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The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1874-11-21
A Railway Under the Sea.

For many years European people have
talked freely Of some way of getting them
selves and their frelghts from the continent
to England, and back again, without the
delay and discomfort of that horrible two
hours passage from Calias to Dover.
Swinging cabins have been proposed-tried,
il we are not mistaken-to relieve passed
gers of the prostrating nausea that they
feel there, if nowhere else. Immense
steamers were planned--we believe their
building cemmenced-which should ferry
over railroad trains. One intellectual idiot
spent much money in plans for a bridge to
be erected on immense piers resting on the
ocean bed rock, and finally the wild CHI
mera Gas we then called it) of submarine
tunnel was proposed.
But the world has advanced since then,
and the chimera has assumed realistic ap-
pearance. We have forced a hole through
the Hoosae range; we have tunneled Mont
Gents; we have run the sea through the
1sthmus of Suez; we have stretched tele-
graph wire round the world; aud, finally,
we begin to imagine why shouldn't we tun-
mel the British Channel? It is only TWEEN
ty-five miles of boring.
And so work, in the first stages, has
commenced quietly but Understandings.
Eminent geologists are making explorations
todiseover whether the rock strata are of a
character to sustain the weight of the water
above without too much masonry. Upon
that rests the whole question. IF. as be-
lieved. it proves that the gray chalk which
forms the channel cliffs stretches across the
channel bed in sufficient thickness to encase
the tunnel in its waterproof armor. the
scheme has no insuperable mechanical OBJ
staele. Tie expense is then the only ques-
tion; and it is believed that can be readily
provided for. Cincinnati Times.
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The Story of g Steamer.

"Speaking about fast running steam
boats'' said Mr.. Thomas Hartshorn, re-
Gently, rolling his quid into his larboard
law, and giving his Tuckapaw trousers q
hitch (Mr. II. sirved as cook ON the ram
Queen of the WesD, s suppose you never
heard of the Old Elephant, that used TO run
between Cincinnati and New Orleans She
was a beauty / suppose that when she
was tied to the bank with q stern line and
tow line she was one of the fastest boats on
the rivel.
..She made one celebrated trip from New
Orleans, I think in AZ. Her time was
made a matter of record. COMM up from
Orleans once, the captain was sittin' at the
table, and. he noticed several big halks OF
fellows servin' as cabin boys He called
tho steward to him, and says be, Don't You
think it would look better to have boys
waitin' on the table ? | don't like to see
men film the place of cabin boys Let
'em 90, and get some young chaps. why,
blast it, captain says the steward, them
fellows were boys when we LETT New Or-
leans.
aThe Elephant, 7 continued aIr. Harts-
horn. elinging to his nautical remlnisccnce.
I. was pulling ont from Memphis one any
on Il down trip, and somehow she got NIX
mixed iii with raft Of sawlogs. she proKe
one or tile Logs loose, and it f1oated out into
the stream. Tlen was one Of the incest races
YOU ever saw. There was, a good stage q
water. and the log doomed along quite 1--we
". For about i week they held together
,.urty wen, but the Elephant had to land Ct
Il q mouth of tile White River. and the log
leat hei into New .rleans about twenty
Il inutes. There was something wrong
Mith tile Elephants i'oilers. and Sue comic
MT makes steam properly. Tint, what
the Captain said. She was 4 nice noat e
ship green fruit on. &
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The Famine in Asia Misunderstanding bv
Thousands.

+ In Asia Minor over an area of country
almost as large as the State of New York.
people are dying of starvation and the dis
eases which result from lack of nourishing
food, and it is stated that as many as 150, 900
have died. Every day adds new victims,
while emaciated, staggering men, women
and children pour into adjacent cities and
towns begging for bread, and this in q re-
gion once formerly q garden in it's fruitful
ness. In 1873 the drought cut off the crops,
and the stores on hand were exhausted dur
ing the succeeding winter. All eyes were
turned toward the summer and the harvest
of 1874, but this too failed, less from lack
OF rain than lack of seed to SOW, cattle to
work the fields, and the want of strength
and health on the part of the famished
people. Mr. Farnsworth, an American
missionary, who has recently made an ex-
tensive tour in the region, estimates that
less than ono quarter of the usual area has
been seWn, and that this years harvest will
not bring any relief. The writerdraws the
following picture of the situation
In one village, out of more than /. 500
sheep and goats just one sheep and one
goat remain. In another, from q flock of
1000 sheep and goats, eight are reported:
and from another flock in the same village.
numbering 800, of which 700 were Mohair
goats eight are reported. The poor have
sold everything they had, even to tho tim
bers of their houses and the garments
which covered them, to buy bread at the
exorbitant price at which it can alone be
obtained. Almost the whole population is
demoaalized, and the regular pursuits OF
industry are broken up, and falling to find
honest employment, men resort to violence
and hrigandage on the highways.
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Liked Her Place.

