The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-03-17
NEW. NOR-WESTERS.
The finger rings Of America are worth
s5s0OO, 900.

| ahS hhSSi mugs Va nnueAiSo oio "oAsA
s5s,0OO,OO0.
General Hancock. recently purchased q
large tract Of land in Minnesota.
The man who has never uttered an un-
truth may lie at the point Of death.
A Philadelphia magistrate has been
fined $50 for making an excessive charge of
thiry-fve cents in fee.
Smallpox was introduced into a New
Jersey town through secondhand school
book brought from New York.
The nomination of John Russell Young
to be Minister to China is now said by re-
liable authority to be an assured fact.
The Pope has raised four dead men to
the rank of saints. The Pope knows very
well that dead men will not disgrace the
position. ..... ....
DIR. Brown-Sequard has received the
prize of 10000 francs, offered by the Academy
Of Sciences in France, for the best works on
physiology. e..
A number of Instances Of prescribing by
telephone have been recorded. If the medi-
cine could be taken the same way, nothing
more could be desired.
CLARK Mills, the sculptor, had the busts
of Webster, Calhoun and Guiteau at the
Capitol. Calhoun and Guiteau's heads were
very near the same size.
According TO a calculation made by NJ.
Auguste Felsch, a theatre or concert hall
lasts on an average emily twenty-five years,
and is then destroyed by fire. .
A New York Police Inspector named
Byrnes, who received reward Of $500 for
capturing murderer, gave the entire amount
to the widow Of the murdered man.
"A man who lost an eye by railroad ac-
cdent has sued the company and recovered
$4,000, and says he can see his way better
in the future than he ever could before.
james Gordon Bennett has the hand
soonest, largest and finest private yacht in
world, better than royalty commands, aud
now he has purchased four formidable
Hotchkiss riaed cannon for ids decks.
The late Ex-Governor Samuel Purdy, of
California, acquired a national reputation by
refusing 100000 when a member of the
State Legislature for his vote, which would
have given The waterfront of San Francisco
to a corporation. 3D.. '-|
The Kentucky Legislature has before it
petition from the citizens of Bardstown,
asking for a suitable monument to John
Fitch, Kentuckian, and "the true inventor
Of the successful mode Of applying steam to
river, lake and ocean vessels"
The class of '33 of Dartmouth College
presents notable instance of longevity. 1t
graduated thirty -one members, and seventeen
are still living, their average age being sew
enty years and SIX months. One of them is
one of the present "Twelve Apostles" of the
Mormons in Utah.
The late Lord Beaconsfeld f4,000,
900 for England's 177O00 shares in the Suez
Canal. Owing TO the recent wild specula-
tive mania in France, the price of the shares
was forced up TO fl40, and If her Majesty's
Government had cleared out at that figure,
it would have realized f24,7S0,0O0, or a
profit Of f20, 10000.
Bob Ingersoll's father was tremendous
On one occasion he so vividly
portrayed the horrors of the judgment day
and the tortures of hell, that the whole au-
dence (Which came some miles from the
country around) was swayed like trees by
strong wind; strong men wept, women
walled, and nearly all were upon their knees.
He commenced to speak at one o'clock and
when the people left the church the sun was
setting.
"A wife who claims the ownership of
property by a purchase, in suit against her
by her husbands creditors, must prove by
clear aud satisfactory evidence and the bur-
den of proof is upon her, that the purchase
was made for valuable consideration, and
paid out of her separate estate, or by some
other person than her husband for her, in
the opinion of the Supreme Court Of Wis
consin, In Horton vs.. Dewey, decided in No
vember.