The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1883-04-27
NEW NCR-W ESTERS.

Olphant's novels.
America produces one, fourth of the wheat
grown in the world.
II costs about $4,000 year to run The
Government Of ArZUua.
Navigation Is open OH the Missouri river
as far up as Pierre, Dakota.
Ex Secretary Blaine positively declines tc
be interviewed on political topics.
The new Postmaster Generals name il
pronounced Gresh am, not Gre sham.
Seven years ago Mr.. Bell, of telephone
fame, was poor man. Now he Is said to be
worth S6,000,O00.
Ralph johnson, one of the four convicts
who escaped from the Idaho Penitentiary,
has been recaptured.
franklin Pierce's home in the outskirt':
Of Concord, n. H., Is to be transformed into
a Protestant Episcopal school for girls.
Mr.. Regan, who was The Post master Cen
eral Of the Conf deracy and who now repre-
senls Texas district IN Congress, is lying
very Ill ia Washington. He is hardly able To
talk aud seems despondent as TO his recoS-
cry.
The United States Express Company has
forwarded from Rochester, n. Y, without
charge, q donation Of II ram SIbley & Co. OF
$4,000 packages Of selected garden seeds 10
the sufferers by the tornado at Grinnell,
Iowa.
Jose Leandro Pearea, the political autocrat
| Of New Mexico, was recently buried with
grand honois at Bernadilla. His fortune Is
estimated at 5000, 90. His family con
trolled the Territorial elections for fifteen
years.
Rowell's Newspaper Directory for 1883 re
ports total of il ,l06 newspapers and peri
odicals in the Unm-d States, the iucrrase
being 5S5. The are 100S daily newspapers
aud they ale increasing at the rate Of 60 or
10 a year.
The New York Legislature refuses to re-
peal that portion of the penal code which
prohibits all sporting, hunting, fshiu ,horse-
racing, gaming, or other public sports, exer
cises or shows, aud all noise disturbing the
peace Of Sunday.
Judge Gritty of Nebraska has resigned
from he bench because bis horse Is dead.
s.Uld Doll" had carried him through the war
and afe wcrd OH ali his hunting and judicial
juurneys. He said that he was too old TO
break In a new steed.
IL appears that Judge Gresham's lame leg
is not wooden one, as some suppose. He
was badly wounded In battle during the war
and cane near losing his leg, but the sur
geons finally saved 1t. He limps with that
| leg as q man does who has wooden one.
Wisconsin has just passed law designed
10 make unpopular The polite profession of
! Il hat ..yl. IA f,.lt
| ing the honorable business Of tramping shall,
| on conviction, be subject to six or twelve
months imprisonment In the penitentiary.
! In many parts of Spain farming operations
have made little or no progress since the ex
| pulslous Of the Moors. The same sort Of
| plow Is used now as then, oxen tread out the
corn after the ancient Oriental fashion, aud
| women separate the chat from the corn by
tossing the grain up In the air during
| breeze If wind.
Right Hon. Anthony John Mundelia, the
| English Minister of Education, few days
ago made some interesting statements to q
| correspondent of the Boston Herald: "Our
illiteracy In England" he SAID, AIS lamenta
Bile, but we are emerging from 1t, aud In a
few generations, say three, We will rival
Saxomy and Switzerland, and far outstrlp
America"
Reports from St. Petersburg are to the ef-
feet that the secret police of that place as
we'll as Moscow are making many arrests At
night time, in consequence OF the recent
strong revival of Nihillst intrigues. On the
| 4th inst. thirty-uine arrests were made in
| one house, where quantity Of prepared ex-
plosives was discovered. Newspapers are
forbidden on the pain Of complete suspen-
sion to publish reports Of the arrests or Of
| the trials.
Marbert Gigot. the famous ex-prefect of
police in Paris, says: II believe the French
| Government must join, and quickly, too, In
| All European league for The repression sf So
| cialism. II is the one question Of life and
death with France. Ii she refuses to see this,
she will some day find herself banned aud
| excommunicated from the rest Of Europe"
| He claims there are 100000 organized Nihi-
lists In Americs.
The resemblance was long ago noted be.
tween ex Governor Curtin, Of Pennsylvania,
| and the late Postmaster General Howe. II Is
| also said that another curious resemblance
that used to puzzle society Is that existing
between Mrs. Window and Mrs. Garfield,
| and theirs is 50 close likeness that the p0r-
traits Of the one are easily mistaken for the
other.
| Lieut.. j. Evarts Greene, now editorof the
| Worcester (Mass.) spy, was taken prisoner
at the battle of Balls s Bluff, aud surrendered
| his sword to Captain Singleton, of the Con-
fera,e army. Last week Captain Singleton,
now a Repr resentativs IN Congress, sent the
sword 10 Senator Hoar, with note request
| ing him to restore IL to Lieutenant Greene,
| which be at once did.
At Heidelburg, the other day, an English
man being much put out at the way q
student used his knife at dinner, at length
ventuied to suggest that he might cus his
mouth If he continued the operation. The
| student, remarkiRg that he had q birthright
! to laeeraie his mouth 10 his hearts content,
| left the hall and sent q challenge, and was
subsequently shot dead by the Englishman.
Joseph Cook squanders his strength when
be seeks TO breathe q spark of life into the
old New England theology. Calvanism Is
d.arer than a grave stone. Infant damnation,
heather damhalion, predestined damnation,
with their blue aid ghastly ex exhalafions, have
lost their spectral power. Mr.. Cook Is not
serving his day and generation by reinvoking
the reign of sulphur Syracuse Standard.
Inc AIT III winch "f1Ome, sweet II me
has been sung has been wrongfully attributed
to Sir Henry Bishop. 1t Is much older than
Bishops time, and bad It's birth In Sicily.
Bishop Obtained II from Captain Alexander
Stuart, an officer who served In Sicily under
Lord Bentick. He never claimed IL rs his
own, but, on the title of the original English
edition published by D'Almsine Il Co.)
stated where he obtained it, Utica Herald.
Before paint or calcimine Is applied to
| walls, every cresice should be filled with
plaster or cement. For the calcimine put
quarter Of pound Of white glue In cold
water over night, and heat gradually In the
morning until dissolved. Mix eight pounds
Of whiting with hot water, add the dissolved
gl1e, and stir together, adding warm water
until about the consistency of thick cream.
Use calcimine brush and finish as you go
slong. II skim milk Is used instead of
water, the glue may be omitted.
The long building Washington Monument
ai Washington 10 said To be we'll on toward
completion. The S250.O00 appropriated BY
Congress should finish The shaft; and II Is be-
lieved II the marble can be furnished con-
tractors In sufficient quantity within the
coming year. that the close Of the working
season Of 1884 will see the monument com.
pleiad TO its proposed heieht-550 feet. 1t
/ had reached upward Of $40 feet by the close
Of operations last fall. 90 feet having been
added since the work was resumed In The
spring. The total pressure nov horne by the
-bed Of foundation" y 74-S7i tons, or about