The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1881-07-15
NEW NoR'.wEsTEas.

General Grant no longer rides ON horse
back.
-Beecher's death would give his heirs
100000 insurance money.
The total fish catch of Lake Superior
amounts to about fifteen hundred tons
year.
-Aterrible malady, in some respects re-
sembling leprosy, las broken out near Tou-
louse.
Gen. Boynton Is down ON Badeau. IIe
says he would have been better historian
II he had never been born"
Col. Bob Ingersoll has sued one VIII
lians for unlawfully publishing In pamphlet
form his lectures and orations.
The United States navy consists of lSS
vessels of all sizes, Only seventy Of which
are in seaworthy condition and fit for ser
vice.
"A new remedy proposed for badness Is
skin grating. the skin for transplanting be-
ing bits of healthy scalp from the heads of
young persons.
The rails of the electric railway at Ber-
lin are so charged with electricity that shod
horses have been hurled from the track by
coming In contact with the iron.
Wade Hampton is preparing a reply to
General Sherman's account of the burning
of Columbia, $. q. Gen. Hampton has had
poor luck in fighting the Sherman family.
A pious father, says the Adrdnce, q few
evenings ago entered an Idaho billiard par
lor ard found his boy playing a game of bill
liards. He sent the youth home and finish
ed the game himself
1t has been affirmed by Dr.. Arnott that
no wave of the ocean rises higher than ten
feet above the ordinary sea level, which,
with the ten feet It's surface afterwards de-
scends, gives twenty feet for the maximum
height of the entire wave.
The last Star route fraud unearhed by
the department is the route from Vinita, In
dian Territory, to Las Vegas, New Mexico,
ia miles long, on which Two or three letters
trip were carried at cost of S64, $50 annu
ally. With the proof Of this before him,
Brady raised the pay 10 $I50,59l.
John &. SAKE, son of the poet, died at
Albany June 80. Ii was to the house of this
son that the father was to be brought In a
short time with the hope that the change
would break the melancholy into which he
had been plunged by the death of his daugh-
| ter.
John G. SAKE has within the past year
lost his mother, wife, two daughters and a
favorite daughter-in-law, beside good deal
Of money, aud his natural tendency 10 mel
ancholy has turned into hypochondria. Not
withstandng his habit Of joking, he never
was happy man. He has lived too much in
Albany and Brooklyn for that.
The weekly Journal, the Nation, will
hereafter be issued as the weekly edition of
euIturIai man.
agement as heretofore, and an Increased
! st aff Of contributors, but its contents win,
In the main, have already appeared In the
Post. Its political and literary standards
will remain unchanged.
| The world Is just now full Of all kinds
| of condensed medicine foods-things which
are said to contain two or three loayes OF
bread in teaspoonful of mild liquid, or q
couple Of quarts Of corn beef hash in half
ounce, or whole setting Of fresh eggs In q
dose, or menu In half dozen drois. Some
| OF the people who are so sick that they can
take only two grains Of Dessicated Delayer
Of Death or A Dakota Wheat Crop In Ten
Drops will In fifteen minutes feel that they
have had too much breakfast, and will take
small rye granary with bitters at the near
est drinking gymnasium.
Henry NJ. Stanley has reached Isangils
In his road making along The Congo, and
likewise to something Of quanda,y. for he
runs this expedition on the peace plan, and
just beyond HIM stretches the territory o
the Basundi, suspicious and pugnaciou'
tribe, whom he had trouble with on his for
mer Journey down the river. His intention
was to make the road entirely along TIN
great rivers north bank, but he may Civ,
that up temporarily; for, as he mustn't figh
and the Baslnd surely will, he thinks O
fianking them by crossing the Congo. Th
, | present expedition is to establish commercia
, relations, mol 10 conquer and possess.
The demand for iron working tools is 9
great, according to the Boston Commercio
, Bulletin, that it is impossible for machinist
TO procure from the manufacturers lathe Q
planer for delivery under five or six months
, while certain sizes have to he ordered yea
In advance. People In immediate need .
these tools are there obliged to depend o
: dealers who placed their orders before th
!, pres ent rush, but the supply inthis directio
: is none too great for the demand. A heav
per centage Of these tools is being sent Yves
! largely TO Illinois, Ohio and Illinois, The bar
i ner states for iron working machinery, an
q they are furnished chiefly to new enterprise
!. are to be used in filing contracts already ta
l. ken.
n 1T is curious fact that Russia, one I
= the poorest Of civilized countries, makes
+ greater parade Of wealth in one respect tbs
. any other European State. The doines
/ all the great churches in st. Petersbur
Moscow and other large towns are plats
with gold, nearly quarter Of an inch thic
The new Church Of the Savior, dedlcatt
and opened In Moscow last August, repr'
v seuts value of nearly $15,00O,Oo0. II
Isaac Cathedral In St. Petersburg may
safely credited with at least three tim
that amount. So strong, however, Is the Q
!. Slay belief in the involable sanctity Of no
. places that, during countless seasons
: widespread and bitter distress, no sttem
y has ever been made to plumber the gold th
|" temptingly bestowed.
- The New Jerusalem.
re Rsv. TAeo. Z. Cuyier, IL the Epaageiist
= New ideas are working In Palestine.