The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-03-03
NEW NOR'-WESTERS.
AT Indianapolis diphtheria flags are yei-

AT indianapolis diphtheria flags are yei-
low and small pox flags are red.
Mark Twain is entertaining at Hartford
the poet laureate of Canada, Freehette.
A gunpowder engine is one of the
amusements of modern experimenter.
Five hundred and twelve suspects are
confined in the various jails of Ireland.
Washington younges ladi speak OF the
Presidents tall young son as "Prince Ar
thur"
President Eliot says that with strict
economy 1t costs about $500 q year to De Q
student at Hartford.
The discovery of conspiracy at Cairo
Is reported. The object is to replace the ex-
Khedive on the throne.
Emperor William has become great
grandfather, a daughter having been born TO
the wife of the Grand Duke vladimer.
-voltaire was the first writer iE Fr.nsce
to recommend the adoption of innocnlation
for smallpox to the people of his country.
Arthur is reported by the army and Nary
Register to have made up his mind not to do
anything in regard to the Fitz-John Porter
case.
Professor Schlager, of Vienna, is re-
sponsible for the statement that blue light
has quieting and soothing influence on the
insane.
"A Canadian Judge has decided that the
lease of a pew in church gives the lessee
right to sleep and snore therein during di-
vine service.
Clarence Barton, the Washington editor
who figured in the Soteldo affair, is nephew
of Barton Key, whom General Sickles
killed many years ago.
The Paris Electrical Exhibition was set
on fire five times by electric lights, signifi-
cant indication of the need of special pre-
cautions in introducing these lights.
There is scandal in the Philadelphia
bar. "Some of the lawyers have lapsed into
the careless and disrespectful habit of adj
dressing the Court while wearing their over
coats"
One of the latest theories advanced is
that apples are more nutritious than pota-
toes, and in Cornwall, England, workmen
say they can work better on the fruit than on
the vegetable.
Count Campello, who renounced the Ro-
man Catholic Church in Methodist Chapel,
Rome, has not entered the Methodist COM
munion, but will lead in an Old Catholic
movement In Rome.
The new invention by which printing
ink ID made luminous in the dark, so that
printing becomes legible by Its own light, is
widely extended. A paper in which this
material IS used is to be published at Turin.
The extinction of slavery in Brazil is
proceeding very gradually, and 1t will take
more than thirty years to accomplish it..
Emancipation began in 1870, but there are
still a million and half bondmen in the
country.
An English statistician calculates that
every man on an average speaks tfty-two
volumes Of six hundred octave pages per an
mum, and that every woman yearly brings
cut five hundred and twenty volumes of the
same size in talk.
The movement of railway trains by cleo
trical means seems likely to be a matter of
some practical Importance. A successful at
tempt has been made in Italy. The trains
are said to cost less and make less noise
than those moved by steam.
That must be clever lot of counter
feiters the Chicago detectives arrested. Men
SO skillful as to raise checks from SAG to S4S6
and having them cashed by cashier duly
notified that the attempt would be made to
deceive him, should be at better work.
A Scotch Baptist Church has recently
been organized In Patagonia. This is about
the last place in the world to look for a
church of this complexion. Yet there are
Chinese Baptist churches In Guiana, and a
French one in the Argentine Republic.
The Pope expects to purchase for the
Vatican the largest topaz in the world, which
weighs seven pounds, and upon which ia.
nous lapidaries of Naples have been work
ing since 1882, fifty years ago. 1t has carved
upon 1t representations of Jesus at the Last
Supper.
There is an excellent law in Holland to
the effect that when young man of proper
ty is inclined to be fast and Is spending his
money too rapidly, the Government may
step In and take care of Ii for him until be
can prove that he has reformed and will
henceforth make proper use of his means.
There are only one hundred and thirteen
works in the English language which the
blind can read. Producing books in raised
letters Is very expensive, and of course the
sales are small, so that their publication is 1
matter of charity. The Perkins Institute o
Boston has almost raised fund of 100000
with which IL will issue twelve books yea
indefinitely.
Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll is afrait
that his enemies will report his dying word
falsely, and so he has arranged that stem
ographer shall lake them down verbatim
| IL is suggested that photographer be pres
ent also in order to catch the calm expires
sion which might be reported as one o
agony. But, then, Mr.. Ingersoll isn't golnt
| to leave us this century.
A newspaper man planned story Il
which lady, unhappily married, was to su
| for q divorce, and to make sure of bein
correct, wrote to lawyer friend stating th
case as he meant to describe It. Back cam
/ d postal card: "You could not get divorc
on the grounds you mention In England
you might in the United States" This card
handed in by the postman to Mrs. News
paperman one forenoon when her HUSBAND
was away on business, raised breeze In th
household which was not allayed for sewers
days.-Halifdr Chronicle.
-"What fools we mortals be-" There n
all sorts of stories circulating concerning th
Russian Minister who was recalled recent,