The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-03-24
NEW NOR-WESTERS.
A New England manufacturer has So,ooo
snow shovels on hand.

Cancelled his lecture engagements.
General Grant has transferred his Long |
Branch property, worth $4,000, to bis wife.
Tilden's income is estimated by q well-in-
formed New York correspondent at sl5o, 900 |
a year.
Emigration from Germany to America this |
year promises to be very much greater than
last year.
The Scientific Monthly says that the best
physician In the land can't tell how people
take cold.
Senator Hawley voted against Mr.. Conks,
ling, who on one occasion called him Ga
cottoner."
The German troops will adopt the new re-
volving rifle which is being used by many OF
the French troops.
James Keene Is said to have given instruc-
tions for the building of a 100000 SCOT
tage at Newport.
A Florida gardener sends 4,472 "quarts"
of straw berries to New York at the same
time he sends 264 "quarts to Philadelphia.
Mr.. Whittier not long ago said: "Once
had no books to read. Now / can not read
tenth part of the books that come to me-"
The greatest length of the United States
from east to west is $500 miles; greatest
breadth north to south, 1900; average
breadth, 1900 miles.
The umbrella maker no longer depends on
the whale for ribs for his wares. Brazil fur
nishes wood which Is much better. The
whales can 60 to grass.
The New York Tribune says that Judge
Cox's charge in the assassin's trial was the
every best ever made in America in a muir
der trial where insanity was pleaded"
Benicia, CAL, whence John c. Heenan
| came, is now considered to be the intellect
ual centre of California; so that to be
ssBenicia boy" is to be young man of learn
ing.
| Rumors are current in Rome that the
Pope does new and then emerge quietly
from his Vatican imprisonment to drive for
an evening about the city in closed car
riage.
| Poet Swinburne, who used to be " pallid
and lank young man." now boasts a robust
figure, wears an artistic beard, often walks
twenty miles day, and is in the gayest Of
spirits.
IL Is reported of the President that he
chafes under social restraint, and that he
would like to be more free in his actions.
The Washington gossips say that he is lone
some In the White House.
A correspondent from Yakima City, w.
T., says that cattle buyers are offering SzO
per head for stock cattle, taking bands
through, including yearlings, which Is just
double the price paid at this time last year
The San Francisco Spirit Of the Time
states that during the past ten years there
have been seventy murders committed In
that city; and but one man punished in tina
time for murder, and he imprisoned for
term of years in the State Prison.
The late Mr.. Charles A. Reed, of Newton
Mass, who left $50, 900 in his will to be ap
! piled to the reduction of the war debt, gav'
also $500 to his attending physician, on con
dtion "that my head be severed from m
body, as / have a great horror of being barrie
alive"
|, After Webster had finished his reply t
\ Hayne q Southern Senator congratulate
him and said: /" think you had better di
| hat oraaeh k1
r Hayne, who was standing near, heard tn
remark and said: "a man who can max
such q speech ought neUer to die."
a The Chicago correspondent of the Milyau
r kee Republican asserts that Mrs. Scovill
Q made ST. 900 by the sale of copies Of her lei
: ter to Mrs. Garfield to newspapers through
' out the country, and that smaller amour
a was netted from the sale of the prote:
against Mr.. Conkling's nomination. 1t
4 stated that the negotiations were conducte
. through press reporter who shared in th
g profits.
f The French Able Maury was very fon
e of joke, and during the days of the Reig
8 of Terror, when everything "royal" was PR
n scribed, he frightened poor furrier INF
: changing the words under his sign of tig'
IS from "royal tiger" to Irrational tiger" B'
n the populace thought this was a slur upc
j. their principles and half killed the poor ms
a before he could explain how he came
), change 1t.
l. Somewhat unusual was the result of sevt
- ..uu~u 80 t;.;x.t,oc ,yar a daod p,anrS est a
n in Aurora, Ill. If the property hael be-
e sold when the suit began there would scare
:, ly have been enough 10 pay the debts aud u
d costs. but now the rise in the value of u
y farm properties will give some 900 to q
e legal heirs after paying all the debts, wi
) interest on the same, and all the costs ole i
'f igation for seven years.
: tisa we'll known scientific fact that Il
! bite of an angry animal, whether man
:. beast, ID more dangerous than an ordinal
! bite, and has produced more serious cons
: quences than the mere wound would accoa
: for. An angry woman at Newport, R.
!, !, threw fork At her son. 1t lodged in !
: heel, making slight wound, which result
!. in gangrene, from which he died. III peop
: punish their children by sticking forks In
= them, they should be careful not to do
i when angry.
In The imitation gems now produced In Pa
ut by chemical means 80 nearly resemble
We genuine article that even connoisseurs c
en- net readily distinguish them without the
,ir Of scales or files. The following oxides 81
Irs ply the coloring substances employed: Go
e- for purple; silver, for yellowish green; C
IT. per, for bright green; iron, for pale red;
be bait, for blue; tin, for white; manganese,
w. small quantity, to make glass devoid Of co
-in larger TO give 1t an amethyst hue-a
in great quantity to make IL black and opaq'
antimony, for reddish hyacinth color
To box the compass Is to name oil