The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1883-02-02
NEW .NOR,WESTERS.


A Massachusetts, soldier has just bsen pait
$440 by the Government for q toe which hi
lost in the war.
Russia and the Vatican have reached q ba
sis Of settlement as TO the status Of Roman
Catholics In Russia. -
A Washington exchange says: The pension
agent Is TO the veteran of the late war wha
the sutler was to the soldier.
The railroads Of the world have growr
from 1900 miles Of road In 1910 to 259, 900
miles on December 81, 1882.
There is another large spot on the SUMS disc
Astronomers say that hereafter the spots will
decrease in size and number.
The Episcopal prayer book has been trans
lated into more than sixty languages, and
100000 copies of ii are printed every year.
The Postofkce Department ammo uuces su
advance of rates on fourth-class matter. Thii
pre- misses to be q hard year on newspaper
poets.
According to local newspaper, cattle val
ued al $13, 500, 900 are now grazing In what
was six years ago absolutely Indian country
in Texas.
A Nebaska man took dose of Paris green
because lie had lost $50, but i'm lately af.
terward started for a doctor and offered him
81 900 to save his life.
The managers Of keokuk cemetery
would not allow man to bury his ampu-
tated leg In their ground until he procured a
permit from the Coroner.
Chicago receives twenty four car loads of
oysters q day, aud sends half Of them on
ward to the westward unbroken. The west
ern demand for the bvalves constantly and
rapidly increases.
When a man mysteriously disappears
nowadays, his friends don't begin dragging
the river or casting around for a murderer
until it Is known how his books stand and
how much money he had borrowed.
The seal of Harvard College, with its in
scription IN Latin, "For Christ and the
Church." is printed ON prospectus Of the
veterinary school, WHICH is soon to open. "If
Harvard can introduce Christianity into the
horse business" says a students letter, eds
belief in miracles will be at an end"
There are l,457 theatres In Europe. Iialy
heads the list with 34S; next come France
with 337; Germany, 1914; Spain, 100; Great
Britain, $50; Austria and Hungary, 1872 !;
Russia, "A; Belgium, "a Holland, %; Swift
zerland, 20; Sweden and Norway, 1S; Por-
tugal 10; Denmark, 10; and Turkey and
Greece, 4 each.
Death. Ia our view, takes place when the
action of the heart ceases, but TO the Chinese
person is alive until the body becomes cold.
These two beliefs may cause estimates Of the
time OF death Of any individual 10 differ by
several hours, which difference has given rise
TO some very unsatisfactory evidence at in
quests in Hong Kong, the Chinese idea hav-
ing been unknown to the Europeans until
recently.
The Lompoc Record boast that its printers
are working in their shirt sleeves. The
printers In Montana are also working In
their shirt siaeyes-->x1th stove us big rs q
Comstock steam boiler inehe room and q
raging fire In Il. Southern California hasn't
bit the best of Montana when it comes to
printers working in their shirt sleeves
Rdlla U:aiid Union.
1t 10 stated that several kinds of woods,
says the Engineer, although Of great dura-
bility In themselves, act upon each other to
their mutual destruction. Experiments with
cypress and walnut and cypress and cedar
Joined together, but on separation the rot
will cease and the timbers remain perfectly
sound for long period.
The New York Tribrne claims that War.
rem Cheney, an essayist In the resuscitated
Orerland Monthly, has been guilty of "fla-
grant plagiarism" and In support Of the
charge quotes whole sentences from essays
on Poe aud Lowell. by Stedman, which have
been appropriated bv Cheney In an essay on
Bret Harte. The talented author Of " The
Luck Of Roaring Camp" is wronged by a
panegy rist who, in his panegyric, ulilizes
praise originally bestowed on Others.
A new patent boot has been invented. An
elastic middle sole Is arranged with air cells,
connected with tube extending to the top
| If the boot. The weight of the body at
each step congresses the air from under the
| the foot out through the tube. When the
| weight Is removed, the atmospheric action,
or suction, supplies air, and thus q clrcula-
ton is kept up at each step. 1t must be aw.
fully nice for 8 man to have jet of all
pumped up his legs every step with from
bone solo accompaniment.
A bin granting pension to the children
of Christopher Carson, late Lieutenant
| Colonel and brevet Brigadier General in the
| United States army, was introduced In Con
gress last week by Delegate Luna. 1t Is for
The relief of the sons and daughters Of the
once famous Kit Carson, who are poor and
now live In Las Vegas. Their mother !.
dead, and the oldest daughter, Teresina Car
son Allen, Is widow. The petition for .
pension bears the signatures of the mos
prominent citizens Of Las Vegas.
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There is now being exhibited in London Z
| strange, hairy lhtle girl named Krao. Sh,
| Is seven Yeas Of age. and was brought frou
southeastern, Asia. The hair on her head Il
1 black, thick, and straight, and grows over tht
fureh-a down 10 the heavy eyebrows, and !.
| continued in whIsker-like locks down tn,
cheeks. The rest Of the face is covered will
| q 6ne, dark, tlowny hair, and the shoulder.
and arms have covering of hairs from ar
inch to an inch and half long. The show.
man says that she Is the " missing link tha,
| Darwin failed to find.
Asbestos 10 at presen. In Italy mainly sup
piled from The provinces in Sondrio ane
Turin. 1t occurs In regular strata varyins
| from three TO four inches, although iu some
cases 1t has been struck twenty inches thick
| The enclosing rocks are chroritic and talcoss
scbisis CT a grcenish color, and the asbestos
| is found chiefly in fibrous masses of vel
| lowish-white color. Occasionally the fibre.
are long aud firm, like skein Of thread, oi
| yard or more In length. IL has also beer
noted that asbestos abounds in the serpentin,
rocks, and 1t Is often accompanied by othei
minerals, among which garnites Of q greer
color In minute crystals are discovered.
AS. Louis lawyer, whose uniform court
esy Is one of his distinguishing traits, won ,
suit in the Criminal Court the other day, an'
when the verdict ncqhitting his client hac
been read, arose and In bis most impressive
manner bowed to the jury and exclaimed
Gentlemen, tthank you." When they hat
retired, Jadge Van Wagner called the law
yer 10 the bench and said to him: al hop'
that shall never see another such exhibi
| ton In this court, sir" The lawyer mur
INJURED that politeness was always in place
" You are mistaken, sir. returned the Judge
ayou have no more right to thank the jur.
when you win than yoa have To damn tn
jury when you lose"
Onsfesnlt Of the late war Is the, opening
of new route Of travel to Egypt. Hitherta
people bound to Cairo have been forced u
make tbe journey from Alexandria, and !
| they have taken pains TO see the Suez cana
| they have had to 90 out Of their way for Il
| Within few weeks sn English. .AustrxiisI
| line of steamers, calling at Naples fortnight
| Iy, has oegun tn take travellers either from
London or Naples to ismailia, on the canal
from which place few hours'r ride over th,
1 railroad which was Of 80 great Importance ;.
| General Wolseley conveys them 70 Cairo