The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1883-09-07
NEW NOR'-wESTERS.
"The Silent Man" is the title Of new play
by Joaquin Miller.


sippi travel on free passes from the railroads
The Count of Paris would be 'sPhilipp
VII" should he ever reign As king Of Francs
President Grevy is fond of shooting an
cooking game. He is great on wild COOS
gravy. au .-
Cincinnati's twelve national banks have
capital of s., ,60o, 900, with surplus and undi
vided profits ofSl ,265,064.
Oscar Wilde's new play, "Vera" has mad
fat failure in New York, and is withdraw
! after weeks siexiy run.
Julian Hawthorne, at the Concord schoo
Of philosophy, defined life as ''the predica
ment previous TO DEATH"
The signal station on Pixies Peak, 14,15'
feet high, Ia the highest building In the worl
inhabited the year round.
Lieutenant Schw atka is engaged on ne,
book called "The Musk.Ox Hunt"
ought to be strong subject.
Japan has the cheapest postal service il
the world. Letters are conveyed all owe
the empire for two sen-about cent and
half.
Colonel John Hay and Mr.. Nicolay, botl
Of whom were private secretaries TO Mr.
Lincoln, are taking a summer trip tegethe
in Colorado.
Dispatches TO the New Orleans Times
Democrat from all sections of the cottoi
belt show considerable falling off In croI
prospects compared with last year.
1t Is very noticeable that print cloths, will
cotton at 10tc., now sell in Boston at &c., !
per cent. off, while last year at the same time
with cotton at 13 Lice, they sold at 3ic.
Emperor Williams favorite war horse
Granger, which had TO be killed recently
has been stuffed, and Is to be reproduced IL
bronze in an equestrian statue OF the Em
peror.
Mckee Rankin, weight 200 pounds, hai
been required by the Union Square manage
ment TO reduce himself twenty-five pound.
in order TO fit him for the part OF the lover In
"Storm Beaten"
Chester A. Arthur, Jr., the Presidents son
cut off the end of his left forefnger while
testing his razor with hair at Block Island
on Wednesday. A little iodide Of potassium,
good apothecary.
Marwood, the hangman of England, Ia:
taken to drink. He has twice executed mer
while under the influence of liquor, and ha:
done the work SO bunglingly that he is likely
TO be dismissed from office.
There are now 4s,049 post offices in the
United States, of which number 2,176 are
presidential Offices, and 6,272 money order
offices. Since the year 1876 the number oi
post offices have been increased forty pei
cent.
Justice in Minnesota sometimes operates
queerly. A man at Mcpherson bought q re.
volver and was going TO kill his family. His
wife took the weapon from him and gave him
licking. and county Justice fined her SIS
for It..
The landlord Of the hotel where the Prin-
cess Beatrice has taken residence, at Aix-le.
Bains, wrote to the London Times, offering
to pay for an article pulling the establishment.
The Times printed the letter without COM
ment.
Perak, in the Malay peninsula, now pro-
duces about as much tin year as Cornwall.
Last year Perak exported not less than 1000
tons Of that valuable metal. In the mining
Vorks there are 10000 Chinese employed al
present.
The Archbishop Of Canterbury, In view of
his discovery In London of whole families
employed In making match boxes for four
and half cents gross and paid only eight
cents for making an ulster, concludes that
the only remedy Is emigration.
Aver, the medicine man, was worth over
two millions Holloway, the liniment man,
left ten millions; and Brandreth, the pill
man, left fortune Of three millions. These
eminent medicine men may be classed
among the leading pillionaires of the repub-
lie.
The wax plant OF Carolina and
Is probably cultivated In AL
geria. The gathered fruit Is put into .
coarse bag, which Is placed in boiling water.
The wax soon rises TO the surface, and Is
sold rs Q substitute for beeswax, which It
resembles,
The Briton who wants to marry his de-
ceased wife's sister, now makes an ante
Luptial trip to New York to accomplish his
purpose lawfully, and then the welded cou-
pie are prepared to make their bridal trip
homeward across the Atlantic. At least two
such marriages are on record. ..f
Mr.. Aristide Marie Is probably the richest
HI VI GDtOf III hBcIlS6s AAC W 40 AoikC
slave owner before the war, and his income
leans Is not less than $4,000 q year. Be-
sides this, he has q large personal estate,
consisting of irst-class securities.
The deposits of amber, for which the Bal
bic is noted, are the product of generations
of resin bearing trees. The richest deposits
are situate along q strip of coast between
Mamel and Dantsic, though the real home of
amber has been supposed to lie In the bed Of
the Baltic, between Bornholm and the main
land.
The Dutch government Is not TO give the
prize Of 10000 guilders for the discovery of
y .Northeast passage" to the intrepid Swed-
isb explorer, Baron Nordenskjold. IL Ii
refused because the route Is rather scien-
tific than q commercial one, and il was for
the discovery Of the latter that the reward
was offered.
Among the notable bridges OF the world
Is the one 1t Langang, China. II crosses IN
arm Of the China Sea. This structure Ii
some five miles long, and hes not less than
800 arches. Over the pillar of each arch re.
clines lion made out OF single block Of
marble, and yet 21 feet long. The roadway
OF this bridge Is 10 feet wide.
AsIseilles and Paris are now connected,
at q cost Of 5000, 900, with an underground
cable. II is laid In east iron pipe, six feet
below the surface, and is so arranged that IL
can be from time TO time inspected. The
success Of the undertaking Is . good omen
for our cities that are overladen with tele-
graphic and telephone wires.
81. Louis, IS city, lies In an atmosphere
Of poetic legend and story, Within three
miles from the business center, on the Him
OILS side, At the old French town Of Cahokia,
generations are born, live and die, who do
not speak the English language. The peo-
pie are provincial In the extreme and jealous
OF their French origin, customs and Ian
guage.
A Kansas farmer saw q flock of quail run
ming alone between the rows bf corn which
was just srtouting. Conceiving the idea
that they were pulling the sesd, be killed
one, and found In its crop some cut worm,
twenty striped bugs, and over . hundred
chinch bugs He thereupon concluded thst
he had made . mistake.
Pine sawdnst, highly compressed has been
successfully used 70 make up center frames
OF carriage wheels, II Il said 70 be % solid
that II will bear . pressure equal 70 ~ tons
per square Inch. A. sswdust has also been
used for partitions and bricks, its apnlica-
tion 70 the production Of complex carvings
and mouldings does not seem 70 be far Of.
Casper Gross, who was killed BY train in
Illinois, belonged 70 ; family singnlsrly un-
fortunate In unnstursl deaths. His Oldest
hrother froze to death in Eapoleon's rstrset