The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-06-30
NEW NOR-WESTERS.
There are 10000 drunkards in the Unite'


There are 10S,0O0 drunkards in the United
States.
The " p r. r. bridge over Pack river IL
7,l00 feet long
Mr.. Bonner has invested in all $685., 900 in
his horse nunnery.
Senator Frye is confident of Republican
victory In Maine this fall.
Ii is said that the barb wire trade of the
United States amounts to $l0,00o,OOO per
annum.
When man has twins born to him 1t Is
quite natural he should feel like raising the
deuce.
Robert Bonner has been paid $4,000 for a
filly named Bussela, full sister to Wander
bilt's Mauc S.
The members of the Garibaldi family have
agreed TO give the island of Caprera to the
Italian government.
The strength of 120 pounds is required to
tear asunder an iron wire one-twenty-hfth OF
an inch In diameter.
M. Renan has expressed the belief that a
century hence mankind will study little else
than physical science.
The new comet discovered by the members
of the eclipse expedition to Egypt has been
named after the Khedive.
A bottle of fifty gallons capacity, the
largest ever blown in this country, was lately
made at Millville, New jersey.
A fine compliment was once paid to Isaac
Newton. A letter was addressed TO "Mr
Newton, Europe" 1t found him.
General Sheridan and John Mccullough,
the tragedian, will take a summer trip TO-
gether through the Yellowstone country.
"What on earth takes you off to the stable
so early every morning, lately?" asked a
woman of her husband. "Curry- y-hossity."
"Beef is steadily going up" says an ex-
change. The only way to stop that is not
to allow so much of 1t to go down.-1he
Judge.
It Is now understood that negotiations
with Frank James have progressed so far
that he has agreed, In case of pardon, net 10
run for Governor of Missouri.
Mr.. Frank L. Harris. who Is said to be the
only survivor of DIR. Hayes's Arctic expedi-
tion, Is in the employ of the city of Boston
as janitor of the Lowell school.
The most sensible people of the country
live at Lansing, Mich. A butcher shop in
that place bears the sign: CLOSED till meat
gets cheaper."-Phitadelphid Neacs.
Cinchoua trees on Mount st. Helena, in
Napa county, Cal. fifteen hundred feet above
the level Of the sea, are doing well. The
mountain there is over four thousand feet
high.
A few years ago Dakota was looked upon
as a barren desert, closely related TO the
North Pole. Now this Territory has seven
teen hundred miles of railroad and one hun
dred newspapers.
Major Burke, the New Orleans editor shot
In duel recently, is the man who persuaded
the Democrats TO allow the electoral vote of
1876 to be counted He Ia now State Treas
urer of Louisiana.
The somewhat curious fact Is being COM
mented upon that the State of Massachusetts,
has never elected as Governor a man who
served in the Union army or navy during
the war of the rebellion.
Persons with boys In the family should
know that the boys have a platform, and
that they always stand on 1t. 1t reads:
"Scolding doesn't hurt; whipping doesn't
last long; kill they darsn't."
Bronson Alcott, eighty-three years of age,
has just published a book of poems, all writ
ten within three months, and an exchange
thinks that would be good age for all its
young friends to begin writing poetry.
John Bright, the English statesman, says
the United States will grow TO be the great
est nation on the face of the globe. He has
high respect for the leading literary men of
this country and deems them the peers of the
ablest English writers.
Fortress Monroe is the largest single forth
fication In the world. The Notifications at
Gibraltar cover more ground, but they con-
stitute seven distinct forts, while Fortress
Monroe Is one and complete. 1t has already
cost over three million dollars.
now at its height, and from present appear
ances IL Is a moderate estimate TO say that
Thirty thousand cabin passengers will be
taken abroad during the four months OF
flight to Europe, or about ten Thousand more
than went abroad during the same period
last season.
A patent has been issued from the Land
Office Of the Interior Department IN favor oi
ex-President William Henry Harrison. The
patent Is for one hundred and sixty acres of
land In Southern Ohio, which General Har-
| rison purchased In 1905 under the old credit
system. The interest on the investment al.
| ready amounts TO more than the principal
sum invested.
Fred. Archer, the celebrated English jock.
| ey, Is described as tall, emaciated, cadaver.
GUS man, with projecting lips, slight stoop
decidedly round shoulders, and long, mis-
shapen legs. To keep bis weight down to
| 1T pounds, he often breakfasts on two seid
| litz powders, eschews meats aud vegetables
and subsists almost entirely upon bread and
| unsweetened tea. He Is worth $S50,0O0.
The economy In horse power obtained by
| using the hardest and smoothest roads Ii
| clearly shown. III one horse can just draw
load, on level, over iron rails, 1t will take
| one and two-thirds horses to draw IL over
| asphalt, three and one-third over the best
Belgian, five over ordinary Belgian, seven
over q good cobhlestone, thirteen over bad
cobblestone, twenty over an ordinary earth
road, and forty over sandy road.-Scienfiff
american.
There Is still one adventurous Arctic ex-
plorer unaccounied for. His name Is Leigh
Smith, and he is an Englishman. He lefl
England Just one year ago In his fragile yacht
Ezra, to run up and take peep at the North
Pole, and has not been automatically heard
from siAce. He expected to return last No
vember. He had provisions for fourteen
months, but was not prepared to spend SIX
months night amid the Ice foes. he had
with him companion, Captain Lefiey, oil
Hull, and his surgeon, DIR. Neall. The crew
consisted Of twenty-five men.
A Live Camp.