The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1881-11-04
NEW NoR'.wEsTEas.


Talk no longer of salmon, trout, and carp.
A California river Is to be stocked with cat
fish.
Captain Paul Boyton, in his swim down
the Missouri, reached Pierre, Dakota, Octo-
Der 18th. -..... ...I
A Wisconsin paper writing about prohlbi-
tion politicians, describes them as temper
ance bummers."
The revised New Testament has been
printed on asingle sheet of paper 24x3S inches
in size, folded into 446 pages. ..
L. W. Boynton. of Hartford, Conn.,, now
owns the flag Of the Confederate cruiser AL
ALBANIA. The bunting Is insured for $40, 600.
We are able to see that an eternity of life
In one particular set of relationships would
be misery to many and mischievous to every
body. -.. Ell
The latest addition to Putnam's Art Hand
books is "a Treatise on the Human Figure,
Containing Hints on Proportion, Color, and
Composition" by Henry Warren.
Scrambled eggs beat up with broiled bacon,
chopped fine, the whole busted with -four and
Drowned before an open fire, is fit for the
table when Luculius breakfasts with Lucul-
| lus.
Negotiations are in progress for the sale to
| the Panama Canal Company of the Grand
Hotel in Panama. The amount to be paid is
somewhere i'm the neighborhood Of million
francs.
Professor ReveI, of Florence, has published
q new italian version of the New Testament,
| in the preparation of which he has been en-
gagged about ten years. The version now in
use is about two hundred years old.
The ship J. B. Walker, Captain Wallace
commanding, recently made the round trip
from San Francisco to Liverpool and return
| In the short time of eight months and twelve
days, and handled 5000 tons of cargo.
Great excitement was created in Iowa City
last week by a landlord threatening to hold
a corpse in poor family for the rent, and
| to sell 1t for dissection purposes. The land
lord has been threatened with mob law.
ais the turtle fish or game ?..' is question
| agitating the minds and stomachs Of the
great Pot Luck Club of New York city, the
members of which call themselves the great
head and center of gastronomic, icthyologic,
geologic, and all other kinds Of knowledge.
The Hon. Robert B. Roosevelt of New
York city, Is one of the best sll-round sports
men of the day. He is the president of the
Fish Commission of the State of New York,
a scientific angler, a fine field shot, and an
earnest student and teacher Of natural his
tory.
The house in which Dante was born at
Florence is shortly to be sold for $1,000.
Hitherto the birthplace of the great poet has
been carefully preserved by the Florentine
municipality, bus they have now handed IL
over to banking company company In order
to discharge debt.
The custom of carrying arms has become
so general and caused so many crimes In Paris
that the Chief of Police has determined to
enforce .he law of 1859, which forbids the
manufacture, sale, purchase, carrying, or use
of daggers, dagger-knives, pocket-pistols,
sword canes, and other arms.
The Athenenn mentions singular case of
plagiarism on the part of a Captain in the
Royal Engineers. This gentleman, having
been invited 10 write an article on the de-
fense of Plevna, simply condensed and para
phrased the admirable work Of Lieutenant
Greene, U. ). A., to whom he gave no credit.
Since the seven or eight telegraph COM
panies and the two or three telephone COM
panss have I'VE ass0RRS-R aqRS R hSS5es, s6s as 6
tronomers of other planets are q little puz-
zled TO know whether the globe on which we
live is live porcupine or globular tooth
pick holder.
Dean Howson says that If clergyman of
the Church of England were to be brought
before the Courts for publicly reading the
lessons from the revised version, he would
probably be condemned, and he advises that
| it Is best TO wait patiently until the version
has gone through the course Of criticism and
made its way upon its merits.
In the Sussex (N. J.) Independent libel
cases, last week, in which the editors pleaded
guilty, Gibbs, the senior editor, was SEN
| fenced to term of ten months hard labor
| in the penitentiaTy and $500 fine. The sem
teuce of j. j. Stanton. the other editor, was
the same, except that the time Of imprison-
ment was fixed at six months. The sentences
are considered to be very severe.
The examination In the Jennie Cramer
case at New Haven, Conn.,, has resulted In
holding the two Malley boys for trial with
out bail. The trial promises to be one OF
the most remarkable In the country, as the
evidence on the examination was very con.
1 fiicting and the Malley family have pledged
all their great wealth to fight the battle to
the death. The manner of the young girls
death Is as complete a mystery as 1t was
| when her dead body was found.
The Fenians are charged with devising .
plot to destroy the English crops. Some time
ago letter appeared in an Illinois papel
stating that the writer had had an interview
with prominent Irish revolutionist, who
had for some time been making q collection
Of Colorado beetles for transportation to En-
gland, there to be let loose on the crops. Ths
story, whether true or not, has caused the
Board of Customs to issue instructions u
its officers to use their best endeavors to pre-
vent the importation of this undesirable po
tato bug into England.
/ The destruction of cedar trees In the fa
nous Lebanon forest has been so great tina
they have dwindled into a mere thicket
numbering only four hundred trees. Rusten
Pasha, the Governor General, has takeI
steps to arrest the disgraceful vandalism
from which they suffer at the hands OF trav
elers. He has issued q special ordinanc'
forbidding the erection Of tents or othel
kinds Of shelter within the tree district, ant
the lighting of fires for-cooking or other pur
poses is also prohibited. No one will b
allowed to break off a twig, and beasts o.
burden will not be permitted to enter within
the prescribed limits. Should oxen, sheep
goats or other pasturage cattle be found
there, they will be confiscated absolutely.
Charcoal and Lime for Fowls.