The Fort Plains On. W Register says
A good story is told at the expense of a
somewhat inexperienced housekeeper III
this village who found herself one morning
without servant to cook or wash. A few
hours trial convinced her that she must
have help and she started out in search of
a girl. After calling at several places with
out success, she was passing one of the best
residences in the town, and observed tidy
looking woman cleaning the yard. Halt
ing, she inquired of the woman whether
she knew of girl that could be hired. The
answer was in the negative. The lady had
by this time become desperate, and resolv-
ed to hire the woman before her. although
she knew it was wrong to covet her neigh
boris servant In q low tone of voice she
began to relate her troubles, and wound up
by urging the woman to leave Mrs. --
and come with her, offering her dollar
more week than she was then receiving.
The woman answered that she liked her
place and could not be induced to give it
up. And she added:
"Besides, | generally sleep with Mr..
-, and I don't think he would allow
me to 60 away"
The lady departed, utterly astonished at
what she had heard. Her feelings may be
imagined when she afterwards learned that
she had been talking with the mistress of
the mansion, and the wife of one our most
esteemed citizens.
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Manitoba.

Manitoba, OF Mana-tuopa, as the Indians
call it, and which means literally Goods
dwelling place." contains about 9,0OO 900
acres Of land, and is miniature province
as compared with the vast territory of which
it forms part. 1t can take it's stand as
one OF the finest wheat-growing countries
In the world Its soil is an alluvial black,
argillaceous mould, rich in organic deposit.
and resting for a depth of from two to four
feet on tenacious clay soil. An idea may
be formed of its fertility when some fields
on the Red River have been known to pro-
duce 40 successive crops of wheat without
fallow or manure. The yield has reached
as high as 80 OF go bushels per acre, while
the average is 40 bushels, and this under
the farming of the natives, who really un-
derstand nothing of the science. One man
gathered 700 bushels of wheat off III acres.
Last year the average of wheat was not so
high, being between % and 45. Oats aver
aged so bushels, and were unusually heavy,
weighing over 40 pounds to the bushel.
One farmer raised $50 bushels of potatoes
from seven bushels of seed while another
raised twelve bushels of onions upon patch
OF land twenty feet square. These are
facts, and speak for themselves. The root
crops generally were superb; onions weigh
ing over q pound each. Turnips, parsnips,
carrots, cabbages, melons, beets, pump
kins and squash are of magnificent growth.
Celery, lettuce, spinach, caulifiower and Gu
eumbers also thrive we'll; and all these
grand staples of food are the productions of
land hitherto regarded as a region of
snow and ice.
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Country Journalism
Ernnl the San Francisco Fimarf

From the san Francisco Figaro.
Since writing paragraph on this subject,
which appears elsewhere, we have read an
editorial on the same subject in this morn
ing's Chronicle The lesson which it seeks
to draw from the death of the Benicia TIT
bBise seems to be that since the establish
ment of railroads q paper III country town
is unnecessary Inferentially the inhabi-
tants ought to subscribe for the Chronicle
and let their local organ die. The fact of
tile matter is that there is not q paper IN
San Francisco that will assist in any way to
build up an interior town. On the other
Land bright editor properly sustained by
tile inhabitants can MAKE a town. Does
anyone pretend to deny that the amusing
nonsense published by Bailey has had an
effect on the prosperity of Danbury? Dam
bury is known to great many as the place
where the Danbury Meas is published.
Not long ago d man worth considerably
over million in money and land, pulled a
Kansas paper out Of his pocket and point
ing to tine name at the head Of the column
said: i depend entirely on that man to
make the property own in this place val
uable.n II country paper might be as
pleasing to the Inhabitants of San Mateo,
san jose, Grass Valley, Marysville. Placer
vile, Los Angeles, or other interior towns
al ssne filled with the scandal Of the me-
frapalis can lie The natural dvantagcs af
the surrounding country afford as pleasing
Ea text as n murder Id d dive, or the latest
sdiscaverins af fraud among city officials.
Ihs.eean,rry newsislperis 4 great advertise
aarslf sar flae ss,wsa iii which iii III published.
and III ii ii, the interest of every inlabitant
III suasfismEe fu ifs support
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The Stevens Battery Sold.

