The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1883-01-19
NEW NOR.WESTERS.
The Viceroy of China Is on his death

bed.
A military critic says Skobeleff was the
military Byron of Russia.
VIM. A. seavsr, editor of the "Drawer,"
In Harpsr's Magazine, is dead.
One of the colored members Of the Geor-
gIa Legislature wears earrings.
.Governor-elect Ireland, Of Texas, started
life as hostler at IS per month.
Berlin, with over /, 100, 600 population, has
only forty-five places Of worship.
or Sir Stafford Northcete it is said that be
has meyer made personal enemy.
More than fourteen million dollars have
been expended on the Brooklyn bridg, lthas
far.
Out of train of twelve cars entering
Mexico, recently, ten were loaded with lager
beer.
Arab Pasha has departed for Ceylon,
which next 10 hades, is the warmest climate
known.
A Philadelphia butcher says he sells almost
all his tainted and poor beef TO beef.tea
manufacturer.
New York is learning that q city with
steam heating pipes in the streets cannot
have sleighing.
When Senator Edmunds Is in Washington,
he is at work in his committee room at $50
in the morning.
Jay Gould says it would take rapid wri-
ter eight hours day to answer the begging
letters he receives.
Mr.. Dam, of the San Francisco Wasp, has
been appointed private secretary TO Cover
nor-elect Stoneman.
Parties in western New York are furnish
ing maple logs to be shipped to Belgium.
They are said to be quite a curiosity over
there.
The American Chemist says If owners Of
flagstone walks will cover them with Oil
when clear of ice, there will be no further
trouble.
kiss which lasts over minute, the Detroit
Fee Press predicts all unusual rush Of
amateurs.
The largest fruit seller in New Orleans,
on being asked what became of all the
cocoanut shells, replied that he sent annually
100000 to New York to be ground up with
black pepper.
Nickel Is proposed as a substitute for
bronze in coinage in France. 1t is also sug-
gested that the new coins shall be octagonal
instead Of round, so that people may not
mistake them for silver in the hurry of busi-
ness.
John Steele. better known as "Coal Oil
Johnny" the fame of whose magnificent for
,l 1.
now engaged in manual labor at Williams
port, Pa, and receives $3.50 per day for his
services.
Some English chemists and sanitary re-
formers have started a movement to make
bread from the entire grain of wheat, and
not from the inner portion only. The move
ment has the support Of the first physiolo-
gis:s of the day. .--4,-.
Near the town of irving, Kentucky, the
other day, a mule deliberately committed
suicide. He put his head through crack in
post and rail fence, slipped his neck down
to narrow place, pulled back. and choked
himself. The cause of the suicide Is not
known.
If potatoes are peeled and treated with
eight parts of sulphuric acid and 100 parts
of water, and then dried and pressed, mass
Is obtained very much like cellufoid, and
which can be used. instead Of meerschaum
or ivory. II Is not stated whether the inver-
tion is protected by patent or not.
The artesian we'll In this city has It's sand
pump fastened at the depth Of 720 feet, where
all efforts to move 1t the past two weeks
have proved futile. This we'll has been In
process of sinking the last four years, and
the cost of 1t TO the city Is a matter never
yet made public. L. Tribune.
In what is claimed to be the most delicate
pair of scales in the world, according to the
account given In scientific papers, the beam
Is made of rye straw, and together with The
pans, which are made Of aluminium, weigh
only fifteen grains. In the most delicate
scales heretofore made the beam and pans
weighed sixty-eight grains-the beam being
made of aluminum-and the instrument was
capable Of weighing to the one-thousandth
of grain. This new scale, however, weighs
to the one-ten-thousandth of a grain. A
piece of hair one inch long, on being weigh
ed with this wonderful apparatus, was found
to represent the almost ininitesimal quanti-
ty of one thousandth Of grain.