The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1883-08-31
NEW NOR'-wESTERS.


Man is the worst tobacco worm. He de-
stroys the whole crop every year.
1t is said that 2,450 watches are mannfsc
tuied in this country every working day in
the year.
Gold mines in the famous Wilderness,
Spottsylvania county, Va, ATE being worked
with profit.
According to an English paper, Mr.. Lang
try is rusiicating IN Wales on weekly sti-
pend of Sl5.75 from Mrs. Langtry.
The total number of species of Towering
plants in the woTld 10 roughly estimated By
Bentham and Hooker TO be 95,62O.
Governor Foster, Of Ohio, is said to have
remarked recently that "the Office Of Vice
Presiden: is the short cut to oblivion"
Alexander Dumas is writing new play
on the subject Of the natural claims which
an ilegitimate son has upon his father.
The government has stored in the absn-
doned property division of the treasury de.
partment S50,000,000 in confederate money.
1t Is stated that Senator Don Cameron Is
deriving much benefit from the treatment of
a celebrated English physician TO whose care
he has committed himself.
Bismarck, according to an Orleanist paper,
has said that there are but two men in
France whom he fears, the Comte de Paris
as politician, and the Due d'Aumale as q
warrior.
A catalogue is being prepared of the stars
which were observed from the Paris Observ-
atory during the IS years from 1886 to 1881.
The stars 10 be included in this list number
about 10000.
Mr.. Ferdinand Reiber, of Strasburg. who
has lust published book on beer, proves by
abundant statistics that beer has already in
vaded France, and that it is rapidly making
its way into Italy.
During the last ten years $4,000, COO worth
of opium Is said to have been smuggled into
the port Of San Francisco. II is charged that
Government officials have been in league
with the smugglers.
At Nakskov, in the Danish island of Laal
and, the gas company lights the streets gra-
TUT ously, as a return for the monopoly which
enables il TO supply nearly all the houses
with gas for cooking, heating and lighting.
1t is said that If Two tablespoonfuls of car
bolc acid be put into gallon of water and
sprinkled over potato vines IL will cause an
leave no bad effects like Paris green. The
application Is equally eflicaciOus for currant
worms.
The whistle of locomotive Is heard $500
wards, the noise of train of cars 500 y ards,
the report ofa musket and the bark Of dog
!, 800 yards, the roll of drum 1000 yards,
the croak Of frog 900 yards, and cricket's
chirp $40 yards.
According TO several writers, Charles V.
ordered a rehearsal Of his obseques, His
domestics marched with black tspers. The
king, folded in his shroud, was laid in his
coffin, and the service for the rad was
chauied. The farce was followed in a few
days by the real tragedy.
A remarkably well.executed fve-dollar
gold piece, which actually contained S4.63
worth of gold, was stopped in the Boston
sub Treasury q few days ago. 1t is said 10
have been so well executed as TO place ex-
perts at variance and to make |, n difficult
question TO determine whether 1t was made
from die or by superior casting.
An ingenious mechanic Of jamestown, N.
| Y, has constructed a perfect locomotive,
said to be the smallest in the world. The
| engine Is only 81 inches long. The pump
throws drop of water per stroke. As many
| as 5S5 screws were required to put the parts
together. The engine itself weighs pound
aud half, and the tender two pounds aud
half ounce. The me cbanic was al work
| upon the locomotive Al intervals for eight
years.
Among the ingenious inventions of the day
| Is an electric fence. II is put up around
pastures, fields or gardens, and along high.
WAYS, charged with electricity, and the wire
| run into The house, where 1t connects with q
small battery, located in q locked cupboard.
| IL IL said that animals soon learn to avoid the
fence and its disagreeable shocks, while by a
simple device, 1t will set off call and alarm
bells, and furnish the electric current for tel
ephoning among neighbors.
Captain Robertson IS dead. His plsnts
tion was at Piney place, Charlotte county,
| Va. He was a fiue specimen of type. Good
family, good society, ample means, with
| we'll flled stables aud foxes in the woods, he
| lived q charming life. But apple jack got
the better Of him. Que Of his tricks was 10
place on the gate post little darkey, al
whom he would throw stones until he
knocked him off, Next the Captain lost his
property. The loss sobered him. IN his old
age he worked out the puzzles In the child.
ren's newspapers.
NJ. Faye, in paper read before the Acad-
emy of Sciences, Paris, on July I'd, regard
ing the tornsdoes which swept over Kansas
| on MAY so, 1870, maintains that these mete-
geological phenomena, like other storms and
hurricanes, are due to wbirlwinds, descend
| ing with vertical axes, and originating, not
| In the lower atmospheric strata, but In the
upper currents, the direction Of which may
I! hs quite different from The light wiHds which
previously prevailed near the surface Of the
| earth aud quite independent OF them.
Sii Henry Thompson,ihe London surgeon,
rrcognizss in fish combination OF all the
! elements of food that the human body re.
quires In almost every phase of life, more
especially by those who folio sedentary
employment. Tc women he considers fish
| TO be an Invaluable article of diet, but hs
scouts as a complete fallacy the notion that
fish eating increases the brain power. "Tbe
only action fish had on the brain was TO put
q mans body Into proper relations With the
work be had TO do
The value of The peanut crop Of this couii.
try for the current year Is estimated by the
Savannah Telegram at 50 ,0O0,0O0. That pa
per says that 'the VirRinians are beginning
10 turn the peanut into -four. aud say II
fnAktt ~
GrpIgia there Is custom. now growing old,
of grinding or pounding the shelled peanuts
aud turning them into pastry, which has
spme resemblance. boih I'm looks aud taste, 10
that made of coeoanut, but the peanut pastry
10 more oily and richer, and, We think.
healthier and better every way"
Probably the oldest married couple iB New
York Stste are Peter Bogart and wife, ol
townsville, Delaware county. They are
almost of an age 10 day, being In theii
nins.y sixth year. They were married near.
N seventy ak years ago, and y. the celebra.
lion of the seventy iifih anniversary OF theii
marriage there gere present descendants to
The fifth generation. A sister of Mr.. Bogari
lives with the couple. She Is strong and
hearty, In her seventy ninth year. Although
she was not four years old when Der brother
was married, she remembers the occasion.
Mrs. Boeart is In excellent health, but hel
husband l. physically feeble.---A!bany Jour
nal.
The fact is that Colonel Ilges did the same
thing, In morals, that has landed many .
cashier, teller, and clerk In the penitsniiary
He hoped To have The money TO take up the
fraudulent pay accounts before they left The
g.. Paul bankers hands, jnst as many de
fanlter has hoped and expected TO replace his
eiealinRs In Time to prevent discovery. De
cep,ion for the purpose Of securing mcnes
weuld certainly seem to be ''eonduct upbe
Gaming An officer and gentleman III thf