The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1883-08-10
NEW NOR'-WESTERS.

Iowa spends So, ,OOO, 900 year for sducA
tion.
New York State has $50 Grand Army
pus,s.
The Washington Monument now weighs
10000 tons. ..
Denver's new artesian wells are flowing
1000, ,OG0 gallons daily.
The colored journalists want Negro and
Nation spelled with big Ms.
Boston has IT'S policemen and the cost Of
the force last year was $9OO,562.
Peaches weighing half pound apiece, and
cheap, are III the market-at Mobile.
MIR. Gladstone, IL IS said, Is writing book
ON the Evidences Of Christianity"
Stanley, the African explorer, is reported
in good health, but five OF his party have
died.
The Emperor William is at Ems for his
health. The printer tackles ems Tor DIS
bread and butter.
In spite of 800 lifebosts and 293 rocket
stations, about 1000 lives are lost on the
British coasts in year.
PENNSYLVANIA il burdened with q money
surplus of S., 100000, The statesmen OF that
commonwealth must have been asleep at
their posts.
They who choose to spell Nation with
hig n should not use United States in the
plural number. The United States Is great
country, If you please.
General Sherman strongly advocates the
adoption Of the postal telegraphy by the gov
ernmen:, and estimates the cost al from s2u,-
100000 to S25,O0O,0O0.
Clarence King, the brilliant geologist. is in
England, and he has dined with the Queen
and the Prince of Wales. He 10 the social
lion of the hour In London.
An old Scotch engineer advises passengers
about TO cross the ocean not 10 take steamers
that strain their machinery IN order 10 make
quick trips and gain newspaper notoriety.
The longest trestle in the world is now
building across Lake Ponchartrain, on the
New Orleans and Northwestern railway. 1t
will be twenty one and half miles In
length.
On the table lands of Southwestern Arl
zona, at attitudes Of $500 TO l2,OOO feet, q
species of wild potato grows, which Is said
to be superior in taste and favor TO the best
cultivated poi otatoes.
1t is said that gambling Is becoming gen
eral in the German army. Gambling is bad
of course, out a German soldiers income be.
Ing about four cents day, IL Is difficult 70
zee how he Is going 10 gamble to excess &.
Harper's Weekly makes an excellent sug
Ia hat
compliment In sending us assisted" pau
pers by despatching our Indians to her. This
would cert anly be an excellent way Of set.
tlng the Indian question.
Now they say that General Ord was
grandson Of George ~, and should have
been King of England. 1t Is therefore to be
inferred that Queen Victoria should have
been an American general. Who mixed
these children upp
The most satisfactory remedy for the cab
bage worm tired at the New York expert
ment st. alton last year consisted OF a mixture
Of half pound each Of hard soap aud kero
sene oil In three gallons Of water. Tho dose
should be frequently repeated.
At the Ccbden dinner in London permits
sion To smoke was accorded at the very be
announcement by the ch lirinan that smoking
would be INDUCED in excited loud applause.
The fact Is set down as a significant social
circumstance.
Another of the labor agitstors Is played
out. Herr Most finds so little audience In
the East that on a recent occasion he declined
to speak, there were so few present to
hear him. The good sense of the American
workinemen soon penetrates the designs OF
these blatherskites.
Gen. Sheridan's Washington house, just
presented TO him by a number Of his friends,
was built dive years ago for Judge A. o. AL
dis. Ii stands IN fine position on cor
ner, aud Is built Of brick, two stories high,
surmouuted by msnsard roof and attic.
The interior woodwork Is of ash.
Father Bosco, the famous Italian mission.
ary, is now IN Paris. He has erected semi
naries which contain $1,000 poor boys. He
furnishes 900 priests every year to :he church.
Over 10000 priest educated By him are now
preaching in various parts of the world. He
| is almost blind and very feeble. In manner
| he is childlike, simple aud gentle.
Very careful experiments made In New
York last season show that the fiat culture
of pulaloes produces the finest tubers and
the largest yields. The best results followed
the Dutch method Of planting, which con.
sists III Keeping the surface of the ground
level, planting a single eye in a place, GOV
ering IL six inches deep, aud allowing but
| a single stalk TO grow in hill, which are q
foot apart each way.
| The vapor of tobacco juice has been test
ed In France as sn sectitude in greenhouses
| will, great success. Instead of burning OF
smoking the tobacco, which is very often.
| sive method to some persons, the tobacco Is
made into an extract by soaking or boiling
and the juice is then placed over chatting
dish, fre, or the fame Of All ordinary lamp,
and placed In the greenhouse or conserva
| try. Delicate plants which are very SEN
sitive to smoke are not Injured by this vspor,
und 1t leaves no offensive atmosphere, while
1t pffectually disposes Of tbrips, lice, scale
insects, and slugs. One quart of tobacco
juice vaporizrd Ia house containing $50 cub
ic feet Is an ample amount. s tr-
Iu North America, the Mississippi river
drains land area Of about $4,000 square
miles: the Mackeusie, $4,000; and the st.
Lawrence, 5000. In South America, the
| Amazon drains 2,264 600 square miles; and
| the La Plata, $50 600. In Europe, the drain
age area Of the Yolea is 397, 900 square miles
OF The Danube. 23I, 200; Of the Rhine, 65,
600; aud If the Eliza, $4,000. In Asia, the
Obi dra its water from 925,0O0 square
| miles; the Yenesei, 7S5 900; the Lena, 594,
O00; The Amur, 5S3, 400; the Yang tie kiang
soon; the Hoane no, 537 600, the Ganges
49,. 900; aud the Indus, $4,000 In Africa
the Nile receives water supply from b2O,O0l
square mil of territory. The volume O
water the rivers carry to the sea Is very fal
from being pioportionste to their respective
drainage aIeas. The discharge Of the Anna
znn exceeds that of the eight principal river
of Asia together, and Is five times that of tb'
Mississippi.