The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-05-19
NEW NOR.WESTERS.
The arrears of rent in Ireland are estima-
ted at $50, ,O0O, 900. ..... .....

The Parisians ate seven thous sand horses
last year aud ten donkeys.
The President of the French Republic gets
. salary Of S1e5, 900 a year.
The cost of Mr.. James Gordon Bennett's
new yacht Namouns will be $4,000.
The census Of Canada shows that 77,753
natives of the United States live In the Do
minion.
Archibald Forbes says that Canada has an
idea that she will one day annex the United
States to herself
The saddest consequences of great mans
death are the verses that are written to his
memory Picdytme.
DR.. Elliott Coues' new book of the birds
Of North America mentions SsS species.
Only about 500 were known In Audubon's
time.
One planter near Yazoo, Miss, says the
overflow, from the deposit of fertlizing sedi-
nent on his land, has been worth IS an
acre to him.
Half grain of quinine in two ounces of
milk produces no disagreeable taste in the
mouth, and this same quantity in gassful
of milk Is scarcely perceptibls.
The Rutland Herald says that the Rev. E.
Gerry Of West Randolph, VT, walks four
teen miles every Sunday to the place where
he breaches, and returns home on foot the
same day.
The poet Whittier frequently tires himself
so much in writing autographs that he cam
not write letters to his friends. He gets be-
tween $500 and 5000 requests each year for
his signature.
Chas. Dudley Warner remarks: "Although
there are scattered through the land many
persons, am sorry to say, unable t. pay for
newspaper, have never heard of anybody
unable to edit one."
In New Ysrk, in population of 100000,
there are Is 900 lunaties, or one to every 3s4
of the population. Insanity is said to be in
creasing more rapidly than the population,
and becoming more incursble.
A cheap paint for brick walls Is made by
simply mixing up hydraulic cement In water.
The natural tint Is neutral and pleasing, but
may be readily varied. The paint cannot be
washed of by storms, nor peaIed of by the
sun. ..... a....-.-- 10. -..r
be Daguerre was the discoverer of the pro-
cess Of photography, but he had only sue
ceeded in taking landscapes. DR.. John W.
Draper, lately deceased, was the first man to
produce Photographic image Of the human
face.
The highest price ever paid for piece of
land in the world is supposed to have been
the $16S, 900 which j. I'll. Glover has Just paid
for lot 30x16, with building thereon, at the
southwest corner of Wall and Broad streets,
New York.
The Edison Electric Light Company have
run their wires inte nearly 1000 houses in
New York, and have erected over $4,000
lamps. Work will soon begin on the appa-
ratus for six other districts. The wires are
rur under ground.
The Chicago Inter Ocean now says tha.
the invention to which 1t recently referred
in mysterious terms as destined to revolu-
tionize railroading in this country turns out,
under scientific scrutiny, to be impracticable.
Chicago's Keely was very short-lived sensa-
tiop.
A Paris athlete, commonly known as the
"man steam engine" is declared by all the
Paris papers to have run thirteen and half
miles in one hour on April I'd. The best re-
corded performance of this kind by an En-
glish professional is about eleven and half
miles.
The excavations at Babylon illustrate q
curious prophecy of jeremiah: "And they
shall not take of thee q stone for corner
nor stone for foundations, but there shall
be desolations forever, saith the Lord" In
digging among the ruins the Arabs have used
the brick for building purposes, but the
stone, being limestone, they have calcined.
The London Lancet warns the public of
the great danger of injections of morph Inc
under the skin, and says: 'It is practice of
extreme hazard, and we are of opinion that
surgical instrument makers should refuse to
sell the required apparatus to lay persons,
and that medical men should forbid their
use." .......
The London Economist says: "It Is more
than four years since the Edison scare so af-
fected gas property, yet to-day gas compa-
nies are actually more profitable than they
were then. About the only large freehold
properties in the United Kingdom which at
the present day pay six per cent. are to be
found in the stocks of the large metropolitan
gas companies" .ssa. =. a..s5s.- a4,a #r
London medical officer, DIR. Gibbon, Is
authority for the statement that the Jews Of
London average twice rs long period of life
Is the Christians. Pulmonary consumption
and scrofula are almost unknown among the
Jews Of the metropolis. Their children
seem to suffer less from disease than do those
of the English and Irish Gentiles In neigh
boring localities.
Henry Shook, guest at - Toronto hotel,
ordered corn beef at dinner, and got par
ticularly tough piece. Being eighty-four years
old, and nearly toothless, he explained to
the waiter that under the circumstances,
better ought to be served. But he could
get nothing better, and therefore undertook
TO eat what was on his plate. Suddenly he
fell back In bis chair, gasped for breath, and
choked to death. A chunk of beef which he
had tried to swallow whole lodged In his
throat. ,gfs, HI 4,I .D4 .4a.+ +
The chief impedinent which prevents
steam trains from making more than fifty or
sixty miles m hour il the piston-rod jerking
back and forth. This must stop once and
start again at each revolution Of the driving
wheel, and this takes time. But In the cleo
trio engine the movement Is wholly rotary;
the revolving armature Is geared directly to
the driving wheel, and there Is no jerking to
and fro, and no dead points. Mr.. Edison
does not see why train on level track
should not attain the speed Of $50 miles an
hour.
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