The new North-west., 1884-06-20
NEW NOR'-wESTERS.

Cuba has had no rain for four months.
The United States has thirty mine circuse
this year.
Joaquin Miller has won the white olephan
prize poem.
Railway, n. j., compromises 81 100000 o
debt to S555, 900.
The Brooklyn Fair for the Bsrtholdi pedss
tai got s., 400 into debt.
Over sixty per cent. Of the adult NAL,
population of New Mexico can neither reaG
nor write. ...
A Chicago firm has a contract TO max,
forty miles of eight-inch wrought iron pipe
In sixty days.
G. B. Lewis, better known as an. Quad
humorous writer, is to 60 to Newburgh, New
York, to live.
Miss Ida Lewis, the American Grace Oar.
ling, is dangerously Ill at the Lime Rocks
Lighthouse.
There Is rumor to the effect that the
Scribners propose to start 3 new weekly,
something after the style of Harpsrs'.
The United States District Court has de-
clded that Brooklyn is simply part of New
York and is within the limits of its port.
An attempt is to be made In New Orleans
At the coming exposition to introduce cents
into circulation there. The effort has been
made half dozen times before, but each at
| tempt has been a failure.
The Omaha Republican, in noticing the
fact. that Chicago alderman was shot for
refusing to take drink, confidently remarks
that emo Omaha councilman will become
the mark for bullet for any such reason"
Freddy Gebhardt owns high-stepper. 1t
Is a Ksntuckian, six years old, and recently,
with q $50 pound jockey on its back, cleared
gate six and a half feet high, beating the
English champion leap of six feet two inches.
The London Telegraph thinks the time 10
not far distant when every nightfarer will
carry his own ray Of electricity about him,
inclosed within the compass Of a machine
not larger than the watch now ticking in his
pocket.
No American daily paper has ever got be-
yond 100000 circulation. In France there
are numerous journals which have had as
many daily purchasers as 200 900 fer good
many years, and the Petit Journal now
claims 645, 900 daily.
Hing Lum, Chinese, dissmbowled himself
In an opium fit at Montreal. He stabbed
himself several times, and on finding that
his bowels protruded, had cut Off such pieces
as were hanging out Of the cash, which were
about eight inches In length.
Metallic paper is French invention, and
upon 1t chromo-lithographs are rendered
Transparent by coating and backed with
tin foil. The effect Is said TO be very strik-
ing, and the possible applications Of the in
"A
The property of John Russell, the miser
printer, who died in New York about year
ago, has all been collected in from the va
rious banks, and amounts TO $37, 7,6S9.3S.
About fifty person from all over the world
have put In their claims Of relationship.
In many of the business houses of Paris,
and especially In those Of which the cellars
are used as offices, glass Is now being extern
sively used instead Of boards for flooring.
1t saves gaslight, and the glass proves in the
long run fuliy as cheap, II not cheaper, than
the wooden flooring.
The No, thtuest says the Northern Pacific
Is the longest railroad in the werld. An
average Of 100 trains are constantly moving
upon 1t. Sometimes the number Is as high
as $50. The rolling stock Of the road, If
made up into one solid train, would occupy
nfly.slx miles OF Hack.
Paul Morphy, of New Orleans, once so
celebrated as chess player, Is only 45 years
old, but is a mental wreck. He goes up and
down the streets of New Orleans always
neatly and stately dressed, muttering incho-
herently to himself His insanity results
from the loss Of a lawsuit.
"Sam" Ward was treated with perhaps
Atati ion han has hokt nf
Delm onico's, the head waiter always being
eager to show him to the best table and at.
tend to his wants in person, while the other
servants looked on In awe and passed about
tragic whisper, "Thats Mr.. Ssmward."
Lime slaked with q solution of salt In
water, and then properly thinned with skim.
milk, from which all the cream has been
taken, makes . permanent whitewash for
outdoor work, and, 1t Is said, renders the
wood incombustible. 1t Is an excellent
wash for preserving wood and for all farm
purposes.
In Morocco, when thief Is caught in the
most trivial ofFense, they politely request
him 10 hold up both hands. Then they ask
him what hand he would prefer TO have In
his possession, and when he has made bis
choice they cut off the other. When q thief
has thus lost both hands and also his feet he
loses his head, and quits stealing.
The Christian Intelligencer says: .It is q
good plan that some churches are adopting OF
having vigilance committees to look after
the absentees from Sunday worship. Any
member out Of his place for two Sundays Is
reported TO the pastor, who Immediately
takes measures TO learn the reason why.
Strangers attending for two Sundays are Wis
tied with the view of attaching them to the
congregation" ....
Gen. Grant 10 reported TO have suffered so
much mentally from the exposure of Fsrdi.
nand Wards frauds as TO look ten or twelve
years older than he Is. Some of his friends
think him irretrievsbly broken In body and
spirit. All attempts to persuade him to pub
lish Q statement Of his connection with the
firm, or to induce him to justify himself,
have proved vain. He broods In silence over
What he conceivss to be an outrageous wrong
to him.
A Boston letter to the Philadelphia Ne,os
says: The very tone of Bsstonian's voice
has gentle, dog-earsd curve, so TO speak,
that suggests frequent handling, o mellow
turning Of tones, readiness 10 60 on or turn
back until the question we had asked, or the |
subject We would learn, has been made quite |
clear to us. There Is d.tailed touch In the |
voice that answers and questions us that |
seems TO fold about Its words in kind OF
patient, loving naturalness and to close about |
The spirit Of the listener in . subtle enccur-
agement TO the ideal valne he has somewhere |
placed upon himself.
! The Pixies Peak Railway, which will bs |
In operation next year, will be the most no.
table piece Of track In the world. H. will |
mount 1000 feet higher than the Lima and |
Oroya Railway, In Peru. 1t is now In oper-
alton TO point over 1900 feet above SEA |
level. The entire 30 miles Of Its length will |
be succession of complicated curves and |
grades, with ne piece Of straight track longer |
than 800 feet. The maximum grade will be |
316 feet to the mile, and the average grade |
270 feet. The line will abound In curves |
from 500 TO 1000 feet long, In which the
radius changes every chain.
An old lady remembers the time, fifty
years ago, when the milk froze In the pals |
while milking, and the young leaves On the |
trees changed color a. though burnt with |
FIRE. Small fruits were destroyed and very
unusual phenomenon occurred, the fruit OF |
pear tree being entirely seedless, something
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