The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1875-07-23
NEW NOR VEST ER3.

| The wool clip is the largest ever shear
ed in the country.
The Iowa State University has turned
ont seventy-one young lawyers this year.
The California Chinese cure tooth.
ache by applying coal Of fire to the foot
The population of Duluth is a little
oyer 2, ,9O0-being shr,nkage of 2, 900 since
1872.
The aggregate wealth of San Fran.
cisco. in personal and real estate, is $780,.
00a, 900.
THE new school law of Texas fixes the
remuneration OF teachers at 10 cents day
| for every pupil in actual attendance.
Three Gypsy children were baptised
at the NJ. e. Church at Waverly H.. on
Sunday lately. Their parents are travelling
iortane tellers.
The Detroit Free Press thinks that If
Joaquin Miller's handwriting be illegible aa
he thinks he would better print his poems
in manuscript.
The Sutro tunnel has reached lengtl,
# 10000 feet, which is about half of the
entire distance to be run before reaching
the Comstock ledge.
HE was scalded to death from boiler
explosion. and on his tombstone they CHS.
elled deeply: "Sacred to the memory OF
'ur steamed friend.''
An exchange speaks Of 50 Methodist
strawberry festival" We are glad to know
that Strawberries are religious, and that
they are Methodists, too.
~ cruel hoax has been perpetrated on
the elmer lecterarius in the construction of
iron hedsfeads which cannot be distinguish
ed from mah"g my by the eve.
There are l44 submarine telegraph
cables known to the commercial world.
the shortest Of which is abont one mile, and
the longest 2.5S4 miles in length.
-"OCr inside contains to-day" says
country editor, "'Dyspepsia,' 'Crnoked
whisky "A Chinese Restaurant and vari-
.'us other interesting selected articles"
II. T. Stewart gave the rifle team $500,
with promise of $500 more. in case they
won. So that. unless the old gentleman
hedged. he is $1,000 out Of pocket by the
operation.
The Scientific american has discovered
way of m liking delicious perfumery out
"f bed bugs. Tins a new industry is opc,,-
I'D to the epterprising housewife and board
ing house keeper.
notwithstanding that certain scientific
men claim that there is no anrhe nricated
case Of a PERSONS arriving at the age Of one
hundred years. the last census of Ireland
returns 724 persons as over a century old.
"A funny paper in San Francisco SAYS
at the Palace Hotel street cars will leave
the lower for the upper end of the corridor
EVERY nalr hour. and rnar rlye mtuutcx wifi
be allowed for refreshments when the car
r aches the dining room.
Two millions Of people were saved from
starvation hy the interposition of the Lieu
tenant Governor of Bengal in the famine of
1874. The most efficient instrument was
railway rapidly built to connect the threat
ened district with richer country.
Says Frenchman who has lived in
America for some years When they build
railroad, the first thing they do is to
break ground. This is done with great
ceremony. Then they break the stock
holders. This is done without ceremony.
EARLY in the spring the chief business
of the Sioux City (Towa) merchants was
selling Black Hills outfits. Now they can
go around to the auction stores and buy
the same outfit for just about enough to
buy the owner seoond-class ticket back
East.
The accidental deaths around the Com
stock mines have been computed and aver
aged. They occur at least once week,
while serious accidental injuries happen at
the rate of one every day. This does not
include demises occasioned by whisky, re-
volvers. or bowie knives.
"A melancholy friend in Des Moines
despondently writes Weather very wet
in Iowa. Weeds are ahead of the corn,
are ahead of the weeds, Gran
gers are ahead of the grasshoppers and the
dreadful middle mem ahead of them all,
as usual"
MIR. Bergh is needed in Paris, if the
statement be true that certain owners of
leech ponds buy mp horses that are to old
to work, to feed their leeches The horses
are staked in the ponds mp to their bellies,
when the leeches Immediately attach them-
selves TO them and suck the blood out of
them, which it takes one or two days to
do.
Gabriel Max, artist, is said to have
produced q painting with most extraor-
binary characteristic. 1t is a representa-
ton Of the face Of the Savior. At a dis
tance. the eyes appear to be closed, but as
one advances they seem to open gradually
until they beend upon the spectator q
and pathetic gaze. This remains
Until the visitor gets quite close to the
painting, when they are again closed.
"A fact has been contributed to the
great scientific controversy about spontane-
GUS combustion which Mr.. Dickens did
not by any means settled In his preface to
"Bleak House." In Merced, CAL, the
other day, a hired man being discharged by
his employer, consoled himself by buying
gallon Of gin and drinking it. Two small
boys found him soon after in the road, 90
they said, "burning up" He died Gin
der; and the. theory is that sshydrogen of
alcholic drinks had combined with the phos-
phorus Of the body, forming phosphuretted
hydrogen, which spontaneously ignited.n
MEMBER OF EGGs IN A HEN.--A curious
point OF inquiry among biologists has been,
for long time hQw many ercs ffos,a ara