The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1883-05-25
NEW NOR-W ES1ERS.
The Mormons claim following Of 5000

In Arizona.
Ten thousand letters Is the daily averag
received at the dead letter office.
A tunnel from Paris to Rouen, seventy
five miles, to cost $25 900, 900, is proposed.
Bartholdi's "Liberty" is finished and read
to enlighten the world so soon as II can &c
place to stand on
The residences of Samuel j. Tilden an
Henry Willard, In New York, are now light
ed with the electric light.
A Connecticut man set out last fall L
make new dictionary, but collected zoo
words and grew discouraged
1t Is claimed that the fast Liverpool oceal
steamers when running on time consun'
about 225 tons of coal day.
At San Luis Obispo few days ago, Ken
meth Mcdonald died of blood poisoning, thu
result of skiDning diseased sheep.
Barbed wire dealers in Utah dispose o.
about seventy car loads cf this kind Of fenc
ing per year, and the demand is increasing
The French name for dude just at present
Is "Pschutt." The word Is of German origin
but 1t has the merit of suiting the sound to
the sense.
Eighteen cows were killed in day on the
line of an Ohio railroad 100 miles long. Un-
fortunately they had no refrigerator cars on
the trains.
The Queen has knighted Prof. Sullivan
and ignored Gilbert. This Is little rough,
In view of the fact that it was Gilbert who
made all the fun.
Among the people soon going abroad are
General Mcclellan anc family, Themas
Mast, August Belmont, Wayne MacVeagh,
and DIR. John Hall.
| The average life of maximum incandes.
cent electric light has been found to be 1000
| hours, although some have been burned be-
tween 5000 and 1000 hours.
The people of Boise City have organized
the Idaho and oregon railroad company,
with a capital of S5,O00,000. The object Is
to build road from Boise City to Oregon.
Tender-handed stroke ncttle,
And il stings yon for your pains;
Grasp 1t like man of mettle,
And 1t soft as silk remains.
--Adron Hill.
George W. Peck, who has leaped into q
certain order of fame and wealth by his bad
boy stories, is said to receive a larger yearly
alized during his entire life.
The last trip of the ocean steamer Alaska,
from Queenstown to New York, was made
in six days, twenty-three hours, and forty
eight minutes, beating her previous best
time two hours, and making the fastest time
on record.
IL Is difficult to tell which is the greater
fool, the man at Reading, Pa, who is at
tempting to eat five dozen eggs q day for
twenty consecutive days, or the newspaper
which prints half column accounts of the
progress Of the trial.
President Taylor's grave, a few miles
from Louisville, is decorated with flowers
every year, on the 30Lh of April, by a mum.
Der of gentlemen from that city, who hold
appropriate services. Major Means of Lou
isvile was the orator this year.
Thurlow Weeds autobiography Is in the
bands of the printers. 1t will be pushed
forward as rapidly as possible. The work
has been in course of preparation since 1S4S.
Its entire contents were dictated to Miss
Harriet A. Weed, who has been its sole ed
itor.
sat down in the boat and held on to the seat
q
position would not make striking tableau,
and so the hero Of the ferry passed into PIC |
torial history standing.--Ne,c Orleans Plea |
ylnle.
A curious accident happened during
thunderstorm in New York the. other after |
noon. The lightning struck the famous gilt |
rooster at the top of the flagstaff above the |
St. Nicholas hotel, throwing 1t into Broad
10 he ofa a
ing below, and inflicted severe internal in |
iuries.
The number of cases finally disposed Of |
and stricken from the docket Of the United |!
States Supreme Court during the term Just /
ended, Is 3S7. As compared With last term
this is a decrease of twelve In the number /
of cases disposed Of There are s7l cases
now awaiting action of the court.
According to time-honored custom, EN-
peror William has once more stood godfather
of the new born seventh son, whose brothers /
are all living, of poor couple In Alsace, 10
whom the emperor sent ffty marks and al.
lowed his name to be entered on the church
register ofthe parish of Stossweier.
Voltaire's house Is now used by the &C.
neva Bible Society rs repository for bibles.
The British Bible Sociely's house In Earl
street, Blackfriars, stands where, In 1878,
the Council forbid Wycliffe circulating por.
tions of the Holy Scriptures, and where he
uttered the words, "The truth shall prevail"
and the Religious Tract Society's premises
are where bibles were publicly burned.
1t is getting fashionable now In the liter
ary world as we'll as In the social world, TO
preserve an incognito. The anonymous
novel, "The Bread Winners" which is an
nounced In the Century, Is so anonymous
that even the editor of the magazine himself
does not know the authors name. Ali the
business is transacted by third person.
Commander Gorringe, formerly of the
navy, who lately started an iron ship build.
ing yard on the Delaware river, has contracts
for four iron steamers, similar In build to
The San Pedro and Tacoma. They are to
run on Puget Sound, not In connection with
The Northern Pacific railroad company,
and the aggregate cost will be about $1,000
900.
A Bermuda correspondent says that the
!, s,000 colored people on those islands will /,
,wn and rule them in 100 years. Their
children are better educated and more cana.
BILE than the white children. "Anybody
Who 10 prejudiced against the colored race
because 80 many Of cur own darkeys are
mpndent and lazy and steal chickens, would
lose his prejudice by being with these Ber-
nuaa colored people few weeks"
A negro prophecies In Mississippi has tax
IN advantage OF the late cyclone TO announce :.
hat 1t was only the foreruner of The destruc.
ion Of the werld. She breaches at night In
he open air by the light Of camp fires, and
never forgets to take up acontribution. The
.olored people In the vicinity are quitting /.
work and getting ready their ascension
'obes. The local preachers ara much dis.
urbed by this competition and are asking I
or har arrest.
A new suggestion Is the use Of the electric
light for lighting lawns for lawn tennis and
.roquct parties, and the Hartford Electric
Light Company has already received two or
hree applications Of this kind. During the
unrer season these games are played prin-
'ipally In the closing hours Of the day, when