The new North-west., 1883-01-05
NEW NOR-WESTERS.
Out of the 6ls,oOO people of West Virginia
4, - - o. nla ,=,ha cannot writa.

Out of the 61S,000 people OF West virginia
there are IS 900 who cannot write.
The last polka dot discovered on the sun
is 6O,O00 miles in diameter. - Saturday
AInei lean.
There Is a movement among the Roman
Catholics to institute an Irish emigration TO
Australia on large scale.
CAPTAIN JIM Britton, Of Texas, has sent
| a chair made Of twenty-fonr polished steers
horrs to governor-elect Bate, OF tennessee
A gourd, pulled from vine near Ameri-
Gus. Georgia, is five feet three inches IN cir
cumference and can hold eleven gallons oil
apple brandy.
| Shawana county, Alabama, is said TO have
produced the prize pumpkin. IL Is nse iee1
six inches In girth and weighs seyenty-thret
and one-third pounds. Il
The Youngest inventor OH the records In
Washington is Walter Neyegold, Of Bristol
Pa, vino has patented important improve.
| ments In rolling mill machinery.
IL Il maintained by Nordenskjold that the
aurora is permanent phenomenon In polar
regions, appearing constantly when the sun
In below the hsrizon and the moon Is In
visible.
A New Yorker had wife in that city,
second in Brooklyn, a third in Jersey CITY,
and a fourth in Yonkers, and he might nave
continued TO live happily with all had ne
not talked in his sleep.
Baron Nordenskjold is preparing Tor
another Arctic expedition, which will set ont
from Stockholm next summer. William
Schonleuch, a Berlin merchant, furnishes
the money for the voyage.
An improved wagon rack has been patented
by Mr.. John Shafer, of Logansport, lndiara'
The object Of this invention is to provide
wagon bed which may be converted at VIII
into rack for wood or a rack for hay.
NJ. Tissandler, the French aeronaut, Is
projecting the manufacture Of an ellipticil
balloon, which is TO be driven by an dynamo
machine and storage batteries. The balloon
will be 13l feet long, and will have eaps-
city of more 100 900 cubic feet. IL Is calcu'
lated TO give a lifting power Of ~ tons
which will, when the machinery Is In place
allow for ton passengers and ballast.
A Missouri doctor reports to the Philadel
phia Medical and Surgical Reporter the case
of father who has nine children, the eldest
of whom is ten and the youngest tive year
of age. The list begins with the girl Of ter
wears: then come twins (bey and girD o
eight years, another pair of twins Of 81,
wears, q girl Of four, and finally tIiplets Gal
cirIs) tive years cid. Father, mother, ahe
children are In good health.
The post.mortem examination OF
mulatuo who died recently in Cincinnati re
r vealed a brain weighing 6l ounces. Then
are on record but two brains heavier thsr
this-that of Cuvier, weighing o4.33 ounces
aud Abercrombie's, which weighed o.
ounces. The mulatto was not considered
p bright intellectually, YET is described as be
coming, late in life, "thoughtful and re
> served" lie had been slave.
Before ice became a universal luxur!
people were in the habit of hanging butte
d In their we'll to keep it cool and sweet; ant
e that Is doubtless the custom still where ic'
4 is scarce and dear. 1t must have happened
a athousand times that the cord broke and th
e butter disappeared, but there can't have beei
is MANY eases where ii was discovered afle
!, thirty wears. Such an incident has jus
given local fame TO Mr.. Goodman's well Il
BIopmiield, Conn. A workman who wa
e cleaning IL found at the bottom ball 9
$, butler and the dish in which IL was su:
= y p.ldsa thirty -ygaTs ago. It !S pnre WHIT
:, and has the eonstancy and odor of spoile
, cheese.
:. The New York Sun says: Samuel Giessei
az fift,-uine wears old, who boarded az Extr
81 Place, aud who had been out of employmer
of for some time and drinking heavily, hange
al himself Oh Thanksgiving Day. After di
:, pute with his Iandlady he took oil his shot
~ and threw In her face pair of stockings thi
t. she had bought for him, took big cotto
er haudkei chief from the table and disappears
of lie owed her $40, and when he bade b
=. good bye she supposed he intended to III
70 another boarding place. He lighted Gig
M xs he left the room, and IL was still In
mouth when the body was found In u
,a cellar about two hours sfterward. He hi
hanged himself from a nail with the han
X kerchief. and had strangled while his fe
touched the floor. lie was ciga-maker.
cd For distant communication In time of va
"f when other means Of conveying intelligen
ID to all intercepted body Of troops are re
en- dered impraoticable by the enemy, the fe
r lowing method, due to the inventive geni
'uS of NJ. Mangin, may prove Of great service
ir- night. A small, captive, translucent balloo
elf containing an incandescent lamp to viii
all electricity is conveyed by suitable means,
elevated by hydrogen gas TO any requir
ier height. BY interrupting the current at c'
ige tam intervals messages can be conveyed
the remote observers In the Morse or a
other convenient alphabet. In time Of pea,
when shipwreck has occurred, or wher
Heod has isolated and endangered the liz
n, of those living In towns situated in ri'
basins, this system Of telegraphlng m
ea- sometimes prove useful after the force Of /
'ok wind has abated.
The increasing cest of wood for constr'
ere tive purposes aud for railroad ties is, 50
ow the Boston journal. Of Chemistry, one
.ro the most serious problems which confront
managers Of railroads. Processes of pres
ec- vation Of wood have been tried with mt
lea. or less success on nearly all Of our tru
use lines. The latest method suggested for
oe, preservation Of bridge timber and ties CT
sists In first subjecting the finished timber
the dry heat and then immersing 1t In hot bi
the composed Of asphalt and carbolic acid.
,tly cooling the solvent of asphalt evaporat
80 leaving q skin or coating OF asphalt on
surface of the wood that resists water .
nat keeps the antiseptic material locked will
and the pores of the wood, The exterior OF
inns wood presents q smooth and dark surfs
~. requiring no planning. 1t is understood
:. the process Is to be used on large scale
lia- one of the Canadian trunk lines.