The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1884-11-14
GLEANINGS.

1he sum OF w, 5OO, ,OOO,OOO Is required
to furnish the British people with the
common articles of food and drink for
year.
Olive Logan, writing from London
of the Prince of Wales, says that he
sis getting uglier and more dissipated
looking every day"
American electric lights are in use
in nearly all the countries of Europe,
in India. Africa. China, Japan, Mexi-
co, and South America.
Tomahawk punch is q London mix
ture of champagne. green tea, and cura-
Goa. AS the name would imply 1t
goes straight to the head.
4 factory in indianapolis makes 49,
600, 900 butter dishes and 1000 step
ladders n year. besides other things
too numerous TO mention.
A new process in shot making will
do away with the tall towers. A
strong current of air is forced ON the
lead as it falls into the water.
Society in Philadelphia is all torn up
by the question whether lady should
recognize gentleman while he is hav-
ing his shoes blacked on a street
corner.
The new style OF Indian in front of
the cigar store is not wooden man,
but zinc. Zinc Indians run as high as
$500 and 5000 each, and down as low
rs $25.
Old Thomas Allen. a survivor Of the
Balaklava charge, died tho other day
in poor-house in London. The gov
ernment had been paying him muni-
fcent pension of II cents q day.
In the South the feeling is growing
that the man so ready to hand out q
pistol on the least provocation is q
coward in comparison with the COM
mon bully, who fights with his fists.
A Cleveland concern has gone to
work on new mouthpicce for the
telephone by which whisper can DO
distinctly transmitted and perfect Sc
crccy from bystanders thus secured.
In Pembroke, Mass. is said to be
standing. in good condition, the oldest
house in America. In the year 1923 it
was built of Hat stones laid in clay by
two pioneers named Barker, from
Plymouth.
A coon hunter. r. ID. Durrett. Of
Pamela county. Mississippi. found $3S.-
525 In gold in hollow tree last week.
He does not know whose money it
was. He does not care, so long as he
knows whose money it is.
OF the !, 200, 900 surviving soldiers of
the late war, it is estimated that $780,
900 a. nf tho hicciccinni nrI nf
this class who are pensioners there has
been an increase since 1873 of 218 per
cent. due almost entirely to emigra-
ton.
The largest organ in the world has
just been completed by Walck. of
Ludwigsburg, and placed in the Cathe-
dral of Riga. The colossal instrument
measures thirty-six feet in depth.
thirtv.,wo feet from front TO back, and
sixty-fve feet high. 1t contains no
less than 6, ,S26 pipes, distributed among
124 sounding stops.
A new synchronous-multiples tele-
graph system was recently tested. In
five minutes there were sent over one
wire, in six circuits, 703 words while
8O6 were received. In ten minutes
over one wire, using six circuits, 2, 244
words were sent averaging about 81
words per minute to each circuit.
The city of Bamberg is the first to
practically apply the law against the
public disturbance Of piano playing al
untimely hours in the case of girl,
vino. greatly TO the annoyance of the
neighbors, practiced at an open win.
dow. The code prescribes fine OF
adequate Imprisonment. The mum.
cipal court let the fair culprit off with
81 and costs.
Another thing that should be urged
as the most evident method of making
money easy is promptness in paying
bills. Many people will be apt to
make bank failures and hard times an
excuse for putting off their creditors.
Ye: the surest way to restore good
times is for every man to put what
money he has in circulation for the
cancellation of debts.
The oldest and largest tree in the
world is chestnut, near the foot OF
Mount Etna. 1t is hollow. and large
enough to admit two carriages driving
abreast through it. The circumference
of the main trunk is PIP feet. The
Grizzly Giant monarch of the Mari
posa Grove. measures ninety-two feet
The famous Charter Oak" near
Hartford, Conn, which fell August 2l,
1856, was thirty-three feet in circum-
ference at the ground.
Joseph Cook. addressing mass
Gn1t nl-n (t;txy unft.
.Over the gate of the grounds around
the house of your False Prophet there
is represented large eagle perched
on beehive, with his talons thrust
deep into the hive. An excellent SYM
Dol of Mormonism-rapacity preying
on industry! The priesthood preying
on the people! have great sympathy
for the occupants of the beehive
none at all for the eagle"
In Evelyn's diary the following
occurs, referring to Dutchwoman
who lived in the seventeenth century.
Toward the end of August returned
to Haarlem. They showed US cottage
where they told us dwelt n woman
who had been married to her twenty
fifth husband. and being now q widow,
was prohibited to marry in future; yet
it could not be proved that she had
ever made away with any of her hus-
bands, though the suspicion had
brought her divers times to trouble. "
"a genuine lord" said Lord Ronald
Cover recently. .'has no need as q
tourist in foreign land, to proclaim
his aristocracy. l have travelled a
great deal in America, and almost all
the while incognito. My experience Is
that, though title may be n passport
into some circles of society, 1t is on
the whole q drawback among your
people. 1t subjects its possessor to
two sorts of annoyance-that which
arises from the common dislike of aris-
tocratic eminence and that which comes
from quite general doubt as to its
genuineness.
The old home of Judge Black, neal
York, Pa, is kept just as he left it. In
the library even the lead-pencils with
which he was accustomed to write
with his left hand lie on the table, just
as he laid them down. no change
being made in the furniture, except
that picture of the judge has been
put on the wall and bust, as yet only
In plaster, has been placed in O
temporary pedestal. The last book he
looked into was Curtis Life Of Bu-
chanan." and the rough edges of the
leaves. which he tore apart by running
his thumb through them-for he never
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