The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1884-07-11
NEW NOR'-WESTERS.
Japan has only 10000 paupers in popula-

There are 1000 school teachers in Arkan
sas, 800 of whom are colored.
1t costs the 35 100000 of people in England
about ESQ, ,0O0, 900 per annum to live.
Baseball is displaced. The New Yori
Tribune terms poker the national game.
Oakley Hall is becoming quite a we'll
known figure in political society in London
The school teachers of Vermont are pro-
hibited by law from using tobacco in any
form.
Russia has nearly twenty million horses
about fifteen millions being fit for army
duty.
Beef shipments from Montana to Chicago
over the Northern Pacific, will commence
July 20.
The merciful horseman let's out the buckle
of his check-rein hole or two as the weather
grows hotter.
A new comet, not yet visible in North
America, has been discovered at the Vienna
Observatory.
The amount of travel in the average loco
motive is said to be twenty eight times the
circuit of the earth.
The Beers are determined to maintain the
new Zulu king, DinIzIlu, on the throne of
his father, Cetewayo.
There will be Is 900 head of sheep shipped
into Montana from Washington Territory,
over the Northern Pacific, this season.
One new hotel in the Catsklls is called
Grip Van Winkle," and a mailer house, re-
Gently erected, is named "Rip's Wife,"
Thus far this season thirty-two persons
have killed themselves at Monaco. Losses
at the gaming table Is the invariable cause.
The 100 ton gun at Gibraltar, recently in
jured by the bursting of the shot before leav-
ing the gun, cost the English Government
f16,000.
Capt. ]. Goldborough Bruff, an old West
Pointer, now nearly 50, still works without
spectacles as a draughtsman in the Treasury
department.
1t is said that family prayers are not in
vogue as in olden times. While this Is TO be
regretted let US hope that the same thing
may be said of family quarrels.
The appearance of cholera in France
moves the Springfield (Mass.) Union to
warn every man TO put his house in order
also his cellar and back yard.
The Medical Record recommends lemon
juice, in little water, without sugar, taken
on going to bed and on getting up, as better
than any drug for bilious system.
During the time that the human popula-
ton of the United States was increasing
from five TO fifty millions, the trees were de-
creasing, OIL the whole, almost IN the same
ratio.
According to an officer of New York life
insurance company, the mortality among
negroes is higher than among white people,
and they are accordingly charged higher
rates.
Stanley, the African explorer, after seven
years In Africa, is about TO retire. He Is de
scrbed as very unsocial. His successor will
be Sir Francis Winton, formerly aide-de-
camp to the Marquis of Lorne.
Mr.. Henry Rose, a well known journalist
of Hull, England is engaged in the prepara-
tlon of new work on political economy
based on the theories of land reform pro-
mulgated by Henry George, and will also
write complete life Of the reformer.
According to the Clinical Record, DR..
Brinton has always looked with a certain
amount of disbelief on carbolic acid, but
finds corrosive sublimate to be the coming
antiseptic. Prof. Koch has shown that So
lutions of one part Of sublimate to 1000
parts Of water will destroy all bacteria,
germs and spores.
There are fathers and mothers who have
plenty of money to spend to crafty their
personal desires, but not one cent to pur-
chase paper, a Bible or some other good
book with which TO instruct themselves and
their children. When asked to buy these
they suddenly become very economical or
feel wretchedly poor.
Dan Rice, the ex.clown, is doing the
South in the capacity Of n temperance lee
turer. Dams intentions are good, but the
flesh Is weak, and last week his weakness
got the better Of him at Chattanooga, and
his temperance audience found him in the
ditch instead of on the lecture platform. As
a fearful example, Dan is a success.
Liripoop Is the latest word coined by the
author of the "Star-eyed goddess of REFORM"
Waterson uses this word TO designate Dem
ocratic kicker, the same as an "independeut"
Republican is called mugwump-one who
carries his party under his hat 1t is sug-
gested that the lirlpoops and mugwumps hold
joint convention, and put up Curtis and
SchurZ. ..
A lecturer on the eye remarks that when
it is shown that the eye is not equal TO the
work required of it, the proper remedy is not
rest, for that is fatal to Its strength, but the
use of glasses of sufficient power TO render
necessary SC much effort in accommodating
the eye to vision. 1t is not good sense to
waste time IN resting the eye, and that prac-
tice does not strengthen 1t. nv ..."
The Siberian cattle plague has this year
assumed enormous proportions, To say
nothing of European Russia, and even St.
Petersburg-where the authorities in Aprit
last forbade the turning of cattle out to
grass, according TO annual custom, on ST..
Georges day, in order to prevent contagion
the disease is now raging In the region of
its origin on the other side of the Ural with
unprecedented violence. .-. ..-......s &.
An improved fish book has been invented
by O. Southern sportsman. About midway
up the shaft Of the hook he places q small
crossbar, which serves three purposes. First,
IL prevents the fish from swallowing the
hook; second, it increases the chances of
capture, for the reason that when a fish
strikes Its nose against the projection 1t In
voluntarily closes its mouth and 90 is se-
curely caught; and third, 1t prevents the
bait from slipping up the hook.
Toledo Blade, (Rep.); The bolt Is not q
dangerous one. Harper's Weekly represents
the Harper Brothers, and nothing else. The
New York Times represents the English
merchants in New York, the American agen-
cies Of English manufacturers, who are TO q
man Democrats, the few who have been nat
uralized always voting the Democratic
ticket. The Boston boilers do not represent
the Republicans of Massachusetts. $50
There are, In round numbers, about fifty
thousand postmasters In the United States,
whose salaries run from $1,000 per annum
down to nine cents. The individual receiv-
ing the largest salary in this capacity Is the
postmaster Of New York, whose salary is
$1,000, the same as that of the Postmaster
General himself. The smallest salary ap-
pears to be that paid to II. ii. Forrest, post
master Of Redale, Pitt county, n. G., whose
salary, according TO the Government register,
was nine cents last year.
Bavaria has 5,4S2 breweries, or little
more than one to each thousand Inhabitants.
In Munich the annual consumption OF beer
Is 470 quarts 10 each man, woman and child,
or about one quart and third day for each
inhabItant. The men drink on an average
from two and half to three quarts day,
some taking every day OF their lives eight
quarts-say n common wooden pail brim
full. Beer Is not looked upon there as .
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