The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1881-02-18
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MIR. Archibald Forbes Is lecturing il
Western cities.
Like q ferryboat, 1881 runs equally vel
either end ahead. ra...
:" Not ded but gon ahed is the inscrip
ton on Deadwood tombstone.
Senator Edmunds is said TO have saved
$25O,OO0 from the proceeds of his law prac
tice.
Utah is to have fine university build
ing erected In park near the centre of Salt
Lake City.
There Is man on Long Island so eco.
nomical that he waters his door path for fear
that some of the dust will blow on his neigh.
boris land.
The capital of Missouri is likely to be
transferred to the busy and thriving little
city of Sedalia. jefferson Is found to be too
poky even for a State capital.
On the Sweetw:ter, in Wyoming, a rec
ord which Is kept at one of the herders' sta
tion, shows that during the past year 10000
cattle passed overthe route.
The Utah and Northern railroad Is now
the longest narrow gauge in the country. Its
rolling stock for this year will not be less
than ITO cars and SO locomotives.
--Nordenskjold intends starting out on a
new Arctic expedition next year in new
vessel which is now in course of construc-
tion for him at the estuary of the Lena.
General Sprague, of the Northern Pa
cific Railroad, has issued orders that the rail-
road iron lying at Kalama, amounting in all
to 1000 tons, be shipped up to Ainsworth for
the Pen d'Oreille division .. r
The phrase, " The art preservative of all
arts" is taken from the inscription upon the
FACADE Of the house at HARLEM formerly oc-
cupied by Laurens Roster, to whom is at
tributed, among others, the invention of
printing. Mention is first made about this
inscription in 1923. .......
Walter NJ. Wilson, formerly telegraph
operator at Lead City, Black Hills, has sued
the Homestake Mining Co. for 50 5000 for in
juries received by falling down one Of the
company's shafts. The company offered
him $1,000 and ticket to any part of the
country, but this was refused.
General Robert Toombs Is reported by
the Macon, Georgia, Telegraph to have said
in conversation in that city the othe day:
"Jeff Davis wrote me for my picture to put
In his book along with some others. wrote
to him that would not be found in such
company. will bet $500 that his book does
not appear by the 1st of April, nor while 1
live"
"A touching instance of agricultural dis
tress is briefly set forth in the following ad-
verisement in the 81. Joseph, No., Herald:
"Wanted q correspondent am 25 years old
hay one hundred and sixty 100 ackars land
worth 1900 dollars tolaberl fair looking CON-
mon chool educatoon any lady fairly canU
ted viii oblige me righting will send1hy
Photograph by return male William lem
ons.u
AT Nevada foundry the other day
large casting for the centre Of balance
wheel, to be used at the Yellow Jacket
works, was made. The huge iron disk,
which weighed twenty-three tons, was four
teen feet in diameter. To reach the Yellow
Jacket 1t was necessary for the casting to
pass through two railroad tunnels. The
tunnels are only thirteen feet wide, and,
therefore, the casting has become white ell
ephant.
Marcus j. Wright, the Confederate Brig
adler, who has thrown himself 80 heartily
INTO the work of gathering Confederate rec
lords for the official history of the war now
being prepared by the Government, says that
President Lincolu's papers fill him with
,mazement and admiration. "Ah, there was |
,ne of the greatest of men," he tells news |
,aper man, and he thinks that postcrity will |
ldjudge Lincoln and Lee the greatest men of |
he war.
The metric system seems TO be making |
,rogress in this country. In the marine hos
'ltal service it has proved an anunqualifieds sue
ess, and the Medical Journal states that
III nearly visiting lists, call books and dose
'ooks, as well as works on Materia Medica,
re now being printed with metric equiva-
ents, while in many medical colleges it is
ow hardly possible for the student TO learn,
II the instructor to impart, such branches as
histology, physiology, chemistry, etc. without
the metric system.