The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-09-22
NEW NOR'-WESTERS.
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There are six hundred rh"nsand drunkards
| In the United Stat'>
Senator Brow wn owns 1868 0Oh worth Of
real estate ia Atlanta.
Seventy FIVE thousand immigrants settled
In Arkansas last year.
| Kansas has furnished 400 900 bead Of cat
tie for market this year.
William Shakespeare is running for Secre-
tary of State in Michigan.
The late Barny Corey, of Boston, left a
81 100000 estate, but no will.
General Wolseley is said to write his own
battle pictures and dispatches.
The Imperial Gazette of China celebrated
its 1,500th birthday last month.
General Hazen is making a collection Of
popular weather sayings aud proverbs.
The Atlanta Constitution thinks that eight
| courses at dinner is enough, even If four OF
them are water.
The Berlin butcher who named one OF his
products the Bismarck sausage has been ar
rested for insulting the gouty statesman.
| There was time when Kansas didn't ap-
pear to do anything but bleed at every pore.
This year she raised $40, 100000 worth Of
corn.
1t is said that more new churches have
been built in Washington Territory since
January /, 1881, than in the previous five
years.
Few persons have sufficient wisdom to
prefer censure, which is useful to them, to
1 ...t. thAun
foucdid.
Cardinal Newman was a skIllful violin
player in his earlier years, and even now,
when he is more than eighty, he sometimes
draws the bow.
Capt. John Ericsson, the naval inventor,
is In his S0h year. He lives in little old
fashioned house in New York, which Is both
his home and his workshop.
The New York Commercial Advertiser re-
marks: If every man refused to marry until
he owned a home, what a wilderness of mis-
erable old bachelors this world would be-
come.
| A subscription is circulating in England.
which has been signed by Tennyson among
other distinguished authors, to purchase
bust of Longfellow to be placed In Westmin-
ster Abbey.
In 1884 all the table cutlery used In this
country was imported from England. To-
day, of all annual consumption amounting
$2,500, 900 worth, not more than 3 per cent
comes from England.
A Chicago physician says there is no doubt
that the preduminauce of red colors In arch.
itecture, dress aud decorations exert pow
erfu influence in exciting crime, particular
ly murder and sexual oflenses.
The Scientific american recommends that
the criminals in prison should be put to
turning cranks which will operate dynamo
| electric machines that may be employed to
charge the sv-called storage batteries.
Belts for driving machinery are now made
| In this country about fry eight inches
wide, and more tha l2O feet long. One will
be presented To JndGr DAVIS, TO wear as the
champion heavy weight Of the S-nate.
NJ Saint Paul has Offered the Freuch Acad-
envy of Medicine a sum "f s. 900 la found a
| prize for the discovery of cure for d'pthe
ria, the competition to be open Ia the world.
and not confined 10 the mcuical profession
The Jews are chided by the Jepish Mes
senger for leaving their religion IN the ri'y
when they go to the summer resorts. I'VE
have yet to lesrn," it says "of single in
stance of public worship on the Jewish Sab
bath at any country place"
A convict says he was sent to prison for
being dishonest, and yet he Is compelled
every day to cut out pieces Of pasteboard,
which are put between the scles Of the cheap
shoes made there and palmed off on the In
nocent people as leather Philadelphia
| Ne,rs.
Some sanguinc, not to say reckless, Gin
cinnati Democrats have, with the assistance
of friendly Ken'nckians subscribed SlO0, 900
of the S200,0O0 desired TO ''start" another
Democratic daily paper in that city. 1t Is to
be called the Ners and is to he edited by ex
Gov. John G. Underwood, of Kentucky.
The complaint is made that the Democrats
have no regular organ now.
The Duke Of Connaught, who has gone to
Egypt IN command of a brigade of the
Guards, is the third son of the Queen. His
promotion to the rank of Major General, and
and assignment to this high command, over
several gray headed officers Of high rank Is
keenly felt. The Duke of Connaught costs
England $4,000 a year for his wife, Sl20, 900
appointment as Colonel aud Major General.
Edward Atkinson makes this striking com
parison in the atlantic Monthly: IL takes
100, 900 men, women and children to make
the cotton cloth, the nse of which Is now en-
loved by the people Of the United States,
who are the best clothed people In The world.
If those who do this work were obliged TO
employ machinery no more effective than
the spinning wheel and hand loom, 1t would
require 10000, 900 persons continuously en-
L Iat n tla
work.
There is a church in Michigan which has
been struck by lightning dozen times, and
now whenever the preacher shows signs of
getting long-winded and passing from his
"seventhly" TO his "eighthly" the organist
slyly initiates the sound sf approaching
thunder on the pedals. The way tha!
preacher dives into the "conclusion" aud
rushes through 1t aud starts he doxology Is \
caution. The congrega ion would not par
with that organist for a million dollars
philadelphia Netos.
Jean Ingelow, when at home, resides at
Kensing.on, near London. Her home and
the surroundings are delightful, and on her
reception days her drawing room Is throDged
with guests, who, upon entering the house,
are shown iuto a large, cheerful room on the
left of the hall, where, In broad window,
the usual afternoon tea was spread. After
partaking of their tea standing, they repair
to the drawing .room, on the opposite side of
the hall. Here, standing beside an oriental
diynn. is the hostess, small, slight. woman,
of perhaps forty years, with pleasant man.
ner and quiet, somewhat timid smile. Her
eyes are bright aud expressive, and her bair,
slightly tinged with gray, is drawn smoothly
back from her forehead, under head dress
of muslin and lace. and her dress Is simple
ity itself. As the room slowly fills, num-
bers Of the company pass out onto the bal.
coDy and wander about the grounds and
gardens. but throughout the hours the host
ess is at her post.
Mr.. E. Jump, caricaturist, wasinterviewed
by St. Louis reporter, aud said, speaking Of
Thomas Mast: "He Is saving ri his money,
and Is, therefore, very rich, for bis salary
has been for years $3.50 week, and he has
done outside work besides. He is the high
est paid artist In the profession. Matt Nor
gan Is an elegant artist, with vast fund oi
ideas ON all conceivable subjects. he 10 .