The famous Stevens battery, so long un-
der she'd at Hoboken, was sold yesterday
at Trenton; at least the bids for her were
opened. This battery was commenced in
1843 By Mr.. Stevens, and for more than 30
years work has been very steadily done
upon it. More than s. 800, 900 lave been
expended, and at least $500, 900 will be re-
quired to complete the vessel. The battery
is really the pioneer iron-clad, and the na-
vies of the world are now constructed on
the plans stolen from or suggested by that
massive iron hull under that old weather.
beaten roof. When Mr.. Stevens died in
1871 he left the ship to the State of New
Jersey, and $1,000, 900 to be expended in
her completion. Her original length was
$50 feet, her horse power 900. General
Mcclellan was employed to complete the
a report that the vessel could not be built
upon the specifications and made servicea-
BILE. The length was changed to 401 feet
and the horse power to 5000, and the side
armor Of 4 inches was changed to 10. The
State finally concluded to sell the battery.
The bids yesterday were from John Roach,
$105, 900, the Navy Department Condition
al, subject to Congressional appropriation,
$145, 600; and some others. Mr. John
Roach's bid will most probably be accepted,
as there was no provision for any condition
al bids. -Brooktyn Argus, Noe. 8,
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A Paris seand ii.

&
a few days ago, says Ga1ignani's .Ke5sen-
ger, the Figaro related the adventure of Il
young woman, deRst-mon6e. famous for her
yellow hair, and a Young Belgian nobleman
who had made her present of 4 carriage
and pair, driven by Il negro. Suspecting
the fidelity of his mistress, lie one day
blackened his face and pnt on the servants
livery, with the idea Of catching her trir-f
ping. The plan succeeded, as he found
that on alighting size .faiiied 4 Young man
who was waiting For her On her retnr.l
when she was about ID eiater the carriage
he gave her two sharp cuts aei,ss the face
with his whip and then drove n.f ieaging
her standing where slfr was. Tho enilagi,e
ofthe story is amusing Tic real coac!lmai,
on hearing what had bfe,a sls,np thought
his dignity compromised AMI addressed
the following letter tp his master.
~ MONSIEUR 1E BAROS:-I mn only II
poor negro, but shonIa never have con-
Quoted myself on your seat a< vni. have
done when using my NAM, ,ngs ag and my.
ct,lar. Nor should ever have ca,nsislal
them to ron If 4 had knasn wi,lf ysaa
intended tn 10 witt, them. sest5sl my
place and bid yoll aaiesa
TnH ssssss n.
The Baron talks Of htyis,+ IL, ls.ats,s
framed mi lllaisa tII, HI til isrssssi.ss.sss
pl sca In lsis allarisneilf.
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EvE-ANGELICAL CORNER.

Paris sold ten tons of hair last year.
The front gate season is almost ended.
Gold arrows an inch long are fashionable
as earrings.
To get good wife-Take good girl
and go to the parson.
Buff and gray boots made of linen are all
the rage with the Paris ladies.
Kissing Fairs are held in Iowa to clear off
church debts. It's ten cents per kiss.
The last Partisan rumor threatens the la
dies with revival of the big bonnets of
1884
''sally, what have you done with the
cream ?' :" Sure, ma am took the scum
and gave it to the CATS
Of $50 postmistresses in Pennsylvania,
not one, it is said, has ever proved q de-
faulter to the government.
Biddy, did you put an egg in the coffee
to settle it ?" eyes, mum; I put in four:
they were so bad l had to use four of
them"
Charlotte Cushman, who is now playing
at Booths Theatre in New York, is shortly
to appear in the Salt Lake Theatre. Salt
Lake Tribune.
The latest society rumor is that James
Gordon Bennett has been fascinated and
engaged by a well-known Washington belle,
daUEg, Uf q distinguished naval OIL
Ger.
Of truth, home without girl is only
half blessed; it is an orchard without bios
SONS and q spring without song. A house
full of sons is like Lebanon with it's cedars
but daughters by the fireside are like roses
in Sharon.
lecturer, wishing to explain to a little
girl the manner in which a lobster casts his
shell when he had outgrown it said: "What
do you do when you have outgrown your
clothes? You throw them aside, don't
you?" "Oh, no." replied the little one,
"we let out the tucks.''
Poor, young thing. She tainted away at
the wash-tub, and her pretty nose went
ker-slop into the soap-suds Some said it
was oyerwork; others, however, whispered
that her beau had peeped over the back
fence and called out: "Hullo, there, Bird
get is Miss Alice at home %
The women do vote quite generally where
they have the right. The London Eram-
a1ser says: 6 In 66 municipal elections, out
of every 1000 women who enjoy equal
rights with men on the register, SIC went
to the polls, which is but 48 less than the
proportionate number of men,"
Mrs. Antoinette Brunswick, an American
lady of Junction City, Kansas, recently for
SOCK her Christian associations and en-
braced. .Judeaism as the more reasonable
faith. She made a pilgrimage to Kansas
City, and was made Jewess in the Syna-
gogue there. There are very few such con-
versions in these days, as the Jews do not
countenance proselytizing, and male con-
verts to the Hebrew faith and practice arc
remarkably few. Mrs. Antoinette was
named Ruth i'll the Synagogue.
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Wonderful Curiosity--Par Animal and
Part Human.
From the New York Herald. Nov,

