The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1884-09-12
GLEANTNGS,

to Harvard, forty-nine are ladies.
The poultry crop Of North Carolina
is said to be worth about 81, 800 900.
The births in Spain during 1888 mum.
bered 453, 900, and the deaths AIS, 900.
A woman Of Greenwood, Me-, liz re-
ported TO be cutting her fourth set of
teeth.
Canada exported last year 81, 7O5, S17
worth of butter and Sc, 451, $40 worth
of cheese.
Sam Collyer. tho noted pugilist, is
now living in the vicinity of Hampton,
Virginia.
The worsted industry of England
employs 2, 225, $40 spindles; in France,
2,765, 600.
Alexander Fl. Stephens library, which
cost him $40, 900, has beeen sacrificed
for $500.
The census of 1880 shows 6,632, 900
colored people in the former slave
states.
1t is estimated that the yield of ap-
| pies in western New York will be l.
600, 900 barrels.
An old we'll in Staten Island is said
to be running dry of water and taking
q turn at oil giving.
The Osborne" fat-house in New
York city, which is almost completed,
is fifteen stories high.
Rev. Dennis Osborne, a native mis-
sionary from India, says his people
have 1888, 600, 900 gods.
The Cape Cod canal dredger is the
largest in the world. 1t takes out 600
cubic yards an hour.
THE razor of Daniel O'Connell' is
labeled for sale in shop window near
the Seven Dials, London.
Samuel Noble, ofAnniston, Ala, has
given $40, 900 toward founding free
high school at that place.
1t is estimated that upward of $780,
600, 900 tons of canned goods are annu-
ally packed in this country.
A Stuttgart doctor says that corpu-
lent persons may become thin by sleep
ing on and wearing animal wool.
Thirty vessels have been wrecked
and sunk off Norwalk and Bridgewater
on the Connecticut shoals since 1882.
Eddie Bunnell. living near Court
land, Sacramento county, Cal, aged
six years and three months, weighs
10Y pounds.
Oll-bearing strata exist in the neigh
borhood of Sibi, Southern Afghanistan,
and the government will begin boring
next winter.
\ Walla Walla, w. T.. man claims
TO have picked over 5000 pounds of
Strawberries from less than two acres
of vines this season.
An astronomer who believes that the
science depends much upon photog-
raphy estimates that il would take ten
years TO photograph the heavens.
A woman has recently patented a
fire escape. What we must need in
this leap year of our Lord is q man
escape. Will some woman patent one9
General George Ii. Thomas widow
will make Washington her permanent
home in the future, and has already
begun the erection of handsome resi-
dence there.
A hundred-ton cannon that was be-
ing fired for the first time recently at
Gibraltar split or burst at the muzzle
in consequence of the shot not being
rammed home.
An old duck shooter calculates that
broadbills fly at the rate of thirty-five
to 10 miles an hour and other varieties
from forty-ive or fifty to eighty and
100 miles per hour.
There are $50 colleges and UNIVERSE
ties in the United States, of which only
twenty four have more than $50 STU
dents, and only seventeen have more
than twenty teachers.
There are nine octogenarians in the
British house of commons, the oldest
being eighty-three. One member, Col.
North, who is eighty. has son who
sits in the house of peers as Lord
North.
1t has been observed that Miss Hurst
the Georgia magnetic girl" before
exerting her powers habitually passes
her hands through her bangs. Perhaps
her strength, like Samson's. lies in her
hair.
The study of the Irish language is
becoming popular among many Irish
men in this country. In most of the
large cities there are classes organized
for the purpose. The Philadelphia
classes, for instance, number fifty
pupils.
In order to prevent haystacks being
destroyed by fire, farmers in the far
west scatter few handfuls of common
salt between each layer. 1t is claimed
that the salt, by absorbing the hui
Nudity OF the hay, prevents its fermen-
tation and consequent heating.
The mortality of the whole globe has
been computed by continental publ
cation at the following figures: Sixty
seven per minute, $1,000 per diem and
80, 639, 1856 per annum; whereas the
births are SO. 792. 900 per annum, 100.-
900 per diem and 20 per minute.
A mysterious and terrible creature
known as the 'willipus wallipus" has
made its appearance near GAINESVILLE,
Tenn. A number of citizens have seen
1t, and they say it is bullet-proof and
belches fire. The "moonshiners" must
be doing good business in that part
of the country.
Robert Shumate, of Nelson, Ky., got
o '.gar fly" in his ear while fishing.
He knocked it out right away, but not
until after it had deposited a lot of
eggs. After suffering several days
with earache, he called a doctor, who
removed nine screw worms from his
ear, and there are more to come.
A collection of Oriental idols, num-
bering about 10000. and library of
L., 600 volumes, principally in Chinese
and Japanese, have been presented to
Lhe city Of Paris by M. Emile Guimet
Of Lyons. The owner it is said. had
refused an offer of 5000, 900 for the col
lection, for which the municipal coun-
ill will provide suitable building.
The Alps contain two peaks above
u. 600 feet, six or seven above 1900
leet, and In all about thirty which are
called first-class peaks. The Hima-
ayas, on the other hand, or rather the
limited part of them with which we
ire familiar, contain peaks from $4,000
eet downward. More than LOO have
been measured exceeding 10000 feet
ind 1t is computed that at least 1000
exceed this height
In Ireland it can be no hardship to
ind wife. An escaped lunatic was
ately on trial for bigamy in having
married. no less than five women, but
he very fact of his matrimonial sue
less might have been taken as an evil
ience OF lunacy without the trouble of
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