The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1880-04-16
NEW NoR-'wEsTERs.
There is a town in Kansas named No

There 10 town in Kansas named Mon
key Wrench.
Edison gets s25, 900 year and tries to
mako light Of it. 4
jay Gould's income is now estimated
at $4,000 per day.
The population Of st. Louis Ii now
stated to be $4,000.
-Ssnator Ben Hill don't banker after
the privilege of naming the baby.
-Ex. Minister Washburne is white-haired
and about 63 years old.
The Denver g. Rio Grande road paid
81, 45O, 600 for the right Of way up Gfahd
Canyon.
About 1000 Jews in Amsterdam are
engaged in cutting, polishing and setting
diamonds.
-Deadwood has become 30 civilized that
refusing An invitation TO drink il not CON-
sidered an insult.
Victor Hugo drinks coffee every hour
In the day. Americans chew it when they
60 to the theatre.
--Blanqui. the irrepressible French revolu-
zionist, Is 70 years Of age and has passed
40 Of them in prison.
According to an estimate Of the Tinan-
eta! Chronicle, OF New York, Jay Gould
controls 1854 miles Of railroad.
Joseph Jefferson talks OF retiring from
the profession of money y-makipg and giving
himself up to that Of she easel.
Victor Hugo is said to have possessed,
2s years ago, the compass used by Colum-
bus on his FIRST voyage to America.
Tho Rev. w. McManus, once man bril-
liant parts, was found dead in prison cell
in Chicago the other day. He fell through
drink.
The Culpepper, Va, Times nominates
John W. Garrett, of tho Baltimore s. Ohio
Railroad. for President Of the United
States.
Mr.. Edison has sold his patent on the
electric photograph to the Western Tele-
graph Company for 500, 900, according to
| q rumor.
There are now in tha Nevada prison
147convicts--20 for life, 90 for over 90 years,
40 between 10 and 20 years, and the balance
ranging under 10.
Five years ago barb-wire fence was
little moro than . experiment; it Is stated
that 90, 900 miles of this fence will be set
during the coming season.
Tie kicking cows hind feet together
and she caa't kick. She will make trouble
the first two or three times, but strand
of yarn will hold her after that.
1T is reported that the famous Idaho
mine Of Grass Valley, CAL, has been sold to
a company of New York bankers. The
price is sand to be $650,0o0.
Tho paragraph about the advantage Of
keeping enough oats in dry closet to fiIl
the boots at night, to absorb the moisture
and prevent shrinkage, is well worthy Of
annual repetition.
"A close calculation estimates the num-
Der of prospectors in Leadville waiting for
the snow 70 melt Sufficiently to let them in
to the Gunnison country ct 1000. They
expect to take little lead along to give to
the Utes who remain In Colorado.
The St. Louis Times says that Gen. w.
8. Hancock and Col. WIN. r. Morrison are
the only really available candidates fer the
Democrats whose names are now before the
country and the party in correction with
the nomination for the Presidency.
Major. General Hancock has farm Of
4S0 acres OF fine land near Windsor, Mo-,
which he looks upon as his homestead,
whore be means to pass the lattcr years Of
his life. Before going into the army he was
citizen Of Missouri, and married In that
STATE.
Gen. Leslie Combs, OF Kentucky, says
that he wouldn't vote for Tilden to save
the latter's life. He thinks Hancock the
most available man. His argument runs
that II the Republicans should nominate
Grant the Democrats can afford to throw
New York away, for thev could carry both
Pennsylvania and Ohio by nominating Han
cock.
-"Old man Darling" "old crazy Bar
ling" "'squire Darling" and "Colonel
Darling" are said by the Augusta Journal
to have been the grades Of nomenclature
through which Mr.. w. Il. Darling, the
bonanza king Of Maine, passed while he
was looking for and finding silver and cop
per in the rocks Of Blue Hill, Maine.
Tho diamonds sent BY the Egyptian
Khedive to Gen. Sherman have been made
practically useful by the latter. He has
made from them four sets of necklaces, car
rings and pendants, and has bestowed set
upon each Of his four daughters, Mrs. Fitch,
and the Misses Lizzie, Ellie and Rachael
Sherman. The resetting cost the kind f.
ther 5000. The three sets belonging to the
younger daughters are kept in vault In
the Treasury Department.
Statistics show that there has been q
gradual and steady increase In the average
length of mans life since the sixteenth
century. Then II was only eighteen years.
Now it 10 forty-three IN the United States,
forty-two in France and forty-ave in Eng.
land. Much Of this increased longevity
has been due to the improved condition Of
living among oil classes, and the influence
of good living, home comforts, etc., il
shown st the present time BY the fact that
rich people average twelve years moro Of
life than the poor.
"A Warrington correspondent Of the
Baltimore Sss, having called upon Senator
Cameron, reports that the Senator said in
rsply to question Didn't you publish
an interview with mo while ago in which
I said I was for Grant, had no second
choice, and knew that be would be noni.
mated BY exclamation or on the first ballot I
Just print that sams interview over again.
and keep on printing Il until everybody
Who cares about knowing 10 convinced that
am for Grant and that Grants nomina-