The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-06-02
NEW NOR.WESTERS.
or 92o,177 children born In France in 1880,
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| vi oAo,l ~ cnliufen DOrn In france IN iSol
6s,227 were illegitimate.
There is large movement of emigrant
Of high class from Scotland to Manitoba
The London Athengum SAYS Darwin ha,
the greatest intellect of the nineteenth cen
tury.
Secretary Teller will soon dlsplace his as
sistsnt, Alonzo Bell, who has held the posi-
tion several years.
Krupp has engaged 5000 more workmen
making the number on his pay-rolls $4,000
Europe is at peace.
The New York Sun says the proper pro
nunciation of Cavendish il Candish. Th,
Brooklyn Eagle announces that "thug" Il
pronounced "tug."
| Mr.. Charles G.. Francklyn, the owner o
the house In which President Garfield dice
last summer, has just lost little daughter
In Paris from typhoid fever.
The Canadians have naturalized "bull
doze" and "gerrymsnder," and are usins
them as freely and as Indignantly as any po.
litical paper on this side of the line.
The people of Prince Arthur's Landing
Canada, are accused of mild disloyslty be.
cause they wish to drop that name and call
the place Shuniah, an Indian word for silver
A lawyer in Bangor, Maine, has brought
suit for s. 1000 damages against the publish
ers Of history of Psnobscot county which
reported him as dead and gave him . cem-
plimentsry obituary sketch.
1t appears that Gilbert Burns Begg, the
nephew of Robert Burns, aged eighty-one, is
an inmate Of the poorhouse at Glasgow.
The Christian Leader, Scottish paper, ap-
pesls to the charitable on his behalf.
A Georgia paper says politics are rather
dull in Georgia, but plowing is brisk, and
that the mule and the negro and the furrow
they are cutting are vast deal more impor-
tant to the average farmer than the coalition
or the syndicate.
One of the serious charges made against
DR.. Newman Smyth's orthodoxy is that he
believes 1t not wholly wrong to pray for the
dead. "Surely, says the Congregationdtist,
"if the state of the dead be such that PRAYER
for them is legitimate, desirable, and useful,
1t can not be state as yet fixed beyond re-
covery."
Two ash knots, weighing 1,150 and 400
pounds, were last week shipped to New
York. They are steamed, which softens
them and develops their color, and then used
in exceptionally fine veneering. Persons
who are experts in judging what knots are
Of value, make considerable by going about
locking for them.
According to The NeD Remedies, rsot Is
found in the mountainous regions of Cali
fornia, Oregon, Utah, and Montana which, If
all that is stated Of 1t is true, bids fair to be-
come somewhat Of rival to quinine. The
miners, who call It "Oregon grape root"
(Berberis AquJ0liun), use it in the form of
. decoction for " mountain fever" 1t Is re-
ported to be effective in this form of malaris,
and to break up its occurrences.
Mr.. Edison has been interviewed in rela-
tion to the Henkle scheme for utilizing the
water power of Niagara Fahs in generating
electricity to be conducted to sundry cities
and towns. Edison pronounces the whole
scheme chimerical one. The power might,
he thinks, be successfully taken from the
Falls to Buffalo; but to carry it any further
would be SO costly that it wouldn't pay.
The cables aloLe for 10000 miles would cost
$l5, 100000.
A fast train has just been put on the Bos-
ton and Albany Railroad, which is TO run
from Boston to New York, distance of 234
miles, in six hours, with twelve stops, aver
aging three minutes each-making the run
ming time between the two cities forty.fve
miles an hour. And yet it Is only half the
rate of speed that really fast express can
exhibit. The distance between New York
and Philadelphia-nlnety miles-has been
run in one hour and ten minutes.
DR.. Koch, of Berlin, claims to have dis
covered the nature Of the parasite which
causes consumption. He has propogated it
and killed animals with the par
asites thus produced. The expectorations
from the lungs Of consumptive individuals
are found to be swarming with the highly
organisms. By working out the
offered by Pasteur's recent
DIR. Koch hopes to produce,
through artificial culture, harmless parasite
which by incubation may prevent consump-
ton.
For twenty years Edward Holroyd,
wealthy Cincinnatian, has immured himself
In his $3.50, 900 suburban residence. For
no human being sees him. His Or
ders to the family who five in the house are
passed out in writing, and his food is passed
In through b wicket. He takes the papers,
knows oil that Is afoot in the world, but will
see no one. He is eighty years of age, and
! quarrel with his wife sent hin to this strict
In pursuance of q VOW to have
no more to do with man, woman, or child as
leng as he lived.
The ancient inhabitants of India were re-
advanced in the art of iron work
ing. The famous iron pillar at Kutab, near
Delhi, indicates skill in the manipulation
IF q large mass of wrought iron which could
hardly be surpassed by modern foundries. |
The pillar Is twenty-three feet eight inches |
n length, with circumference of about fifty |
eet at the base, tapering TO about four feet |
ust below its capital. Its total weight il |
'ver six tons. 1t is supposed by Mr.. Fergu-
on to date from the year 400 of eur era, and |
fso, has stood exposed to wind and weather /
or nearly fifteen centuries without showing 1
igns of rust-an enduring monument 10 the |
kill of the old Indian iron workers.
Lord Frederick Cavendish left no children.
lis wife, charming woman, has two sisters
wing, one married to Mr.. Talbot, member
or the University of Oxford, the other to
lis brother, Warden Of Keble College, Ok.
ord. Lady Fredericks grandmother, the
)owager Lady Lyttleton, Queen Victeria's
overness, was sister to Earl Spencer's father,
.ady Frederick Cavendish has had more
aan one shock Of late years. Her father.
hose mind of late years gave way, threw
imself over the bannisters Of the house and
as killed and 1t was at her house that the
tie Duchess of Argyll was seized with an
lness which in few hours proved fatal.
esides Lord Harrington, bachelor, tine
luke of Devonshire has only one son. Lord
frederick Cavendish's home was almost op-
osite Mr.. Gladstone's former abode on Carl
IN House Terrace.