The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1875-04-30
NEW NoR-WEsTERs.

VuU,UUu.
Iowa can boast of 3,763, 166 miles o
railway.
"A San Francisco man is building $50,
600 stable.
/ The Vice President thinks he is onl.
worth $4,000.
The word "cacophony'' floored the bes
speller in Xenia.
Forty thousand houses in Philadelphia
are owned by their occupants.
Paper eofins, made Of old loye-letters
are the latest invention out West.
Great Britain has but 150,526 acres in
orchards Illinois alone has over twice as
many.
| MIR. Beezely of the Dalles, Oregon, will
put up two thousand barrels of salmon this
season.
-Talmage says "God will get even !"
with people who publish the Beecher trial
reports.
There is patch of rye at Suscol, Napa
county, CAL, which now stands six feet
four inches high.
Out West they have new name for
trichina. They call the infinitesimal wrig-
glers, cystericus cellose.
1t was cold Sunday on which he was
born, and SO the Milwaukee father had his
first son christened "Zero.''
AT the age of SO Bonner has accumu-
lated million of dollars from the Ledger.
Wholesale advertising did it.
81 always thought should never rear
that child" said an old lady Of ninety on
hearing of the death of her son aged 70
years.
The population of St. Louis is 400, ,OOO
The increase since the census, is fifty-seven
per cenLum or more than ten per centum,
yearly.
Little Rhody already has two Republi-
can tickets i'll the field, we notice. Won't
things be crowded when the Democrats put
up third?
The Chicago Inter Ocean figures up
the Indebtedness of Mexico to the United
States as 100000 for American lives
and property destroyed by t'greasers.
And now the sky is getting fairly black
with spelling matches, and the dictionary
venders meanwhile chuckle in their sleeves.
Now spell parallelopipedon with your eye
shut.
Mark Twain says: "To the poor whites
along the Mississippi river chills are mer-
ciful provision of Providence, enabling
them to take exercise without much exer-
tion."
The question of the ownership of the
Arkansas Hot Springs has been in litiga-
tion over thirty years, and the Court of
Claims has just decided that they belong to
the Government.
Only about hundred million dollars
have to be counted over in consequence of
Spinner's retirement. Now, here's perma-
nent employment for few good, careful
money counters.
The first trials of the Bessemer steamer
in the English channel, with a swimming
saloon to save sea-sickness, worked badly,
but now it is doing better, and partly ful-
fills its promise, at least.
In one part of Norway the longest day
is three months, and yet there is no daily
paper in the whole section Neither is
there monthly magazine, as no publisher
could afford to bring out three issues in one
day.
They have something yet to learn in
England. 1t is computed that 1.456 Eng
lishmen are wandering ON the Continent,
houseless and homeless, because they
Would draw one card to fill bob-tail
flush.
A marvellous story is floating the rounds
of the press, that at Cincinnati they put the
head Of a mummy to soak, and brought
back in its fullness the very semblance OF
the son of Egypt, who died three thousand
years ago.
The ceremony of aedicating the Free
mason's temple in New York takes place
June I'd, and delegations from all parts of
the United States are expected to partici-
pate. A number of European Masons have
also signifed their intention to be present.
The Sultan of Turkey employs in his
palace 6,0O0 servants Of both sexes. He
pays and feeds 800 cooks, 300 gardeners,
500 coachmen, and 600 more to do odds and
ends about the house. To feed these peo-
pie and their hangers-on /, 200 sheep, 1000
fowls are killed every day, and 10000 francs
for lights are expended.
AS an illustration of the limltless num-
Der of combinations which the three prima-
ry colors are capable of. it may be interest
ing to know that in the Gobelin tapestry
$4,000 distinct shadings of
yarn are employed, each one distinguisha-
Die by the practiced eye.
AT least one important reform seems
likely to come out Of the agitation of Gre
nation. This is the substitution of other
material than wood for coffins. Just now
'he municipal authorities of Paris are delib- |
srating the propriety of requiring that all |
sofins shall be made of cement, as they |
we're, in fact, in the Gallo Roman period of |
French history.
Mr.. Carruth, the New Jersey editor
who was desperately shot by Mr.. Landis, is |
a joker. On Wednesday, point
ing feebly to his head, he said: s.Looks
bad to be shot IN the back, don't it ?" And |
when Mr.. Pane came in he motioned for |
him to go away, tbecause," he said, i've
lon't want any more pain here"
An elegant edition of the Scriptures |
was sent to Washington paper for notice.
The volume was placed in the hands of the |
regular book reviewer of the establishment |
who read it entirely through, and proceed |
I'd to speak of it in high terms as merito-
rions original production. Fortunately /