The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1884-01-11
NEW NOR'-WESTERS.
Yankee farmers save chicken and turkey
fat for boot grease.

Yankee farmers save chicken and tu.key
fat for boot grease. el
Emigration 10 Texas is said to be 2. pei
cent. greater this year than last.
P. T. Barnum says in recent letter thai
he has but one disease-old age.
The valuation of property in New Yerk
city is as great as that Of London.
A train of 140 teams recently arrived In
Palouse valley, w. T., from Texas.
All of the leading farm and garden seeds
are admitted to this country free Of duty.
London Bible societies have given away
4,9s9,6O0 copies of the scriptures this ytar.
New York has had but one Speaker, lem
w. Taylor, who served nearly sixty years
ago. Fl
G. +. Train will begin the publication of
paper called Train Oh, TO be devoted to
psychology. .ta -
Senator salisbury, of Delaware, is the
only member of the Senate who has never
been married.
There are mountains of solid non ore in
northern Sweden, less than hundred miles
from the Atlantic Ocean.
Assistant Secretary of State Hunter has
been in the Government service In Wash
ington for fifty. three years.
Kitchen gossips say that $4,000 worth of
unused "stuff " was taken from Vanderbilt's
house the day after his ball.
A Presbyterian minister of Oshkosh walks
an average of twelve miles day. He per-
haps collects his own salary. !
People IN Cleveland take dog oil to cure
consumption. Veterinary surgeons also use
IL In compounding llniments.
The story that a case of smallpox had aTs
peared in the back section of Gen. Shermaais
house in st. Louis is q cruel hoax.
One hundred vessels, $1,000, 900 worth of
property and two hundred lives were lost In
our lake navigation the past season.
FIrst.class passenger rates on American
railroads are less than they are for similar
travelling accommodations In Europe.
The Pons comet, which, when visible in
1872, had but one tail, now has two. II can
be seen with the naked eye early in the
| evening.
| Eighty of the 325 members of our present
National House of Representatives are not
| lawyers. There has been great oversight
somewhere.
The ordinary japanese bed consists of a
| quilt spread on the floor, q blanket with
sleeves for coverlet, and block Of wood
for pillow.
Tie century plant, which takes 100 years
| to ripen In the North, takes but IL years to
mature In California, and takes only five
years In Mexico.
Nellie, the oldest horse In Connecticut,
has just died at the age of thirty.nin On
the day of her death she helped her son pull
q load seven miles.
A bill has been introduced In the House
to reduce the price of Government lands
within the limits Of railroad grants fran
$3.50 to Sl.25 per acre.
Chief Mampoer was led naked to the scaf
fold at Pretoria. The first rope broke. A
second attempt to kill the condemned South
African was successful.
There are 27,0OO blind persons In France.
who live In pauperism and mendacity, in
consequence of the scarcity of charitable in
stitutions for the blind
The largest cow in America, IL Is believed,
belongs to John Pratt of Chase county, Kan
sas. 1t Is three years old, % hands high,
and weighs 5000 pounds.
An excellent authority on spiders informs
the Scientific american that in one species |
the female is 1900 times bigger than the |
male. This peculiarly is not confined to |
spiders. 4
The Ashland Times thinks the editor Of |
the Bucyrus Forum is putting on airs since |
being elected State Senator, as he has begun,l
suit against man owing seven years. sub.
scription. i
Kentucky papers say that Speaker Carlisle |
forbds the use Of his name as o candidate |
for the United States Senate before the eau
Gus of the Democratic members of the State |
Legislature.
The Rev. John Jasper, ID. D., LII. D., who |
upnolds the theory that "De sun do move," |
writes TO friend in New York that his con.
gregation has dwindled from nearly 1000 to |
20 members.
England is sending to Egypt all the sol. !
ders who can be put into the regiments now |
there. In this way 1t may be "diplomatic.
ally" said that she Is not increasing her force
on the Nile.
The new ice yelocipede consists of an Or
dinary bicycle, with spikes on the large
wheel to catch the ice, and an outside frame |
with four steel runners like those of the /
common skate. aa
A breastpin containing All Edison glow
light, fed by small waistcoat pocket bat
terry, IS sold for 50 at Nuremberg, GERMANY. I
But is the hotel clerk to give up bis diamond /
for every new toy?
The New York Morning Journal notices
q new paper shirt bosom, which consists of
six layers, the top one to be torn off when
soiled. With good care one of these pads
will last for six weeks.
When asked the question what American
writer he considered the ablest, w. ID. How
ellis replied that Sarah o. Jewett was the
most satisfactory literary worker Of whom
he had any knowledge.
Contrary to all precedent the Virginia
House of Delegates has snappishly refused
to remove the political disabilities of the
fifteen Virginians who had fought duels since
the whiewashing Of the previous batch.
Mr.. Bennett, the owner of the New York
Herald, Is said by persons who have seen
him In Paris lately, to have become "prema.
turely old. HIS hair is turning gray, and be
is as slow and precise In movement as an
old man."
You have all noticed while visiting a
menagerie how indifierently the lion gazes
over your head into the space beyond. Well,
that Is about the same expression the British
lion wore when asked by this country TO
grant o'Donnell q reprieve.
The Iowa friends of Gen. w. w. Belknap
are anxious that he should represent his dis
tric,, In Congress. He says that be has no
desire to re-enter public life, and It Is con-
Grmed habit with him not to be interviewed
concerning political affairs.
The schooner Polly, built in 1904, and
now undergoing repairs al Owls Head, Me-,
Is said to be the Oldest vessel of the United
States merchant service now adoat. Her
warrants the hope that Polly may
live TO see her one hnndredth birthday.
Two Of the known comets OF short period
arrive st perihelion In 1884 D'Arrest's ON