The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-07-07
NEW NOR'-WESTERS.
The best butter In New York costs 81 a
pound.
Hundreds of weavers are leaving England
for America.

for America.
The Mississippi negro will sell his shirt for
the first watermelon.
Senate floor gossip -"For President in
1854, Sheridan. Cavalry Sheridan.
Hanlan, the oarsman, is said to have made
$4,000 during his recent trip to England,
OF English speaking people 5000, 900 are
Roman Catholics and 10000, 900 Protestants.
There are 125 newspapers in the country
edited by colored men, only one of them
daily.
Arabi Pasha wears skull cap that covers
the upper part of his head he has the face
of a prize fighter.
| The New York Observer, religious paper,
says there IL no more sense In having q bell
On church than on theater.
One hundred and ten thousand persons.
over twenty thousand Of them women and
girls, used the free baths of New York last
week.
Don't throw away your old -four barrels
They are useful. II has been found that an
ordinary flour barrel will hold 67S,90 silver
dollars.
The owner Of bed Of fine white clay I'm
Kentucky is worrying over the question,
which he shall start, brick-yard or French
candy factory.
Fitzgerald the Kid, who endeavored 20
| swindle Charles Francis Adams by bunko
| game, was sentenced to the state prison for
| twenty-five years.
If the Hon. Alexander ii. Stephens is elect
ed Governor of Georgia, Mr.. James Randall,
author of Maryland, My Maryland" will
become his private secretary.
Carson, New, has topper who boasts that
he has Drunk fifty drinks of whiskey every
day since 1854. During all this time he has
not gone to bed once in sober state.
A Florida paper estimates that there are
10000 orange trees In that State, and the
product this year is $1,000, 900 oranges. That
Is one for each inhabitanL of the Union.
Several Washington gentlemen have Of
fered Mrs. Garfield q residence in Williams
town, Mass, should she desire to take up her
abode there that she may be near her sons.
recent authority says there are about
loo different dialects spoken In the world,
while the languages proper from which they
have been derived do not exceed five or six.
To prevent the increase of ofnearsightedness
In French public shoots, the recommendation
has been made that large type and tinted in
stead Of white paper be used In school books.
King Kalskaua has ordered In Boston new
furniture for his palace. The order includes
two thrones. One of the thrones Is Intended
for Sunday and the other for everyday use.
The Boston Post wants to know IL some
benefactor OF the human race can't inveal
some other excuse beside sea bathing for ap- |
pearing without impropriety in scant cos
tune.
On the Cincinnati, Hamilton, and Dayton |
railway, near Dayton, Ohio, there are iron |
rails still in good condition that were laid |
thIry-one years ago. They are said to have |
been made at Johnstown, Pa.
The Louisville Courier-Jomnal says :: |
alt appears TO be pretty we'll settled that |
Hon. j. Proctor Knott will give up his seat |
in Congress at the end Of his present term to |
enter the canvass for governor.
Sprague, Of Rhode Island, owes more than |
a million of dollars. 1t takes years of pa
tient industry and integrity to amass a debt |
Of a million dollars, aud at times we get al |
most discouraged.--Boomera
Mr.. Adam Hefner, of Lenoir, South Caro- |
lima, has the honor of being the Oldest man |
on this continent. He is one hundred and |
sixteen years old, as authenticated by the |
family records, and his mind is still bright. |
Ice frozen by machinery is now used al |
most exclusively in the Southern cities, as it |
is cheaper than that brought from the North, |
except at seaboard places. The retail price |
has fallen from So per hundred before the |
war, to $3.50.
Oscar Wilde thinks workingmen should |
be surrounded with noble designs, harmon |
ious colors, and all forms of beauty, and the |
New Haven Register Is curious TO know how |
blacksmith would look shoeing horse in |
an art gallery.
Our esteemed contemporary, the Sun, is |
investigating the cause of bald heads. Never |
mind that, but tell us why the orchestra ALL
dience at q burlesque performance always |
looks like a basket Of eggs.-N. Y. CONNER
cial Advertiser.
Upon the two pillars which stand before |
each of the three entrances Of Mr.. James |
Gordon Bennetts residence at Newport have |
been placed bronze owls. They are really gas |
lamps, the light streaming from their eyes |
with weird effect.
The name Of David E Twiggs, of Geor- |
gia, will probably reappear In the army regis |
ter, as a nephew Of the late General Twiggs, |
who bears his name, has been appointed |
from Augusta, Georgia, to the West Point
Military Academy.
When General Grant arose al the reunion |
dinner Of the Army of the Potomac 10 De-
troit last week, he began his brief speech by |
saying: 81 can not respond to your call TO |
get upon the table. l arm badly enough |
scared where am.'
The high price of living is felt as much In
Canada as here. Meat has risen twenty-five |
per cent, and potatoes are far too costly for |
people Of small means. A writer In To-
ronto paper estimates that a dollar will not |
buy what fifty cents bought In 1878.
A Chicago preacher says all newspapers,
except religious ones, should be suppressed.
Once upon time fly on an elephants ear /
resolved that the elephant should be sup
pressed; but just as the fly was wondering
how to 60 about it, the elephant involuntar-
lily wrinkled his skin.-Phita. Ne,cs.
She had ordered nothing but vegetables,
and was eating them vigorously, when lit
tie old lady seated next to her--one Of those
busy bodies, ever anxious to be pleasant
smiled and interrogatively said: "Vegeta-
rian?" "No," said the other In quick re-
sponse, Unitarian; I'm from Boston-are
you?" One of those grand old Beethoven
laughs without words went round the table.
-HOtel M0te.
The London Lancet advocates medical tri-
bunals to take the place Of expert testimony.
In speaking Of Q recent case In England, the
editor says This may be taken as typical
aud striking example Of class of cases
which must always be liable to misconcep-
ton, to the lasting discredit Of justice, so
long as lawyers think they can appraise the
real value Of medical evidence, and there is
no medical tribunal to which to appeal in
matters Of doubt"
An Alexandra correspondent telegraphs
that be Is informed. on the best authority,
that If France and England interfere actively
In Egyptian affairs, Arab Pasha will blow
up the Suez canal, cut the railway to Cairo,
and oppose the landing of European troops
Ia Alex andria. IL beaten he will retire to
the desert, where he Is promised the support
OF thirty thousand Bedouins. The partisans
Of Prince Hahn are ready to sanction the
above, on patriotic grounds.
In Russia the most stringent rules have re-
Gently been adopted, intemperance being ex-