The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-04-28
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NEW NOR'-WESTERS.
Jesse James had a $500 coffin.

Jesse James had $500 coffin.
One day is worth three to him who does
everything in order.
The Gold Hill Ners has waited TO the
other shore, very dead.
A bill is in the Senate to create a Terri
toriai government for Alaska.
Victor Hugo was born five years earlier
than Longfellow on the same day of the
year.
The Denver building inspector estimates
that so far this year S6s0,000 has been ex-
pended on new buildings.
Prince Bismarck's health is reported to be
In an unfayorable condition and his physi-
clans recommend q long rest.
Virginia, New, has colored giant whe is
nineteen years old and weighs 400 pounds.
His feot is sixteen inches long.
The most ancient of all recipes known to
us comes from Egypt, from an ancient papy.
rus roll, and 10 recipe for hair-dye.
Paper made from strong fibres can now be
compressed Into substance so hard that moth
ing but the diamond can scratch 1t.
There are only six charcoal furnaces in
Great Britain, and they all belong to one
firm. The annual yield of charcoal iron Is
about 5000 tons.
The Governor of Colorado has the dyspep-
sia and an income of $1,000 per day. If he
could trade both for good stomach he'd be
only too happy to do so.
Governor Nance, of Nebraska, issued
proclamation urging that every person in
that State should plant tree on Nebraska
Arbor Day, the 10Th inst.
The new Chinese Minister to this country
knows only one word ofthe English language,
and he uses that when he stubs his toe
just when the rest Of us don't.
A Georgia paper says that the crop of cam
didates for the Democratic nomination for
Governor of Alabama grows faster and thick
er than oats and the grass.
Miller Il Lux, of California, have on their
various ranches $1,000 head of cattle and
fiocks 500 nen are employed.
Sixty per cent of the mechanical energy
converted into electricity and applied to q
Faure storage battery has been reconverted
into work on discharging the battery.
Iowa Judges complain because the law
yers talk so long. One of the Judges recent
ly asserted that the State is paying annually
$l,O0O,OO0 ior unnecessary CAB in the courts.
Cornelius J. Vanderbilt left an estate
worth about 100000, but his debts were
numerous and for large amounts. IL is said
that his brother, William H., will pay the
debts.
DIR. Charles Doremus says the milk of the
elephant is the richest he has ever examined.
1t contains more butter and sugar and less
water than any other milk, and 1t possesses
q very agreeable taste and odor.
A great steam plow of English manufac-
ture, which, with its necessary machinery,
cost about $4,000, has been set up at Mime
apolis, and will be put at work as soon as
the frost Is out of the ground.
Charles Dudley Warner remarks: cal
though there are scattered through tho land
many persons, am sorry to say, unable to
pay for newspaper, have never heard of
anybody unable to edit one."
Assays of several hundred million dollars
worth of the native gold of California have
shown an average proportion of $50 theu-
sandths of pure metal. The gold of Australia
gives an average of 900 thousandths.
Jumbo, the mammoth elephant, ate 100
pounds of onions on the voyage across the
Atlantic and consumed considerable whisky.
The freight bill was $4,000. 1t took eight
cen horses to draw the animal up Broadway
on trucks.
Mark A. ShafIenburg, who was once U. s.
Marshal of Colorado, and who was i'm the
habit of setting suppers which cost not less
than ST 600, is reported to be now earning
$3.50 day working in lumber yard in
Loredo, Texas.
The Buddhist religion stands alone among
the great religions of the globe, as the
emily one which has never been propagated
by conquest or persecution, but which owes
its Immense diffusion solely to its moral
power.-Sdturddy Rerieto.
Persistent rumor in Washington has 1t that
ex-Attorney- General Taft is to be appointed
Minister TO England. This rumor may not
be well founded, but whoever may be named
as his successor it is generally believed that
Minister Lowell is soon to be recalled.
IL has been affirmed that it is possible to
transmit electric energy for working motors
to short distance only. M. Deprez now
shows, however, that a considerable per-
centage of the original power may be made
available at distance as great as fifty
miles.
When Ferald, Earl of Kildare, who was In
rebellion, was captured and brought from
Ireland TO King Henry VII. at London, q
member of the privy council exclaimed:
"All Ireland cannst govern this earl.'
"Then," said the wise King, ''let this earl
govern all Ireland"
Seme of the stuff on sale in st. Louis as
butter is shown by an official investigation
to be made chiefly of lard. The oil is
pressed out, and the remainder is colorless,
odorless and tasteless. This substance is
called "neutral," and to 1t is added little
real butter to give 1t flavor.
A gas well in Clarendon, Pa, dug in 1881
to depth of little more than 1000 feet,
now supplies power for twenty-six drilling
wells, three pumping wells, 125 stoves, two
machine shops, and two pumping stations.
Recently, on rather cold day, the gauge in
the company's Office showed pressure of
seventy-three pounds to the square inch.
The comet Is coming toward us at the rate
of a million miles day, and Is only one
hundred million miles distant. Whatever
may be accepted as the true theory regard
iDg the nature of comets, 1T is reassuring to
know that the celestial stranger has ar
ranged to start on his return trip In absut
forty days. Distance lends enchantment to
the view.
The German empire has still about 81, 000,-
900 acres of forest, valued at 100000 900.
A judicious system of timber protection is
followed by the government, which appro-
pirates $4,000 annually for planting new
forests. Austria-Hungary has 100000
acres of timber, and the government of that
country also looks carefully to the preserva-
tion of this part of its resources.
The sale of 800 telescopes In France dur
ing the two years ending last October is cited
by M. Camille Fiammarion as showing to
some extent the remarkable growth OF astro-
nemical taste In that country. The demand
for Nj. F.ammarion's books is, however, q
more striking proof, two of them having
quickly reached an aggregate circulation Of
II, 900 copies, while third has lately ap-
peared in Its thirtieth edition.
The ground in the Jura mountains Is In