The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1883-03-30
NEW NOR-WESTERS.


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A Georgia farmer exults in six acres Of
cucumbers. .......
James o'Neill will 60 to England with
Mary Anderson. ....
The funded debt Of the United States on
March lst was 81, ,354 ,s95, $50. .". ..,
The Florida Legislature has passed bill
comforting police powers on train conductors.
London spends SAC, 900, 900 year on its
poor, yet starvation Is Of common occurrence
there. ....
There are more than fifty systems of mar
rtage, divorce. and inheritance legally In
| force IN India. #a
Senator Tabor spent 81 900 week during
his ten weeks term In the Senate. His sals-
ry In that time was $l,60O. O..
One Of the venerable Peter Cooper's traits
Is feeding the cats which gather near his Of
flee at certain time every day.
The Polish novelist, j. j. Kraszewski, is
probably the most voluminous Of living
writers, he having published 400 novels.
An Antarctic expedition TO Cape Horn is
being fitted out by the French Government.
1t will be furnished for eighteen months.
DR.. Kreutz, Of Berlin, calculates that the
great comet Of 1882 completes It's revolu-
ton around the sun once In abou. S43 years.
A law has been passed In Maine to forbid
the killing Of birds and game On Sunday, but
an amendment to prohibit fishing was voted
down.
The Fart Of Dudley. whose income from
his various mines often amounts 10 more
than $5,00O,0 600, Is In condition bordering
on imbecility.
think the first virtue Is to restrain the
tongue; he approaches nearest the gods who
knows how to be silent, even though he Is in
the right.-Cato.
Cocoanuts are worth $25 thousand in the
Bay Islands, and bananas about thirty-seven
and half cents bunch. Nearly ail that
are exported come to this country.
1t has often been noticed by hospital sur
geons, says the Lancet, that severe, curious.
or rout-of-the-way accidents seem to occur In
groups, but of this no adequate explanation
has ever been given. ..
Distilled water in the daylight Is of deep
blue color. BY gaslight, as nay have been
expected, the color is green. NJ. Meyer
made the experiments, using long glass tubes
closed by parallel pieces of glass.
James S. Boynton, the new Governor of
Georgia, Is six feet three inches In height,
and ''straight as an arrow" His elevation
to the Governors chair has possibly added
an inch or two more TO his stature.
When U. S. Treasurer Gllhllan left the
Office at the end Of last month IL was neces-
sary to count all the funds In the Treasury
about S75, 100000 in cash aud 1915 ,OO0,O00
In bonds. 1t will require moHths time to
do It.
Los Angeles, CAL, is now lighted by cleo
tricity. There are seven masts, $50 feet high
each, with . 3,000-candle Brush lamp.
These lights are said TO be plainly visible
twenty miles away and can be easily counted
al that distance.
One Of those persons who sleeps records"
says that l34 feet OF snow have fallen in the
Ashuelot, Valley. New Hampshire, during
the past twenty-three years. The smallest
fall in one year was thirty-eight inches; the
deepest l0l inches.
Governor Stanford is having bis great
vineyard Of 100000 vines planted at Vina,
In Yole county. He means to be the great
est grape grower In the country, but r. Ma
deau, of Los Angeles. Is at present the largest
vineyardist in the State.
Mr.. Ferry has left Washington to travel by
slow stages to Detroit. He is mentioned In
. Washington paper so physical as well as
q political and financial wreck" Not half
dozen Of his associates called at his house Ia
Washington to bid him goodbye.
During 1882 the murders committed In the
United States averaged two q day, while the
executions only averaged two q week. There
were In the year PIP murders aud 53 execu-
tions In the South. New York State had
13l murders and only four executions.
The will OF Mr.. Henry Seibert, Philadel-
phia millionaire, was opened recently. Al.
most his entire estate, valued al 81, 600 900,
was LEFT to chari, able and educational insti-
tutions. Mr.. Seibert's body was cremated
at Washington, Pa, the day the will was
opened.
Tordens, of Brussels, prescribed benzoate
of soda in number Of cases Of whooping
cough, and in all cases the coughing fits be.
gar to diminish In force and frequency after
one or two days Of treatment. He gives four
grains Of the salt every hour to . child Of
two or three years old.
duced into France. II Is embedded In con-
crete, and Is flush at the edges with the road
way. From the sides 1t slopes down to the
center, so as to enable the wheels of vehicles
TO retain their place upon It. The estimated
cost is about 80 . yard.
DIR. George E. Walton denies the remedial
value of the climate of Florida for northern
invalids, especially those afflicted with pull
monary troubles. In q Popular Science
Monthly article he advises consunptives TO |
keep away from there on account of the
warn, humid, relaxing, enervating character |
Of the atmospheric conditions. --.s-
Bishop Whipple, on a recent visit to the |
Indian department Of hissafnisslonary do |
cese. administered the communion TO PAT |
Chippewa Indians. Fifteen years ago there |
was scarcely one communicate among them.
There are now eight churches, In the Chip |
pewa mission and the one now building will |
cost 1e,000.
Several designs have been submitted for /
the new 2-cent stamp, but none of them have |
as yet been adopted, beyond the fact that the /
stamp will contain picture Of Washington |
and the legend, "United States postage in
stead OF ~. s. postage" as At present. It is
thought, however, that the stamp will be of
Q br0wniSn cCIOr.
The Scientific american says that the
haulage Of cur railways employs over 1900
locomotives, and that the aggregate cost Of
them, such IS fuel, water, repairs,
and engines. is about $4,000, 900, or rather
more than 5000 for each engine. The item
Of fuel alone 10 $33, 900 900, but the waste
In fuel ID enormous.
! milk white raven has been placed In the
Berlin Aquarium. Except its strange hues,
pink eyes and red legs, IL is like
other ravens, and was taken from brood of
coal black brothers and sisters. It's appear
ance at the Aquarium caused panic Of ter
ror among the other birds, which seemed TO
recognize the abnormal condition of their
new companion.
President Arthur intends TO discourage the
light Of officials which has been the scandal
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