From the New York Herald Nov l.
The British ship Scindia, Captain George
Harrison, arrived here few days since from
Calcutta, having on board one of the most
remarkable natural euriosities the world
has probably ever seen. 1t consists of u
short horned, sacred Brahmin bull, born in
Nepaul northern India, in 1871, and i'm
ported here by Captain William Denison
Folger formerly of this city, but latterly a
resident of Calcutta. The bull itself is a
remarkable curiosity, and is one Of that
description of animals held in great rever-
ence by the natives of India on account of
it's traditional sacred character. But in
this case novel lusus nature renders it
most singular creature. The brute portion
is symmetrically formed with glossy coat
of fawn colored hair and well shaped body
and limbs. But protruding, as it were,
from the left side of the hump on the back
Of the neck of the animal is wonderful
and regularly shaped in nearly all respects.
human arm. The deltoid and triceps and
biceps muscles are well developed, particu-
larly the latter; the joint at the elbow is
flexible, the forearm rather attenuated, the
wrist as fully flexible us in the human arm
proper, while the hand is composed of four
distinctly marked fingers, two of them con-
nected together This extraordinary ap-
pendage to all otherwise well formed body
does not appear to give the creature any
Inconvenience or pain, generally hanging
listlessly by its side, except when it is
angered Or annoyed, when the arm rises as
if its possessor felt inclined to .strike from
the shoulder" The animal is quite healthy,
enjoys a rayenous appetite, the nice grass
of it's native cline being its favorite food,
and does not seem to have suffered any
bodily injury by its long sea voyage. If
not disposed of in this country, we learn
that it is the intention of the importer to
take the creature to England, and secure it
q place in the London Geological Gardens,
where such novelties are highly priced 1t
would prove q nnique attraction to the
natural curiosities in onr Central Park 1t
has already been visited Oh the Scildia by
several scientific g,ntlpme, Of this city and
Brooklyn, where the shi;, lies near tile
Fulton ferry.
Sz-s.~------
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A New French Rife.

A French gunmaker has invented rife
SO arranged that the breech is opened by
cooking the piece. and the charge being in
trotnced the breech is closed and the gun
fired by touching the trigger The cartridge
consists of 0 hollow leaden cone filed with
powder, aud closed at the base by means Of
q piece Of cork. At the moment the car
fridge is introduced into the breech the
powder escapes by small hole la the cork.
and an imperceptible ball of Illuminating
powder, which forms the printing, takes
It's proper position. The triple action of
cooking, loatling and firing, is thus effected
simultaneously, 20 that d man with very
little experience caii fire twenty rounds d
minute. The cartridges are stored iii al
iron tube, which, ii placed parallel with the
hanel and contains thirty balls, 50 that the
piece may be iised as many times almost
without any iiltervssl and without re1noginQ
the stock from the shoulder, as there Il
nothing a be done but tu cock md mil thu.
trigger.
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MONEY MUSK,

