italy last
year.
eDcs Moines is to have n $4,000 opera
house.
Prof. Tynlall has joined a church in
London.
"A louisiana operator makes soap out Of
cotton seed.
Louisville policemen are provided with
wheelbaruwa.
Senator Pomcroy owns 12o, 900 acres Of
land in Kansas
The Shah of Persia is building . new
,eD.scre palace.
-Broaiiway, N. T., IL to be widoned at
cos, Of $500. 900.
"A C"nnecticu, horse has acquired the
habit Of chewing tobacco.
-Twrn,y-onc editors have recently been
elected Mayors IN ILLINOIS,.
--Tuneful lyrc-A music teacher. who docs
not keep his engagements.
The new United States Hotel, at Sara>
toga, will have mile of piazzas.
"A Detroit youth has no forehead, the
hair growing down close to the eyes.
The number Of persons run over in the
streets Of Paris averages 1885 annually.
"A young lawyer in North Carolina was
recently paid pound of butter for legal SER
vices.
Six Simultaneous applications for divorce
ennnate from one family in Maysville, Ken.
iucky.
Texas is improving rapidly. She has
"a convic,s in her pcni,en,iary now sgains,
81 in 1862
The stocking manufacturers of Newark,
N. J. say that the largest sizes arv shipped
to Chicago.
"A Louisville man is 50 opposed tn cspi>
tnl punishment that he can't even tolerate
paper hanging.
Thsckery says that critic is Solomon
that sits in judgment before us and chops
up our children.
Santa Anna isn't dead yet. He is 80.
ing to visit New York in the spring, unless
another rebellion occurs.
Six members Of the German royal fami.
~ make up an aggregate stature of thirty
six feet and two inches.
Michigan has l4S legislators. not one Of
whom WINS horn in the State. Yet they talk
about carpet.haggers down South.
With Ill our newspapers In the United
States, It appears that we have only one
newspaper to every 5,653 inhabitants
-Westport, Conn.,, rings no moro Sab.
bath bells on account Of the prevalence Of
nervous complaints among the citizens.
mo fewer than 175 almanacs for 1874,
have leen published in Paris, At prices run.
ming all the why from three sous to one
franc.
Worth. the he>milliner Of Paris, il not
worth cert, owing 10 his intimacy with
king PharaOh'' and other psstcboard
m0narchs.
Paul Morphy is poor. For man who
has had 30 many ''checks ''pass through his
hands it is wonder he couldn't make some
Of them stick.
The next celebrity to visit our shores
will probably be Toole, the London come.
dian. who 10 said " possess the powers to
make cat laugh.
Seven great windmills, each of twenty
horse power. ore 10 be sent from Syracuse,
N. Y, u The Caribbean isiand of Omba,
to crush gold quartz
"A nephew of Washingtong Irwin has
been elected 10 the chair made vacant in tho
Michigan University hy the resignation of
Prof. Moses Colt Tyler.
1t 10 said iha& the Turkish Government
has suppressed comic journal. In this
c"un'ry. al the comic Journals get ahead of
the Government and suppress themselves.
Washington. eossips are circulating q
runor to the effect. that Vice-Pres,dent Will
son is about to marry Miss Edes, wealthy
and accomplished young lady resident Of
the Capital.
Manchester, Del, still tolls the knell of
parting day" with curfew he'll At 9p. m
- signal for quiet citizens n 20 to bed. bot
there occur few instances of people paying
any attention to II.
-AWsupucs, Wis, justice Of the peace,
divorced couple recently as follsws: He
st.od them in the middle of the floor, backs
together. and ~ they walked away from each
other he repeated the marriage ceremony
backw ards. |5'.
"A Detroit negress allowed gentleman
Of ,ha. city to name her baby the other day
in consideration Of = two>dollar bill, and
the p,or little thing was christened, Will
liam Henry Washington Colfax Grant Scipio
Bru,us Halifax Weed johnson Lone Jack
Madison Buffalo Bill saundesa
An English inventor proposes to deface
postage stamps on letters BY placing them
io ! gas which will cause . reaction in the
material contained In each stamp, and change
,,s color. This prOcess would do away with
tho tedious process Of dsfac,pg BY hand>
labor, .sdf.l "
Mr.. George N. Pullman, President Of
the Palace Car Company who recently went
to Europe In the interest of bis palace cxrs,
hes already arranged with the Midland Rail-
way of England for tho introduction Of his
model coaches on thst road. They are to he
built and shipped from Detroit. Mr.. Pull
man hes also arranged to exhibit his cars a,
the Vienna Exposition. f.
-Expesimenis have rccently been made
In Paris to test the merits of tho new Graz
mime system of producing electric light.
''The power Of this light. !" correspondent
says, is % great that II equals 600 Casvel
lamps, aud the electric current heated tn q
red heat the wire Of forty feet Of iis length,
and melted another wire. Il IL didicult To
give ~ idss Of The fairy effect prodsced By
this powesful light, or to conceive 70 what