The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1877-07-20
NEW Noa'-wzsTERs.

| trees.
! There are nearly 5000 known species
of fish.
The people of Holland will erect mon
ument to Motley.
I'm Moscow the milkmen sing, "Core-
andgetyourehalk."
Russians, Poles, Servians and Rouma-
mans have little eyes.
The cranium of a Large crocodile will
only admit of the thumb.
"A female louse-fy will produce in one
season over 100000 eggs.
Mr.. Dean Richmond will marry a
daughter Of Senator Chaffee, of Colorado.
Nearly twenty-five thousand children
less than five years of age died in New York
last year.
Daniel Deronda could not put up at the
Grand Union Hotel, Saratoga. - Cincinnati
Commercial.
Wagner is coming. The great COM
poser proposes now to turn Flying Dutch
man himself.
1T is said That there are more Cinnamon
in California than can now find profitable
employment.
Secretary McCrary says that the recent
Federal order does not prevent officials at
tending conventions.
1T has cost Rev. Wild Horse II. Muir
ray, of Boston, $4,000 out of pocket to run
the Golden Rule one year.
Otto Taxis has gone into bankruptcy in
Cincinnati. Perhaps his Taxis were larger
than they Otto have been.
Senator Bogy loses 800, 900 by the fail
ure of the Commercial Insurance Company,
of which his son was President.
The full capacity of the salmon curing
factories in Oregon, on the Columbia River,
for one season is 81, $4,000 cans.
On the tomb of the lost Cincinnati
white whale the Enquirer inscribes this
appropriate legend: Requtescatfsh in pace.
An exchange thinks that if Grant were
nominated for President in 1880 he would
probably carry all of Great Britain except
Ireland.
The following is a literal copy of label
affixed to the cage of some fowls that were
exhibited at poultry show: 81 Pare
Coach and Chinas."
characteristic leader from an Arkansas
| al ~. .oF 1.o
ing off on his annual drunk, no editorial
appears this week."
Bob Toombs is G., was captain under
Scott in the Creek war, carried Georgia
out of the Union and was the Confederate
Secretary of State.
1t looks as if the younger Democrats of
Ohio were trying to run Sam Hunt, of Gin
cinnati, ahead of the other candidates for
gubernatorial nomination.
Col. Robert Ingersoll and Gov. Wade
Hampton are to give addresses at the Win
nebago County Fair, at Rockford-whereat
Jefferson Davis spoke last year.
The Dubuque Times says that Profes
sor Tice, whom it calls the weather huck-
ster of the West, has arranged Cor 81 thun-
der storms for Iowa this summer.
Tho negroes of st. Charles Parish, La,
kill ailigato,s for their flesh. They prefer
the meat to that Of wild game of the woods
and assert it 10 be tender, savory, and more
sustaining than beef.
1t is stated from Vienna that man
named Bernik, groom of an arstocratic
house, during a fit of religious fervor nailed
both his feet and left hand to the floor OF
his bedroom, and then with knife cut his
left side open. During the entire opera
tion he gave no signs of pain.
| Baltimore has queer old man who,
every day at one o'clock, goes through
certain streets and takes his stand near
| pump. There he remains, counting aloud
the persons who come for water until the
number reaches II, when he turns and goes
the way he came to his home.
The first submarine cable was that laid
across the Strait of Dover, 81 years ago. 1t
parted next day, and the first working cable
was laid, in 1851, on the same route. The
network of cable has now extended SO far
that when Asia is united to America by
cabling the Pacific, the electric girdle around
the world will be complete from East to
West, as it now is between North and
South.
The $500, 1000 diamond necklace that
the Khedive gave Miss Sherman, now Mrs.
Fitch, is in the vaults of the National
Treasury Department., because General
Sherman says @ he amt got money to pay
State and city taxes on it.and Fitch is only
lieutenant in the navy" Congress re-
mitted the duty, bat Miss Minnie has never
been able to enjoy the wearing Of it.-Bos-
ton Transcript
John Bryant, prisoner for three years
and half at Richmond Penitenbiary, has
made with shoe knife an English castle
of feudal times, with towers, battlements,
gateway, &C., of 5G5,000 pieces of wood
each about two inches long, and of the
width and thickness of small knife-blade.
The wood is from % different kinds of trees
and to fashion each splinter or s.jack it
had TO be handled eight times. No nail
screw, wedge, glue, or other things of the
kind are used in holding the material to-
gether.
Street Rencontrs.
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NEW York, July 6.-The details relative
to the street encountre at Salem, Alabama,
in which Capt. Gatesby Ap Jones lost his
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