The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-02-10
NEW NOR.WESTERS.
The Suez canal is to be lighted with

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electricity.
The film of soap bubble before burst
ing is less than one-millionth Of an inch in
thickness.
The public lightingsf Paris for the pres
ent year cost about Ss5O,0Oo. Both gas and
oil are used.
Mr.. Tennyson has written for Maemil-
lan's Magazine poem on "The Chaige Of
the Heavy Brigade"
Colonel Fred Grant has been made pres
ident of the American Electric Light Com
pany of Massachusetts,.
President Grevy has conferred upon DR..
A. G.. Bell, the inventor of the telephone,
the cross of the Legion of Honor.
Eleven thousands tons of ice sold In
Bangor, Me-, to New York parties recently
at S1.25 per ton, deliverable In July.
"A Florida company has been SO suecess-
full in making paper from palmetto that it is
said twenty mills will be erected in sections
of the State where palmetto trees are abund-
ant.
"A man sixty years old, who served
through the war of the rebellion in the Union
army, and lost one eye in the service, is in
Jail at Auburn, Me-, for the non-payment of
S4.44 in taxes.
If all the railroads that are contemplated
to connect Boston and New York should be
built, Connecticut will be little more than
an immense freight and passenger gridiron.
"Blest be the tie that binds" Bring on
yeur railroads.-Register.
"A machine has been invented by Ger
man doctor for executing criminals by cleo
tricity. The criminal sits in chair and is
quietly, painlessly, instantly and genteelly
ushered into another state of existence.
The Pope always dimes alone, waited
upon by one trusty servant. His tastes are
so simple that the sum of twenty five francs,
which his chef receives daily from the finan-
cial department of the Vatican, is amply
sufficient to cover the expenses Of house
keeping.
| "A single seed is said to have produced a
plant bearing 12,7S0 grains of corn. At this
rate, it has been computed that the product
of single grain of corn would amount TO
sufficient in eight years to supply the entire
human race with bread for a year and a
half.
| A full-blooded negro was among the
Cinnamon who lately arrived in Denver;
but he wore the clothes, spoke only the lam
guage, and had all the ways of his Chinese
companions. He had lived in China twenty
seven years, having been captured in youth
by pirates.
From the phenomena of refraction DIR.
A. KerDer has estimated the height of the at
mosphere at about 12o miles. From sbser-
vations upon meteors and auroras other sci
entists have concluded that the atmosphere
must extend for more than 500 miles beyond
the earth's surface.
"A remarkable use is being made Of po-
tatoes. The clean-peeled is macerated in a
solution Of sulphuric acid. The result is
dried between sheets of blotting-paper and
then pressed. OF this all manner Of small
articles are made, from combs to collars, and
even billiard balls, for which the hard, bril-
| liantly white material is well fitted.
| Berlin has bookseller who can neither
read nor write. He is well respected and
sells good books, many of them scientific,
and the best literature of the day. He has
an excellent memory and large trade,
Seme of the characters which he has devised
for memoranda are said to be curious enough
1t is the shape and size of books that are his
chief guides, and he has seldom been known
to make serious mistake.
The London Times emphatically de-
clares that far more serious commercial
danger than the i'll will between Jew and
Christian threatens Russia from this side Of
the Atlantic. 1t says: The American is un.
derselling the Russian as q corn grower and
dealer. Both for the production and for the
conveyance of cereals the Yankee finds that
machinery can do the work of hundreds oi
thousands Of men.
One Of the hardest woods In existence |.
that Of the desert irsnwood tree which grow:
in the dry washes along the line Of the
Southern Pacific Railroad. Its specific grav
ity Is nearly the same as that of lignum vita
and 1t has black heart so hard, when well
seasoned, that 1t will turn the edge Of an axe
and can scarcely be cut by q well-tempered
saw. In burning it gives out an intense heat
and charcoal made from 1t is hardly second
to anthracite.
"A curious question of Parliamentary
procedure will arise on account Of the dis
appearance of Mr.. Walter Powell, NJ. P. fol
Malmesbury, the eronaut, who is not likely
to be ever heard Of again. According to
English law, where there Is no actual au.
thentic proof of death, an individual for civil
purposes Is supposed to be aliye-at least fol
q certain number of years. Malmesbury
will be thus without representative until
the next general election.
Car loads of oysters are shipped to Cali.
fornia from New York, every few days. The
ssnative" oyster Of that Western coast Is OBJ
tanned in the Gulf of California, and is small
and of coppery taste. There Is As wide .
contrast between the Californis bivalve and
The Eastern as between . crab apple and 9
Rhode Island grcening. Something Of .
supply is being obtained on the Oregon and
Washington Territory coast. These are bet.
ter than the more southern.
In the suit Of George K. Fitch, Of the
Bulletin and Call, against Chas. De Young
4 Co., Of the Chr oniclc, for libel in charging
that the columns Of the former had been sold
to the railroad company, the demurrer Of
defendants was sustained by Judge Allen, oi
the Supreme Court, on the ground that Z
newspaper has right to sell its columns
and it's no more libeious to charge jour-
nalist with selling his newspaper than to ac-
cuse merchant Of selling his wares.
d,ssSusfed c0srhman has unconsciOusly