The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1883-11-09
NEW NOR'-WESTERS.

Gently run dry.
Thomas Mast is talking about starting an
illustrated weekly.
Joaquin Miller is about twenty years Older
than his stepfather.
Potatoes are so cheap In Iowa that 1t does
not pay TO eat them.
Mandan has six miles of Northern Pacific
track within its limits.
The postoffice on Lookout Mountain, Ten
nessee, is to be discontinued.
Wilkie Collins is down with the gout,
which affects one Of his eyes.
The Western Union Telegraph Company
reports 1926 miles of wire and 2,9l7 Of
fees.
The Pennsylvania Steel Works turn out
enough steel rails In day to lay eight miles
Of track.
b. NJ. Winters, of Fremont, Ohio, was re-
elected county treasurer, but died before the
polls were closed.
England has many forests without stick
of timber in them, any uncultivated tract of
land being called forest.
The new Queen of Msdsgascar's name,
being interpreted, means Cloud-full-of-
water. Long may she rain!
Poor Mayne Reid was bit trashy, but he
made many q kitchen backlog shine like
gold.-Philddelphia Times.
George Peck, the humorist, is going to put
his ill-getten gains into tenement houses, TO
be let to millionaire tenants.
Vennor is undecided whether to have any
cyclones next year or not. Perhaps he wants
different States to buy him of.
Rev. Stephen Gladstone gets bigger sal
ary-S35, ,O00-as rector of Hawarden than
his father draws as prime minister.
The paragraphers says that Langtry's
mother Is near sighted. 1t would be great
deal better II the old lady we're blind.
The larest oyster shell in the world Is in
the Church of St. Sulpice In Paris. It weighs
over 500 pounds aud Is used as a baptismal
font.
The average yearly consumption Of Irish
potatoes by the people of the United States
Is between three and four bushels for each
person.
Sergeant Jasper, the Revolutionary hero,
Is to have monument at Savannah. Two
thirds Of the 5000 required Is already sub
scribed.
Mrs. A. T. Stewart, at 80 years Of age, Is
represented by o correspondent as q festive
widow "gay IS butterfly and merry as q
cricket"
When q man kicks a can of nitro-glycerine
he gets large amount of information, but
so suddenly that 1t does him no good.-N.
Y. Herald.
A Philadelphia lawyer. too proud to allow
his friends to suppose that he practices in
the divorce courts, advertises "Misft mar
riages specially"
Hickory nuts are so abundant In Texas and
Missouri that dealers have written TO parties
in Salt Lake to learn what they can be sold
at by the barrel or in car load lots.
At Montgomery, Alabama, Mr.. Beecher
told his audience that If he had been living
in the south at the outbreak of the war he
would undoubtedly have been q Confeder.
ate.
Hon. J. C. New, after an extended inter-
view with President Arthur, has reconsdered
his determination to resign, and will retain
his position as Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury.
Some wag pei petrated o joke upon Rev.
Mr.. Bell, of Chambersburg, Pa, Sunday, by
placing among the notices TO be read from
the pulpit an announcement Of q minstrel
perform anee.
United States Treasurer Wyman has In his
keeping 1900, money once subscribed to-
ward Lincoln monument In Washington.
1t Is now proposed TO revive the project OF
the national monument to Mr.. Lincoln.
The Due de Morny personated King AL.
fonso when the latter left Paris, recently;
and, riding In fine carriage, was hooted by
the crowd, while the real king, In o closed
carriage, by back street, reached the sta.
tion.
The Geodetic Association in session In
Rome recommends the universal adoption of
the Greenwich meridian, making the point
of departure of the universal hour and cos
nopolitan dates the mean noon of Green
wich.
IT, Is stated on what is generally accepted
as good authority that Humbeit believes
himself to be the last King Of Italy, and
looking forward TO seeing his sou living In q
republic, has educated him with that possi-
bility In mind.
An English inventor Is making glass for
the construction of bridges and houses. 1t
is tough, hard material, and does not decay
and rus. like wood and iron. A man living
In one of these glass houses may throw all
the stones he wishes.
Fifteen years ago an Alabama man killed
peddler. Ever since that time his wife has
held the crime over him as . whip, obliging
III. Ill t1, hsrfl ha Arae nd
rock the baby. Rendered desperate by her
treatment be has given himself up to be
hung.
A new adulterant of ground pepper is q
finely ground preparation Of the kernels OF
olive berries. II sample Of the suspected
mixture is scattered upon mixture Of equal
volumes Of glycerine and water the pepper
floats upon the surface while the ground
olive kernels sink.
Earl Derby, Secretary for the Colonies,
refused to sanction the enterprise Of the New
Guinea Exploring and Colonization Com
pany. If the company attempts to carry out
It's project, the government will instruct the
High Commission TO interfere for the pro-
tection of the natives.
| Only half the number of trains enter aud
leave Paris stations that enter and leave Lon.
don ones. Two thousand two hundred
trains enter and leave London each day. OF
these there are only sixty-eight which do not
carry third-class passengers. In Paris there
are ITO trains which do not carry third
class.
At the request Of Postmaster-G General
Gresham, Attorney General Brewster has
addressed circular TO oil district attorneys,
directing them to cordially cooperate with
the officers of the Post. Office Department In
enforcing section 1894 OF the revised ststutes,
which forbids that any letter or circular con-
eerning lotteries shall be carried in the mail.
The penalty for violating the adt Is fine Of
not more than $500, or less than 500. with
costs of prosecution.
The Engineering states that vessel con-
strncted OF paper was recently launched at
ST. Petersburg. She Is driven by steam.
Her dimensions are: Length, 25 feet; great
est width, feet, with only . few inches
draught Of water. The recent trials Of paper
for railway material, the above Journal adds,
has led 20 It's present employment. For
many years paper boats, however, have been
made and used In this country.
S. r. CsnestrinI has been experimenting
upon the effects Of decapitation upon In
sects. Butterflies were able to use their
wings eighteen days afser they he'd lost their
beads. Crickets lssped on the thirteenth day
after they had been behcsded, and the prsy-
ing. .mantis showed signs Of life on the four
tsenth day after the head had been separated
from the body. He gives still more singular
observations, tending 10 show that the head
in fnsecfs cannot be subject 70 the same per-