The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-06-23
NEW NOR-WESTERS.

More than half the newspapers in the
world are printed in English.
Silk culture is already an occupation in
fourteen States Of the Union.
1t is said that the cost of storing Ice in the
Sierras is only thirty cents ton.
The hello of the telephone brigade is now
heard in the halls of Montezuma.
Prince Henry, grandson of the Emperor oi
Germany, is to visit the United States in DC.
tober.
A journey around the world now takes
about Einety days, and the cost can be re.
duced to $500.
Boston hero-worshppers are carrying of
bricks from Wendell Phillips demolished
home as relics.
w. w. Corcoran, the millionaire banker
Of Washington, is i'll and his physicians have
no hope of his recovery.
The Lord provides for his own; but It /:
expected that they will scratch around lit.
tie and help make crop.
The United States produces thirty pei
cent. of the grain Of the world, and thirty
one per cent. of the meat.
Suicides In London averaged last year one
per diem. The bodies reclaimed fiom the
Thames were two per week.
The electric light will affect the colors oil
clothes as we'll as paintings in the same way,
but not SO quickly, us sunlight.
There are upwards of 100000 agricultu-
raj land owners in Germany possessing less
than three and quarter acres each.
Moses Taylor did not leave one dollar OF
his $45, 100000 to public charity, or for the
education and improvement of the people.
1t is estimated that the numbet of horses
in the United States is 100000. Illinois
is said to contain one-tenth of that num-
| Der.
| Millions or young cottonwoods have been
sold In Tekamah county, Nebraska, this
spring, by Indians, at three dollars per thou
sand.
The rolling mills of Pittsburgh, Pa, en-
| ploy $4,000 hands. Capital to the amount of
$20, 200 is invested, and its annual produt
is 30,0O0,oO0.
The Northern Pacific has a Swedish col
ony of three thousand persons forming in
| the old country TO settle on lands along the
line of the road.
The making of shrouds Is new trade by
ITSELF, and in New York there are seven
firms that deal by wholesale in these last
garments of humanity,
The captain of the British steamer,
Straightharly, will be fined 1000 at San
Farncisco for bringing 326 more passengers
than Is allowed by law.
Tho Carroap oayarpr,apt "a, mt ogA oT0
soldiers into the field at twenty-four hours
notice, but 1t won't do so until somebody
knocks the chip of its shoulder.
A robin has built her nest close by a cir
cular saw in mill in Ftchburg, Mass, and
has laid four eggs undismayed by the buz-
ziDg of the saw and the whir of the machin-
cry.
1t was In New England school. "What
is the feminine of tailor?" asked a teacher
of class in grammar. "Dressmaker,"
was the prompt reply of bright eyed little
boy.
The Germans are fast coming to realize
the advantages of having type like the rest
| Of the modern world. Fully forty per cent.
"f the books printed in that country in 1880
were in Roman.
An Indian napolis letter says: "Rev. Geo.
CLANCY, now of Boston, was expelled from
the Masonic order by the Grand Lodge, in
session this week, for having given up his
belief 10 Supreme Being"
| Miss Belle Braden Is the only feminine
railroad officer in the United States. She
has just been elected treasurer of the Wash
ington and Waynesburg railroad, in Penn
sylvania, and is acting paymaster.
Mr.. Vennor predicts that all the rainy
weather this summer Is coming on Saturdays
aud Sundays. This Is bad news for the
school children, or would be but for their
vacation and for the clergymen-at least for
those who don't have vacation.
| 1t is said by parties In a good position to
know the President is not entirely In accord
with Cameron's course in Pennsylvania and
| fresh attempt will be made to bring about
an adjustment of the ifiiculties-possibly
by a new convention later in the season.
Stanley was last year forced to turn back
from Stanley Pool, above the Congo falls,
| by the hostility of the native chiefs; but this
year he is more fortunate, and at last ac-
counts he was being well received at the
Pool, and had begun the building of Bel
| gian station there.
| When Cyrus w. Field first came to New
York city he found employment in the house
of A. T. Stewart IL Co., on q salary of 81 q
week. He was obliged to be the first at the
store In the morning, to sweep out, and to
remain until the partners and most of the
clerks had gone at night.
A mining company In Siskiyou county,
California, recently turned of. an old horse
which had been working whim In their
claim for twenty-seven years, and is now
thirty-three years old. He apears still hale
and hearty, and seems to take much comfort
1 in his release from harness.
| Ex-Governor Irwin, of California, will, 1t
| is thought, be the Democratic member OF
the Utah Commission. 1t Is understood
that the President will leave the selection of
some Pacific Coast Democrat for one of the
Commissioners to Senator Farley, and that
he will recommend the appointment of Ir-
| win.
A handsome monument Is TO be erected in
| the Warwick Woodlands, Greenwood Lake,
N. j., to the memory of Henry William Her
| bert, better known as "Frank Forester"
| whose grave In Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, Na-
wark, is marked only by simple slab, bear
| ing no other inscription than the word "In-
felicissimus."
The oldest deed in America Is said to be
| In possession of Mai. Leland, of New York
| City. 1t was written eighteen years after
| the discovery Of the new world by Colum-
bus. This document Is q conveyance of
Fishers island, near the Sound, from certain
| Indian chiefs to the celebrated navigator,
John Cabot, whose signature 1t bears.
A little child was cut In two by locomo-
tive on North Carolina railroad this week
| In spite of the efforts Of the engineer, who,
| in trying to rescue her, was thrown down an
embankment and himself seriously injured.
| When the two parts OF the child were picked
| up its head continued to utter piercing cries
| for two minutes, and until death ensued.
The deepest mine in the world, according
To Prof. III. Hnfer, Of the Academic Imperi-
| ale des Mines, Is the Priband silver mine In
| Bohemia. The lowest depth Is nearly $500
| feet below the surface. At this depth the
| temperature of the rocks Is only 1890 de-
| crees r.; and the temperature Of the air is
only 7O.3 degrees r., 50 that up to the pres
ent time only natural ventilation has been
required.