The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-12-22
NEW NOR-WESTERS.

Mr.. Wendell Philips has entered upon his
72d year.
The colored Baptists In Tennessee number
10000, and have loo churches.
Pennsylvania produces nearly one-half the
buckwheat crop Of the country.
Thurlow Weed was member OF the First
Presbyterian church Of New York.
Australia has nearly 1,25o, 900 horse, Z, ,5oo,-
600 cattle, 74,50o,00o sheep, and 9o4,o0O
swine.
There are HOW nearly TOO Cinnamon In
the New York and Brooklyn Sabbath
schools.
There Is q "religion Of the tongue" that Ii
but . cheep and worthless substitute for the
religion Of "deed."
You may like physician without feeling
obliged to take his medicines. II Is the same
way with preacher.
DIR. Yarrow says Guiteau's remains are
ready 70 bs turned over ~ any person whom
the Court may designate. IL,
It 10 understood that Derby will be ap-
pointed Secretary Of State for India and Har-
iington Secretary Of War. Il,
The name Of Idaho is corruption Of the
Indian word E-dah-h hoe, which signifies
"Gem Of the Mountains"
The new criminal code Of New York pro-
vides for the punishment Of people who at
tempt to take their own lives.
The titles of "Baron'' and "Baroness" are
cheap In Brazil. They cost about $500 each,
and can be purchased by any native.
The Japanese believe that the FIRST man
was not Adam, but Hu-Sing, who made his
wife of clay and baked her forty days.
The Island of Anticosti, In the St. Law
renee, is to be sold by auction to settle q
lawsuit. 1t contains over 100000 acres.
Senator David Davis lives In veritable
palace, in the center Of handsome and spa.
cious park, just outside the city limits OF
Bloomington, Ills.
The kingdom of the Netherlands and Its
dependencies contain 10000, 600 people, and
Amsterdam Is one Of the dozen weaithiest
places In the world.
Taxable property of Kansas City has
nearly trebled within the past six years.
The municipal debt Is 81, 900, and five
per cent. bonds will soon be sold at par.
Mrs. Hancock, the wife Of General Han.
| cock. has written q "Ts Deum Laudamus,' "
| which ID dedicated to St. Cornelius Chapel
Governors Island. 1t 10 TO be published
| shortly.
| At the Milan Exhibition solid wine was
| introduced. II was In the form of paste
which, when dissolved In glass Of water
was said to yield instantly = generous wine
| of good appearance and bouquet.
The Hon. John G. Carlisle, of Kentucky
who Is much talked Of as probably the
Speaker Of the next Congress, has pleasant
home In Covington-an old fashioned brich
house, OF ample dimensions, surrounded oy
q spacious lawn OF blue grass.
| George GAY, who died poor near Wheat
land, Or, recently, was once the richest mar
| In the northwest. His herds Of cattle
roamed over what are now the popnlous coun
ties of Yamhill and Polk, and In 1873 he
built the first brick house In Oregon.
The hospce of Great St. Bernard, 500
feet above the sea, can no longer claim TO b
the highest building Il, Europe. This dls.
tinction now belongs to an observatory wv
feet higher, OH Mt. Etna. 1t commands
view half over Sicily, over Malta. and
Cambria, Italy.
A male professional beauty Is on exhibi
ton i'm er upper Broadway, New York, shov
window. He Is of the blonde type, Will
| light hair curling close to his shapely head
the most regular of features, q complexion
pink aud white Is girls, eyes OF dawn gra
aud the form of al athlete.
At the recent meeting of the Society q
Arts in London, DR.. Siemens, the eminen
electrician, delivered All address In which
declared that electricity must win the day .
the light Of luxury, but gas would, at th
same time, find an ever-increasing applies
tion for the more humble purposes Of illr
mutation.
According to Mr.. Proctor, II from . sing
pair for 5000 years, each husbaLd and VII
had married At 2l years Of age, and there hs
, been no deaths, the population Of the cart
would be 2, 2,1g9,0i followed by 14l cipher
1t would require to hold this population
number of worlds equal to 8, l66 ,526 followt
by l25 ciphers.
Capt. Nathan Appleton, . well-knoN
. Boston capitalist, states De Lesseps u
= General Turn, the Hungarian canal suilde
1 will be interested with him In building
!, ship canal across Cape Cod. The apple
- Lion Is on file In the State House TO cor
J. plete the job in three years, with $2,ooo,V
r expenditure.
n Unsinkable ships, according to Capt. r.
b Forbes, o. Boston, will, in few years, car
n oil the frst-class goods and frst-class passe
:. gers between Europe and the United Stat
" He supposes these ships to be built OF ste
It and to be divided into ut least ten cempa
n ments, exclusive Of those occupied by
!. ehinery and fuel; every compartment 10 ha
the means Of pumping in sir and pumpi
IL out water. Such ship could not very W
70 sink, but II, ~ an additional security, oil
g. freight was secured In water-tight packag
n the vessel would float even II every one
the compartments had fracture In 1t. Th'
" is nothing absurd in this supposition.. II
% more than probable that oil heavy and Goa
ly merchandise, such - metals aud ssda ~
~ will be excluded from the fast mail and p'
:. ssnger steamers. 1t will only be necessa
~ In that case, to see that the compartments
In the two lower decks are without defect,
introduce complete set Of pump: for air
water, and thus adopt the old Chinese me
cd of packing silks and teas, using elti
casks or metallic covering 20 Tar as practl
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