The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1884-05-23
NEW NOR'-wESTERS.
London has an average Of 2.sO9 blrtls

There are $1,000 rich Americans llvlnsin
Paris. ac a.Mv Gu. e4,e s-. -H. VS.
Cocoauut shells are ground mp 10 adulte-
ate spices and other condiments.
New York City has 10000 persons VIII,
depend on gambling for livelihood. Il
AsU. S. Presidents Of Irish descent areI
named Andrew Jackson, franklin PIERCE
James Buchanan and @. A. Arthur. ayea
| Oysters are worth S5c dozen In England
and but for the introduction Of foreign oys-
ters might be worth twice that much.
| Star-gaze are happy. The Eve planets,
Venus, Jupiter, Mars, Mercury and Saturn
can now oil be seen In the evening sky.
The total debt Of the United States Is given
at 81, ,4s6, ,Os3, 1885. As the debt is dimin-
ishing, there Is some doubt about the odd
eighty.six cents.
A Boston recipe for whitening red nose
| is an ointment Of cigar ashes and mutton
| tallow on going TO bed, repeating every night
| for week or two.
The best time across the Atlantic was by
the Alaska, 0 days 81 hours and 40 minutes,
until beaten by the Oregon in days 10
hours and 80 minutes.
1t 10 said that an Insurance company has
refused TO take risks on houses where gold
fish globes are kept, the globes acting as sun
glasses aud starting fires.
twenty. five per cent. too much tonnage In
existence for the work to be done. England
has overdone iron ship building.
The big organ in Music Hall, which for
years has been one Of the features for sight
seers in Boston, has BEEN sold TO the New
England Conservatory Of Music.
In proportion TO population there are In
the United States nearly three times IS many
doctors as there are i'm England, and nearly
four times as many as In France.
A South Carolina man discovered that .
chalk mark around barrel of sugar IL q sure
cure for ants, and 10 now mad because the
Patent Office refuses him patent for 1t.
Reechsr put on rubber clothe. the other
night and immersed several young men In
Plymouth Church. He says he does not be-
lleve In it, but wants TO please everybody as
far as be can.
Americans are far ahead Of the English "in
institutions for giving their sous and daugh-
ters that practical training which fits them
for industrial pursuits"
The croaker is unhappy at the failure Of
his prediction that sickness would rage In
the regions inundated by the great Ohio
food. On the contrary, these regions are
unusually free from diseases.
1t IL gratifying TO know that the Queen
Anne style Of architecture Is going out Of
fashion in the Eastern cities and giving place
TO quieter and more sensible forms, without
recurring to the commonplace style of build
ing.
Mr.. Beecher says of the time when he was
an early bird: "If all the chestnuts that
stole while boy Of thirteen nr fourteen, In
Boston, were 10 rise up oefors mo on juds
ment day, there would be pretty wormy
| time"
or diseases resulting In death in Philadel-
phis, the highest on the list are consumption,
Inflammation Of the lungs, and old age, and
in the Il rider named. IL people had their
choice, old age would be the favorite fatal
ailment.
London Truth says: "One good bloody
| murder, from = newspaper poiut of view, Is
worth more than anything else that can hap
pen, and murder in England interests Lon
doners thousand times more than caI-
| paign on the Nile"
Under new Interpretation OF the law Of
| England. . poor man who plucks dafodil
| by the roadside may be sent to Jail. The
| plucking Of any wild flower that may be con-
founded with those of garden or hot house
productions is forbidden.
A curious coincidence has been dug out Of
| American history, showing that on Oct. 30,
| 1881, the Continental Congress elected tie
frst Secretary Of War, whose name was
| Benjamin Lincoln. Robert T. Lincoln was
appointed just 100 years later.
| The following message was sent to Wash
ington from the postmaster Of Mutt, New
Mexico: "Our town has gone to the sweet
by and-by. Only one family left. re.
spectfully resign my position as postmaster
here. Westward the star Of empire takes its
way and also the p, NJ" .a
| Msjor Henry r. Hefshburger, Of Cham
bersburg, Pa, who, as Instructor Of horse
manship at West Point, had among his pupils
Generals Pope, Msgruder, Burnside, Nc
CIellan, Grant and both Hills, died recently.
He used to say that General Pope was the
best rider at West Point.
Professor Merriman declares tlat In 49,
coo years the ocean will roll 200 feet deep
over New York City," This should not
alarm the New Workers, however. by that
time apartment houses In New York, ct ths
present rate Of altitude, will be built 500 feet
high.-Norristo,c Herald.
A Boston man starts this pertinent inquiry:
IL lager beer Ii so Injurious for invalids to
use, why do these large chemical houses In
different parts Of our United States manu-
facture 30 many preparations made from
malt and hops, and get ST. bottlr for them,
while lager sells for ten cents per bottle?
The ny In General Badeau's mustard pot
has been discovered. The State Department
has been pressing Badeau 70 pay up alittle
balance Of about O,000 which the Govern
msnt has charged against him, and conse-
quently the ex-ponspl Gensrsl thinks the
State Department ID not run on ~ liberal
principles Is II should be. A
| It's shown BY the Hartford Courant that
while, BY scientific discoveries, nearly every
article Of food and drink h adulterated and
poisonous, yet science at the Same time
boasts that the death rate Is declining stead.
lily. People are growing stronger, healthier
and happier. Life Is Heightened, and the
crowning glory Of the nineteenth century is
In it, prolongation Of human life,
The Providsnce Journai thinks 1t sees q
decline 10 the use OF personalities In politi-
, cal controversy and debate. II prays for the
day when personalities shall be unknswn,
and says that s.then the self-seeking politi-
clan, greedy for the pride Of station and the
spoils OF Office, must give place to the patriot
who may enter into the arena OF debate
without feeling that ell his aner senaibilltiei
will be degraded BY having his private char.
actef Indignantly dragged through the slum.
| Of false accusation" a =
An optical illusion show came 10 an abrupt
close In Henominee the other day. Aftel
Mr.. and Mrs. Rhoda had exhibited the "Liv.
ing Head" party Of lumbsrmen, fall o
whisky and curiosity, jumped: oyer the roHs
away the curtsins, found : whole woman
standing between mirrors, and we're 20 mad