The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-03-10
NEW NOR-WESTERS.


knee-breecheS show the swell OF the cali.
There are 250,ooo Hebrews in the United
States.
A two-foot rule-Keep your feet dry
N. Y. Post.
The ratable value of London Is just twice
that of Ireland.
General Fitzhugh Lee has begun to write
history of the campaigns of Lees army.
Gen. Burnside's large fortune descends to
nephew who is his only heir.
John G. Whittier's book-mark is the tail
of gray squirrel killed by his cat.
The French Minister of Fine Arts has
named a commission to value the crown
Jewels.
Moltke was sixty-four when he won his
first battle, yet there are those who urge
General Sherman's retirement at sixty-two.
In proportion to population, Italy has,
strange to say, more shoemakers than any
ether country Of Europe. Sweden has few
est.
Senator Voorhees, declares that he has
cured himself of rheumatic gout by taking
lemon juice In warm water twice or thrice a
day.
1t is expected that Edison's electric rail-
road at Menlo Park will be completed In
three months. Its length will be three
miles.
Cannes, Hyeres, Nice, and, more lately,
Ajaccio have become serious rivals of Paris
in the winter. Soft breezes and sunshine
prove very attractive.
John B. Cough has rallied from his neu-
ralgia of the stomach. As he wouldn't take
anything to warm the inside they had to
warm the outside with hot bricks.
Oliver Ames, a son of Oakes Ames, ex-
poets to have a 100000 house erected in
Boston during the spring and summer. He
will occupy the building as residence.
Samuel w. Small, (Old Sly; formerly of
the Atlanta Constitution, has acquired half
interest in the Union of Jacksonville, Fla,
and will be permanently connected with that
journal.
Frost on the Comstock has penetrated
mining shafts TOO feet, freezing dripping wa
ter at that depth from the surface. This, of
course, is in shafts where currents of air rush
through.
The London Lancet says that there Is ab-
solute unanimity among medical men, what
ever their other views on the drink question,
that spirits, wine, or beer should only be
taken with food.
The Union Pacific Railroad Company en-
ploys about twenty-five travelling agents be-
side an army of general agents to give infor-
nation about transportation and facts re-
garding the great West.
All the reports from the Mississippi river
are very encouraging. They show that while
the levees are being greatly strengthened the
water is only rising very slowly or Is reced-
ing. 1t is believed all danger is past.
If the Ohio Legislature should pass bill
now under consideration, that State will not
be popular place TO commit murder, as it
will submit all who are acquitted on the
ground of insanity to be sent 10 the insane
asYhR'y 'yf6sssalitiit yfssa he just puunsuvu On 'o.r'.
war, General r. w. Palfrey says that the
story of the army of the Potomac Is sad
one, for 1t was "always better than Its CON-
manders, and marched and fought and Ell
dured aud achieved, rarely animated by vic
tory"
The House committee OH postofiices and
post roads has agreed TO report to the House
for passage the ocean fast mail Transportation
bill. The only material amendment Is one
which changes the maximum rate of speed oi
vessels of this class from eleven to twelve
knots per hour.
A road locomotive for war purposes was
lately tried before Count Moltke. 1t weighed
2ss tons, and drew easily forty tons weight
of guns mounted on their carriages fuliI
equipped. Its maximum traction power Il
| $50 tons, and Its cost of maintenance Is abou
thirty cents an hour.
Manitoba has a real, live peripatetic town
Il il called "Boomtown," and moves as th'
| Pacific Railroad advances. A camp Is mad
at the end of the line and building-lots 6rinI
fancy prices, and with another advance tn
place is deserted aid another locality |
| called "Boomtown."
| The breed of Russian horses known as Or
lofts are much esteemed i'm England now
carriage horses. They have clean heads
wide nostrils, and bright eyes, and sho'
high breeding, no doubt an Arabic cross
The horses have more weight than th
English, and are mostly dapple grays an
blacks. Mr.. VIM. c. Winans, the America
millionaire, residing at Brighton, bougf
seven pairs of these horses at great prices
and In the drive from there to London passe
all goers.
Mary Washington, the mother OF Wast
,ncton. was buried at Fredericksburg, VI
| In 1881, wealthy New York man, MIR. Blu
rows. proposed to erect a monument ov'
the grave at his ewn expense, and Andre
Jackson helped to lay the corner stone, b.
as Mr.. Burrows failed in business work wi
stopped half way Of completion. The pc
ple Of Fredericksburg now ask Congress
have The monument finished. In the a.
,oining Confederate cemetery there is ne
monument built by citizens, but Mary's Hil
an arrow shot southward, has not sing
shaft. While Congress Is about II, the Phi
, adelphia Times thinks the graves OF the u
600 Union soldiers whose bones cover u
) crest, might also be marked with NTH
monument.
A sad story about John and katariha'