The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1883-06-08
NEW NOR.WESTERS.
Texas calls herself the whale of the west
The Nevada State prison shelters 112 con-

York, left S., 100000 estate.
There are thirteen daily and twenty three
weekly papers published in Nevada.
Joel Chandler Harris is writing a new ser
les Of Uncle Remus stories for the Century
Rev. Robert Hunt, of the Church Of En-
gland, was the first minister In this country
Some young men abroad have taken tc
wearing tiny electric lamps in their button
holes.
John Bright, the noted Englishman
3 smokes good deal and drinks whisky occa
sionally.
A negro baby, seven months old, wa:
seized for debt of $3.50 in Burke county
Georgia.
An Arkansas man has sandpapered the
shingles on his house so that a cyclone can't
take hold.
A number of sportmen have had construct
ed a floating cottage for use on Saratoga
Lake the coming season.
A five.ton land-roller passed over an In.
diana man without serious results. He'd
been married thirty six years.
Sulphate of qunine with little acidulat-
ed water will remove the odor Of musk, per-
haps the most pertinacious Of odors.
During the month of April the names of
twelve steamers were changed under the act
Of Congress by the navy department.
New York has ninety.two electric light
companies, but fortunately only a few of
them have erected poles and strung wires.
"The Book of Common Prayer" has been
translated into more than sixty languages,
a.,I nfs 10 toA
year.
"Hey! Rube!" is a slogan of circus men to
call all hands to the rescue when threatened
by mob. 1t is only used when the danger
Is imminent.
Although Pope Leo XIII. receives about
81, 500, 900 annually for the holy see, his own
expenses for food are but fifty cents a day,
everything included.
Vanderbilt has retired from business, be-
ing threatened with gout in the stomach.
| Hod. carriers and editors are never threatened
with gout in the stomach.
There are four univ ersities in Switzerland
at Basls, Berne. Geneva, and Zurich-at
which there are 543 medical students, of
which fifty one are women.
An old fashioned brick chimney was taken
down recently in q one-story house In Deer
ing, Me-, and the space it had occupied made
q room twelve feet square.
George III. Corliss, at whose works, IN
Rhode Island, the big Centennial engine was
built, is building the engines for the first cot
ton mills to be erected In China.
| The Supreme Court of Kentucky has de-
cided that wife may recover money lost by
her husband at gambling. That Is more
| than the husband can do for himself -zAl
| The Key West, Florida, sponge feet, num-
bering seventy vessels and six hundred men,
is out on a cruise. A large catch of sponge
brings about $500, 900 into that city.
| Nebraska has increased its population 1890
per cent. in twenty years, and its taxable
property ll20 per cent. Its per cent. of Illit-
eracy Is less than any other State or Terri.
| tory.
In Great Britain the loss to the govern
, ment by worn silver withdrawn from circu.
lation because of deficiency of weight caused
| by wear and tear, amounted last year to
$4,000.
The figures show that the Central Pacific
handled 90 ,6e5, 900 pounds of through freight
during the first four months of this year, and
the Southern Pacific during the same period
| 90, ,1S4, 500.
Josh Billings informed Joaquin Miller
that he had once received S400 for twelve
words. A wealthy New York mercantile
house paid him that sum; IL wanted one of
his quain' sayings for ali advertisement.
A writer In one of the medical Journals
says he has found the application of strong
solution of chronic acid, three or four times
| a day, by means Of camel's. hair pencil, to
be the best and easiest method for removing
| warts.
Jay Gould has unloaded his newspapers
and taken TO his yacht. The Boston Traoeler |
| suggests that before he has been two days at |
sea he will be for unloading again. Nep-
tune often acts good deal like New York |
newspaper.
Physicians say that pneumonia, bronchitis, |
and consumption are on the increase. Let |
people live more ont OF doors, eat and drink |
less, and reduce the temperature In their |
houses and Offices about ten degrees, and |
they will be In better trim to ward of these |
dreaded diseases.
A number of residents of North Grinnell,
Iowa, along the track of last years cyclone,
have prepared underground caves to which
they can fee for protection In case of repe-
tition Of the disastrous storm. Prof. Ell. w.
Parker, Of Iowa College, Is said to be one
who has thus prepared for an emergency.
Mrs. Scoville, the sister of GuIteau, is evil
IDENTIFY desirous of obliterating her conDec.
tion with the families Of her brother and her
late husband. She has filed an application
for q change of name, and not desiring TO
retain her maiden name she asks that IL be
changed to Howe, her mothers name.
General Nelson A. Miles 10 one of the con.
testing parties In will case soon TO be tried
In the Boston courts. The will Is that of his
uncle, Nelson Curtis, who left TO his brother,
George Curtis, almost all his estate, worth
81, 100000. General Miles was cut of with
s10,0o0, and the widow of the testator under
the will receives only $50,0c0.
Speaking of the New York Legislature,
Mr.. George William Curtis says: at has to-
tally and ignominiously lest the game, and
has itself furnished the strongest reasons for
Its defeat next year." Nevertheless, If the
Republicans propose to wipe out the Demo-
cratic majority Of tride less than 100000,
they cannot afford to waste either time or
energy.
Mr.. Hatton, the owner of the Burlington
Hackeye, has an efice Of profit In Washing
ton; Mr.. Waite, an editor of the Haukeye, Is
postmaster at Burlington, and John W. Bur. ,
uctsc, auVtpcf cuiIoT Vi TUG autokeye ana
brother OF the funny man, has been appoint ,
ed collector for the fourth Iowa district. The
Office boy Of the Ha,rkeye had not been pre-
vided for st last accounts.
Now that Senator Fairis free man, rumor .
has Il that he will marry Miss Annie Carpen- '
ter, who became notorious IN q divorce case 1
several years ago. w. r. Smith, . well
known ocuiist in California, became enam. !.
ored with her and took her TO Arizona, where !
be obtained . divorce. When he returned Q
10 San Francisco with her, bis wife had the \
divorce set aside and he vas not permitted !
70 marry. A few months ago she infatuated
The Senator.
There is one advantage In publishing
magazine two or three weeks In advance Of =
ts actual date. There Is charming season {
lbeness about IL. What can bc more de- :
lightful than tn read, a. the snow falls In
Nay, the following ardent poem In the Cen =
'ury for June:
Behind the hilltop drops the sun, II
The cured heat falters on the Sand; Il
While evenings ushers, one by one,
Lead In the guests OF twilightland.
The south wind feels It's amorous course
To cloistered sweets in thiclSets found: 2
The leaves obey its tender ferce,
And stir twtxt silence and sound. Il