The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1876-07-07
NEW NOR VEST ER.S.

cheese factories.
| A Kentucky double-yolked egg hatche
out two chicks.
Robert Napier, the well known seotc
ship builder, is dead.
Plymouth Church has fixed the salary c
Beecher at $40, 600 annually.
A Philadelphia minister received tw
barrels Of slippers one Christmas.
The New York Herald complains tina
the crusts Of strawberry short-cake lie to
close together.
Eleven tons of cucumbers for Northern
digestion were shipped from Jacksonville
Fla, a few days ago.
WIN. D. Russell, president of th,
Baxter Steam Engine Company, died a
Newark, of Paralysis, June 18th.
Rev. DR.. Newman Hall says II th,
churches Of Great Britain have lost 90, ,00l
members within three years by intemper
ance.
-Jokeing, says Josh Billings, il a risky
bizzness just for the sake of a seconG
klass joke menny man has lost a fast
klass friend.
The Canadian authorities are willing
to set aside small tract of land to which
American gentlemen of hastily acquired
means may migrate.
Deacon Richard Smith says that Bris,
tow can catch a thief and put him in the
penitentiary while moot other men are
putting on their boots.
A California man grated slip of a
dark red rose bush on an oak, and the
result is black rose. Brown roses were
got from graft on a locust.
An economical western editor refuses
to 60 to the musical part Of the Centennial
Exhibition because he has a Thomas con-
cert in his back yard every night.
The Michigander who returned from
the Black Hills the other day couldn't tell
which was paying the most-grave digging
or gold-digging. For his part he dug out.
The largest balloon ever made is to be
one of the attractions at the Paris exhibi-
tion of 1878. It will be capable of starting
for destruction with fifty persons at once.
The laws delay. A case was recently
decided IN England which first commenced
in the year 1889. The amount originally
in dispute was 100000. Nothing was
left.
John T. Raymond, the original repre-
sentative of Col. Sellers on the stage, has
never read The Gilded Age, the novel from
which the character is derived. Lucky
man.
The last directory published in Mime
apolis gives that city population Of 49,
500, which makes it the largest city in
the population of St Paul being
5, 900 less.
The fact that Mrs. A. T. Stewart has
retained Mr.. Evarts to defend her, is quoted
as confirmation Of the suspicion that the
contestants of her husbands will -haua a
stro9 nfSsagS nSg tsaes law VI hanging has
now been abolished. These are, with the
dates of their abolition, as follows: Michi-
gan, 1s46; Rhode Island, 1852; Wisconsin,
1858 Iowa, 1872; Maine, 1876.
The most stupenduous canal in the
world is the one in China, which passes
over 2,0OO miles and through forty-one
cities it was commenced in the tenth
century. A monster work of man.
"A piece of wood cut from tree is q
good electrical conductor. Let it be heated
and dried, it becomes an insulator. Let it
be baked to charcoal, it becomes con-
ductor again. Burn it to ashes, and it
becomes an insulator once more.
MIR. Moody will hardly succeed in New
England if he falsifies the "primer as he
has been doing. In recent discourse he
said that Zaccheus, the wealthy publican,
climbed the sycamore tree "to hide.'
This is fat contradiction of the primer
uersion of the story.
Idaho Bill, who recently escaped from
the Beaver county Jail and was afterwards
captured at Winn's about twelve miles
from Beaver, was brought to this city and
lodged in the county Jail. Yesterday he
and Francis Harker, the mail robber. were
removed to the Penitentiary by the United
States Marshal. Lake Tribune.
The. Atheneum this mail praises Bret
Harte's "Gabriel Conroy," but thinks that
it indicates fatigue in the writer. The
summary Isl" Our author has diffnsed
over large canvas, and consequently has
dissipated, the power which, concentrated
on small space, would have produced q
picture on which all could have dwelt with
delight"
Erwin Davis was San Francisco
stock operator in 1868; Ralston caused his
failure !; he went in penury to London and
operated !; is said to have fnanciered SO as
20 produce the Herzegovinan war; has
returned rich to California; thinks the
Sutro tunnel will save the Comstock !; he
will attack Flood and O'Brien for suprem.
acy.
Rather neat thing in advertisements
is to be seen ON the banks Of the Clyde, il
bonny Scotland. The proprietors OF the
Glasgow Ne0s, a Tory Journal have rented
the estate of Bullwood, near Dunoon, whicl
lies sloping to the Firth Of Clyde, and o.
the turf they are cutting the name of ths
paper in letters seventy feet long.
Brussels has the largest refrigerator il
the world, IT. is a large building who's
double walls are filed with aawdust an
moss. The building covers. surface Q
eighteen thousand square feet, and !
divided into nine compartments Of thirt
thousand cubic feet each. It has galIerie
on which fifty thousand pounds Of mea
can be placed, and there is room for on
million tons OF ice.
| This remarkable challenge in the Ne
York Herald explains itself Me pla