The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1883-07-20
NEW NOR-WESTERS.
Twenty thousand persons visit the New
York postofiice daily.

1WeuLy LnOuSAuu pcIsouo fiois Wv -'
York postoffice daily.
The Pope Is much disturbed over the state
of affairs In Ireland and France.
Elan, the perforated Richmond editor, is
sixty years old and near-sighted.
The royalty on barbed wire, used for fenc-
ing, is TO be reduced about one-half.
The school for Indian pupils at Genoa,
Nebraska, is TO accommodate 500 children.
George Knapp, senior proprietor Of the st.
Louis Republican, is ninety-eight years Old
Captain Webb will try to swim across the
Whirlpool rapids below Niagara Falls on the
2lst.
The fruit crop this season in the Rogue
River valley, Oregon, will be the largest ever
raised.
Ex-senator Conklng says ne Is too busy
to write book, aud has no thought Of such
a thing.
Van Der Bit is the way the Commodore's
name is entered on the Staten Island church
register.
Tennessee has twenty five copper furnaces,
with an annual yield of nearly 100000
pounds of copper.
In Italy and Japan water from the hot
springs is extensively used in gardens for the
production Of early crops.
Edison has closed his Menlo Park labora-
| tory and is giving personal attention to in
PRODUCING his electric light.
Ranchmen in Western Texas are lament
ing scarcity of water and the parched condi-
tion of the grass. Stock is suffering.
Mrs. Gen. Sherman admits that 'the Cen
eral is rather handy with his mouth" and
"does nearly all the kissing for the family"
Doctor" as a fashionable title, has
Knocked out "Colonel," General" and
"Judge," but it must be of the LID. kind.
When an old and distinguished politician
keeps a little shady for few weeks, they say
he is getting materials into shape for book.
A pickle factory at Highland, ILL.,, has con-
tracted for over 400 acres of cucumbers with
farmers, and expects to ship about lG,OOO
barrels.
Cardinal Jacobini, rapal secretary Of state,
will resign his office. TO place himself iD
| training for the shoes Of Leo NIII when he
shall pass away.
Baron Erlanger is German Jew, who be-
came a Protestant, and then Catholic, in
order to marry the daughter of the late John
| Slidell, of Louisiana.
Why could not light, servceabe shoes be
made of paper? People who have worn
wooden shoes pronounce them comfortable,
4 but they are not beautiful.
A homing pigeon let loose at Steubenville,
! Ohio, recently made the journey to Orange,
| n. j., distance of 333 miles, at the rate of
| one mile in a minute and twelve seconds.
San Francisco Chronicle, 4th. For the first
! time In the history of California three
| through regular overland express trains ar
rived from the east yesterday in San Fran
cisco.
The Secretary of tie Navy has received
very few bids for the construction Of the new
steel cruisers. The iron and steel men are
afraid TO take hold, the chance for profit Is
| SO small.
General Crook is credited with the follow
ing automatic remarks: "We must fight all
the Indians we swindle;" at costs less to
feed Indians than to fight them;" "If they
| cannot get corn they will get cartridges"
| "Ohio," saws the New York Commercial
| ndrertiscr ''has done many things for which
| she is entitled TO the gratitude of the nation,
| but she never did a better thing than when
| her Legislature declared tramping to be a
| cFinle."
| The biggest of the big trees Of California
| must doff its plumes to monarch of the
Aust rxlran woods, if the report is true that
a symnetrical specimen of the EUcdlyptHS
dinyqda lima 43O feet high was lately discov-
cred ia Victoria.
Senator Bayard, public man of the high
est character, spoke in a recent address 10
| yoring lawyers, of "a class of clients and lit
| iga uts who seek and too often obtain, from
the legal profession, services injurious to the
| com monwealth."
1t has been observed that "righthanded
ness extends far down in the scale of crea
tion. Parrots take hold Of their food In
their right foot by preference, and Mr.
Crook es is inclined to believe that insect:
like W ssps, beetles. and spiders use the righ,
anterior foot most frequently.
A new use has been found for cotton
Manufa etured into duck IL has been success
fully introduced as a roofing material. Aside
from its cheapness 1t possesses the advantage
of ligbtness as compared with shingles OF
slate it edfectually excludes water, and it /.
| said TO be a non-conductor Of heat.
Prof. Proctor reasons that the moon ha.
| grown old six times as fact as the earth,
| comparison of the masses and radiating sur
faces of the two bodies making it evident
that the earths internal heat wa' originally
| sufficient to last six times as long as the
moons supply. On the very moderate as
sumption, therefore, that only twelve mill
ions of years have passed since the earth ant
moon were at the same stage of planetary
life, this astronomer shows us that sixty
millions of years must eiapse before the
earth will have reached the stage of lift
through which the moon is now passing.