The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-10-20
NEW NOR-WESTERs.
Reports from the oil region show that the
production II declining.

Reports from the oil region show that the
production IL declining.
A single steamer took $1,000 barrels Of
apples from New York to London last week.
vivisection il to b rigidly prohibited
throughout Sweden by order Of the govern
ment.
Philadelphia manufactures 12,500, 900 ar
tiacial teeth, and I've tons Of tooth powder
yearly.
The application for writ Of habeas cor
pus In the case Of Sergeant Mason has been
denied.
An underground telegraph system be-
tween Paris and Marseilles ID nearly ready
for use.
Prince Bismarck has reached the twentieth
anniversary Of his entrance into the Prus-
sian ministry.
There are fifteen Bessemer steel works In
this country, the annual product Of which Is
2,o0o, 900 tons.
Fifty out Of the seventy-thrse students In
JafIa college, Ceylon, have renounced pag-
anism for Christianity.
The biggest steam hammer In the United
States strikes . 6s,000 pound blow. Its
motto IL "put up or shut up"
The rope with which . Kansas murderer
was hanged has been woven into book marks
and given to the convicting jury as keep
sakss.
The Island Of Anticosti In the St. Law
renee river, ID 70 be sold Ut auction In order
tr tsyw AMIR Al NM
600 acres.
Rufus Porter, founder Of the Scientific
american, has been passing his ninstieth
summer In perfecting . steam farm wagon
invented BY him, that weighs 400 pounds.
The great Newburgh poker game has At
last been settled, by Hedges and Scott re-
funding to their victim, Weed, $50, 1000. This
makes Weeds loss In round figures $4,000.
The annual spruce gum product Of Maine
10 estimated at $40, 1000. It is sold chiefly to
factory girls, ~ preventive Of lockjaw and
paralysis Of the tongue from excessive talk
Ing.
The often expslled BrAdlaugh, the atheis-
tic Britishsr, has issued another address to
the people. He says: "In this Parliament
will Sit" he does not say how he means to
do 1t.
Robert r. Lincoln has shipped from
Springfield to Washington sixty-two trunks
belonging to his mother, which were fllsd
with trinksts and dress goods purchased in
Europe.
The largest diamond cutting house Is
In Amsterdam, employing 400 persons,
where the Koh-i-noor was cut. The trade
10 dIficult, and the wages are from 81 to $l2
and even $l4 day.
W. A. Sheppard, who Is now undergoing
. sentence In the Washington Territory
State prison for safe "blowing," by the
death Of m English relative has fallen heir
to fortune Of $S0,0O0.
Owing to the alarming increase Of pauper-
Ism IN the south Of Ireland, the Dublin
linton has taken the lead IN . proposal to
send ZOO ablebodied men and women to
Canada, ut = cost of Ct 900.
A mountain lion was lassoed near Los
Alamos, n. NJ, recently, by two teamsters.
The beast was Of good size, and In the strug-
gle that ensued after he was In the tolls,
the dog Of the captors was killed.
A Californian has invented sheep count
ing machine. 1t counts up to 10000, regis
tiers the number, then gives . snap, jumps
back. and begins counting again. II never
misses = sheep, old or young, fat or lean.
There are three things that the wisdom OF
the most learned men cannot determine
which way singed cat will jump. how .
petit jury will give its verdict, and what
kind Of man clever woman will take q
fancy to.
A blast Of TOO pounds of powder was
recently fred ut Stevens Camp, on the Ore
gon and California railroad. The effect was
tremendous. It tore down the side OF q
mountain, damned up creek for = mile,
and blocked . wagon road for distance oi
| half mile.
Among the instruments described during
| the late meeting Of the British Association
was one exhibited by Sir r. Bramwell, EN-.
ployed for ascertaining the velocity Of trains
| and the efficiency Of brakes. With this
apparatus IL was found that train weighing
| l25 tons ran miles 8 yards after steam wa.
shut Of while travelling ut speed Of Al
miles an hour. The line was level and the
| day calm.
The Sanitary Engineer reports that I
smoke consuming engine, invented BY Mr.
Kearney, master mechanic Of the st. Louil
and San Francisco railway, Is being expert
mentsd with In Chicago satisfactorily. Ths
draft IL downward, throwing the cinders and
smoke back into the firsbox to be consumed
In the experiments thus far made there hal
been, It 10 said, . saving Of about 80 PEI
cent OF fuel.
| A new submarine torpedo beat has beer
constructed on the shores Of Stockholm har
Dor for the defense OF that port. Il is to
| steam twelve knots under water, without
any part being visible above the surface. Or
arriving within reasonable distance Of th'
enemy, 1t can either ram or discharge tor
pedoes, Having accomplished Its work thu
crew can make their craft rise to the surface
or, xt will, can return into harbor, keeping
below the surface.
Captain King, OF Paris, makes . positiv,
on glass from negative, and on the sam,
glass In this way: The back Of the negativ,
Il covered with soluable bitumen or ssphal
and then illuminated through the negative
After IN exposure sufficient to render th'
light part insolubls ths remainder Of th,
asphalt 10 dissolved Oh with asy Of the usua
solvents, and the result ID positive. Th'
silver negative 10 then dissolved OF with thu
chloride Of copper and liking agent.
The art Of shorthand Is, 1t appears, TO b,
sup Srseded by one Of the queerest inventions
on record. The revolution IL to be effected
BY means Of . machine called a"glosso-
graph" consisting Of six levers, forming |
sort Of cage, each communicating with I
| tracing pencil. The use to be made Of th,
"glossograph" II rather curious. While thu
orator or lecturer il holding forth, the 70
porter ID to repeat the wsrds Of the speaker
with his tongue In the cage. Thus ths
quickest conversation, some London jour
mails tell n, may be taken dowa with sase
L That rnfer,1nl Machine Story.
CmYKHNE, Wyo., Oct. 8. - Associate
Justice Field passed through this afternoon
on his way from San Francisco 70 Washing
ton. A correspondent showed him the A.
sociated Press dispatch respecting the infer