The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1874-08-29
TOPICS OF THE TIMES.

The Earl of Rosse estimates the heat from
the moon as the so, O,000ths part of that from
the sun. Bongers experiments give the
brilliancy Of the full moon as the 800, OOOths
part of that of the sun Wollaston gives il
as SO,172d, Zollner as from 618,00Oth te
6l9,OOOth, and Bond as the 47O, ,0SSth. The
maximum of the lunar heat appears to be
little before full moon.
A man living about 60 miles from Parsons,
Kansas, stole horse. A mob went to his
house, as they supposed, at night, and,
finding that the occupant was in bed, they
told his wife that they wanted to see him a
minute. So he came out. They hung him
to tree and then shot twenty-five bullets
into him, and left him. The next morning
they found that they had got the wrong
man (this one being ahard-working laborer,
with three children), and that the right
man livedjust next door, Chicago Tribune.
A tricolor flag on the summit of Metz
Cathedral, winch has been a constant eye
sore to the Germans, has just been removed
reward of 100 thalers having been offered
for the feat, which was attended with con-
siderable danger, as, after the top of the
Gothic tower was reached, two balls had to
be scaled to reach the flagstaff. A man
named Demange, a house-painter at Metz,
made the attempt and brought down the
obnoxious emblem of French rule. Seven
Germans had tried to accomplish the task,
but two lost their lives and the other five
failed.
One Of the tendencies of the age is to
build great bridges. Brooklyn has just
voted two millions of dollars for the inn
mense suspension bridge which is to connect
her with New York, and which is to be six
thousand feet in length. If old Ming, the
Emperorswho built a suspension bridge in
Yun-nan sixty-five years before the birth of
Christ, could make out to be present in
1877 when this Brooklyn structureis opened
would interest him.
If q pail of water be placed within six
inches of either side of the stem of a pump
kin or vegetable marrow it will, in the course
of the night, approach it, and will be found
in the morning with one of the leaves on
the water. If prop be placed within six
inches Of a convolvulus or scarlet runner it
will find it, although the prop may be shifted
daily. If, after it has twined some distance
up the prop, it be unwound and twined in
an opposite direction, it will return to it's
original position or die in the attempt; yet,
notwithstanding, if two of the plants grow
near to each other and have no stake around
which they will entwine, one of them will
alter the direction of the spiral and they
will entwine around each other.
A family named Kessler, consisting of a
man, wife, and three children, recently
passed through Sedalia, Mo-, ON their way
back to their home in Rails county. Last
spring Mr.. Kessler, who was well-to-do
farmer, sold out and started for Texas with
his family One evening he camped near
State. Suddenly a band of Comanches
descended on them and carried Oft his
eldest daughter, girl of seventeen. Ihf
frontiersmen for miles around were aroused
and started in pursuit of the Indians the!
came up on The savage camp next morning
and lust as the white men fired, one OF TIL
Indians plunged aknife into the girl, kille'
and scalped her. The murderer and tW
| other indians were slain and the scar
recovered.
| The total school population of the thlrt
| four States reporting was II, 740, lol; that
the seven Territories being Ss,o97, and I'll
Grand total 10, s2s, ,847. The enrolment
the thirty-four States reporting was 7,52'
Ais: in the seven Territories, 52,24l; tota
7,379,656. The average attendance III u
twenty-elght States reporting was 4, ool, 90
| in four Territories, 2s, 955 total, a, ,52
The number not registered in the thru
four states reporting was 1853, 1877 in S
Territories, 39,67e; total, 4,6o8,sO5. III
number attending private elementa
schools in the eighteen States repololng
full was 356, ,69t; in five Territories, 7,os
, total, 1854, ,2S3. The number Of teache
ranorted in the thirty-three States was u
o62: in seven Territories, 1,177; total, q
$50.
; The new eighty-ton gun is progressing
Woolwich. When finished, this mons
= niece of ordnance will be greater than tW
= the size of the largest gun in existence
= its destructive powers at fighting rai
nroportionate. With slxteen-inch 7
iectile, weighing 1850 pounds, and a m
:, imum charge of 500 pounds OF powder
= will pierce the best iron plates, TIVE
:. inches thick, at 500 yards, sixteen-l
~ plates at $500 yards, and will pitch
r. teen-incb shell into ship or fortress
:, distance of 10, 800 yards. The steel bl
% % forming the inner tube was the largest
cast. weighing over twelve tons; winnie
trunnion piece, about eighteen tons'
the largest forging ever produced at
arsenal. The actual cost of this Tea
le- ENGINE Of war viii not fall far shor
VII S4s, 800.
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