The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-06-16
NEW NOR-WESTERS.

The Key West sponge feet consists of
about fifty vessels.
Wh!telaw Reid, of the New York Tribune,
has become father.
One-third of all the paper now used in the
world Is made In the United States.
Lyon county, Iowa, is rapidly becoming
timbered through the efforts of Its tree
planters.
Solon Chase is fighting the Greenback
party in Maine as vigorously as he once sup
ported 1t.
The deposits In the Montana banks are
greater than those of any other Territory by
over $2,0O0,00o.
A man who buys glass of beer in Iowa
| Of from 81 to SIS.
New Haven folk give soap-bubble par
| ties" with prize for the person blowing
the biggest bubble.
papers Of the United States consume 80 ,0S3
tons of paper In year.
A st. Louis man has been paralyzed ever
| since taking bath. Henry Clay Dean will
brush away the cobwebs and paste this in
his hat.
The census gives us 1906, ,212 men engaged
as farmers In this country, and 3,519,647 in
mining, mechanical, and manufacturing op-
| erations.
There are nine thousand saloons in New
York. If placed side by side in a direct
line they would extend distance of forty
five miles.
Never use the curry-comb on a horses
legs below the knee and hook. A corn
broom is best, since it takes out the dirt and
does not hurt the horse.
General Sherman and ex Confederate Gen.
eral Joe Johnston have formed mutual ad-
miration society, each declaring the other
the greatest Of living soldiers.
General Sherman is said to be very sys-
tematic in his work al the War Department.
order, and he Is generally at work by nine
o'clock.
The libel suit of United States Senator
Mcpherson against the New York Herald,
tried in Philadelphia, was based on a charge
that the Senator was interested in Shepherds
Peruvian scheme.
Dalrymple, the great wheat farmer of
to George Howe, of Bradford, Pa. Dali
rymple found 1t necessary to decrease his
acreage In order to farm 1t effec.ually.
An English gentleman has exhibited by
acinth which, in consequence of being under
a stone, had blossomed six inches below the
surface OF the ground. The leaves were
white, but the flowers were deep purple.
A resident of Iowa received ten thousand
dollars the other day. That night burglars
broke into his house, bound him, and blew
his safe into fragments, but found nothing.
He had carelessly left the money in his
trousers pocket.
In selecting paints for out of door work,
the lighter colors should be preferred in
point of durability, though at present fashion
dictates the darker tints. The dark colors
absorb the SUMS rays and occasion earlier
decay Of the material painted.
Canon Farrar took an appropriate text for
his sermon on Darwin. IL was /: "And he
spake Of trees, from the cedar that is in Leb-
anon even unto the hyssop that sprlngeth
out of the wall he spake also of beasts, and
Of fowl, and of creeping things, and of
fishes"
The rock In which were placed the charges
of dynamite that were fred by the Queen of
Greece at the Corinth Canal ceremony
month ago, was the same in which the Ro-
man Emperor Nero began the work Of cut
ting Corinth canal In the first Christian
century.
Bishop Wigger, of Newark, n. j., has pro-
nounced the play of "The Two Orphans"
immoral, because Sister of Charity tells .
lie and justi6es the act on the ground that 1t
Is resorted to for good purpose. He for
bids its representation by any Catholic soci-
ETY. In the Diocese of Newark.
Mr.. Mackay, our millionaire, has arranged
to build q hotel In London, somewhat on the
scale of the Palace Hotel in San Francisco,
which Is equal In size to about five ordinary
London hotels. There will be in the new
hotel sixteen hundred suites of rooms, and
the entire establishment will cost ten million
dollars.
A zinc box, recently fished out of the
Seine at Paris, opposite the spot known as
the sport PAnglais," was found to contain
letters sent from M0ulins to Paris during the
siege. Many of the addresses were still legi-
BILE, and as far as possible the letters were
delivered to the persons for whom they were
intended.