The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-07-14
NEW NOR.WESTERS.
here are no Jews in Bethlehem or Naza.

There are no Jews In Bethlehem or Naza-
| reth. .-.
| The Roman Catholics are about TO estab-
lish convent at Fiji.
The cranium in man is to the cranixm in
woman as 100 TO SG.7.
Alabama has had but four Governors who
were natives of the State.
The human body is composed of fourteen
or more of the common chemical elements.
Lieutenant Danenhower is engaged to
young lady well known in Washington soci-
ETY..
The Methodist Church South Is the next TO
the largest Of all the Methodist bodies in the
| world.
The favorite flowers of the late ell-kncwn
florist, james Wick, of Rochester, were pan
sizes and violets.
The Southern Pacific railroad has, it Is re-
| ported, ordered the construction of 5000 20
ton freight cars.
| OF Government and railroad lands twenty
million acres were sold last year, most Of Il
to actual settlers.
| The original Colonel Mulberry Sellers is
an uncle of Mark Twain's mother, and still
lives at Hannibal, Mo.
II sounds a little paradoxical 10 say that
the man whose life is insured must die TO re-
cover, but !: is nevertheless true.
Paper made from strong fibers can now be
compressed into a substance so hard that
nothing but diamond can scratch it.
During a shower in the neIghborhood Of
| Paris twelve hundred flashes of lightning
were counted within period of two hours.
The Japanese Government has 1G4 foreign
ers in its employ. including T3 Englishmen,
81 Germans, Fl Americans, and IL French
| men.
The Governor and one of The Senators of
| Arkansas are natives Of Kentucky, and the
| Democrats have nominated another native Of
| Kentucky for Congressman at Large.
Tue grave of Emerson at Concord is al.
| ways covered with fresh flowers. This is
done by the young people of the town, who
make regular details for the purpose.
A son of one of the Siamese twins, who
graduated recently from the North Carolina
School for Mutes, visited Staunton, Va, the
other day. He is described as " cookbook
ing young fellow" very bright, and well ed.
ucated. He is both deaf and dumb.
Several English collieries are testing blast
ing cartridges Of caustic lime in place of the
| ordinary gunpowder or dynamite cartridges.
The coal Is broken by the expansion of the
lime in Stacking. There Is no conclusion,
and the danger from fame and premature
| explosion is avoided.
Colonel Ingersoll says IL Is absurd TO ask
him 10 believe that seven men could or did
blow down the walls of Jericho with rams
horns. Well, then, why does the Colonel
| try to blow down all the churches in Amer
| lea with only his good strong breath? He
had better wait for re-inforcements.
Ex-Mayor Isaac S. Kalloch, of San Fran
cisco, sent word to Denver, Col, recently,
that he wanted 10 come there and lecture,
but the Denver Tribune replied that inas-
much as he Is a hypocrite as a preacher and
| a fraud as a man. IL would advise him 10
keep away from that respectable community.
The first effects of small doses of arsenic
taken from time to time are shown-by eN-
periments of NM. de Poncy and Livon upon
cats-to be fattening of the body, increase
of appetite. and general appearance OF i'm
proved health. This is soon followed, how
tNtEy Dl tIhdSldtlulI loSS VI dppttbV, miaf
and death.
The London World says that the Metro
politan police force of 10,100 is scandaous-
ly incompetent for the prevention Of crime,
the detection of criminals, the protection Of
life and property, and the suppression Of
ruffiansm. Within the last year and half
there have been eight murders, whose per-
petrators are still at large.
The Western Newspaper Union, of Des
Moines, has been offered $4,000 for L. G.
Dexter's patent newspaper folder and paster.
! Mr.. Dexter has just returned from Washing
| ton, ID. c., where he put one of the folders
| In the World Office for $500. The invention
has lifted him from poor pressman to
wealthy young man, and he deserves his good
luck.
Once upon a time, while Field Marshal
Murat Halstead was discussing the ethics OF
| journalism with a few friends, he felt moved
| to remark aWell, You may talk about the
| idiots YOU have known in the profession,
but we have the blus ribbon ass of the Ohio
press up In Dayton AT that moment the
door opened and visitor entered. "And
dear me, here he is y continued the imper-
| turbable field marshal. "Gentlemen, this Is
w. E. Bickham, of the Dayton Journal.
Bickham, We were just speaking Of you.'
A peculiar effect is produced upon the
workmen in a Russian bIchromate Uf potash
| factory. The partition of the nose is attack
| ed, a hole is eaten through 1t, and after
time IL is totally destroyed, both nostrils
| being converted into one. An inspection
has shown that about fifty per cent. of the
men employed have diseased noses, some
| having been attacked during their first month
| of work, while others have been employed
ten years without being affected. The pro-
| gress of this curious disease is entirely pain
| less. .... s- =s=.
Mr.. Peter Reid, of Fauquier county,
noticed little snake, about foot long, aHd
before killing il he turned it over with the
muZzle Of his gun. To his surprise the
snake ran up his gun barrel and he could
| not get II to come out, so he let 1t remain.
As he was going home he saw hawk flying
| overhead aud raised his gun aud fred at 1t.
| The hawk was not hurt, but, seeing the
snake in the air, started towards 1t and
caught IL on the fly. Mr.. Peter Reid is
brother Of q magistrate and church mem-
ber.- Wdrrenton Virginian.
George Washington's will is on file in the
office of the clerk of Fairfax county, yir-
ginia. Hitherto the document has been
without protection, and curious persons in
handling 1t have subjected II to great deal
of we,.r and tear. Now, however, the will
is in glass case, where IL may be seen, but
not touched. 1t IS written on heavy unruled
paper, abont note size, and every side Is
covered. There are twenty.seven pages, all
of which have Washlngton's name attached
except the twenty third, which ended with
the words, .sCity of Washington" aud 1t IL
supposed that In looking over IL Washington
mstook the words for his signature, and,
therefore, failed to sign the page.
There are many indications that remark
able change is taking place in the character
of the agriculture of Kansas. In all direc-
tions men of means are purchasing large
tracts of wild land, which are quickly being
fenced in and devoted to exclusive stock
raising. The high price of stock of all
kinds, the cheapness of our wild and cnltl-
waited lands, and efficiency of barbed wire
fences, are the stimuiants which contribute
most to these results. Whether this change
Is for the greatest good of the State, cousid-
ering all the circumstances and surround