The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1883-08-24
g. DEER LODGE MONTANA, AUGUST "a, 1888
NEW NOR'-wESTERS.
The debt OF New York is S97, ,725, ,465. 40.
Florida has $50 miles of railway In opera.

The debt Of New York is 7,725, 1854
Florida has $50 miles of railway In opera.
tion.
J.C. Flood is to build 5000, 600 house
in San Francisco.
Florida turtles lay $50 eggs day, and do
not caekle bit about 1t.
"The greatest of all faults" Carlyle said,
''is TO be conscious Of none.n
Il costs s., ,4O0, 900 to carry on the business
Of the government OF the Catholic Church in
Rome.
Henry Clay, grandson OF the statesman,
was defeated for the Legislature In theLouis-
Vile district.
When Henry Ward Beecher was at Grand
Forks, Dakota, he was invited to umpire q
base ball match.
Gen. Sheridan will remove to Washington
on the 1st of October. He will take his
staff from Chicago.
The sons of the Earl of Essex are travel
ing through Wales in Gypsy caravans and
camping In the open air.
The alleged cablegram announcing The
discovery of Noah's ark was clipping from
the London Pail Mall Gazette.
Any one of seven distinct causes renders .
place liable to be shook up by an earthquake.
schia had all the seven conditions.
A Prussian law requires peddlers to "be-
kve politely, clean their boots on entering
,house and bow when offering wares"
Give your enemy lobster salad and Gu
cmbers, and then insist that he shall drink
aglass of milk, says wicked exchange.
straw lumber has proved failure, and
sttw will be relegated to its old position as
feahers for country summer boarding house
bee.
On the LIST of January, 1883, there were
thrGghout the world 1920 miles of rail-
road Of which 10000 was In the United
State.
ThSwiss railroad companies now cover
portiu of their carriages with phosphores-
cent reparation, which makes them visible
at nigt.
In Tie captains cabin of the Prince, sunk
10 Balklava harbor during the Crimean war,
is $4,000, and hopes of recovering II are
entertsned.
Ex-Ayor Kalloeh of San Francisco no.
torietyJs now living In Washington Terri
tory, Were he will probably create some
sort of ensation.
The loston Advertiser advises business
men to ne ''the lexicon of youth" In which
there Is % such word as "fail." But we
guess tha book must be out Of print.
The current number of Harper's Young
People co.ains an article on "Sea Bathing
and Floatng" by Captain Matthew Webb,
whose TRACE death lends to 1t q melancholy
interest.
A narrovgauge railroad Is projected be-
tween Spokane Falls and Medicine Lake, as
travel to thtlatter place Is largely increasing.
The distanc. In an air line is only about six
teen miles. z--.= .~ -~-4-s esssa 4- -ss
The discovery of rich petroleum fields In
immediate dagger of being compelled to re-
Illuminator.
When Cetewsyo was in London they took
him down to Woolwich, and without giving
him warning irsd an eighty-one ton cannon
close beside him. The chiefs that were with
him sprang high In the air and gave cries of
terror; the old man never fiinched, but
smiled at the flight of those who were with
him.
The late General Ord disclaimed all con-
nection with George w. of England by Mrs.
Fitzherbert, that kings morganatic wife.
"My ancestors, ~ far as can learn," he once
said, "were good plain folk, without taint
of royal blood" He therefore asked the
compiler of "Pdigrees of Americans of
Royal Descent" b leave him and his ances-
tors out of his bods.
Prof. Rudolph Vrchow, one of the most
eminent surgeons b Germany, got box Of
pills from an apotiecary, was cured of his
sickness, and wrote a note stating the fact.
Thereupon his nrdicai society censured
him. He has published . card saying he
can no longer "belog TO society that arro-
gates to Itself the riht of an arbitrary and
offensive criticism"
The mystery of th, Niagara whirlpool Is
as yet unsolved. Tough log thrown In
above it recently was,arried through rapidly
and on to the lake, 1t not proved that there
Is safety In human SKINNER trying 1t. A
good, strong log mighlsafely plunge over the
cataract. All but wooden men should keep
out of that whirlpool There are In this
country plenty of ober good swimming
places.
The Supreme Courtf Wisconsin decides
that condition printed,n telegraph blank
s'that no claim for damages shall be valid un-
less presented In writingEithin twenty days
from sending the messae," Is reasonable
and valid. A delay In receiving the mes.
sage, though occasioned b 0 mistake of the
company, would not modis the condition or
extend the time, If . reaonable time was
left, after knowledge Of the mistake, to pre-
sent the claim.
The Vienna press shows By careful fgur-
ing how far more fatal diseae usually is to
the soldier In the war than hounds. In the
Crimea 10000 out of 1000 English sue
cumbed to disease; in the Russo Turkish
war whole divisions were SWEET off by chol-
era. In 1885 the Prussian smy lost @, ,427
men from cholera, against 4,4I on the field.
In 1870 IL the Germans lost 1000 men by
disease; less than half that number fell In
battle, but the sanitary arrangements had
never been so good.