The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1884-01-25
NEW NOR'-WESTERS.
Ohl" has put another Payne into the Dem
Ocratic plass house

| john VI. oaAe Is very Ill AT MS brooklyn
home, aud it is now thought that he cannot
possibly live through the winter.
Three cities-Cincinnati, Ohio, Covington
and Newport, Ky.-produced last year 81.
119, ,203 gallons of beer, or one-half gallon
for every man, woman and child in the
United States.
Col. Ingersoll says he doesn't know
whether death is soaring of pinions or a
folding of them forever. He will probably
learn, when it is forever too late, that death
is s!ngeing of pnions.
In Colorado, men work In their Shirt
sleeves until the mercury touches zero. At
ten below they put on a summer vest. At
twenty they get into a sack coat. AT forty
they call for spring overcoat and 60 and
eat ice-cream.
II will barrow up the feelings of senti-
mental people TO learn that the ballad
"Comin' Thro' the Rye" does not refer to a
field of grain, but to little stream in Scot
land. There are others who use 1t 10 refer
to a mixture of grain and water.
The telephone system Of London includes
| seventeen stations aud 5000 subscribers.
| There are 10000 telephones in use in the
United Kingdom. There is some talk of the
business as a branch Of the postal service.
William Black, the novelist, is Ill; Sir
Arthur Sullivan Is fattened out by over
work. C. p. Huntington has quit writing
letters but G. Francis Train Is preparing to
launch his new journal of Psych homdnid,
This is the latest news about the "literary
felers."
The thermometers of Louisville have done
noble work in the cold snap, demonstrating
that Louisville is the true summer resort. A
town that can sit on the southern side of the
Ohio aud pull the mercury down seven de-
grees further than Chicago, ought TO be cool
enough TO resort to during the summer heat.
The Impression, says The Seattle Herald,
that the Territory will be admitted this ses-
sion of Congress is gaining strength; and IL
is suggested that meetings be held in favor
of it in the various towns and cities of the
Territory, and thus strengthen the position
of Senator Dolph, who has introduced the
bill for admission.
alt is the misfortune of the South" says
the New York Tribune, "that Its plain peo-
pie have very little voice in its political ac e.
ton" This Is worse than slanderous.
There are no plain people in the South. 1t
is possible that we are a little fierce, but
thank heaven we are all good looking
Atlanta Constitution.
Ofthe seventy-six United States Senators,
twenty one are accompanied by their wives,
seventeen have each wife and daughter,
one has daughter and one mother-in-law.
Of the $50 Representatives and Delegates,
ninety-fiye are accompanied by their wives,
Gfty.three have each wife and daughter,
and nine have only their daughters.
ain Italy," says Ouida, zone wants SO lit
tie; the air and the light, and little red
wine, and the warmth of the wind, and a
handful of maize or Of grapes, and an old
guitar. and niche to sleep in near a foun-
tain that murmurs and sings TO the moses
and marbles-these are enough in Itaiy."
Still, a good many ItaiIaHs come TO the
United States every year.
They used to have cold winters in olden
times. The Mediterranean Sea, the Gulf Of
Venice, the Black Sea, and the Baltic Sea,
have all been frozen over. So have all the
rivers of Italy. Ice 1G feet thick was made
in the river Po in 1916. In 1882 houses in
Austria were entirely buried by snow. In
1890 a snow storm In Scotland lasted thir-
teen days and nights. An entire army
crossed The Danube on the ice in 4G2
The Senate contains eleven men who were
formerly Governors of States. They are
Henry B. Anthony of Rhode Island, Joseph
L. Brown and Alfred Ii. Colquitt, of Geor
gia, Richard Coke of Texas, S. NJ. Gull
lom Of Illinois, A. ii. Garland of Arkansas,
James B. Groome of Maryland, Wade Hamp
ton Of South Carolina. Isham G. Harris of
Tennessee, Joseph Il. Hawley of Connecti-
cut, and Zebulon b. Vance Of North Caro-.
lima.
The rolling stock equipment of the North
ern Pacific comprises $50 locomotives, l34
passenger coaches, IL emigrant sleepers, IA
dining cars, % sleeping cars, o business cars,
pay ear, ) observation cars, / combination
passenger aud mail car, l combination pas
senger aud baggage car, u combination mail
and express cars, 10 express cars, "a baggage
cars. 132 csboose cars. 10 refrigerator cars,
4,S4j box cars. T97 stock cars, 1920 fiat cars,
100 coal cars, 73 boarding cars, pile drivers,
4 steam shovels, 6 tool cars, 2 steam stone
derricks. and one painters car.
The New York Times has the following
The officers of the Oregon and Transconti-
ueni al have, it is announced, made arrange
meuts for loan Of $1,000 600. with which
to wipe out its floating debt. 1t is reported
that through the efforts Of President Emil
colt a syndicate of Boston capitalists has
been formed which will advance the sum
named for one year, on pledge of $1,000
shares of Oregon Railway and Navigation
stock, 81. 900 shares of Northern Pacific pre-.
ferred and an equal number Of shares of the
Northern Pacific common. This stock Is to
be deposited with the Farmers Loan and
Trust Company, and at the end of year a
commission is payable TO the syndicate, but
no stock bonus will be allowed.
# H. g.
Railway issues to stockholders of The COM
paDy q statement of the roads prospects.
According to this statement there will soon
remain to be constructed of its 2, 2,998 miles of
main line only two gaps, one of less than 800
miles, on the Pacific side Of the Rocky
Mountains, and one Of I43 miles, north of
the lakes. 1t is expected both of those will
be filled in the next two years. and the pres
ident reports that the cost will not exceed
the amount Of the cash subsidy and land
grant bonds remaining In the hands of the
government. He also says that the govern
l1eut guarantee of per cent. dividends for
ten years is perfectly secure. Stockholders
are Invited to remain perfectly easy, as every |
thing is going Oh in charming manner.
Those red sunsets will, If they continue to
increase ia tint and extent, soon lose their |
as pect of glory aud partake of the appalling. |
For several evenings past the glow has been
blood. red in the west, re aching |
almost to the zenith, whilst the whole sky
tu The horizon, at all other points, was over
cast with faint crimson; and the moon, |
rising later on, would be heralded aud haloed |
by brilliant green until she rode alcft in |
the heavens. The sun, it will also be OBJ |
served, fiom rising until low in the west, Is |
by halo of faint orange. IL
these signs in the sky cannot be clearly con- |
nected with the comets which have almost |
wh;sked their tails through the earth's atmos- |
phere during the past two years, or with the |
grand one now approaching, they certainly |
portend this: I'D. II. /. 1884. 5. T." Inter- |
preted: Democratic President In 1884. Sure |
Thing.-Iddho Democrat.
A good-sized steer when ready for the
market will bring from $50 to 500. The
same animal at its birth was worth but S..