The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1883-11-16
NEW NOR'-WESTERS.
There are about 100000 kernels of wheat

| Ihe MISSISSIPPI river Is very low, ana cSn
not leave its bed.--N. o. Picdy,use. 4
1t is stated As q fact that corn and potatoes
planted on 'cyclone ground" will not grow
Washington people expect General Grant
soon to become permanent resident OF thai
city. -#
Bismarck is superstitious. He will lake
no important step on Friday, believes In. as
trology, and has predicted the day and, houi
of his own death.
An Indian student at the Carlisle. Pa,
academy, 10 called Indian Summer. He Ii
so quick at figures. 81 @
There are 1856 paper mills in the world
with q combined production of 900 ton!
Of paper annually.
Files may be readily cleaned of grease BY
holding them for a moment in a steam jei
from blow.of cock.
England owes about $4,000 100000 more
than the United States, without q tenth o
our capacity to pay debts.
When the widow buries her first husband
she becomes pensive, but after she gets the
second she is usually expensive Yonker'
Gazette.
Portland, Oregon, grain men claim the
wheat sent to Minneapolis and found insult
ed for fine -four, was not good sample Of
Oregon wheat.
Galvanized iron pals for drinking water
should not be used. The zinc coating Ii
readily acted on by water, forming poison.
Gus oxide of zinc.
Dion Boucicault says that Mrs. Langtry
asked him: Gam l as beautiful as Mary An
derson?" NO." he replied; ''you have o
beautiful bust and waist, and that Is ALL"
"What on earth induced you to marry?''
asked Sardou of Bernhardt once during a
rehearsal of Fedora. "Why? Because 1t
was the only thing that had not yet tried"
There are in New York City s24 miles of
gas pipes, 4S6 miles of water pipes, 301 miles
of sewer pipes, 14s miles steam supply pipes,
and fifteen miles of underground electric
| wires.
l Aspecimen of vegetable wool comes from
Java. When 1t is freed from Its leathery
covering and the seeds, by very simple pro-
cess, II Is worth between sixteen and seven
teen cents pound.
American companies have built over $780,
000, 900 worth of railroads In Mexico and
completed over 600 miles of track. The
English lines consist Of 3j3 miles, and the
Mexican roads 636 miles.
A good Cremona violin has fifty-eight d.
visions. The back. neck, circle, and sides of
sycamore; the belly. base-har, sounding
post, and six blocks, Of deal; the finger board
and tail piece Of ebony.
Lard should never be used on q wagon
wheel, for it will penetrate the hub and work
Its way out around the lemons of the spoke,
thus spelling the wheel. Tallow Is the best
lubricator for wooden axletrees.
It 10 said that there are now ITO bias. fur
naees In the United States. OF these $40
are In blast, 365 are out Of blast, aud five not
reported. The number of furnaces in blast
this year is iess than at any time since 1879.
Wife: "The fiour's out" Husband; $50
is my money" Wife: "The coal is gone"
we can't starve." Husband: "Can't we?
That's good. / was afraid we would."-
Puck.
Our advanced fashionable people tell us
that 1t Is no longer good form to have pic
lures hung In the psrloF. You must have a
picture gallery, be It ever 80 small, and there
is the place for the art treasures you "pick
up" in Europe.
Sir Moses Montefore will be 100 years old
October "a, 1884, and Jews all over the
world are hoping that he may live to be q
centenarian. His face has look of great
benevolence. He was knighted in 1887 and
raised to the baronetcy in 1S46.
1t Is said that about 5000 varieties of
colors are employed by the workers Of mo-
sale In Rome, and there are fifty shades of
each Of these varieties, from the deepest to
the palest, thus affording $50 900 tints which
the artist can distinguish with the greatest
facility.
John Wansmsker, of Philadelphia, has, at
one time and another, given the Young
Mems Christian Association of that city over
| 500 900. Mr.. Wanamaker Is In business
aud the fact that he is the biggest advertiser
IN Philadelphia enables him to be the most
generous.
November 18th the Interior Department
will adopt the seventy fifth meridian time as
the local time at Washington. The new
time will be eight minutes and twelve Sec
onds faster than the present. The railroads
Of the country will adopt the same time No
vember 18th.
Germany has 800 mills for the manufacture
OF wood pulp. Such degree Of perfection
for the better qualities Of paper the wood
pulp Is substituted for pulp made from rags.
1t constitutes IS per cent. Of the paper stock
used throughout Germany.
An English country paper contains the fol-
lowing curious instance Of mispunctuation:
"Lord Palmerston then entered on his head.
q white hat on bis feet, large but we'll pol
ished boots on his brow, dark cloud In bis
4 n f.xf llr,, t;,lr irxh IL
menscing glare saying nothing"
DR.. Jackson, an English surgeon living in
India, was stung to death by hornets recently
| whIie hunting tigers. He received over 200
stings, and died from the erysipelas that fol-
lowed. His companion In the hunt was
saved from q like fate by the fnrethought of
his servant, who dragged him into jungle
soon after the hornets attacked him.
A girl, writing from Mormon settlement
In Nevada, says: "Brother Wadsworth Is pre-
pairing for cold weather. He brought up
| from lower Utah another one of his wives,
and now has beth women In the village, A
woman to hug up before and another to hug
up behind Is . very comfortable thing In
winter. / wish was q man."
A tieorgis professor dissected two gmad
stones" One, the size Of hens egg, had
for nucleus perfect white osk acorn. il
was covered by four layers of phosphates and
/ carbonate Of lime and iron and some silex.
The acorn had apparently been swallowed
by deer, marks Of teeth being upon IL. The
nucleus Of the other stone was bullet.
II is celebrated thought of Socrates that
4 f oil the fortunes Of mankind were cast into
public stock, in order to be equally dis
tTihuted among the whole species, those who
now think themselves the most unhappy
would prefer the share they are already ~
sessed of. before that which would fall to
them by such division.
Lord Coleridge, at the New York banquet,
suggested that there ought to be Ia this coun-
try . sort Of national pleading park, like the
Yellowstone, "where all the 0bsgue hoes
surrebutters, and other weird matters of thst
kind might be preserved TO crafty future
curioaity." The Utipa Herald hopes thst
this gentle bit OF sarcasm win not be lost
upon the American bannh and bar.
II 10 said that glass 10 gradually beginning
to take the place Of wood and iron In the
construction OF bridges In England. Them
venlor makes blocks Of glass, which he har-
dens by special process. In so!idity II is
said TO leave nothing TO be desired. The ex-
periments already made have given surpris-
ing results, and the cost ~ below that Of
bridges Of wood or iron. Moreover, the glass