The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1884-11-07
GLEANINGS.


California produces 100. 200 boxes OF
raisins every year.
The BROOKLYN Directory for 1884
contains 1S0, COO names.
A dozen humming birds are grouped
on some imported bonnets.
Over 100000 cent pieces were
coined in the United States last year.
Mr.. Dana has seen New England
women eat five different kinds of pie at
one meal.
1t costs annually 81, 200, 900 for links
and pins for the freight cars in this
country.
Specimen postage stamps are NO
longer furnished collectors by the pos
tai department.
Eben S. Stafford has occupied the ed
itorial chair of the Essex (Mass.) Ban
ner for half century.
A new table freak is the eating of
peaches with spoon, holding the whole
fruit in the left hand meanwhile.
London has 5000 acres of forest
parks; New York. l.OS4. Nine new
parks are to be laid out in Gotham.
Who will be the next man of more
courage than sense to volunteer for
arctic service? inquiries the Buffalo En-
press.
District messenger boys at Long
Branch 90 about on bicycles, which in
terferes with their reading trashy story
papers.
Tho Altai estates of the czar Of Rus
sia cover ITO, 900 square miles. being
about three times the size of Eng land
and Wales.
Thirty thousand two-horse trucks are
employed in the business of New York.
Upward of $50, 900, 900 are invested in
this industry.
An observer says most of the centen-
arians in America are from Ireland.
though there are many among the col
ored people.
White stockings arc coming once
again into fashion in London. from the
crusade by the doctors against colored
wear as slow poisoncrs.
Under the laws OF Maine person
who procures divorce can not marry
for two years without permission Of the
court granting the decree.
Five hundred men went out to the
circum-polar stations in 1881, and all
came back safely except the nineteen
members of Greely's party.
Additional hot springs are being de-
veloped ut Hot Springs. Arkansas, by
digging in the side of the mountain out
of which the other hot springs issue.
A rag-picker in New York found an
old letter with Brattleboro 5-cent
stamp. the rarest specimens in the
American catalogues. He sold 1t for
$500.
Freight elevators have been in use
for more than 100 years, but the first
passenger elevator ever used was put
into the Ff,n Avenue Hotel, New
York, in 1859.
BY new electric headlight for loco
motives thirty-three telegraph poles
can be counted ahead of the engine on
a dark night Thirty-three poles cover
about one mile.
The first brick building in Cincinnati
was the st. Clair House. built in 1906,
of brick brought from Pittsburg, and is
still standing upon Main street, between
Seventh and Eighth.
Three thousand years ago an Egyp-
tian couple named their boy Reupi.
He was cotemporary of Elijah.
Reupi's mummy has just been added
to the Cornell College Museum.
The uniform worn by tho troops OF
the Mehdi consists Of white smock,
decorated with three colored squares
in front. It has loose sleeves and q
fancy border around the sleeves and
neck.
A species of lizard called the hell
bender Is now considered delicacy by
New York epicures. 1t is about ten
inches in length. of dirty mud color,
and provided with four legs and tail.
The flesh is said to be delicacy.
When grieving over the number Of
books that are published it will DO q
satisfaction to reflect upon those that
are not. A single publishing house re-
ports the rejection during the past
month of $50 manuscript works Of fic-
tion.
At Amsterdam, New York, there Is a
girl who has two tongues. the upper
one being two-thirds the length of the
other and having the appearance OF a
natural tongue turned over. The child
does not use the upper tongue in eat
ing, though she can move it slightly.
An intelligent but cautious weather
observer in Wayland, Nebraska, re-
sponded to the inquiry of signal-ser-
vice officer who was gathering facts
about the origin of cyclones with let
ter, thus: ..Ser your Surckeler es at
Hand as Ner as I Can Com to Et the
25 Was Mise Day."
What is claimed to De valuable
rust protector is among the recent
Ger man inventions. 1t consists of an
ordinary oil paint mixed with ten per
cent of burned magnesia, baryta, or
strontia. as we'll as mineral oil. This
neutralizes the free acid of the paint
and the alkaline reaction protects the
iron from rust.
The Lancet condemns the practice Of
SlVluS anu saklnS suCn uoproSsiuR uol-
cotics as choral and bromide Of potas-
SUM as remedy for sleeplessness. as
mischievous and wholly indefensible.
1t Is as clumsy in theory as knocking q
man down because he needs rest and
yet, as by common consent this emil
nent authority states. the profession
sanctions the abuse of such drugs as
poisoned sleep" producers There
are more than score and o half of
known causes or forms Of sleepless-
ness. each one requiring direct and
specific treatment
Some of the Italian papers are cry
ing out for y return to the death penal
ty on the score Of economy. "Lifers"
have, 1t is urged, their lives actually
prolonged by the kind care the gov
ernment takes OF them. Such prison.
ers are not assailed by the troubles
which befall men mingling In the bat
tie Of life, and have no other occupa-
tion than to eat repasts which they
know will never fail them They thus
lead . regular life, protected from the