The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1880-03-26
NEW NOR R-'wEs7ERs.
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new expedition.
The French papers call the snow "the
devil in white"
A ton of peaches or apricots make j.,
900 cans of fruit.
-Diphtheria has taken the place of the
tar bucket at Reno.
Nothing has so many ties binding IL 70
earth as railroad.
President Hayes enjoys billiard playing
but plays poor game.
Peter Cooper has expended about ST.
600, 600 on the Cooper Institute.
Salisbury is to be made peer. They
will probably dry-dock Beasonsfeld. -
Senator Conkling's hair curis sweasel
than ever since the Utica Convention.
truth says that in the last ten years
there have been 2, 352 strikes in England.
Gloves are worn very long, and bracs-
lets are placed over them when upon the
wrist.
George Eliot has consented that oae OF
her novels shall be dramatized for the
stage.
The salaries paid to Federal Office.
holders in the whole country amount to
$31, 257, lot. -.
The Joblochkoff electric burners in
the Avenue de rOpera, Paris, have been
replaced by gas. ....
Cattle hoofs at the present time are
worth $50 per ton. These hoofs are now
made into horn buttons.
The word "hum" supplies the space in
Canada that Is so ably occupied by the word
"boom' in this country.
The Cincinnati Enquirer says that
Hancock stalks into prominence as Bay
ard drifts out of notice."
The we'll being bored by the railroad al
Mammoth Tank, Arizona, is now to depth
of l0i8 feet and no sign of water.
Floors of inlaid wood, covered with
Turkish or Persian rugs, are slowly but
surely taking the place of carpets.
The North British railway has applied
to Parliament for power to rebuild the Tia,
bridge substantially on the old plan.
Prof. Nordenskjold will be presented
with gold medal by the municipality o.
Paris when he passes through that city.
--Gambett has been ordered to give up
smoking for fear of losing his voice. The
Car has gwen it up for fear the Nihi
lists will poison his tobacco.
-Pere Hyacinthe says voluntary contri
buttons from American and English friend,
have been his means Of support, beyond
$500 received from collections during th,
year.
A big Yankee from Maine, on paying
his bill in London restaurant, was tolc
that the SUN put down didn't include th,
waiter. "Wall," he roared, ~ didn't ea
any waiter, did I?''
About 5000, 900 were saved in the con
struction of the Hoosac tunnel by the uss
of an improved drill. The inventor of tbs
drill, who died in Boston recently received
only 81, 900 for the contrivance.
One OF the first, If not the first, agri
cultural implement patented in this coun
try, nearly $50 years ago, was "for an en-
gine for the more speedy cutting Of grass.
The patentee was Joseph jerks, Sr., {
scythe manufacturer.
-" Let me look at revolver" said :
man who walked into store at Sandstone
Missouri. and weapon was shown to him
"Show me the cartridge," he added, ant
he carelessly loaded one of the chambers
''Excuse me for using this minute," b.
further remarked, and shot himself through
the brain.
John Hickman, one Of the seattle
kings of Colorado, ran through sleeping
car on the Kansas Pacific railroad thi
other night, and, with long knife in hi
right hand, slashed away at the passenger
in the upper berths. He bad been attacked
with temporary fit of insanity. TIL,
tain men were obliged to tie the million
aire hand and foot.
"A valuable patented invention has bee
made at Bar Mills, Maine, sai i'd to be on
of the most ingenious devices for saviul
labor ever discovered. 1t can manufac
ture from 5000 TO 10, 900 shapes of button
day at S15, which by hand carvin!
would cost $500. A company has bee
formed in Portland for working it with
capital Of $4,000. a
The Prince of Wales as Grand Maste
OF the English Freemasons, has definitel,
fixed on Thursday the Goth of May for lay
ing the foundation stone of the new cathe
drai at Truro. Ii will be. says the Free
mason, the first ceremony of the kind eve
performed by his Royal Highness in Eng
land as Grand Master, and will be the frs
ecclesiastical building ever constructed uu
der the Grand Lodge OF England.
An old woman by the name of Gordo
in the north OF Scotland was listening t
the account gwen in the Scriptures of Sol
omon's glory, which was read to her by
little female grandchild. When the gin
came to tell of the thousand camels whic
formed part OF the Jewish sovereign's liv
stock, /" Eb, lassie y cried the old woman
"a Thousand Csmpbells, say ye? Th
Campbells are an amid clan, sure enough
but look and ye dinna see the Gordonl
tool"
| Marble has been reduced to an exat
science BY machinery. At Rutland. Vel
mont, q machine is In operation whic
chips the stone at the rate Of $4,000 stroke
q minute. By setting the wheels at di
ferrnt angles to tho tine Of the spindle, a.
cording to the work required to be dom
the machine win channel, turn and flute
column, counter-sink, mould, panel an
do flagree work. Each spindle has abor
c8 chisels or teeth, and revolves from 15t
to 5000 times minute.
| The most recently published figur'
show that suicide is on the increase
France. Before tho Frasco-German vi
the average number Of suicides ouly slioh