The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1883-08-03
NEW NOR.WESTERS.

killed.
; Leadville's mines continue to produce TO-.
00e tons a week.
! Columbus Delano, recently Secretary of
the Interior, is large wool grower.
Two thousand of the Indians located in
Dakota belong to the Catholic church
The 81 Methodist colleges in this country
have 2,7s6 students and S40e, 900 income. =
| Roscoe Conkling chews the big end of ci-
I gars, but does not use tobacco in any other
( way.
| Bob Toombs' wife fell out of bed the other
day aud sustained painful injuries. She Is
blind.
England has better crop prospects, IL is
said, than she has had in any summer for
many years.
Cardinal Manning Is seventy.three years
! old aud became Roman Catholic when he
was forty three years old.
William III. Long, of Albert Lea, Mimi,
raised about ], 200 quarts of strawberries
from one acre of ground this year.
A maniac at the Minnesota Insane Asylum
| in Rochester craw led into the fire. box of the
furnaces and added fuel TO the flame.
A chemical journal states that raspberry
jam, without raspberries, is now made from
some Of the products obtained from coal-tar
The caterpilars have been making fearful
ravages among the gum trees and orchards
of southeast Missouri, stripping the trees
bare.
1t rather annOys a woman, after she has
\ had child chrstened some romantic Indian
1 name. to learn that the same translated
means "old boots"
The appraisal of the property of the poet
Longfellow shows the value TO be about
$780, ,000-S200, 600 is personal property and
$l50,900 real estate.
Justice Bradley, of the United States Su-
preme Court, claims that he can demon
strate that the crucifixon took place on the
7th Of April, A. ID. 80.
A height of more than $4,000 feet has been
reached In the Hymalayas by an English
officer, and a height exceeding 2l,000 feet
was twice reached by Mr.. Whymper in the
Andes.
Files are instantly cleaned by being held
for a moment In steam jet from the blow
of cock. This may be valuable TO machin-
lists, who work generally where steam iscC :.
| venient.
The water of the holy we'll at Mecca has
been found on analysis to contain $40 grams
of solid matter to the gallon and is seven
time worse than the sewers of London.
This explains the prevalence of cholera
among pilgrims.
The granite shaft that for more than half
a century marked the grave of Thomas JEFF
| e.. Ia. VtWra.. dat
Laws, Of the Missouri State University, who
will place H. in the campus of that iustitu-
ton at Columbia.
Washington Territory promises to raise
! grea quantities of hops. Sixty farmers IN
tile Puyallup Valley last year raised 800,
900 pounds of the cured article. In King
! aud Pierce counties there are 1,700 acres
bristling with poles, and the business Is ra-
| pidly increasing.
Sixty of the eighty eight counties in Ohio
have S527 saloons, paying under the Scott
! law Sl,4j9.lT2 The aggregate for the en-
tire ate is expected TO reach Sl,S00000. II
| is estimated that 1000 drinking places have
gone out of business on account of the tax.
Contrary to the statement in the last
edition Of the United States DIspensatory,
that the drops from full bottle should be
| less than from one more or less emptied,"
| Prof. G. +. Hines of Carlisle, Pa, has ex-
| perimcntaiiy demonstrated-what anybody
| can find out for himself in n few minutes
| that drops diminish in size rs the bottle is
! emptied,
gentleman recently from the east, who
| is in a position to know whereof he speaks,
says New Tacoma has been definitely settled
upon as the terminus of the Northern Paci-
tic Railroad when completed. But he also
a. ttl., De-
ced by such move would be similar TO that
already produced by the fact that Astoria Is
the terminus of the Columbia riyer.-Ore-
gonidn.
Iowa hay is now shipped as far east as New
York, and even to Europe when prices are
favorable. In the west improved presses and
wire are used in baIing bay, and third
more weight Is put into the same space than
| in the Eastern States, where old fashioned
processes and wooden hoops are used. BY
the adoption of the improved methods in
baling, the Western farmer overcomes in
considerable measure the disadvantage Of
being SO far from market.
| A man In Ohio few nights ago was reused
out of his slumoers by burglar. He pur-
sued the fellow with a shotgun, but did not
succeed in shooting him. Soon the burglar
came 10 river and plunged in, but not be.
ing a swimmer he sank and was drowned.
Aud now the grand jury has indicted the
householder for murder in the first degree
for not going TO the assistance of the drown
ing man. This is strange, in view of the
fact that had he previously shot the burglar
nothing would have been done TO him.
The informer Carey has been treated very
shabbily by his employers. They refuse to
| give him reward, or an escort IN Ireland,
| and have turned MIN adrift in England to
shift for himself. His case would be pitia-
BILE could any such sentiment as pity be pos
sibly entertained for the miserable villain
who auped men into his mardernus invinci-
BILE organization only to beJray them when
| his own life was threatened. His life must
he continual and terrible torment. Death
| on the scafiold such as his victims suffered
would have been far preferable.
For chronic constipation Mr.. Hans NJ.
| Wilder, the well.known pharmaceutical
writer, says in The Druggists Circular:
ssHaving for many years tried almost every
cathartic, single and In combination, with
only temporary benefit at best, | at last
stumbled upon the following: Take one
drop.-not mere !-of tincture of belladonHa,
| u. s. p, morning, noon, and night, In half
a tumbler of water, and within one week
the bowels will commence TO move regular
| ly. Not being physician, do not pretend
to know In what way belladonna does act,
but the result seems to be thorough"
Recent observations have proven that much
| Of The light from the stars is lost in passing
through the earth's lower atmosphere, as it
is found that the stars appear brighter when
seen from The SUBMITS Of lofty mountains
than when surveyed from lower levels, and
as consequence many more of them are
visible from the elevated stations. In con-
nection With project for new French oh
seryatory on the Pie dn Midi, General de
Sansouly reports that from the proposed site
Of the building fifteen or sixteen Pieisdes
are visible to The naked eye, while the stars
shine SO brilliantly that il Is easy to read by
their light alone.
| Prof Je1ries, the expert In color blind
ness, says that the color commonly used for
railroad and steamboas signals-red and
green-are the ones that color blind people
Cannot djstingnish. The de per the shade
the more these enlors are assimilsted TO cray.
From tssts on the eyes OF 10000 men, be
fluids thai fur per cent. are color hind,
while ~ women the ratio Is only one quarter
uf ane per cent. This ratio IL maintained In
all nations. Color blindness IL lIlcurs she.
People affected by !; recognize yellow end
blue readily, hu, IN red aud green can only