The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1883-06-22
NOTES OF THE DAY.
Dakota had Its Constitutional Convention
-June 10Th.

Dakota had Its constitutional ConVeht1on
June 10Th.
Spain Is holding an exhibition of ceramics
Of all kinds at Madrid.
America bios fair to have the largest fleet
of steam yachts in the world.
The promoters of the Parnell fund hope
to raise 10000. America Is expected 10
furnish one-half.
John Russell Young, United States Minis
ter TO China, Is collecting material for work /
on that country.
Miss Mary Crowell won the literary essay
prize at the Vanderbilt University at Nash |
' lie over 12l males.
IT. Barnum, who is 70, is q remarkable |
example of q robust, hearty and well-pre- |
served old man. He gets about as lively as q
boy of Is.
The National Educational Association
will hold Its 22d annual meeting in Saratoga
commencing Monday, July 9th, and continu-
ing three days,
Mrs. Garfield and her children, Miss Mol
lie and Irwin and Abraham, will 60 to the
farm at Mentor this week, where they will
spend the summer.
The Dublin journals mention with pride
that President Arthur, who, they say, is an
admirable judge Of wine, gets his sherry
| from the Irish capital.
The Marquis of Lansdowne, the new Gov
ernor General of the Dominion of Canada,
is expected to reach Ottawa, the capital, on
the 18th of October next.
! The increased severity of discipline has
not diminished crime in the English army.
| Among 10000 men last year there were 81
| $40 courts-martial and 131 ,434 minor pun
| ishments.
"A New York paper devotes considerable
space to describing dog that has become q
| drunkard. Sometimes brutes become as de-
graded as the human creatures with whom
they associate.
The total lumber cut of Wisconsin and
Minnesota the past year exceeds OOO,OOO,OO0
feet, representing in trees the growth of 1850
square miles. The cut is the greatest In the
history of the Northwest.
The breach of promise case of Mary Alice
Livingstone against Henry Fleming, New
York millionaire, in which the lady got a
judgment for $4,000, has been compromised
by the payment of $50, 600.
Prince Leopold Is by far the most accom-.
plished and highly educated of Queen Vic
toria's sons. He is an efficient orator, and
has made speeches which would have been
highly creditable to any young man.
A dog luncheon in New York-that is, a
recent luncheon TO pet dogs of dainties
served on delicate porcelain, cost $500. Did
| any extravagant folly of old monarchial
aristocratic France ever surpass this?
| There is a new French gun twenty nine
feet six inches long, weighing fifty tons
costing f2j,000. IL Is wire wound, and IL
expected TO put ball through fifteen inches
of armor at q distance of seven aud a hall
miles.
According to summer resort circulars
] Saratoga is the american Baden. Baden,
Cooperstown the switzerland of America,
Sharon the Ems" of this country, and New
!. | port, the scarborough" This sort of in
Q formation comes under the head of import
| ant, il true.
s Queen Mary, the Chief Of the Gypsies
Y now 10 years old, has just come over from
4 England, and is ruling over her subjects
who have gathered III Pennsylvania, and will
: have a big jubilee in Central New York IL
|. | July. Mary is said to be the Queen of al
Q the Gypsies in the world.
d DR.. Quain, an eminent London physician
o i WHITES. hio Ioco ou
10 much in walking and treads upon the Who'll
base of his foot, and Is always stopping I
: look back, he is already old. The sagacion
t Boots at an inn can tell mans age by th
o state of his shoe leather"
a The latest candidate named for the Reput
,e lican Gubernatorial nomination In Masss
!, chusetts is James Freeman Clarke. His sue
. cess in defeating the proposition to give But
u tier the degree Of LII. d. has doubtless bee
II the means of bringing him into prominenc
m in connection with the GoVernorship.
D. One of the most distinguished Of Cont
n mental societies, the French Academy I
=, Moral and Political Sciences, which electe
some years ago as corrosp ondent in Its Sc
"a ton Of Philosophy Ralph Waldo Emerso
has recently filed the vacancy caused
4. Emerson's death by the election Of Herbe
as Spencer.
ce The proprietor of one of the finest WILL
N In Newport this season will have a bed
the new ornamental leaved plant known
lila Alterndnthord Major, containing 900
y plants, which will cost 50, 900. The plant
Is low growing, rising above the lawn but fe
~ inches. The leaves are of rich crimson, ca
- mine and orange tints, beautifully blende
H. which in contrast with the green of the Law
yh produces an effect almost impossible to CO
by ceive.