The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1883-07-13
NEW NOR-WESTERS.

DIR. Dio Lewis is sixty years old and weigh
200 pounds. His hair and beard are .snoHs
white. ~-a -
The Pope wants President Grevy to touch
France up a little on her neglect of the
Church.
VIM. NJ. Evarts makes tax return show
ing his estate in Windsor, Vermont, TO be
S60,56l.
The French Government owns altogether
9,sl6 miles Of railroad, which, as rule, pay
very badly.
Inventor Edison is building an electric To-
comotve TO be used on an underground rail-
way In England.
1t Is said that Canadian slate company
Is now undersellIng the Vermont companies
on their own ground.
Since the passage of the restriction act
1850 certificates have been issued to Chinese
leaving San Francisco.
There are !, 200 towns west of the Missis-
sippi river without churches or regular
preaching OF any kind.
An old lady in Georgia, having lost all her
patience, has sued a neighbor for S. for coffee
borrowed cupful at time.
Vermont was first called New Connecticut
and took its present name in 1871, when it
was admitted into the Union.
Postmaster General Gresham said TO
Chicago reporter that at "a low estimate In
dianapolis has five Presidential candidates"
Mount Etna is now TO have a railroad
which will go a considerable way up it and
connect many villages lying around its base.
A man IN California can commit murder
in five minutes. but If he escapes a vigilance
committee il takes the law five years to get
him hanged.
Ex-Governor Hendricks, of Indiana, is said
to be about TO follow the example Of Mr..
Blaine, and write book dealing with polt'
ical history.
A writer In the Richmond (Va.) State
claims to be reliably Informed that not a
single patent has ever been issued FROM the
Patent Office TO negro.
Kran,z is the name of the German state
executiuner, and he boasts that he wields his
aye so Cleveily that he always sewers the
head fro III the body at the first stroke.
NJ Nordenskjold maintains that the aurora
is a perm, anent phenomenon in polar regions,
being always seen when the sun is below the
horizon and when the moon is invisible.
Baron Rothschild's carriage at Vienna is
lighted by an electric light. The apparatus
is beneath the coachman's seat, aud the light,
which will burn 100 hours, is within ordinary
carriage lamps.
Page Mccarthy, who figures as a second
IN the Richmond duel, is the man who shot
young Mordecai in duel just after the war.
Last year he challenged Riddleberger, but
the Senator failed to respond.
The St. Louis Globe Democrat has thought
il all over and come To a conclusion. II says:
"There are only two ways Of attacking the
evil of lvnching. One is to punish the
lyncbers, and the other is To lessen or remove
the causes"
The Brooklyn bridge panic was godsend
to the Fulton ferryboats, as 1t made the pub
lie distrustful Of the former. But now that
there has been panic on one of the boats,
equilibrium is restored and the public dis.
trusts both alike.
ID. II. Locke, or Petroleum V. Nasby,s
tells q Chicago reporter that he has entered
into contract with Boston publishing firm
to make one trip year for eight years TO
foreign countries, and 10 write humorous
volume for every trip.
A German economic writer says that Rus
sian gold mines yielded last year $50, ,400, 900.
The great increase in production dates from
1877, when the government abolished the
heavy tax on gold mining. The output
promises to be very large indeed.
The curious observation has been made by
a Fresch writer that the initials of the five
elements Tin their French names) which en-
ter chiefly into the constitution OF organic
matter, namely, Carbone, Hydrogene, Azote,
Oxygene, and SQUIRE, spell chaos.
Senator Edmunds was surprised at the
welcome extended him when he entered the
harbor at Victoria, b. C., few days ago.
Saluies were fred, flags were thrown to the
breeze from all the fiagstafs, and the British
shipping In the harbor was gaily decked.
An ingenious Improvement in locomotive
headlights has recently been patented, by
which the engineer, through q rod near his
hand, can turn the headlight in any direction,
from front 10 rear, on q sliding platform
which is rs wide as the locomotive at Its
broadest.
The new Roman Catholic Cathedral at
Kansas City is 40 feet long by 20 feet wide,
and 400 feet above low water mark on the
Missouri river. The base Of the lantern, $50
feet high, commands n splendid prospect,
and is expected to yield profit from sight.
s.ers. unless a tornado takes a fancy TO it.
Connected with the cathedral Is the episeo-
pal palace. aa
At n school in Toxic for the sons Of Jap
anese mobiles, geography is taught by means
Of n physical map Of the country, between
three and four hundred feet long. This
model Is made Of turf and rock, and Is bor-
dered with pebbles. which at a little distance
give the appearance of water. Every inlet,
river. and mountain is faithfully reproduced.
Telegraph wires mark the latitude and lon
gitude, and the position Of cities is indicated
by tablets.
Sir w. Harconrt, the Home Secretary, en-
joys the reputation Of being personally the
most Objectionable man alive. IL Is told,
dpropos of this, that twelve gentlemen had
agreed 70 dine together. and, as they were In
want of much larger number, IL was mutu-
ally arranged that each should select, un-
known to the others, the most disagreeable
acouaintance he had. When the selections
came To be examined It was found that all
twelve corresponded. and the individual on
whom the snfirages fell was the Home Secre-
tary London Vdnity Fair.
A party Of six youths at Pesth, Hungary,
pooled their funds for mutual enjoyment,
but soon spent their money and all they
could raise, till they were penniless Then
they determined to commit suicide together.
They repaired 10 the woods with six cham
bered revolver, which was to be used In turn.
The FIRST lad shot himself In the neck aud
breast and fell. Four Of the survivors lost
heart and fed, but the fifth, being made of
stronger stuff, discharged the pistol In the
direction of bis heart. One It Is thought
will die and the other recover.
The President yesterday sent an inquiry to
the chief signal officer asking what facilities
could be arranged TO secure telegraphic COM
munication into the Yellowstone Park dur
ing the Presidential visit. The reply was
that the Signal Corps could put wire In.
there af the rate of one hundred miles a
week. The wire can be connected with the
nearest present telegraphic point. Fort Ellis
or Fort Washakie, and be completed intoth
Park before August lst, the time now fixed
for the President 10 start on the trip. The
field telegraph wire can follow him from
place to place In The Park, IL II should be
thought best, with mnch greater rapidity.-
Washington Capital, 3oth,