The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1883-09-21
NEW NOR'-WESTERS.

There are over 10000 employed on the
Panama Canal.
There are 1,028 daily newspapers in the
United States.
Pere Hyacinth will come to America
on lecturing tour.
General Grants particular oddity in dress
| is au old fashioned watch fob.
The publishers of Blaines book expsct u
sell 900 900 copies of the work. s.. ID
Dakota produces this year an average oi
seventeen bushels of wheat to the acre.
The decrease in the internal revenue col
lections during July and August, as com
| pared with the same mouths last year, was
| S6,094,009.
William NJ. Evarts thinks that the next
| Republican candidate for President will be
either Arthur, Edmunds, General Sherman
or Blaine.
r.Governor Tilden has hired the steam
Yacht Yosr mite for thirty days. II he likes
the boat be will buy it for $4,000. 1t now
belongs to John Roach.
Following the example Of Paris, the mu-
nicipality Of Algiers has established chem
ical laboratory for the analysis of food sub.
stances and the detection Of fadulteration.
Germany has 81 universities, of which 10
are in Prussia. The total number of STU
| dents attending this summer was 25,0Ss, an
| increase of ,260 upon last summers attend
Gnce.
Mr.. Barnes, the Mountain Evangelist" "
of Kentucky, now in London, Is promulga
ting a new notion. TO wit, that the English
| Ia lad frOn
tribes of Israel.
The immense crematory in Rome Is In al
| most daily use. Cremation is daily becom'
! ing more popular, and bids fair soon to dis
pose of more corpses In the Italian capital
than old fashioned burial.
| The late Montgomery Blair was the origi-
nation of uniform cheap postage, of the carrier
delivery in large cities, and of the postofice
| money order system, while under him the
| PostnGice Department became for The first
| time paying institution.
Dueling is declining IN the South though
"affairs of honor" are not uncommon. In
Louisiana, Virginia. Mississippi, and Ala.
bana the code Is still resorted 10. Duels In
| Georgia are now rare, and in South Carolina
there has not been duel since the passage
of the anti dueliag law in 1880.
Captain Paul Boynton once thought Of 60
ing in his rubber suit through the Niagara
| rapids, but he numbered several railroad
| ties and sent them through. When they
were recovered below the whirlpool and
Boynton saw their scars, he packed up his
rubber suit and let Niagara.
Prince Hoheniohe thinks thst Americans
are cutting down their forests too fsst. The
system of repIanting pursued in bis country,
| would not be out of place here. He is presi-
| dent of the Colonization society Of Germany
and 10 studyiny emigr alton In this country.
| He 10 q young looking man Of fifty, tall, well
made aud soldlerly.
The Deseret Nesss, Mormon journal, says
l In Hades waler q bot kieRey, and baptism
eannet.be adninistered--l Of all baptism
by Immersion! But DO one can be saved
| wtso Is not baptized. Therefore, "the living
rss stand In the place Of the dead and re
ceRst the ordinance vicariousiy." This Is
sbsptism for the dead"
The Journal Of Science IS the authority
!, for the assertion that some persons who are
/ particularly sensitive % the bites OF gnats
and midges experience return Of the origi-
nal irritation at regular intervals OF IL aud
| "a hours. This fact il fact IL be, would
| seem 10 lend strength TO the opinion that
| gnats and mosquitoes are the bearers OF the
germs Of malarial fever.
With advancing years Bancroft, The histo.
riau, seems to be losing much OF that silly
social sentimentalism which was formerly SO
| characteristic of the man. He used to be
| quite beau at the watering places, and long
| after his hair turned white he courted the
society of women, particularly debutantes.
| "Why do you call me Mr.. Bancroft 7" he Is
| reported to have asked a Newport belle;
"Why don't you call me George"
A correspondent In FL Paso writes :'"I sat
on the plaza this afternoon, and saw ap-
preaching a Chinaman whose face was dis
figured by q long, CHASTITY looking scar. II
was Sam Hing, the richest Chinaman In
America who has it 90 that all the Cinnamon
employed In constructing the Mexican and
Texas railroads get their employment
through Sam Hing, aud that each Chinaman
(ahouL 3O,O00) pays him 81 month, besides
a bonus for the iob Of work obtained through
Sam"
The richie man in the Cars domain is a
Muscovite, the grandson of a maa who left
Hanover and took up his residence In Russia
during the reign of Alexander |. This man
has 10 claim to noble distinction, but as the
Gar one time, by accident, addressed him
as "Baron," he has since been known as
Baron de Steiglitz, and has negotiated al.
most every loan of the Russian Government.
| THIS Rothschild of Russia has millions on
millions of money at his control, and sDnu-
ally adds to his prodigious fortune. BE Is
| wIdower and childless, but has an adopted
daughter, who will probably inherit his vast
| wealth.
Serious apprebensions are entertained for
the safety of the Greedy expedition. which
sailed for Lady Franklin Bay In 1881 for the
purpose Of making meteorological and other
observations. The Greedy party had provis'
ions for two years only, which have doubt
less become exhausted. 4 relief expedition
| started in July, and IL should have been
| heard from ere this. If II has failed TO reach
the station on Lady Franklin Bay lwhere
winter commences about this timel the
chances of Lieut.. Greedy and his comrades
returning home alive are decidedly slim.