The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1883-02-09
NEW NOR-WESTERS.
Great Britaln's champion chimney (Town-
sends, Glasgow is 446 feet high.

The Chemist and Druggist says that
"Rough Oh Rats is colored Arsenic.
| There are ten thousand destitute boys and
| girls In Chicago; also sixty mlllionaiies.
The Walla Walla, w. T., undertaken
charges only 500 10 wash, shave. dress, and
bury person.
| Henry Clay's body servant, Old Ned, who
dug his masters grave at Ashland, died re-
Gently In Texas.
Mr.. r. McKinstry, of Hudson, n. Y, owns
1 the largest apple orchard in the world-3O,- :
Of0 trees on 300 acres.
Ingersoll almost paralyzed Judge Wiley
the other day by saying " am not as smart
as the court thinks | am"
The original manuscript of " Home, Sweet
| Home" is In the possession Of family in
| Athens, Georgia, it is said.
The Philadelphia Times says it IS of no
use for Dakota to keep on knocking; tho
| latch string is in for repairs.
Would it not be a good thing for hotel
| proprietofs to ask their employ yes occasional
| ly what they would do in case of fire?
Nicholas Smith, who married daughter
l of Horace Greeley, is said To be in Washing
ton seeking diplomatic appointment.
The Edmunds boom is growing all over
New England. 1t is hardy shrub aud does
| not appear TO care for the weather.-Phitd.
Press.
| Mrs. Yancey, widow Of the late Senator
| Wm. l.. Yaucey, of Alabama, the noted Sc
cesslon leader, died in Atlanta, Georgia, last
Saturday.
| A cremation furnace at Gotha has turned
into ashes during the past four years more
than hundred bodies. Twenty five per cent.
| were men.
Chandeliers are now said TO be out OF
fashion, and it is expected that light will be
thrown from the corners Of the room from
| bracket fixtures.
Henry T. Morgan, the well-known banker
aud broker, died last Saturday week in
his carriage, while returning from Wall
street, New York, to his home.
What Is thought may be a new comet is
| visible in mid heaven from nine TO ten in
the evening. not SO large as the last one and
tail pointing in different direction.
Slate Treasurer Polk, of Tennessee, who
stole S400,0 wears a wooden leg. With
two good legs and fair chance it is thought
that Mr.. Polk would also have got away with
public building or two.
That the Scandinavian settlers in this
| country are prosperous Is shown by the st ate.
nent that on an average they senl $4,000 q
week to Norway and Sweden 10 assist rela
tIves who wish to emigrate.
On the third ballot Jan. 26th, the Repub.
| lican Seuatvr ial caucus al Denver nominated
Hon. Thomas NJ. Bowen, of Rio Grande
United States Senator for the long term. NJ
nomination was made tor the short term.
The projected tunnel under the Hudson al
New York, upon which nearly two million
dollars and twenty-eight lives have been
wasted, has been abandoned, 1t Is reported
the death Of Trenor w. Park having dis
couraged the other stockholders.
Attention may be called to the fact that
General Hazen, the gentleman who has
charge of cur national weather, predicted a
couple IF months ago that January would
be free from severe storms and cold-that in
short we should have mild and open win.
minneapolis Tribune.
According to the Rerre Seientifque, rail
way travelling is safer IN NORWAY aud Sweden
than elsewhere in Europe, year often pass
ing without single fatal accident in either
In England and France one Is killed out OF
every four and half millions Of passengers
| Spain aud America have the worst record.
The Medical Press relates that at Chester
England an Inquest was held over the body
of man who had been more or less drunk
for forty consecutive years. He, his wife
aud his son had been In The habit of drink
ing the droppings of various tap houses IN
1 ha haya pb how NH reh ai
for about a shilling gallon. The curiou,
fact was developed that the only night ht
had been sober for many years was that upor
which he died.
"Benjamin r. Mudge" Is one Of the his
torical names emblazoned on o panel In tn,
Kansas Assembly Hall, IN the State Capito
at Topeka. A correspondent AYERS that th'
only thing Of consequence that Mr.. Mudg,
ever did was TO recommend certain kind o
stone for the construction Of the Capito
building. He was paid $50 for the advice
which cost the State $4,000, because th,
stone was so soft that 1t had to be removed
to give place to other granite.
Secretary Freltnghuysen has sent a eabk
dispatch to the United States Consul at Mar
seiiles to hold the remains Of John Howard
Psyne until further orders. Nothing furthe
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the monument which 1t is intended to cree
to the memory of the deceased has bse,
finished. The Consul will then be srdere,
to forward the remains TO New York. wher
y Mr.. Corcoran's agents will receive them
, They will then be sent to Washington. wher
. they will be inferred in the Oak Hill
cemetery.
London Truth gives some figures compar
ing American aud British official salaries
!, Our cabinet officers receive $4,000 year; II
!. England. seven of the leading cabinet minis
II tiers receive S25 900 a year each. Th
American ministers to London. Paris, Berlil
and ST. Petersburg receive Sl7,5OO each
I The British ambassador at Paris receive
< $4,000 Our ministers at Const antinople
, Vienna and Rome receive $500, ST., 90
and Sl2, 900 respectively; the British minis
tiers at the same cities receive $4,000
8 700 and $35,000.
Reports come from Mexico of the dis
covery near La Paz Of The largest pearl tn
I'll world has ever seen. II Is Of light color an,
/ oval form, one inch In length and three
h quarters Of an inch thick at Its shortes
diameter, and II surprising lustre. N
D doubt the oyster was glad to be put out o
its misery, for Its tenant was too big to b
accommodated and too big to be dispossessed
For q long time the poor bivalve had bee
unable to close its habitation. The o~ne
| Of the pearl says that an ofFsr Of sum les
than $4,000 for his treasure would b
treated with perfect conteRpt.
The fish commissioners Of Msssachusett
: report that In 1882 there we're put k35, 90
: trout Into brooks, 1000. eco shad into th
b Oonnecticut, III, ,449 land locked salmon int
r Ponds, and 265, ,427 salnsn into the rivers o
Tho State, the expense TO ths Staee havin
= been less than 5000. There we're caaghl dur
ing the year 2iS, ,7a0 shad In - pounds, seains
i. 26l ,65S shad Ia SO pounds In 1891; Of gill
nets, 20 are reported with "a OH sbsd taken
against 42 nets and 49, shsd taken d
, 1881; while only heuling seines are re
0 ported In 1882, sgainst the proceeding 7eal
8 and 2b,I06 shad taken, against 2s,50.
Explosive mixtures are often prescribe
by doctors. not cell inkprnsed In 'nsteri
, medics. Chlorata Of potash, Permanganat
OF potash, and glycerins k one OF them.
pumade Of chlora1e Of lice, sulphur, sn
other Substances will detoHste wheR rusbe'
in. mortar. Hypopsosphite " LINE o
/, soda, when tritursted alene. sometimes ex
plode. Pills Of oxide ef silver are sPt 4
decomposa with a. tremendous explosion
! Tinc,ure os iodine sud ammonia fnrH tn
iodide III. nitroeen-a riobeatly cKplosiv
{ substance-which. sgAstsd With vster.
nearly eertain - aetanzte. Chl0rete o
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