The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1884-05-16
NEW NOR'-WESTERS.

Pouu oh sAmoiibS ioT Hfehnooo'
Senator John Sherman Is said to be the
Ia Shistplayer In the Unilad States.
According to the census Of 1882, Japan
had in her public schools nearly 100000
pupils.
The cattle growers of the United States
will meet In convention at st. Louis In No
vember.
New York City has 1926 butchers, bakers
and grocers, where there are 10000 liquor
dealers.
Lady Gordon offers 1000 toward the
relief Of General "Chinese" Gordon, In the
Soudan.
The cattle industry In this country repre-
sents over 40, o00, 900 Of cattle, worth $780,
100000.
There were 1900 murders in the United
States last year and only ninety-three legal
executions.
The Burlington Hd,ckeye says that Blaine
will have eighteen of Iowa's votes, while
Arthur will have eight.
70 wait upon the seventy-six Senators,
there are 242 employees, not counting police,
watchmen and librarians.
At the temple of Kioto, Japan, is the great
bell cast in 1888. 1t is Is feet high, feet In
diameter, and Oh inches thick.
Cincinnati Enquirer Dem.): II there is
anything Mr.. Tilden wants and doesn't see,
all he hiss to do is to ask for 1t.
Mr.. Frelinghuysen has received as pres
ent TO America from = European house
mosaic portrsit Of General Garfield.
Cleveland Herald (Rep.): 1t is apparent
th a. the Edmunds boom is bothering some
body. They now rise to remark that he is
ga free-trader in Disguise"
Tilden has bought, for $4,000, house
and lot on the south side of Thirty eighth
street, 4s7 feet west Of Fifth avenue. He
will present the purchase to niece OF his.
Senator Edmunds Is the choice of the Har-
ward students by large majority. can
vass gives Edmunds 551, Blaine 123, Bayard
1l6, Arthur 90, and John Sherman IL votes.
"Brick" Pomeroy failed to keep his en-
gagement to lecture on Temperance In New
York last Sunday, and the excuse was, that
the dentist had failed TO send home his new
teeth.
There are twelve manufactures Of arti6-
cial teeth In the United States, which make
10, 200 900 of those useful articles per annum.
They are made Of fieldspar, kaolin, and rock
crystal.
General Lew Wallace 10 travelling In Asia,
collecting material for his new book. He Is
expected home in Indiana next month. and
will probably not again return to bis post In
Turkey.
Eighty years ago North Carolina had as
many Representatives In Congress as New
York. North Caralina now has nine, or one
less than she had in 1890, while New York
has thirty-four.
Organic salts OF iron seriously hinder diges-
| tion, a fact which DR.. Dusterbof, of Berlin,
has demonstrated. It is important that it
should be known, now that iron Is so fre.
qusntly given as medicine.
It IL estimated that there are now In this
country $4,000 manufacturing establish
ments, employing 100000 workmen and
| "a, SOC, ,000. 900 capital, and that the product
is worth $4,000, 600 900 year, $4,000 ,OOO,O 900
more than that Of Great Britain.
1t Is claimed that Arabian grass will grow
anywhere without water and Is splendid for
stock. II the grass turns out well 1t would
| be easy to cover the sagebrush hills with 1t.
| A Nevada man has sent on to Washington
to get some seeds Of the grass that grows
luxuriaDtly Oh the burning sands Of the
desert, TO plant on his ra ich on places where
there Is no water. 1t Is the grass that has
| been planted on the sand hills about San
Francisco to stop the sand from blowing
about. 1t grows well on those hills, and
ought TO grow on any waterless spot.
The bailey Times says: Jacob Clemens,
the fenj who during the present term Of
| court at Boise was convicted for incest and
| raps upon bis own daughter, was sentenced
on last Saturday by Judge Prickett to ten
years for the crime Of incest, and In passing
sentence upon him for the crime of rape, the
Judge Is reported 10 have said TO the pris-
oner, "Such devil as you should be kept Ia
the psnitentiary during the remainder Of
your life," and he 90 sentenced him. Were
there more Judge Pricketts on the bench,
there would be fewer Judge Lynch's and
riots -'-
The laureate has presented himself at the
| House of Lords but once since his elevation,
| and then he vanished ere his brother peers
could we'll say such thing had been. But
his passing presentation was highly effective.
He first showed at the doorway for . moment
In loose capped cloak and . high-crowned
felt hat, with broad leaf turned up at the
side. His attitude was that of the first vii
4
must disssnble.n He did not cross the por-
| tai, nor was he we'll visible before the Prince
Of Wales hurried out and bore the poet peer
of with him.
Mr.. Roosevelt, whose phenomenal rise In
1 New York politics has given him fame that
may be temporary or perhaps lasting, Is thus
i described by one who watched him closely
At Utica: "He is . light footed, agile. ner-
vous yet prompt boy, with light-brown,
slightly curling hair, blue eyes and an eye
glass, and ready TO rise and speak with q
clear, sharp, boyish voice, . manner more Of
the undergraduale than the finished orator,
but unmistaksble, candid, untrifing and
/ withal kind and chivslric. he has slight
flash of the countenance and resolnte express
sion of the head well adapted TO start sym
pathy and possibly enthusiasm"
The costliest pulpit In the world is said to
be that which Is to be constructed for the
white marble cathedral In New York. IL ID
to be OF Carrara marble, and ID erected ~ m
offering OF the clergy Of the archdiocese oi
New York TO Cardinal McClosksy on the
occasion of the anniversary Of his golden
jubilee. The pulpit will be thirteen feel
thigh, OF an octagonal shape, approached BY
seventeen steps to the platform. The base
will be OF Westehester marble four feet wide
and thirty-nine inches high, on which there
is to be molding corresponding with the col
umnS or the cathedral. On the top Of thii
molding there will be . central column oi
white marble fourteen inches In diameter,
surrounded by eight columns Of colorsd
marble, with white marble bases and caps,
ornamsntsd with foliage.
The following % the full text OF the bill
that has been passed BY the United States
Senate relative TO timber depredations
"Every person who unlawfully cuts or aids
or Ii employed iD rnlawfully. cutting, Of
wantonly destroys or procures TO be wan
tonly destroyed any timber standing upon
The lands Of the United States, which In pur-
suance Of law may be reserved or purchased
for military or other purposes, or upon any
Indian reservation or Iands belonging to Of
occupied by any tribe Of Indiana under au-
thority Of the United States, shall pay : fine
OF not more than $500 or be imprisoned moi
more than twelve months, or both, In The
discretion Of The court"