The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1883-12-07
NEW NOR'-wESTERS.

A hens nest was patented at Washington
last week.
Mr. Thomas Mast has just recovered from
serious illness.
The grandson of Charles Dickens Is said
to promise well as novelist.
Murphy, the temperance advocate, charge:
$3.50 per month for lecturing.
Samuel J. Tilden will, 1t Is said, go south
for short while this winter. ss
A Guadaloupe, Mexico, gambling raarr ha:
taken In $500 600 In two weeks.
This years statistics make Texas the rich.
est Southern State, with S520,000,0 900.
A woman has challenged Bob Ingersoll to
discussion, and Bob has crawled off.
Whalebone has gone up from 81 to 81 q
pound, owing to a bad season in the North
Pacific.
Virginia is still making war on the oyster
pirates, and is sending rifles and cannon to
the front.
Louis 2. Noros, one of the Jeannette's
sailors, makes a living by canvassing for
Arctic books.
The venerable Washington banker, w. w.
Corcoran, at the age of S5, attends daily to
the duties of his Office.
1t is claimed in Albany, n. Y, that the
Introduction of the electric light has de-
creased crime 40 per cent.
Not to be behind the times, the Detroit
Erening Journal dates it three afternoon
editions IA, Is, and IT o'block.
Between three and four per cent. of the
| human deaths are caused by accident, and
about 10 per cent. by consumption.
| The minister who ties the connubal knot
| gets fee varying from 81 TO $50; the lawyer
who unties it charges from 500 to $500.
1t is said that at the present time between
O.. 900 and 10000 French people are engaged
in the manufacture of clocks and watches.
Seven of the largest English trades unions
have spent in six years $4,000, 900 for the
defense, support and relief of men out OF
work.
| A Boston boy, sentenced to life imprison-
ment for murder in 1873, gets out on the
ground that the Massachusetts, prison don't
take boys under 10.
The Society nf Friends has repealed the
prohibition OF the marriage of first cousins,
which has been In force in that body for
nearly two hundred years.
II is found that the assets of the old Etna
Insurance Company, of Chicago, which were
supposed to include $4,000 in secured pa
per, are less than S2l5. The securities are
| bogus.
Wilkie Collins, when working regularly,
| writes abont 1900 words day, covering with
| them three large pages Of letter paper. He
| writes SLOWLY. aud cuts and scratches, and
| rewrites and interlines.
The Springfield Republican says 1t Is true
that Carl Schurz has retired from the New
York Erening Post. There was no break
| in his friendly relations with the staff, but
be found the close editorial work from day
Wages in Mexico along the lines of the
| new railroads have nearly doubled. Com
mon laborers receive 81 and Sl.25, as against
30 cents Twelve months ago. Masons and
carpenters get from S1.75 to S2.25, and the
pay of clerks has increased at least 80 per
| cent.
While Ingersoll was speaking at the COL
| ored indignation meeting in Washington, q
black woman began jumping and bobbing
up and down In the old camp meeting fash
ion, droning out hymn, to which she kept
time with her feet. She had misteken the
genial Star route attorney for minister of
| the gospel.
Among the years novelties in Holiday
goods are toy theatres. embracing sceneries,
properties and moving figures, proscenium
boxes, stages orchestras and moving pano-
ramas, illustrating the various fairy tales
most popular with children. These and all
the novelties in toys, dolls and fancy goods
are being collected by Santa Claus,
4 few weeks ago one of the most notable
ambassadors In London said to familiar
friend, who asked him what were the pros
poets of peace next spring: "Bah, my friend,
Russia cannot fight, for she has not the mon
ey; France cannot fight, as she has not the
men and the generals; and for the rest, no.
body wants to fight, and there you are."
Captain Stone, the man who reared Maud
g., says that he does not think the perform
ance of the gelding Frank the other day at
New York, of a mile In 2:0S5, with a run
ming mate, such wonderful one as to make
him anxious about the position of Maud S.
on the score of fame. He believes that with
good mate Maud S. can do the mile under
two minutes.
Weather prophets who draw conclusions
from the actions of animals are now de-
nounceA by DIR. Abbot, OF Trenton, N. j.,
who asserts that for twenty years he has
watched the habits of muskrats, squirrels
and others, and has found that their prepa-
rations for winter have no connection what
ever with the mildness or rigor OF the ap-
preaching season,
There will be 325 members In this House
of Representatives, instead of the 293 Of the
last House. The Eastern States have the IS
they had In the last House; the Western
States have 100, instead Of 92; the Southern
States have I2l, instead of 100. The Demo-
Gratis will have a majority of "a, or twice the
number OF new members. The Democrats
will have 1914 members in all. The East
sends AZ, the West 81, and the South 101.
Gen. Steedman left a young wife with five
children to care for, and no property. Three
OF these children we're theirs, one an infant.
| The other two were Steedman's grandchil-
dren. His son Lewis was q soldier, whose
wife died some seven or eight years ago.
Lewis died year later and left the children
TO the care of their grandfather. 1t was then
that be married to make home for them.
There Is no provision for them.
James Gordon Bennett, "Buffalo Billn
Cody, Sir William McCormac, who is Qaeen
Victoria's doctor; "Tom" Sun, an old trap
pei. SdpR6iu oeoiuaot INC GTdCh wing suuty
"Boney" Earnest, the wealthy ranchman, of
Raw Inns, w. T., and DR.. Carver, the marks
man, are about TO meet In Chicago TO 90
hunting the wild whangdoodle and the grz.
ely bear In the Rockies. Tom Ochiltree had
intended 10 accompany the party In the ca
pacity Of sacred historian, but his Congress
sional duties will keep him In Washington.
When Hindoo or Burmese swears, he
duplicates not only himself but all bis kind
red up 10 the seventh degree, all his personal
acquaintances and all his posterity. If
through lapse Of memory be happens to per-
iure himself, all these are condemned TO
aten kinds of punishment, and five attacks
Of enemies" Should the perjury be of
rather more deliberate sort, the earth will
open and swallow them all mp. III the wit
ness knowingly makes q false oath, his
friends and acquaintances will be lowered
into eighty great hells and one hundred and
twenty small ones.-Justfce IN Asia.
1t is generally supposed that luminous
paint was not known until quite recently,
but according TO DIR. Macgowan, the Chinese
understood the art OF making such paint at
very early period. A tradition relates that
the Emperor Tai Tsnng, who fonrished to-
wards the end Of :he tenth century Of the
Christian era, was presented with picture,
which 1t night represented = COW lying down
within fence, while during the day the COW
browsed outside, II Is explained that The
NIGHT nirf Al RI ~ ns nafufed with = nasfa rauda