The new North-west., 1881-12-16
NEW NoR'-wEsTERs.
The King of Denmark has knighted four
Jews In Jelland.

-Inc hing oI DcDWArk mas knlSntcu lou
Jews in Jelland.
-Guiteau wants royalty on the sale 9
his photographs.
The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher is sixty
seven years of age.
The stateliest building man can raise !
the ivy's food at last.
1t is said that General Burnside's estat
will hardly pay his debts.
-Zola has new play waiting for Bern
hardt. Renee Is its name.
Gen. Mabope's conversational manner i
that of a fine cid Virginia gentleman, sir, al
of the o'den time.
The late DR.. J. G. Hollands most remu
nerstive work was a "Life Of Lincoln" fo
which he received 10000.
Cyrus w. Field has purchased the New
York Express from John Kelly and propose.
TO consolidate 1t with the Mail.
-Johu /. Brown, Of tIoches fame, iha.
celebrated his nipety first birthday in BostoE
where he Is the Oldest apothecary.
The Prince Of Wales discourages the re-
porting o: his eve' yday doings in The public
press. He disllkes 20 be Advertised.
--George Frapcis Tain Is recovering bis
reason. He announces hat he has written
his last letter and made his last speech.
Young cows do not GIVE ss ri"h milk as
those Of mature age. A lean COWS gives
poor milk and a fat COW gives rich milk.
Moses Hopkins, the newly appointed ad-
ministra, y" of the Mark Ho pkips estate in
San Francisco. was required 20 give bond
Of $I3 100000.
About 400 years ago there was built at
Making, China, a large tower made entire.
ly of porcelain, and was nine stories high. 1t
was destroyed in 1853.
The late William Penn once sbsei we'd
Excess of apparel is costly folly" And
yet William wore hat with an excess of
brin that was sheer waste Of material.
The potato is more productive than any
other esrulent, and one authority places the
yield from an equal quantity of ground at
thirty POUNDS of potatoes to one pound of
wheat.
-Scour pieces of zinc with kerosene oil
and polish of with whlins, OF, what Is bet
ter, give them coat Of paint. They can
then be cleaned at any time by simply wash
ing them.
Count Won Moltke, who is fond Of Dick
ems books, read "Little Dorrit" in q corner
Of the room wherein Bismarck and Jules
Favre were debating the question Of The
tomba dment of Pari,.
"A religious cont rovesy at Nevada, Iowa,
resulted in the election Of four anti Chris
tans out of the six school commissioners, and
The Bible has consequently been excluded
from the public school.
American printers are shipping theatri-
,al posters and playbill, to Europe. One
ob printing house in New Yolk,last month,
received 500 order from the Adelphi and
Princess theatres, London.
-Oilcloths should be washed we'll TO free
hem from dirt, and then have two oat, of
opal varnish given them. If this is done
'nce year, it will insure the lasting of the
The Rev. A. W. Wnu,, orriesowOa!H
rerlyin to the charge Of pulpit plagiarism,
said it had long been his habit as other pas
tor,, to have clippings from newsTa afer; con-
81 antly on hand for free use and he didn't
propose to abandon IL.
The London Telegraph Of last Saturday
says of the Guiteau case: The vetdicI of
at large is more to be trusted than
the verdict Of the jury, and undoubtedly the
general voice demands that Guiteau shall
pay the full penalty for his crime"
1t is stated that there are now stored in
the oil country f5,OCo, 200 barrels of crude
petroleum; sufficient quantity,it Is thought,
to supply the world for Illuminating purposes
for fully five Yeas. Awell was discovered
= few days since that is flowing 500 barrels
daily.
An electric signal apparatus on French
railway causes the blowing of steam whistle
upon locomotive approaching danger sig
nal. The engineer is thus warned. Thi:
apparatus is found valuable in fogs and snow
storms, when ordinary signals often escap,
notice.
Ever since David Davis deposed Bayarc
as presiding officer he has labcred night an'
day with the problem as to who should keel
up the dyspepsia Of senators. Thursday h
solved the problem by giving the place to th
widow of the famous caterer, John Welcker
This insures good feed at bang-up prices.
An eastern exchange notes number O
eminent Americans who were born In th
year 1911. Among them Horace Greeley
Charles Sumner, Wendell Phillips, Elih
Burritt, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Fanni
Fern, Edgar Allen Poe, DR.. J. w. Draper
Noah Porter, Horatio Seymour and Williar
Page, the artist.
1t is very general belief that gres
burial places exert noxious influence
which must render the localities very III
healthy as places of residence. This idea
shown to be mistaken one by the results
an inquiry into the sanitary condition of th
cemeteries of Paris. The composition of th
air in the cemeteries is reported to be indi
tinguishable from that Of arabic lands.
The Zulu chief Of travelling museul
which showed in Rochester was six feet an
half tail, and Of course was advertised
seven. He wore scarcely any clothes, spoil
what the lecturer said was Zulu languag
and was terrific In a war dance. But th
manager failed to pay him the stipulate
sl2 week, whereupon he complained befo
justice in good English, and said he W
Francis West, Rondout hod carrier.
Barbed Wire Fences.
81.