The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-11-10
NEW NoRcWESTERS.

Mr.. Tennyson's new rural drama IN three
acts Is written In prose. .--.
Mark Twain has received 100000 of roy.
atty from his play of Col. Sellers.
Baron Wilhelm Rothschild, It Is estimated,
enjoys an income Of So per minute.
Mr.. Labouchere says that France is now
one gigantic gambling establishment.
| Premier Gladstone owns q piece Of land at
Niagara Falls and refuses to sell 1t at any
price.
| Rothschild-one of him-has 1000 blood.
ed horses on bis 42, 900 acre farm In Nor.
mandy.
| Neither General Wolseley nor Admiral
Seymour has son to succeed to his new
peerage.
A man was fined $3.50 in Rochester New
York, few days ago for giving fire alarm
'for fun"
| Forty years ago Judge Fslger belonged To
fire company, wore a red shirt, and trained
with "the boys"
| In the meanest hut there Is q romance III
you only know the hearts therein Yarn.
hagen con Ense.
These are the words of wise critic: "No
books can instill the natural faculties which
make up good TASTE"
When luck knocks at the door 1t often
| finds the man inside too lazy to lift the
Whitehall Times.
The biggest steel hammer in the United
States strikes . 10000 pound blow. Oh,
| xrbara IL Iobn GplIiv,p pou
| General Grant has given it out at Phila.
delphia again that he has 30 interest In poll.
tics or in the present campaign.
"Where are the men of TOP" shrieks an
excited exchange. Oh, to Halifax with the
men of'76. Give us the women of 28.
| Since going to Russia, Minister Hunt has
entirely recovered his health, which was so
critical before he left the United States.
General Butler says that the victories this
| fall will be Democratic swing of the pen.
dulum which will 60 the other way in 1884.
NJ. Deprez at the Munich Electrical Exhi.
bition worked plow by means of electricity
| the current being transmitted about forty
| miles.
England has thirty electric light compa.
nies with capital of over $50, ,0O0, 900. Near.
ly as much money is similarly sunk in
France.
The Ben Hill monument fund has not
quite reached 5000, while the sum wanted
Is $4,000. Raising funds for monuments Is
slow work.
James r. Randall, the author of "My
Maryland" Is an aspirant for the Congress.
sional seat vacated by Alex. II. Stephens,
Governer of Georgia.
A certain drawing room on Fifth avenue,
New York, has ceiling of cathedral glass,
said to have cost 5000. II Is one of the
oldest ideas Of very odd year.
Mr.. Hiram Sibley, who is said to be the
largest owner of cultivated land In America,
and who was formerly President of the
Western Union Telegraph Company, will
erect In Chicago the largest seed warehouse
In the world.
Col. Keyser ascended the pyramids, near
Cairo, some weeks ago, and by means If the
Heliographic mirror, reflected sunlight to
| Alexandria, l20 miles away. At that dis
tance the signals were like pin points of
brightness, but they conveyed an important
message from Wolseley to the Khedive.
A bill is before the Vermont Legislature
| prohibiting divorced person from marrying
within year, and q person from whom .
| divorce is obtained from marrying within
| five years, or ever, II the ground of complaint
| is a crime, in which case criminal prosecu-
tion must follow the divorce proceedings.
Just before his assassination, Gen. Garfield
sent a message to Mr.. William Black In re.
gard to his story, macleod of Dare" re.
| ttv,a hat ba nnyuliat had IA 10 4
so tragically. "There Is tragedy enough in
the world" he said, little thinking that in q
few weeks he himself was to contribute still
| more.
| A novel question Is agitatink the resident.
| Of Tucson, Arizona, as to whether q female
who went through the marriage vows with
man on his dying bed is maid or widow
The technical proposition Is that the physi
cisn exclaimed, just as the minister was pro-
nouncing them man and wife: "My God, het
dead"
Bayard Taylor one day, In the course of 9
conversation with Lengfellow, said to the
elder poet: "There Is q little poem of your.
which Is hardly known, which few people
ever mention; but of all your shorter poem.
1t Is my fayorite." Mr.. Longfellow's eye
kindled. SIS II 'Chrysaor ?" he asked. III,
was right. It was "Chrysaor," and hi
| quick question seems to show that 1t va.
also HE favorite.
There is farm of 5000 acres in Baxter
county, Texas, which to youngsters eye.
must present . spectacle of delight which nc
show on earth can equal. 1t Is devoted II
raising of Shetland aud spotted ponies fo
the benefit of children with indulgent par
ents. The diminutive horses roam over the
prairie with the docility and conteutment o.
sheep, and are always on the best terms will
each other and with the human family.
The best residence property In San Fran
cisco Is worth $500 to $3.50 per front foo
only. In New York 1t is worth $1,000 te
1000 per front foot; In Boston 81 500 u
| 81, 800; In Chicago, s., 900 to 81 900. A rea
estate operator, several years ago when real
estate was dull at Chicago, spent q weei
there, looking into real estate prices. Wber
he came back he said that San Francisco
property was far below its proportional
price, compared with the rates ruling at Chi
cago.-Copp's Land Ouner.
The census of 1880 gives some interesting
data relative to the number and size uf farm.
In the leading agricultural States. Illinois !,
at the head Of the list as TO numbers, havin1
255,741 farms. Ohio comes next with 247,
1S9; Missouri third, with 215,575, and Indi
| AHAy AoWa, hculuShyy "iShikau, hahSds All
Wisconsin follow IN the order named, the
last having 133, 1882. OF farms containing
more than 1000 acres the greater number
are In the Southern States and California
Kentucky has Liz such farms, while ILL
nois has but $40 and Ohio only 252.
The project Tor constructing q third rail
way tunnel beneath the Alps under Mont
Blanc already meets with considerable op.
position, particularly on scientific grounds
Herr Helm, q Swiss savaLt of the Polytech-
nicum Of Zurich, contends that the piercing
Of Mont Blanc would be work Of immense
difficulty. In one part the tunnel woult
have to be cut through formation Of anhy
drous gypsum, which swells on exposure e
the air, and is almost impossible to stay
Moreover, the temperature Of the galleries
judging from the experience Of the st. Goth
ard tunnel, would be from . minimum oi
66o Fahr. to q maximum Of 1929.
A Connecticut reporter has been hunting
around after Salmon river for which the riv
or and harbor bill contained an appropria