The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1883-01-26
NEW NOR,WESTERS.
Governor Butler will live at a Boston hotel
during his administration.

There are six saloonkeepers and only four
| journalists in the New York Legislature.
The census shows Clevelant's population
TO be 1913 800, gain In one year of 5000.
| 1t is said that Vanderbilt contemplates the
purchase of the Illinois Central Railroad.
General Lew Wallace, American Minister
to Turkey, has a volume Of poems and love
story ready to print.
During 1882 there were 1874 failures in
TO S47, ,267, ,67i, and the liabilities to s935o9,-
1886. t-I
Phil Armour. the great Chicago meat
packer, employs o. 500 men, aud during the
| year has killed 100000 hogs and 10000
cattle.
| The New York Sun, speaking Of one Of
| Governor Cleveland's appointments, says ::
I" 1t almost provokes regret that Foiger was
not chosen Governor"
| Life is like pack of cards. Childhood's
best cards are hearts; youth is won by dia-
| nonds; middle age Is conquered with club,
while old age IS raked In by spade.
| Dr. Wild, of Toronto, announces that
| Adam was seven feet high. This would
/
was located somewhere In Kentucky.
Prof. Tyndall says that the highest waves
| which storm can kick up on any ocean will
not measure over fifty-nine feet. The
"mountain high" statements must back
water.
The smallest coin in the world has been
found by traveller in the Malay Peninsula.
IL Is mere wafer, made of the juice OF a
tree, aud is equal to about millionth part
of dollar.
| With even length of six hundred yards
of cable divers have been able to communi-
cate with persons above water, to receive
instructions, to ask for tools, to report inves-
legations, all by telephone.
The Swiss Canton of St. Gall has passed,
by large majority, law reintroducing cap
ital punishment. The Council of the Cam
ton Of Lucerne passed the same law by sew
enty-three votes against eight.
The record of thunder storms kept at the
Pic du Midi observatory was recently exam
ined, when IL was found that o. the lS4
thunder storms observed from 1873 to 1882,
only t~enty-three were produced at height
above 7,7O0 feet.
"For the first time in the history Of the
city of Boston, Samuel +. McCleary is not
city clerk" says the Advertiser. "Father
and. sou, they have filled the Office sixty
years, period which was equally divided
| between them"
| 1t is remarkable that all the diseases aris-
ing from drinking spirituous or fermented
LIQUORS are liable 20 become hereditary, even
to the third generation, increasing, If the
cause be continued, until the family becomes
extinct.-Dartoin.
One of the weathiest of United States
Senators IS George ii. Pendleton. 1t would
take at least SlG0,000'a year, 1t Is said, to
maintain his several places of residence-his
elegant winter home in Washington, his
mansion in Cincinnati, his cottage at Con
way, N. H., and his villa at Mt Desert, Me.
The question, "How long is it necessary TO
keep children away from school after an in
fectious disease ?" was answered recently by
the Academy Of Medicine of Paris. With
scarlet fever, diththeria, measles, and small
pox. isolation il TO be maintained for forty
days. Chicken-pox and mumps lose their
contagious power after twenty-five days.
One of the oldest members of the United
States Supreme Bench was heard to say soon
after Roscoe Conkling's late argument before
that court, that 1t was the ablest legal argu-
ment that had ever been presented to 1t dur
ing his long service as Associate Justice. He
also said that Mr.. Conkling was one Of the
greatest men intellectually Of these times.
It's fact not generally known that Alaska
has one OF the largest rivers in the world.
The Yukon is nayigable for 900 miles, and
so wide along Its lower course that one bank
can not be seen from the other. The dis
tance across its five mouths and intervening
deltas is seventy miles. IL you doubt this,
Yukon go up there and measure for yourself,
There is talk of removing the head dress
now adorning the Goddess Of Liberty on the
capitol dome and placing In its stead the cap
of liberty. Jefferson Davis was on the CON-
, mittee that considered the work. He op
posed, however, the liberty cap, because II
represented freedom to all mankind, and al
I that time slavery existed. He suggested an
D Indian head dress, and his suggestion was
, favorably considered.
: The Virginia City New Chronicle says
5 George p. McConkey's death is now shown
TO have been case Of suicide. He was q
defaulter, having made away with s11 600 Of
' White Pine county funds. McConkey was
J. found dead, with bullet hole In his head
{ lying beside an open safe In bis office ri
Hamilton, Nevada, recently. He was the
County Treasurer, and also agent for Wells
Fargo & Co.'s Express.
II Sixty-four residents Of Chicago are named
!, In the Tribune of that city as nillionaires
: Among these millionaires are Cyrus ii
K Mccormick, Marshall Field, "Long John
Wentworth, aud George III. Pullman. Eight
of the sixty four are bankers. The real es
tate millionaire is estimated to be worth
= $4,000, 900. Alexander Mitchell, of Milwau
0 kee, who made his money from railroads, !.
said to be worth s20,000,0OO. ...ar
Edison has contract to light the City oi
. Mexico with electricity. Fifteen thousand
0 horse power will be required for that and
i other purposes his company has in view, and
the power will be carried from waterfall
eighteen miles distant. He says this thing
, Of CARRYING power from water. falls TO q con.
} siderable distance Is going to be done very
extensively In the future. It Ii practicable
to carry $4,000 horse power twenty miles Il
!. | necessary. s.t
Jefferson Davis writes to a friend In st
Louis denying two stories recently circulated
concerning himself. He says he did not play
, poker at Prairie du Chen In 1884, adding
$50 far as | know the game did not exist
1 then" Further, he denies that he eloped
with Generel Zachary Taylor's daughter In
1885. He married Miss Taylor near Louis
Vile, in presence of her uncle. her aunt, and
! several other membesp of the Generals fam.
, lily. Moreover. bard feeling never existed
between General Taylor and himself.
I In cable letter to the New York World
L. J. Jennings tells story apropos Of pay
ments to foreign authors that rebounds
greatly to the credit of Messrs. Harper. He
says that when DIR. Livingstone's travel,
were going through the press, John Murray,
. DIR. Livingstone's English publisher. wrote
to the American house that an effort was be.
ing made to raise money for Mrs. Living
} stone, who was in need Of immediate As
; sistance. The response from Messrs. Har.
, per was check for 81, 600 for advance sheets
the forthcoming work.
} The river Rhine, whose overflow Is daily
q reported by cable TO be destroying property
|, by the million marks, and taking many lives
has been booming ever since the middle o'
November. The Rhins is formed In Switz
j erlaDd by the union OF two small streams
one OF them springing from the glacier q
Rheinwald and the other rising on the nsrtf
II side Of Mt. Gothard. The total length o
!, river, following its windings. 10 about D6(
miles, and Its basin comprises IN arsa q
, 6E,0O0 square miles. In its course II receives
ursvnerorla imuorfa ant cnn6uenfs. and on IL.