The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1883-01-12
NEW NOR.WESTERS.
New York City has twenty-five theater

The hard trick in journalism-to know
what to keep out of the paper.
President Arthur, with his son and daugh-
ter, expect to visit Florida early next spring.
Raum estimates that it would require
$50 900, 900 to refund the taxes on the stocks
of tobacco or hand.
In 1910 Ireland held nearly one-third of
the population of the United Kingdom. 1t
now holds one-seventh.
In building the St. Gotbard tunnel, $40
| workmen were killed and 631 injured. Of
the latter, a number afterward died.
Jay Gould's income from Western Union
alone is $500 a day. He will stand good
many law suits before surrendering it.
The Industrial South says that Fortress
| Monroe, Virginia, is the largest single forti
fication in the world. 1t has already cost
over 81, 100000.
One vessel was lost at sea every twenty-four
hours during 1881, according to the English
Nautical Gazette. In lS79-S0 there were 400
steamboat collisions on the North Atlantic
| ocean.
The New York Herald cleared SS50,00O
last year; the Sun paid ten per cent. each
month on its capital Of $780, 900; the Times
netted 5000, 900, and others did well. Others
didn't.
A man named Watson was recently
lynched at American Falls, Idaho, for MUIR
der. In the absense of trees and telegraph
poles, the vigilantes used two two-wheeled
road-scrapers for gallows.
Japan is keeping fully abreast of Western
nations in the introduction of new inven-
tions. One Of the latest signs of this is the
extensive use of the electric light In several
of the government establishments in Yokc-
hama.
Lucas county is the worst managed county
| in Ohio. Its indebtedness Is over So, 900 600,
| which is more than the combined indebted
| ness Of seventy.two counties and nearly as
| much as the combined Indebtedness of the
entire State.
Hon. Lucius w. Ponl, the Massachusetts
ex-State Senator, whose forgsries in 1876
created so much excitement, and who was
sentenced 10 fifteen years imprisonment In
the penitentiary, found a full pardon in his
stocking Christmas morning.
A clay model of statue of the late Sena-
tor Morton has been finished at Rome, and
the statue will be cast in bronze at Munich
aud unveiled at indianapolis next Decora-
tion Day. Indiana holds in veneration the
memory Of her great war Governor and
| Senator.
DR.. Virchow has shown, at the Berlin
Aulhr0poIogIcal Society, some ancient skulls
found IN the Caucasian district. They are
believed TO afford proof of the existence of
the race called Makrokenhii, described by
Hippocrates. The heads are large and ex-
| lremely long or high in form, an effect
believed 10 be due to bandaging In early
infancy.
Captain David Crockett, a grandson of
tue famous -Davy Crockett, the Kentucky
fromtieIsman, is a stalwart six-footer, re-
| sembling his backwoods ancestor; but he Is
far more sophisticated, having just been
sentenced to two years Imprisonment not
for some reckless and unlawful deed of
bravery, but for sordidly making and pass
ing counterfeit money.
The late Earl of Beaconsfeld's vacant
stall in the chapel Of ST. Georges, Wind
| sor, has not been retilled. The queen, as
mark of respect for his memory, deter
mined it should be unoccupied for a
twelvemonth; but nearly two years have
passed since the death of the great Con-
servative leader, and her majesty has not
given away his blue ribbon.
Vanadium ink is really the only perma-
nent black ink known. The basis of this
writing fluid is rare, and what little there is
in the stores Of supplies of chemical ma
terias is very costly. However, there has of
late been quantity of II discovered In Cey-
lon, and IL is probable that 1t will be found
worth working for the money which IL is
ceraIu to bring both here and abroad.
Among the discoveries made during the
botanical tour of Mr.. John G. Lennon in
the mountain ranges along the Mexican
frontier Of ARIZONA were two or three
varieties of indigenous potatoes. They were
found In abundance in very elevated
meadows, walled round by peaks 10000
feet above the level Of the sea. In size
they did not exceed that of walnuts.
| w. Ii. Glider, the New York Herald
correspondent, who crossed Siberia in
sedges TO carry the news of the burning
of the Rodgers. has arrived in New York.
He doesn't look as though he had under
gone some of the severest hardships that
ever befell man. He says, however, that
he doesn't feel very well; that the horse he
kate on the journey had not been well fed,
and didn't agree with him.
In the pockets of a curious looking un.
fortunate individual who was run over by
the cars aud killed at New Brunswick, n.
j., were found papers showing that the de-
ceased was Danish poet, Christian Jensen,
and letter written In Danish TO President
Arthur, stating that the bearer did not seek
an office, but desired when he visited the
White House to pay bis respects TO be
courteously treated. In another pocket was
small piece of CASTLE soap, scrap of
ham fat and some lard.
Kansas City Times: The newspaper mills
never close. Day and night, age after age,
the work goes ON forever. They ask no
protection, they pay no tribute. For them
there are no Sunday laws, no holidays.
Newspapers are the pulses of thought.
They can no more stop than thought itself.
As the ebbing and how of the tides never
rest, as the ocean Is never still, so the
great sea OF human knowledge is flowing
on and on-purifylng itself by its very
restlestness-the press Is cleansing the wrrld
of its crudties and absurdities.
In accordance with the popular SUPER
stition q club composed OF thirteen mem-
bers should be the subject of all sorts of
bad luck. Such, however, does not seem
TO have been the fate of the New York
"Thirteen Club.v On the contrary, the or
ganization has been so free from the mis-
fortunes ascribed to the number which
denotes its name and its membership that
1t has decided to hold its next annual din
ner, some time in January, In haunted
house, provided such q domicile can be
found in the vicinity of New York.
i Virginia City New Enterprise: The
workmen who have been engaged In boring
an artesian well at White Plains, on the
Central Pacific railroad, have got their
auger safs In the hole. The work will stop,
however. They ara now rigging up the
proper appliances by means Of which 10
extract the afrozen" bit. The sinking of
this well Is an experiment Of much import
ance. 1t Is what may be looked upon as a
"test case.n Should the well prove all that
is hoped, many other wells win be sunk
in the deserts and alkali plains Of Nevada.
n company has besn formed In Iowa for
the purpose Of manufacturing sporting-sh
from iron. 1t Is stated that the trials which
nave been made of the shot have proved IL
70 be fully equal and In some respects
superior to lead shot. No tower Is required,
. as the shot Is made by the process with
less than three feet drop. The company
are nearly ready TO put the new manufac
ture into the market, and, as IL can be sold
at q much lower price than lead-shot, tie
demand will probably soon assume large
proportions. II Is stated that the iron shot
looks well, aud cannot be distinguished