The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1883-07-27
NEW NOR-WESTERS.

A crocodile shuts its jaws with force o
1,540 pounds.
New York City has its One-h undred- and
eighty ninth street.
The new drummer law has brought s., 40
into Nevada's State Treasury.
Hanlan, the oars man. has made, it is said
S53, 900 in six years by rowing.
Senator Mahone's son is a straight-ou
Democrat and not Readjuster.
Travel on the Brooklyn Bridge is enliv
ened almost every day with a runaway.
Mauch Chunk is pronounced Mock Chunk
Tucson is Toos'n, and Manitoba is Manneto
ball.
Colorado, in the first six months of 1885
produced 2G,947 tons OF coal and "A POS tom
of coke.
Tabor has a So 900 carriage, with ky-blu'
upholstering, which rather tries the Baby
complexion.
The Marquis of Lansdowne sails in Octo
Der for Canada TO assume the duties Of Gov
ernor General.
Pink eye prevails to an alarming extent in
parts of Oswego county, \. Y, and horse:
are dying rapidly.
The Lancet, medical journal, says there is
nothing in the Queens condition to excite
the slightest anxiety.
When travelling on a railroad, it is said that
lying with the head toward the engine will
often cure a headache.
At the Lond IN Fisheries Exhibition is a
mother-of pearl suite of bedroom furniture,
valued at l,J00 guineas.
Compressed paper doors are now made,
and are said to be superior TO iron or wood
for staying the progress Of fire.
Tom Fields, who was one of the links in
the Tweed ring, is patent medicine maker
at st. Andrews, near Montreal.
Reduction in the cost of postal money Or
ders took effect July 1st. Two-cent letter
postage will not begin until October 1st.
A rustcd screw may be easily removed if
heat is applied to its head, which may be
readily done with red hot kitchen poker.
Flood, the banker, was the only million
aire who gave to the Knights Templar fund
in San Francisco, and his check was FOR $500.
| Why should it not have been discovered
until this late day that there is no legal pun
shment for the cOunterfeting of trade dol.
| lars?
King Alfonso, of Spain, wants all the na-
tions TO take part in grand celebration in
Spain of the Columbian discovery of Ameri-
| ca, and not to hold the celebration in Italy or
| America.
The London Lancet, after an examination
of the circumstances Of Lord Byron's death,
concludes that the old fashioned physicians
killed him.
Isaac W. England, the millionaire pub
Usher Of the New York Sun, is a scientific
farmer, and experiments especially in irriga-
ton and draining.
Edison says >" Electricity is n ten.acre lot,
4 with very high, close fence around It,. All
+. We know about it so far we have gained by
peeping through the cracks in the boards"
] The fishermen on the lower Columbia are
on strike. They demand ninety cents per
| fish, and the Gamers say fish are running too
small to admit of their paying such price.
Mons. Parize has discovered that the
crumflng of imperfectly baked bricks is
caused by the growth in them of microscopic
organisms, and not by exposure TO the
| weather.
| Nebraska has increased its population
| 1,49G per cent. in twenty years, and its taxa
BILE property 1,212 per cent. Its per cent. Of
| illiteracy is less than any other State or Ter
! ritory in the Union.
The effective idea of a Georgia clipping
couple was to engage every available horse
| in town for the day of the flight, so that
when the father would have pursued he
| could not command the means.
| Mrs Frances Hodgson Burnett was asked
how 10 write a novel and replied: "You
must have pen, ink, and paper. Use the
first with brains, the second with imagina-
tion, and the third with generosity"
Krupp's works, at Essen, now employ 439
steam boilers and 456 steam engines, with
the aggregate of 1880 horsepower. There
are eighty nine steam hammers, carrying
weights ranging from 200 pounds to so tons
An electric light introduced in Pennsyl-
vania coal mine the other day scared q lot of
mules there out of their wits, and miners
said that it was the first time one of the au-
imals was ever known to show fear under
ground.
1t appears that Charles Francis Adams, Jr.,
spoke by the card in his Phi Beta Kappa ora
| tion against Greek in the college course.
President Eliot and the corporation are
unanimously with him, after a long and
careful discussion.
Recent experiments with stringed instru-
ments have shown that much more sonor-
Gus tone can be obtained with metal strings
than with those now In use, although the
labor of playing upon them is corresponding
ly increased. Steel wires plated with silver
or copper give the best results.
| The probocis of bee must be inserted
into five hundred clover tubes before one
grain of sugar can be obtained, and there are
1000 grains in pound. The most remark
able thing about it is that the busy bee does
not get discouraged and resort to the nefari-
Gus practice of adulterating its sugar with
glucose.-Norr. Herald.
Mr.. Mackay, the bonanza king, has outdone
the Vanderbilts aud the other patrons of the
fine arts. He has bought a collection Of
pictures ready made and good old collec.
ton, too-that at Leigh Court, Somerset
Thus is one of the many notable private gal
leIies of the old masters In England, and Mr..
Macksy is said TO have bought 1t outright for
S550,000.
The Soldiers Home estate at Washington
covers 502 acres. There are 500 inmates,
with $50 out pensioners who get SSa month.
The revenue is about S1G0 900 year, derived
in part from Sl00, 600 levied by General Scott
on the City of Mexico for having permitted
guerrillas to fire on American troops. and
from a fee of twelve and half cents q
month deducted from the pay of all soldiers
l.. the army.
The Able Moigno, of Paris, has succeeded
in raising Sl50, 900 to meet the expense Of
dragging the Red Sea and Bitter lakes In
search of Pharaoh's chariots and treasures.
The expedition, composed of several scien-
lists and q corps Of experienced divers, are
now on the way to the place, but 1t Is feared
the outbreak Of the cholera at several Of the
Red Sea ports will prevent their landing.
Bishop O'Hara, Of Scranton, Pa, who Is
reported as likely to receive the pallium from
Rome as the successor of Archbishop Wood,
has been in the priesthood for forty zone
years. Tie was consecrated as the first Bishop
Of Scranton in 1868. Pennsylvania was
formerly q part of the province Of Balt.-
more, bat at the elevation OF Archbishop
Wood I'd the archiepiscopal chair, the State
was erected into separate province.
negro diver went down TO look through
vessel discovered on the bottom of the Gulf
OF Mexico. He had scarce got down until
he got up again. He said he saw the devil,
covered with flame and breathing fire. The
man was so badly scared that he almost
turned white. The captain Of the wrecking
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