The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-02-24
NEW NOR.WESTERS.
Mr.. Beecher pays $1,000 year for lif'
insurance. ~

Mr.. Beecher pays 1000 year for life
insurance. .
Hon. Horatio Seymour Is dangerously
i'll at his home, near Utica.
There are in Congress eight Irishmen,
four Seotchmen, five Englishmen, and three
Germans.
The Washington Post calls Oscar Wilde
an emasculator of ideas, and says he is as
tiresome as an alkall plain.
Among 700 stories submitted in compe-
tition for prize offered by the Paris Figaro
not one was found that the editor thought
worth publishing.
1t is now believed that the fixed stars
were placed so far away In order that the
patent medicine man couldn't get there TO
paint on the rocks.
--Celluloid Is now being used in the man
ufacture of artificial eyes. The material Is
lighter than glass, and its nonfriable quality
renders 1t far more trustworthy in emergen-
ces.
One of the legenIs upon the walls of the
rooms In which the Wisconsin Dairytaeisis
Association held its recent annual meeting
was, "Talk to your cows as you would to a
lady,"
According to the Engineer. some of the
best American cast-iron as used for guns and
railway wheels will stand tensile strain of
as much as $4,000 pounds or 1917 tons to the
square inch.
Two surviving veterans of the Grande
Armee died recently in France. Each had
made the campaigns In Spain, Portugal, Ger
many and Russia, and each had passed his
92d birthday.
Cyrus w. Field is said to have arranged
to put nearly a million dollars into his news
paper building, to be erected in New York
this year. 1t will be sixteen stories high,
and over 500 feet frontage.
According TO Edward Everett Hale, a
rich, fond, and foolish old man, gave his
grandson, freshman in Harvard College,
$4,000 for his years spending money. 1t is
hardly necessary to add that the boy was
ruined.
Attorney General Brewster was paid,
before he became tie head of the Depart
ment Of Justice, 1000 for his services in the
Star route cases. Colonel G. II. Bliss, who
has charge of the cases now, has been paid
the same amount.
"A Russian, who lately died in Switzer-
land, named Vanderwies, left his wife S22,-
100000 in cash and large estates in Russia;
to his eldest son $15, ,000,0 900 and a castle in
Lugano, and $l5,OO0,O0 and castle in Val
rose to another son.
One young man in Vienna, in trying to
escape from the burning Ring theatre, fell
into the cellar, where, flooded with water up
to his neck by the fire engines, he remained
three days without food. His cries were at
last heard by fireman and lie was soon res
cued.
Mrs. Garfield has approved of the elegant
bronze plate received from Tiffany & Co., TO
be attached to the bronze coffin containing
the remains Of the President. The coffin
plate is of heavy, solid design, and possesses
such intricacies of carving that over three
months were consumed In its conception.
Its size is eighteen by eight inches, and bears
IL bel raised lsttsGs the inscription Garfield,
presents simply bas-relief of leaves and
acorns. and at each end an open lily; but
each stem, twig and leaf is emblematic OF
the life and character of the dead Presi-
dent.
Wendell Phillips must leave his famous
old home on Essex street In the spring, as 1t
is to be removed for the widening of Harrt-
son avenue. He has clung to this home
fondly and tenaciously these many years,un-
disturbed b. the encroachments of trade and
the departure of ''respectability" from this
quarter of the town. 1t Is historic house,
and across It's threshold have passed many
men and women who have done great part
in making history. Mr.. Phillips has been
living very quietly this winter, lecturing but
little, and seldom appearing in public. His
interest In affairs is, however, as fresh and
keen as ever, and his sharp and brilliant pen
Is industriously piled. ...
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