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

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With very rare exceptions Western
farmers prefer twine to wire for binding
grain.
With the exception of Washington, Ar
thur is the tallest and largest President in
/ the list.
| William 7. Adams, better known as
"Oliver Optic" has published his seventy
| fifth book.
of the As members of the U. S. Senate
which met in July, 1861, at least twenty
seven are dead.
Senator David Davis has but one child,
a daughter, who five years ago married son
Of Justice Swayne.
AT his death Washington was the rich
est President We ever had. He left an es-
tate worth $4,000.
"A portrait of Guiteau has been placed
in the Chamber Of Horrors at Nine. Tas-
saud's exhibition, London.
Bob Ingersoll says: "James has stirred
up lot of snakes in the Postoffice Depart
ment and is afraid to stay to kill EN-"
DIR. Parker, of the London Temple, is to
deliver series of five discourses in answer
to Col. Ingersolrs question, "What Must l
do to be Saved?"
MIR. Richard Watson Glider will sue
ceed the late DR.. Holland in the editorial
control of the Century Magazine, the sue
cessor of Scribner's Monthly.
Josh Billings says he wouldn't give
five cents to hear Bob Ingersoll on "The
Mistakes of Moses" but he would give $500
to hear Moses on the mistakes of Bob Inger-
soil.
| An electric headlight has been success
| fully used on locomotive in Australia. 1t
! illuminated the track clearly for 500 yards,
but the atmosphere there is exceedingly
clear.
The Germanizing of the provinces Of
Alsace and Lorraine is reported to be max
ing little progress; much less than has been
looked for or that is deemed necessary in
Berlin.
1t has been computed that the power of
the steam engines of England would suffice
to raise from the quarries and place in posi-
tion all the stone of the Great Pyramid in
eighteen hours.
Electric lighting is in successful opera
tion on more than 60 steamers of the Mis-
sissippi River and its tributaries. 1t is be-
lieved to add much to the safety of that kind
of traffic and travelling.
DR. Holland offered to write his "Life
of Lincoln" for 5000, but the publisher
thought that too much, and a compromise
was effected with compensation fixed at 90
cents for each volume sold. He made S20,-
900.
A Kentucky paper recently stated that
prominent citizen was "greatly troubled
with insomnia" After the editor had got
out of the hospital,he decided to never again
use anything but plain language in writing
of his fellow-townsmen.
Russia is big country. A recent tray
eler, Rev. Henry Lansde!l, lin his FIVE months
journey from London to the mouth Amoor,
all across the Cars dominions, went over
1900 miles by rail, 800 miles by steam and
1900 by horse, or altogether II 800 miles in
almost a straight line.
AT the Electric Exhibition in Paris, Mr..
John Mackenzie has an apparatus of his in
ventlon which may prove Of great import
ance. Any number from to 900 can be au-
tomaticallY signaled by it on the wire by a
single movement of the transmitter, so that
on opening box at the receiving station
the number will be found displayed.
-Myopia, which is doctor for "short-
sightedness," is spreading with startling ra-
pidty in the German schools. 1t is proba-
bly, caused by the efforts of the pupils to read
German text books. 1t is very remarkable
that the people of Germany should compel
their children to read German, when we all
know that it is so much easier to read En-
glish.
ALI parts of the oleander are deadly. A
very small quantity of the leaves has been
known to kill horse. The flowers have
produced death in those persons who care
lessly picked and ate them. The branches
divested of their bark and used as skewers
have poisoned the meat roasted on them and
killed seven out of twelve persons who par
took of 1t.
Prof. James McClintock, the distin-
guished surgeon, who was stricken with ap-
oplexy recently, died i'm Philadelphia, aged
y years. So skilled was he in the use of
the knife that 1t is related of him that he
once amputated woman's arm below the
elbow In 22 seconds, ten seconds less than he
required on another occasion to amputate
mans leg near the thigh.
"A most remarkable discovery has been
made in the Sweetwater country, In Wyo-
ming Territory. 1t is deposit of suphuric
acid i'm its natural state. The odor, chemi-
cal action and general appearance of the
stuff demonstrates 1t to be pure quality of
sulphuric acid. The ground is impregnated
over a large area-I00 acres or more-and
parties have filed claims upon it.
DIR. Barely, of Nice, has successfully
employed turpentine yapor in the treatment
of whooping cough. The drug is allowed
to stand in plates in the room occupied by
the patient, a resort to which simple expedi-
ent is believed TO greatly lessen the severity
and duration of the malady. DR.. Barely was
led to trial Of this remedy by observing
marked improvement In the case of q child
severely affected who had been allowed to
sleep in newly painted room redolent with
turpentine odor.
The scales which drop off from iron
when being worked at forges, iron trim
mings,filings or other ferrugenous material,
If worked into the soil about fruit trees, or
the more minute particles spread thinly on
the lawn, mixed with the earth of flower
beds or in pots, are extremely valuable.
They are especially valuable to the peach
tree, and in fact supply necessary ingredi-