In shirt of check and talowed hair
The fiddler sits in the bull-rush chair
Like Moses basket standing there
On the brink of the Father Nile
He feels his fiddIes slender neck
Picks out the notes with thumb and check
And times the tune with nod and beck
And thinks it weary while.
All ready! Now he gives the CALL
Cries, Honor to the ladiesln All
The Jolly tides of laughter fall
And ebb in happy smile.
"Beeln." Down goes the how on every string.
First couple joins hands and swingr'
AS light as any blue birds wing.
"Swing once and a half times roundn
Whirls Mary Martin all in blue
Calico gown and stockings new,
And tinted ewes that tell you true,
Dance to the dancing sound.
She fits about big Moses Brown,
VINO holds her hands to keep her down,
And thinks her hair golden crown.
And his heart turns over once!
His cheek with Mary's breath is wet
1t gives a second somerset,
lie means to win the maiden vet
Alas for the awkward dance!
''Your stoga boot has crushed my toer'
I'D rat her dance with one-legged Joe!''
"Iou clumsy felloW' Pass below
And the first pair dance apart
Then Forward six" advance, retreat,
Like midges gay in sunbeam street
'Tis Money Musk by merry feet
And the Money Musk by heart!
Three quarters round your partner swing
"Across the setl" The rafters ring,
The boys and girls have taken wing
And brought their roses outi
'Tis Forward six!' with rustic grace
All. rarer far than Swing to placer
Than golden clouds of old point lace,
They bring the dance about.
Then claspng hands Albright and left -
All swiftly weave the measure deft
Acros the woof in loving weft
And the Money Musk is done!
Oh. dancers of the rustling busk
Good night, sweethearts, it's growing dusk,
Good night for aye to Money Musk,
For the heavy march begun!
f. Taylor. in Scrjbner'S.
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81 A.SwIss w WAsHERWoMAN.---1o % q smoke
stained Londoner, the exquisite purity of
the homespun Swiss linen is constant
wonder and reproach. And yet scarcely
wonder, if he chance to sit by the lake side,
say at Brienz, on sunny morning, and watch
the proceedings Of the little Swiss maiden
in straw hat and black velvet bodice with
the silver chains, who is plying her oceupa-
ton of laundress. She has padded her
boat far cut into the lake, and is letting it
drift with the current. In the boat beside
her is pile of freshly washed linen, glisteI.-
ing like snow in the sunlight. But its
whiteness does not content her. AS the
boat moves lazily along, each separate piece
Of linen is thrown into the lake and trailed
slowly through the blue water, blue as ever
painted. Still she is not quite satisfied.
She takes perhaps three or four handker-
chiefs in her hand at a time, and literally
throws them overheard, in such a manner
that the spectator on the bank cannot but
breathe fervent hope that they may not
be his own property, But before he has
time to frame his wishes into words, she
has caught them again with dextrous sort
oflegerdemain, and the process is repeated
again and again. And all the while the
black velvet bodiced maiden, with the glis-
tenine chains and pins, snowy sleeves, and
round white arms, if she be true Brienz
maiden, is singing like a very nightingale.
SATURDAY Journal.
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Any Price for Fast Trotters in New
York
New York Letter to Boston journal.


Trotting horses are to New York what
race horses are to London. IF a horse has
speed he will bring any price, The arrival
of fast team produces an immense excite
ment on the street. The men who keep
the market in turmoil are the men who
buy the fast trotters. It is not difficult to
bny single team that is fast The story
that Vanderbilt kept a standing offer of
$4,000 for first class horse is a canard.
He could get speed at any time, ifhe would
pay for it. The old Commodore wants
something besides speed. He wants fast
horse-a horse kind and quiet-that will
drive on slack rein-one perfectly safe
and at low figure. But to get fast
double team is difficult matter. 1t is SO
difficult to match horses in the spirit and
motion and bottom. There is one team in
this city that always produces a sensation
On the road, one of these is the horse Con-
nors, owned by J. G. Merrill, of Boston.
This horse is black as jet. The other horse
is ST. James, belonging to Rochester. He
is mahogany in color. The two horses are
of the same height-about fifteen hands.
The recorded time of the team is 2:322JJ.
Corners record is 2:19a. St. James record
is 2:18 1t is said he has shown the speed
of 2:t7. This team was sold last week,
and Budd Doble was the purchaser. Every
body knew that he did not buy it for him.
self 1t turns out that the real buyer was
California miner; he made an immense
fortune in about ten days by the rise of
Ophir mining stock. 1t is said on the street
that for an hour or more he made a million
a minute. The price paid for the team
was $4,000. The team left yesterday for
the Pacific coast.
Wonderful Curiosity Part Animal and
Part TOrr,ay