The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-01-20
NEW NOR.WESTERS.
The Duke of Portland has an income oi
$3.50. 900 . year.


| Afternoon private threaticals are quite
fashionable In London and In country
houses IN England. ....,
General George Mcdonald, the .'father"
Of the British army, entered IL In 1905. He
| is In his nnety-eishth year. .as-s.E
There are now fifteen men under sen-
tence of death in Pennsylvania, having been
convicted of willfnl murder. a= .
DIR. G.. @. Glen, of California, has
put 10000 acres In wheat, and expects to
cultivate $1,000 acres more. ss
MIR. Clemens MARK Twain) has recent
ly sent young Hartford sculptor and his
wife abroad TO study for year.
A cucumber from Talbot county, Ga,
that weighed ifty-fve pounds, was on ex
hibition at the late State fair at Macon.
The street letter boxes I'm San Antonio,
Texas. have been robbed SO frequently that
the Postmaster has ordered them taken
down.
The new Capitol building at Austin,
Texas. Is to be 336 feet high, 5G6 feet long,
aud $50 feet in depth, the seventh highest
building In the world, and second in the
United States.
Forty years ago Charles Gsvan Duffy
was a leader of the Young Ireland party.
Three weeks ago he was married in Paris to
ga beautiful blonde of eighteen"
The big hell recently east for st. Paul's
Cathedral, London, is the largest In England,
and one of the largest In Europe. lis
weight Is seventeen aud one-half tons.
The German scientist. Ehrenberg. finds
that single drop of water may contain
more than SOC, 900, ,0OO, 900 animaIcula. This
would make victuals and drink Of the crys-
tai beverage.
The telephone has been introduced on
board the screw steamer City of Gloucester,
vessel Of 2,l50 tons gross register, which
was launched few weeks ago at the Stock
ton-on-Tees, England.
-" A Sailor Oh the Tennessee" writes to
a New York paper that he has been In the
navy nearly two years, and has not had a
square meal In that time. His Christmas
dinner was hard tack, salt junk and 'scouse.
The state line between Pennsylvania aud
Ohio has recent been surveyed, and Is now
being marked by stone monuments which
project one foot above the ground. They
are set four feet deep, and are dressed to
point aud appropriately inscribed.
The Roman Catholic Bishop of Cincn-
uati, in consequence Of dancing having been
allowed at some church fairs, has issued q
circular positively forbidding dancing after
dark al entertainments given for church pur.
poses, and round dances at any time.
Great Britain employs In underground
occupations no fewer than 37s, ISL persons,
and the length of the galleries where III
mining is carried on is found to be 5s,744
miles. The greatest depth of the coal mines
is 800 feet below the level of the sea.
The new postage stamps issued by the
English Government have appeared on mat
ter recently received by mail. The Queens
head Is In profile, and beside the denomina-
tion there is printed around the head the
legend " Postage and Inland Revenue"
The Java process Of shaving the bark of
the chinchona, which was introduced into
Darjeeling by DR.. King, has proved de-
cided success. The bark renews itself per-
fectly within about year, and the trees do
not appear to have suffered the least shock.
DIR. Francis Guiteau, graudfathet of the
assassin, was the medical expert of the de-
fense on the trial of Alpheus Hitchcock fo
murder, which trial was held In barn IN
The town Of Sullivan, N. Y, beginning on
July 4, 1907, being the first murder trial in
Madison county. ..
Christmas Is hard time on the mail
carriers. In New York il was found impos-
sible to deliver the Christmas mail In one
day, $1,000 letters having been left over
until the next. The task Of delivery meant
In the case of many letter carriers walk Of
twenty five miles.
The sphnxes at the base of Clenpatra's
needle, on the Thames embanknent, have
been placed with their heads toward the |
needle and their tails toward the spectators. |
This is entirely contrary to the intentions Of
the architect, but was accomplished by q
committee Of Aldermen.
General Albert Pke-who Is, by the |
United States-is now u years old. He is
still SO vigorous that he enjoys feld sports |
with as keen q pleasure as when, fifty years |
ago, be hunted In New Mexico, Texas and |
Arkansas. He Is more than six feet tall and |
bent but little.
Senator Windom's new house In Wash
Ington Is built of pressed and moulded |
bricks. with brown stone trimmings. All
The cost of the house will be about $50, 900. |
Justice Stanley Matthews house, ON Con-
necticut avenue, also of brick aud brown |
stone, and is to cost $4,000.
M Eugene Duchesne, I'm dssecting the
body Of . Mozambique negro twenty years
Of age, who died recently Of pulmonary con-
Sumption, discovered, both In the thoracic
and abdominal viscera, peculiarities which
Ht hrSIfiUrs - IrbfeSiEcSists ahu Whi1h III.
Pozzi also considers TO be indications of .
Of reyerslon towards an inferior organiza-
tion.
The latest triumph of electricity was .
few days ago accomplished in experiments
between Harrisburg and PhEladelphia, dis
ance Of l05 miles. Music was received In
Professor Barker's study Ut the University Of
Pennsylvania 50 perfectly that II was easily
heard In oil parts Of the room, and BY per-
sons twenty five feet distan: from the re-
ceiver.
--Vitriol throwing has become so much
the mode In Paris that special mannfac-
tory to meet the increased demand has been
established In the plain Of St. Denis, and
the police authorities are considering the
adyisibility of requiring purchasers to pre-