The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1879-06-13
NEW NoR'-wEsTERs.
Arkansas has ITO lunatics confined i

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Arkansas has 10 lunatics confined in
jails.
Mr. Bug Hash is resident of Leba.
non, KY.
Hobart Pasha has been privately mar
rled at Vienna to an Englishwoman.
One hundred and eighty-three cotton
mills have been built in the south since the
war.
California has eight National Banks,
representing about $8,O00,00O capital and
surplus.
-Herschel V. johnson for President in
1880 is suggested by the Harlem (ua.)
Columbian.
-Tennyson has not claimed any partic-
ular ability as criminal lawyer, yet it is
said he received $500 for his Defense
of Lucknow"
The Atlantic cable is being duplexed, q
process which will increase its working
about 70 per cent.
-Phosphoreseent paper is said to be the
latest invention. Writing done upon it can
be read in the dark.
Whereas, formerly the rogue was put
into the stocks, nowadays, the stocks are
put into the rogue's pocket and they dis
appear simultaneously.
There IS world of difference between
a successful and an unsuccessful attempt at
suicide. Correct. just one world.
| A Pinafore reform club. with pledge
binding it's members "hardly ever" to
drink, would be popular institution.
One of the Harper brothers is prepa-
ring to make trip abroad in company
with Paul du Chailu, the African traveller.
"A man was boasting that he had an
elevator IN his house. $50 he has"
chmed in his wife, "and he keeps it in the
cupboard in bot.le.''
During the year of 1878 forty eight
| railroads were sold under foreclosure, rep
resenting 1851, ,016, 700 of capital stock,
and $3.50, Ola, 500 of bonds and debts.
An engagement is announced between
Miss Bessie Evarts, the third daughter of
Secretary Evarts, and Edward Perkins,
member of the senior class at Harvard.
A Texas chap shot five men and no at
tention was paid to it, but one day he stole
mule, and in less tban an hour the en-
ragged citizens hanged him.-OA City Der
rick.
Massachusetts has $3.50 schools, with
31O 900 pupils and s, 500 teachers on these
she spendr every year $5,000.000. The
greatest want in the schools is said to be
skilled supervision of teaching.
-" don't do this business for profit"
said barber, when asked how he could
afford to shave man for five cents. s.
merely carry it ON because love to see the
dying struggles of man as he is being
talked to DEATH"
The treadmill has been revived by
Partisan scientist as legitimate mode of
mechanical labor, he having discovered that
a man exerts his greatest force In the ac-
biUu Ot ROiuS up ob0hot hAS WAoiO WSAeHV
being brought to bear.
@ Mr.. David Davis will visit the Lake
Erie Islands this summer, and the Cleve-
land Leader irrelevantly says that "seve-
raj lake steamers are already working for
the contract to carry him over"
"A flock of geese flying rather low over
a Jackson county (Or.) miners claim, the
man In charge of the hydraulic turned it on
them and succeeded in bringing down two
of the birds, one of which was secured.
1t is an editor with modesty the most
intense in the land who writes the follow
ing "TirIng of their Lydia Thompson
appearance, the maple trees are going down
in their trunks for their spring and sum-
mer suits.
The Bessemer process of steel making
is leading to an almost complete discon.in-
uance of the use of iron rails. So says
Thomas Brassey, and he adds that out of
45, 900 puddlers employed in the north of
England, less than one-half are now at
work
M Clemandot, of Paris, has invented
globe for electric lights. It is double. ono
globe placed inside the other, and the space
filed with powdered glass. 1t is said to
diffuse the light without lessening the sllu-
min ating power as much as the opaline
shades used to.
A San Francisco clothing dealer is said
to have in good faith offered $10o night to
Lawrence Barrett If, when playing Hamlet,
he would after uttering the words 81 Gus
tomary suits Of solemn black, !" add, "The
kind they sell at --- for $24."
Mr.. Stanley arrived at Zanzibar in his
little vessel, the Albion, on the 18th of
March. The secret of the objects of his
new African expedition has been well kept
up to the time of the departure of the last
mails, but it was generally supposed that his
destination was the Congo, it having been
remarked that be carries with him steam
launch and large cutter, with quaint
of pierced iron plates evidently intended to
form shield around the boat in case of
attack-in short, a sort OF preparation
Just suited for river navigation in hostile
region such as Mr.. Stanley passed through
on his memorial descent of the Congo. He
has engaged large number of his old fol-
lowers at Zanzibar, and paid them advan-
eed wages, promising them that they shall
see Europe when their work is over.
-Noiseless ware is novelty in chinaware
introduced by Mr.. Vernon, of Scotland, ,and
which is well spoken Of by the London
Pottery Gazette. Il consists in providing
at the base of the article, or, in case of cov-
ers, under the rim. groove into which is
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