The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1883-05-11
NEW NOR'-WESTERS.
Mr.. Irving, the actor, is to be knighted.

Mr.. Irving, the actor, is to be knighted.
There are lila miles of railroad in NeY
Mexico.
Small doses of salt will check hemorrhage
Of the lungs or stomach. .-E Don TWrr
The man whose opinion Is of no value is
always trying to give 1t away. sr-
The late General Barnes in will of fifty
words left all his property 10 his wife.
Prince Bismarck's title, a German newspa-
per announces, will be Duke of Lauenhnrg.
Estimates have been prepared showing that
Peter Cooper gave away S4.000,000 during
his life.
Nearly S1400O,000 worth of cattle are now
{ grazing IN what years ago was Indian couu-
try in Texas.
Mr.. Bell, the Hartford publisher, expects
to make $1,000 by the publication of Mr..
| Blaiue's book.
"Alcohol will clean silver" Yes, alcohol,
well stuck TO, will clean all the silver you
have-out of your pockets.
Rufus Hatch, who returned from Europe a
few days ago, says that England is bankrupt
in soil politics and religion.
| 600 year on their official gazettes published
al London, Edinburg and Dublin.
Mr.. Gladstone appeared in the House Of
Lords in sky blue stockings aad gold clocks.
He must be parliamentary dude.
The wise man will always lake newspa-
| per. The fool thinks he can get along with
out one, and he remains fool all his life.
al,
second, and, according TO the Toronto GLo6e
it took that body eleven weeks to do moth
ine.
The Prince of Wales will be one of the
principal exhibitors in the great dog show in
Berlin. He is one of the greatest dog fan
cers in England.
Lord PaImerston being asked when a man
was In the .prime of life" Immediately an
| swered ''seventy nine" Lord Palmerston
lived to be eighty.one.
Young Daniel Boone, great grandson of
| the explorer of Kentucky, delivers parcels
for one of the great Broadway firms of New
York, on a salary Of Sl.50 week.
"My boy" said a politician to his son,
| clean a little toward everything and commit
yourself to nothing. Be as round as bottle,
and just dark enough that nobody can see
what's in you"
Frederick Douglass, the colored orator,
| who made fortune, and is generally regard
ed as the representative of his race in this
country, has recovered from his illness, and
is lecturiDg in appreclative New England.
A sum of $1,000 has been offered to the
| French Academy by NJ. Paul TO found
prize for the discovery of cure for dip.
iberia. Competition Is open to the world,
| and is not confined TO the medical profess
| sion.
As good deal of discussion has been rife
concerning General Grants pecuniary means
IL may be interesting to know the exact
| truth. The entire property of General and
Mrs. Grant yields them an annual income of
1900.
Philadelphia has over $4,000, 900 In trust
for various charitable purposes. The greater
part of this amount consists of the Girard
estate fund, the remainder being the total of
twenty-eight distinct trusts given by benevo-
lent persons.
In Churchill county, Nevada, is a hill of
moving sand, four miles long, a mile wide
and from 100 TO 400 feet high, within a year
| the hill has travelled a mile. 1t Is probably
trying tn crawl into some sugar refinery just
for the fun of the thing.
A travelling altar may certainly he counted
among the most singular requisites; one such
has, however, long been in use in the imper-
ial house of Austria. On all long journeys
| the Emperor not only takes with him court
chaplain, but also hif travelling altar.
Henry M. Stanley's mother Is an innkeep-
er at the little Welsh village Of Cross Foxes.
| The explorers stepfather is a thatcher and
tiler in that village, and had never seen Lon
don uutil his adopted son brought him thith.
er when the African explorer was the lion of
the day.
Wagner was a head shorter than his wife,
who vas the divorced wife OF Won Bulow.
The practical side of the German charac-
ter was never more strongly shown than
when, during the Bayreuth festival, last sum-
mer, Won Bulow dined with the Wagner
family.
| The eminent New York physician, DR..
| Seguin, who met with such terrible afilic-
ton six months ago, is expected to be able
to take up bis duties as professor of the ner
vous system in the New York college of
physicians and surgeons next fall. DR.. Sc
gun is now In Spain.
There are five daily papers on Wood River
now; two at the metropolis of Bellevue, two
at the metropolis of HALEY aud one at the
metropolis Of Naples. All metropolises over
tbere-not dug out town among 'em. This
| number of papers ought to make q good
country.-Iddho World.
| A Turin jeweler has made q tiny boat
formed of single pearl, which IL assumes
In swell and concavity. Its sail is of beaten
| gold, studded with diamonds, and the bin.
nacle light at its prov is perfect ruby. An
| emerald serves as its rudder, and its stand is
| q slab Of ivory. II weighs less than an ounce;
Its price is 5000. ...........
IL Is strenuousiy denied In Honolulu that
there are 10000 native lepers In the Hawi
ian Islands, $500 being considered by the
well Informed as liberal estimate. There
are less than $50 new cases each year, and
the disease could be checked, IL the natives,
including the king himself, were not disin-
cliped to separate the victims from their
homes. There is said also TO be no truth In
the story concerning the employment Of
lepers In the manufacture of sugar.
The Walla Walla Democrat mentions the
fact that real estate of all kinds In Walla
Walla is experiencing q boom. Business
property on Main street commands $500 per
front foot. Lots that sold two years ago for
$3.50 are held stiffly at from $1,000 to 81, 500.
Improved farms command from S35 TO $50
per acre, while unimproved lands are held at
from $40 to SIS per acre. The comparative
advance in the value Of farming lands is es-
timated at the present rate Of s1.50 per acre
per month.
An actresses funeral was announced at
San Francisco church. Many went, looked
at the corpse In the coffin, expressed the
greatest surprise, but said nothing and sat
down. just as the services were beginning,
the undertaken came In and said that they
h.f made amistake, and instead OF the actress
they bad brought mans corpse, which
should have gone TO another church In the
same block. They took away The coffin and
brought back the right remains, when the
services went On.
The captain Of a wrecked English steamer
who has just arrived at Philadelphia gives a
curious account af the Great Inagua Island,
0np 0f ifta Rahamas whara hfs va,.al x,,at