The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-02-17
NEW NoR.WESTERs.
An Australian sheep was recently sol'
for $4,000.

cements is about 500 pounds 10 the square
inch.
An English professor says that the scalps
which cover the most active brains have the
most dandruf.
Gold can buy nearly everything in this
world except that which u man wants most
viz, happiness.
Cats and dogs are killed In Illinois TO
prevent the spread Of smallpox. Good still
comes out Of evil. ..........
Australia has larger acreage of wheat
than Great Britain, while our acreage IS
twelve times as great.
Martin Luther. who wanted to live l04
years, is represented by only one living de-
scendanl--an actor Ia Germany.
The Jeanette took with her 5000 tai
low candles as presents for the Esqulmaux.
They are eaten IN the place Of quail on toast.
"A Vermont farmer bet $50 that the dis
tance to the moon wasn't over seven miles,
and when sued for the money the jury sus-
tanned him.
"A French vessel has lately found the
bottom Of the Bay of Biscsy. IL is three
miles deep and warranted TO stay there for
the next 100 years.
--Glycerine, to which few drops of al
cohol have been added, is an excellent appli-
cation for oilslones on which fine instru-
ments are 10 be sharpened.
Out Of 100 samples Of wines and
WHISTLES sold over the high.toned bars III
New York, only two were found free from
poison and gross aduterati0n.
They are burning brick in Northern
Dakota with twisted hay. 1t is claimed
that a kiln of brick can be burned III twenty
four hours by the use of this material.
1t is predicted that the next sun spot
maximum period will not be before 1890. 1t
may perhaps occur in 1888, but the great
probability is that 1t will present itself in
1892.
instantaneous photography Is becoming
marvelously minute In its effects. An En-
glishman has photographed swallow on
water perfectly.
The first vaccine factory established in
this country Is i'm barn in the outskirts Of
Greenwich, Conn. From this barn vaccine
points are sent out to Japan, Europe, and all
parts of the United States
Some Of the Princeton College students
creased the railroad track for half mile.
and in return somo of the railroad men
creased four of the students until they
slipped into their beds for week.
AN English mechanic has Invented a
horseshoe composed Of three .hicknesses oi
cowhide, compressed into steel mould and
subjected to chemical preparation. 1t will
last longer than the common shoe, weighs
only one-fourh as much. does not split the
hoofs, requires 10 calks, and is very elastic
1t doesn't pay TO he heroic nowadays
aud that's a fact. Last week clergyman Of
Santa Rosa stopped a runaway team aud
saved the lives Of three women. The next
day they had ii around town that the Rev
Mr.. Cooler was seen staggering home beast
ly drunk with his clothes all covered will
mud.-Sdn Francisco Post.
Fifteen paper mills have been built ir
the west This year--seven in Wisconsin, on,
in Illinois, three in Michigan, and one eacl
| in Ohio and Wisconsin. Several were alss
built and put In operation in the south. Th'
Springfield Republican thinks these figures
will prove interesting to New England pape
manufacturers, even If they are not reassur
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"A man forty years old going to school il
Missouri could not master his spelling les
son. The schoolmistress threatened to 6o
him unless he did hetter. He demurred AIN
she took a vote of the scholars, who unani
mously decided in favor of the whipping
She therefore took him by the collar an
gave him sound thrasbing. He Is disgust
ed with education and pronounees 1t thor
ough humbug.
The proudest man I'm this country th
ether night was new star actor, who ha
his horses taken from his carriage and
crowd of enthusiastic admirers draw him
his hotel. He was not so happy the ne'
morning when Informed by the liveryna
that the ovation was gotten up by hois'
thief. aud neither of the valuable anina
had been seen since. Damages, $780,
Philadelphia Ne,os.
The attractive labels on the America
canned goods exported to England are don
much to popularize our food products vii
the Blitish-rs. The English trade papers d
admit that more taste is displayed by Anne
Jeans in this regard than by any other peopl
1t Is safe 10 assert that If the conten
Of the highly decorated cans are ~
UP to the mark, they will not remain In fav'
long with the sons of Albion.
In Australia the issue Of new secnriii
Just now are very numerous. The Sou
Australian Register states that in the fort
( ing Of new companies just now there Is
end. Companies to bny land, TO coiistrit
railways and TO work gold mines are beil
formed every day, and such appears to
the plethora of money, or rather. the spec
! lative mood Of the public, that scarcely
, single PROJECT fails of support.
: The Paris Observatory is carefully stud
{ ing the suns surface. and has described
. number Of interesting hydrogen explosion
. appe airing like gigantic displaysof firewofl
Q and sometimes remaining visible for q
days. One Of them sent forth stream
J fire to q height of more than two hundr
$ Thousand miles-a distance nearly equal
: thai Of the neon from the earth--whiie
y plosions reaching height of $4,000 TO oo,t
miles are by no means infrequent.
A Tramp with Loose Change.
4 A Boston tramp appealed to man Of g
!. erous instincts the other day for ten cents
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