The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1883-03-23
NEW NoR-WEsTERS.
Horatio Seymour was seventy-two year
old two weeks ago.

Horatio Seymour vi. seventy-two years
old two weeks ago. -, ~ - -
William Lloyd garrison Is to have bronze
statue nine feet high In one Of the public
squares Of Boston. t' 49,
The Pennsylvania Steel Works, at Steel
| ton, recently began work on an order for 10.
600 tons of steel rails. is1 sel11
70 cure felon, cover part affected with q
cloth thoroughly saturated with tincture OF
lobelia, and the felon is dead.
Eleven drunkards have been frozen to
death In the highways of Iowa this winter.
One man Tell at his own doorstep and died
there. -.
Nearly every theatre, according to stats
tics, is doomed to destruction bv fire. The
average duration of each theatre Is twenty
three years. ltt ,Izs5H,a
Fairmount Park, in Philadelphia, will soon
become National nursery. 1t has been de-
cided to plant three trees In 1t from every
State In the Union.
The theory of Romberg, that neuralgia Is
the prayer of the suffering nerve for healthy
blood and more of it, is now generally re.
ceived by physicians. '.
John Letcher, the war Governor Of Vir-
ginia, Is almost q wreck, physically and
mentally. He Is confined to hIs room and
barely recognizes his friends.
So late rs last year DR.. Proust, in paper
to the Academy of Medicine, made the
statement that there were then no fewer than
2lS,270 houses In France without window.
Aniline dyes are now made fast in cloth by
mt of al sI 4.
from one plate to the other, the tive plates
being connected to the two poles of voltaic
battery. Fr...
The little canary seed, which we feed to
our birds only, is used by the natives of the
Canary Islands as an article of domestic
food. 1t contains large proportion of nu-
trititious farina.
One Of the late finds ut Pompeii Is q col
lection of surgical instruments, the extent
and nature of which indicate that the prac.
tice Of surgery had attained high develop
ment In that city.
Washington Mclean, Of the Cincinnati
Enquirer, considers Senator Jones, of Neya-
da, the ahlest man In the Senate, although
too, indolent to be ambitious. Jones Is mod
erately rich again.
The Civil Service Commissioners are
modest. There are only three Of them, yet
they say they will need three rooms and q
large chamber for holding examinations.
This seems to be going into reform with q
vengeance.
It has been asserted that opium eaters are
exempt from malaria, and In
The East are quite sure to escape the cholera
spidemics. The opium habit Is itself, how
ever, disease hardly less serious than
malaria Or cholera. i
One Of the industries Of Australia is the
cooking and canning of rabbits, which are so
plentiful In some districts that whole crops
are sometimes destroyed by them. One firm, |
during the last season, which lasted twenty |
i've weeks, canned 675, 900 Of the animals.
Philadelphia's policeman most notorious
IS clubber struck q disorderly stranger q |
single blow, and was promptly knocked |
ioyn, kicked, dragged over the pavement by |
his hair, and compelled to beg for mercy. 4
He had hit tho Samson Of circus sida ]
,how.
There are at present fourteen steel rail |
mills In this country. They employ on an |
average 5000 men each, including those In |
he mines and collateral branches. The to- |
,sl capacity Of the American works at pres /
snt Is one and half million tons per year.
Last year about one and quarter million /
,ons Of steel rails were made In America.
DR.. Hammond ascribes pneumonia to the
living In overheated rooms In winter. |
Changes too sudden from tropical TO frigid
DR.. Loomis adds "drinking" |
Is predisposing cause. DIR. Leaning says
hat people should rs . preventive keep
themselves In as "good condition rs possible /
md not everwork themselves"
There Is case pending in Philadelphia
,ourt to test the right of printers or others to |
operate their machinery at night, when the |
,oise thereof is liable to disturb the rest of /
,eeple living In the vicinity. An inferior |
,ourt has decided adversely to the defendant.
Large interests, In addition to newspaper
publishers, are interested in the outcome of /
he litigations.
The consumption Of imported wine In
England was eight per cent. less lest year
han in 1881, and nine per cent. less than in
1880. In spirits the decline was one and q
quarter per cent. less in 1882 than in 1881.
Allowing for increased population, this rate
" decrease is very marked. At the same L
ime the increase In the consumption Of tea
vas three per cent. and In cocoa eight per
ent.
Senator Beck of Kentucky, who came
,oor boy to this country from Scotland, says
he Courier Journal, worked on the same
arm In Livingston county, Kentucky, that
secretary Teller worked upon. When they
net In the Senate Mr.. Beck said: swell, |
henry, when we used to drive old Browns
ken we never expected to meet In the Uni
I'd States Senate" "No, Jim," said Mr..
Teller, Eve didn't know there was such q
lsce.s
Attention was first given to double stars by ,
ir w. Herschell, who discovered large
lumber Of them. The appearance known as
double star Is, of course, caused when two
( the heavenly bodies are very nearly In q
Inc with the earth, one of them being much
ar.her away than the other; but repeated
bservations have shown that many of them
re really systems in which one component
svolves around the other. The number Of I
iscoveries of double stars made up to the !