The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1883-03-09
LODGE, MONTANA, MARCH 8, 1885,
NEW NOR.WESTERS.

Many Catholic priests In Italy receive only
$50 year.
A Roberts Island, California, farmer Is
planting sixty acres of cucumbers.
Mount Olympus, where the gods used to
live, is at present covered with snow.
The English reward of bravery 10 a garter
and wooden leg to wear it on.-Punch
In the United States one person in 2s5 is
said TO be a pauper; in England one In 35.
"The North American Anaconda" Is the
| New York Journals name for the Western
Union.
Sidney Smith says 1t is vast deal better
for . man TO be an every day Christian than
q weak one.
The Pope, In letter to Cardinal McCabe,
constitutes the clergy the guardians Of the
people of Ireland.
Twenty years ago it required five tons of
coal to make a ton of iron rails. Now ton
of steel rails may be produced from the ore
with half that amount of coal.
The Attorney General of the United States
signs official documents: "Brewster, Attor-
ney General" which looks, to some old
fashioned people, quite autocratic.
Counterfeiters have already got in their
work on the new fve-cent nickels. After
being gold-washed the new coins look pre-
cisely like S. gold pieces. Look out for the
trick.
The Dss Moines State Register publishes
opinions from more than fifty newspaper in
different parts of Iowa, pledging themselves
to support the movement for q prohibitory
amendment.
The three hundred and thirty-third anni-
veIsary of the founding of the City of Santa
Fe, New Mexico, will be celebrated in July
next. Santa Fe Is the oldest American town
in existence.
The blade Of the sword Of the gigantic
statue of "Germanie," to be placed at
Neidsrwald, near the Rhine, weighs a ton.
The total amount of metal In the statue Is
forty five tons.
The sessions of State Legislatures all over
the country are opened with religious ex-
ercises, and many really devout people are
in consequence beginning to doubt the
efficacy of prayer.
During the Egyptian war . column of
loaded telegraphic messages cost the London
newspapers from $1,000 to $3.50. Seven
shillings and two pence (about $1.S0) per
word was the rate charged.
Paper pulp strengthened with cotton or
wooden fbres Is now used to make q neat
and sufficiently endurable stocking costing
much less than the price of laundrying pair
of cotton or woolen stockings.
The Earl of Shaftssbury, in a public ad-
dress, declared recently that $4,000 people
went to bed drunk In Glasgow every Satur-
day night. Yet that city has the purest and
best water in the world and plenty of 1t.
Smoke will sooR be at premium. From
z, 800, 600 cubic feet Of smoke given out by
say / 900 cords of wood, 1t Is said 1900
pounds OF acetate Of lime, 200 gallons of
alcohol and 25 pounds of tar may be OBJ
tanned.
A great many artesian wells will be sunk
In Utah this year. The success of the wells
in Tooele county, where many farms are
irrigated by artesian well water, has caused
many to make experiments In other portions
Of the Territory.-S. L. Tribune.
A California man has invented patent
stovepipe, having screw joints, against which
no living or inaninate thing can possibly
contend. To this benefactor of mankind all
honor Is due, but what also Is needed Is a
cane-seated chair that won't floor q man
when he stands on the edge of itr
Sir William Thomson finds that sunlight
has about 10000 times the intensity of the
light Of the full moon at any place on the
earth, and about 81, 900 that of candle fame.
The latter result differs widely from that
obtained by Arago, who found the light OF
the sun to have about 200 times the in
tensity of candle flame.
It is probable that q large excursion Of
Denver people will come to Salt Lake on the
opening'of the Denver & Rio Grande rail.
roa !, and to make the affair success q large
escort of Salt Lake citizens will return with
them to Denver. The two cities are destin.
ed to become much closer united in social
and business relations.-S. L. Tribune.
NEW YORK, Feb. 24.-Sara Bernhardt's
husband has written to the Gdulots that he
will leave the theater for the army. He
says: "France, which treats my wife as q
spoiled child, will, hope, have room for me
under the shadow of her flag. renounee
my dream of being an actor, and this very
day enlist in the foreign legion, and solicit
the favor of letters of grand Naturalization "
The Western Union Telegraph Company
has estimated the durance of telegraph poles
| as follows: Cedar, sixteen years; chestnut
thirteen; juniper, thirteen; spruce, seven
Cedar, chestnut and spruce are used In the
Northern States; juniper and cypress in the
Southern States, and redwood In California
Poles cut in the summer will not last as
long as those cut in the winter by five years
Soil and climate, of course, make differ.
ence with the life Of poles.
| A godsend is the telephone to the imperial
family Nihilist-beseiged at Gatschina. II
enables them to hear at will all their favorite
; prime donne without exposing themselves to
, the deadly bomb or forcing the singers to
come TO the bomb-prsof palace. A wire has
been run from Gatschina to the Marinsky
theater, st. Petersburg, forty miles away, and
over 1t are conveyed to the listening ears oi
timid royalty all the music, vocal and instru
mental, and the dialogue and the popular
applause, too, of every opera there per.
formed.
DR.. Alex. Mayer proposes the use Of burial
cases Of glass in place OF che ordinary
wooden coffin. Such cases, when hermetic-
ally sealed, would effectually prevent the
escape of unwholeseme gases to pollute the
air Of cemeteries. BY replacing the air in
the cases with anti-putric gas, the bodies
might be indefinitely preserved from decom.
position, all the advantages of embalming
being inexpensively secured. Hermetically.
sealed caskets are much more likely to meet
with widely extended approval than are
crematory furnaces.
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