The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-07-21
NEW NOR.WESTERS
Mr.. Gladstone 10 still younger by seven
years than Palmerston when premier.

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Mr.. Gladstone is still younger by sevel
years than Palmerston when premier.
Fifteen lawyers occupy the fifteen place
on the three leading tickets In Pennsylvania
Another dynamite mine In Russia. @,
east, young man, and blow up with the coun
try. F..
Judge Cox, who conducted the assassin
trial, will pass the summer at Narraganset
Pier.
A German baron has achieved notoriety b,
having eighty-three pairs Of pantaloons mad
for him.
The Alaska did it. Six days, nineteen
hours, and twenty-five minutes In CROSSING
the Atlantic. -a
No President of the United States has eve
left the country, even temporarily, durini
his term OF Office. -.ye.z. b IS ..vl.s ~
Mike Mykens, of Denver, Colorado, Is ssit
to be the richest newsboy In the country, be
ing worth some $4,000.
Canadian Presbyterians are DISCUSSING
with considerable warmth the question o.
instrumental music In church.
An Italian writer says that 10000 opera
have been written since 1900, Of which 10, ,00'
have been produced by the sons Of Italy.
Forty dollars worth of flowers were lait
on the coffin Of man at Augusta, Maine
whose death was fastened by starvation.
The Norwegian Congress is called tn,
"Storthing," aud no whisky Is allowed to bt
/ nj wi in oi agf ttpl hnt
ing.
Mr.. G. r. NJ. Talbot has had seat In The
English House of Commons for fifty years
Mr.. Talbot Is evidently an Ohio man in dis
guise.
Thurlow Weed, the journalist and politi
cian, who recently became totally blind, /.
over eighty-five years Of age, aud Is in good
health.
"a reputashun," says Josh Billings, "once
broken, may possibly be repaired, but the
world will alwus keep its eyes on the spo,
where the krack was"
Last year 1t was so dry that there was talh
of sprinkling the beds Of the rivers TO lay
the dust. This year the Mississippi Is threat
ened with another food.
Eighty-six out OF one hundred and two
converts made during religious excitement
in Leavenworth last March, are listed as
having gone back to the bad.
Arthur Arnold reminds the readers of the
Pail Mall Gazette Of what does not seem to
be generally remembered, that Garibaldi was
born aud registered Frenchman.
When the opera "The Queen of Sheba, "
was presented for the first time In Rome, re.
Gently, the composer, Goldmark, was called
before the curtain thirty-three times.
The youngest couple among the Congress.
sional families are Congressman Dugro, OF
New York, and his wife, he being only
twenty-six aud she several years his junior.
Judge Wilson McCandless, who died In
Pittsburg recently, aged seventy.two, came
within one vote of receiving the caucus nom-
Ination when Franklin Pierce was nominated
for President in 1852.
It cost the State Of Connecticut $4,000
and the defense $4,000 TO satisfy twelve
jurors that the death of Jennie Cramer could
not be legally fixed upon the Msliey boys
and Blanche Douglass.
Senator HIPS cancer was caused by nico-
tine, which got into blister on his tongue
while he was smoking. This 10 direct and
unmistakeable warning TO men not to have
blisters on their tongues.
A recent visitor to Mark Twain thus de-
scribes once more his sluggish speech, every
word being deliberately uttered, "not Is
though 1t were weighed before delivery, but
rather as though 1t had come long distance
and was tired"
The archbishops and bishops for Ireland
have prepared q circular to the priests, di-
rectiug them to discountenance the Ladies'
Land League aud forbidding females from
conducting public meetings without the con-
sent Of the parish priests.
In the half year just ended there have
been 3,5U7 business failures in the United
States, the total liabilities being about S50,-
10000. Compared with the first half Of
1881, this Is an increase In number and
amount of about twenty-five per cent.
The celebrated racehorse Luke Blackburn
was sold for breeding purposes last Saturday,
and on Sunday Governor Blackburn, of
Kentucky, the man after whom he is named,
joined an Episcopal church In Louisville.
The entire Blackburn family Is now off the
turf.
A Kentuckian was sentenced In the court
at Frankfort to one year In the penitentiary
for stealing eighteen head of cattle. Then q
negro who had stolen $50 worth of copper
received q three years sentence, and he told
the judge he had nothing TO say except that
he was sorry he hadn't stolen drove Of
oxen. -n# Ef
Judge Tourgee, having read somewhere
that Our Continent has proved journalistic
failure, has written letter denying the state
ment. He says Our Continent enjoys an ay-
erage weekly circulation Of more than thirty
thousand copies, is out Of debt, pays cash,
will shortly be enlarged and otherwise i'm
proved. M...m........u. ... a
There was sound of revelry at the palace
of Versailles few nights ago, the occasion
being fete In honor of NJ. de Lesseps, who
was born In that city la 1906. guest hav-
ing drunk to the completion OF the Panama
Canal, NJ. de Le.seps replied: al invite you
all to the opening Of the canal. Il will take
place In 1858, and feel convinced that /
shall be there, too"
The size aud weight Of the human BRAN
are absolutely greater than any animals ex-
cept the elephant and the larger whales. The
brain OF the elephant Il said to weigh from
eight.to ten pounds, and that Of large 6n-
tscI " uotc ucSWccu i've huu SiX Puuuub. hoh-
Atively to the bulk and weight Of the body,
the brain Of man Is exceeded In size only in
some small birds and mammals.
One Of the latest notions Is 10 have light
on the forehead Of the horse. We are as
sared that II gives perfect safety against acci-
dent when driving after dark. No FIRE, no
liquids. no lamp, yet . never-fsiling bright
signal light at great distance, II is made
Of metal and covered with . compound Of
luminous metals is easily attached and de-
Iacbed; is made In different designs, and,
therefore, very attractive II Il should be car
ned In daytime.-Couyt Journal.
Before the appearance Of the phylloxera
In France, there were over 100000 acres OF
vineyards In the Charentes. OF these three
Iourths have been attacked by the pest, 270,-
700 have been completely destroyed, and the
insect Is now making head at the rate Of 93,.
)o0 scres annually. The population Of these
has fallen OF about 10000 dur
nR the last five years, and thriving, bustling
cognac itself, whose progress was some
rears ago exciting wonder, and where there
Sere 40 brandy firms, Is now on the down. !
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