The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1883-06-01
NEW NOR-W ESTERS.

The United States us s "a, 600 ,OOV pDund
Of tea year.
Lord Byron was very fat boy, his lates
biographer says.
! There is to be a postoffice IN the Queer
|, Anne hotel in the Yellowstone park.
The late Amasa Stone, of Cleveland, lef
property estimated as worth Si0,000,O0O.
An ocean steamship recently brought 4
this country more than one Thousand Ital
isns.
Pulltzer, of the Post Dispatch, of st
LOUIS, paid S3j0,000 for the New Yori
World.
The final report is tha. the New Orlean.
Mint coined light doilars owing to the rs
sayer's error.
General Grant and his sisters have taken
their dead mothers form to be laid to rest In
the old Ohio home.
The National Park hotel people have sub
mitted their plans and say they will be ready
for tourists July 10th.
The wickedness of Ben Butler still rem.
ders the whites Of Senator Hoar's eyes visi.
ble.-Brooklyn Eagle.
| General Phelps, anti Masonic presidential
candidate in 1880, has just been married, at
the age of seventy years.
President Grevy's salary is s24O, 900 a year.
| Louis Napoleon, when emperor, received q
yearly allowance of S., ,000,00
General Don Carlos Buell. bad the lower
| half Of his under Jawbone successfully re-
moved at Nashville few days ago.
Atlanta is the capital of one of the &, ID
thirteen colonies, yet there is not a male
voter In the city who was born In it.
The London Ne,cs charges the Shah of
Persia with abducting Swedish woman
from Russia and putting her in his harem.
About ninety years ago the land upon
which Cincinnati now stands was purchased
by j. &. Symmes for sixty-seven cents per
acre.
Minneapolis has 100000 bushels of
wheat on hand, and the daily output of -four
for the week was IL, 600 barrels by thirteen
mills.
The British House of Commons has de-
feated the attempt of railway company to
invade the seclusion of Epping Forest-by a
line through it-by I20 votes.
Prof. W. A. Rogers has recorded the Curl
Gus discovery that the microscope may fail
to show lines or errors In ruled lines. which
may be detected with the unaiced eye.
There are about sixty.fve newspapers
published in Oregon, of which seven are
daily and one semi-weekly. This is one
newspaper for every 2,6sS Of population.
A tailor In New London, Conn.,, Is making
a pair of trousers fer resident of that
town whose waist measure is sixty-two
inches. The customer weighs $50 pounds.
The late DR.. Glenn, of California, owed
S1,000,000, and but for his untimely taking
off he would have paid the debt soon. As It
is the heirs suffer more than they had ex-
pected.
Colonel Franklin ii. Pierce, a well known
lawyer of Hillsboro, N. H., nephew aud
heir of ex-President Pierce, has been com
mitted to the asylum for the insane at Con.
cord, n. III.
The Duke Of Edinburgh Is responsible for
the latest English craZe-mule riding. He
introduced the fashion by himself riding one
of the particularly fine mules which he OBJ |
tanned in Egypt.
At breakfast the other morning a New |
York dude declined piece Of shad. He had |
been told that fish food made brain, and he |
didn't want to unfit himself for the position |
ne occupied in society.
Yale College has 1,09G students. Ofthese
900 are undergraduates; 106 are in the theo- |
logical seminary; 80 are in the medical
school; IS are in the law school,; 2O6 are in
the Sheffield Scientific school, and 6l1 In the |
academy department.
The Oldest living graduate of the Military
Academy at West Point Is General Joshua
Baker, now Gf Louisiana. During the war
be was on General Jackson's staff. He was
graduated from West Point in 1918, when
only twenty four years of age, and Is still |
hale and hearty.
The report that General Grant Is to 20 TO
Europe is pronounced untrue. There can
be no ground either In the story that he was
TO be associated with the Tehuantepec ship
railway project, because he is interested in
the Nicaragua canal company, and If 1t
ever takes practical form General Grant is to
be its president.
A Swan electric lamp, "not larger than
beam" Is employed by Mr.. j. b. Payne in
several forms of apparatus for Illuminating
the interior of the body. An exhibition of
The instruments was made at late meeting
Of the Northumberland and Durham Medi-
cal society, OF England.
During the short period Of time that has
elapsed since the opening of the Suez canal
several species of animals have passed from
he Red sea to the Mediterranean, and uice
,ersa, aud this, notwithstanding the lakes,
he sandy nature of the ground, the disturb
ance of the ova and Larvae by the passage of
'hips, aud the too great saltness of the canal
" ater.
A New Hampshire paper says that the
country district school In that State Is far
rom being what it was q generation ago.
Benches which were crowded then are near.
y empty now, and in the place of merry
,roups Of children scattered along the road
way, here and there solitary scholar takes
lp his lonely walk to school. The towns
generally make liberal provision for their
chools, but they have not the children TO
end.
Francis Clark, who takes John Browns
lace In the royal household, is to accompany I
queen Victoria In her walks, rides, and
rives, and will be in constant attendance to
AXE her orders; but he will not occupy the
esition held by John Brown, whose proper
fficial designation was "Personal Attendan: {
nd Page The Queens "Personal Attend
mt" is Rudolph Lohlein, formerly valet to :
'rince Albert, who is employed to look after
variety Of routine affairs, and who acts In
minor domestic matters as q sort of private
ecretary. I
Musical Criticism I'm Illinois.