The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1884-06-13
NEW NOR'-wESTERS.

The Scandinavian remedy for intemper
ance is plenty OF good food.
( The salmon run all along the British Co
lumbia coast is reported light.
In Sweden q man who has been drum.
!, three times loses the right Of suffrage.
I Gen. Grant is said 10 look much aged ant
worn since his financial troubles began.
I Jay Gould furnishes the financial backing
for the new literary magazine, The Man
, haitian.
j The coming Presidential election will bt
the twenty-fifth one held since the form atior
t of the Union.
W. d. Howells, the novelist, is writing
comic opera, for which Mr.. Henschel Is pre-
pairing the music.
Three editors of the Dartmouth College
paper have been suspended for an editorial
offensive to the faculty.
James Gordon Bennett was modelled In
clay in thirty minutes, by Hugh Herb, at the
New York Euen Musee.
The largest annual income of all English
doctor was that Of Sir Il. Brodie, being SS5,
600 the year before his retirement.
81 curiosity in the shape of single stem
from rose bush, containing 1870 roses and
opening buds, was Oh exhibition at Santa
Rosa last week.
Punch is authority for the statement that
no university man in England now uses the
term "'varsity." 1t has gone to the "cads,"
like many another such.
A French juryman was fined 1000 franc.
for having written to q newspaper to say that
he did not agree to a verdict returned by the
majority of his colleagues.
An English paper says: Lawrence Barrett
Is not handsome" aud an American cotem-
porary replies that, at any rate, "hs legs are
mates" which cannot be said of Henry
Irving.
| Balaklava, the locality made famous by
the charge Of the Light Cavalry Brigade, now
| bids fair TO become a fashionable resort for
invalds. A medical commission has report.
ed very favorably on its sheltered position
and climate.
| The remains Of a clergyman, O celebrated
surgeon, and military General, have been
| recently cremated In Pennsylvania. The
ashes Of the clergyman will be bottled and
sent TO Switzerland-"a neat aud inexpen-
sive way of transporting bodies," remarks an
| exchange.
"Lend US your prayers and send us your
| subscriptions" is the invocation Of j. L.
| Bruce on assuming the absolute proprietor.
ship and management of the Washington
Grit. Bruce is without doubt the funny
man of the colored press, likewise the best
looking one.-N. Y. Graphic.
Washington claims 10 have reached the
perfection of electric lighting. Locomotive
| refectors are placed on the Capitol dome,
and on top of the Treasury, with an ordin-
ary Brush Swan light. The two illuminate
Pennsylvania avenue between them, lust a
mile and half, so that one can read a news
paper at any point.
DR.. Dio Lewis, the fresh air fiend, has been
| compelled to stop all manual work aud retire
to u TarrH IN rev dorsey 10 rest. Ills health
10 completely broken down. To read this
mans terse and epigrammatic screeds on
health, and how to keep it, one would sup
pose that he possessed the secret of living
hundred years at the very least calculation.
DR.. Koch, the famous German medical
student, who bas just returned to Berlin
from India, where lie has discovered the
cholera germ, is described as of medium
height, very thin, with a serious, energetic,
spiIituelle students face. His beard is
brown, but his hair is becoming gray, and
this, together with bis glasses, makes him
stcm tO Uc oiubT IMAM years..
Now suspicion regarding the manner in
which many speeches printed in the Con-
gressi0ndt Record are procured has n con
firmation. Congressman Williams, Of Ala
bama, stung with the rdicule that is being
heaped upon him for his eulogy on the late
Mr.. Herndon, says he is not guilty, aud that
the speech was written by lady and sent to
him. Without previously examining 1t, he
read two or three pages TO the House, and
asked leave TO print the remainder.
OF our Presidents, Washington, jefferson,
Madison, Monroe, Harrison, Tyler and Tay-
lor were born in Virginia; jackson, Polk
and johnson, elected from Tennessee, were
born in North Carolina; John Adams and
John Quincy Adams were furnished by Mas.
sachusetts; Van Buren, and Fillmore by New
York, Pierce by New Hampshire, aud
Buchanan by Pennsylvania; Lincoln, born
in Kentucky, was elected from Illinois |
Grant, Hayes and Garfield were born in |
Ohio. -..
Active preparations are being made for he |
Hudson's bay exploring expedition. The |
Neptune will be fitted up at Halifax about |
July Is, will coal at Piclou, and leave for |
the bay about the 10Th Of August. Six par
ties for observations will be placed at differ |
ept points. Lieut.. Gordon, Of the ROYAL |
navy, will have charge Of the meteorological |
observations, and DR.. Bell of the geological. |
The steamer will return in October, after |
leaving a party Of observation. Another
steamer will be dispatched early in the |
spring to study the movements Of the ice at |
that season, and TO bring back the party of |
observation.
IL is singular fact that we are indebted |
TO Pompeii for the great industry of canning
fruit, When tie excavations were Just be-
gun, party of Cincinnatians found, in what |
had been the pantry of a house, q jar Of figs.
One was opened, and they we're found TO be
fresh and good. Investigation showed that
the figs had been put into the jars In heated
state, an aperture left for the steam to es-
cape, and then sealed with wax. The hint
was taken, and the next year the canning of |
fruit was introduced in the United States.
the process being identical with that In vogue
In Pompeii twenty centuries ago.
We often hear Of people doubling their
money In business transactions. With FIRE.
quent repetitions of this kind a man ought
to soon get rich, since it is figured out that
five cents doubled thirty-fi FIVE times would
pay the National debt. The London news
papers present an illustrative case. A rich
old gentleman, seeking to prolong his life,
offered his physician thousand dollars the
hrst year, the sum TO be doubled every sub
sequent year until The patients death. The
physician STAYED OF the undertaken for
eleven years, and now brings In q bill agaii st
The old fellows estate for $3.50, 900.
The system OF taking photographs of all
criminals, so long In use In Europe, and
which In many cases affords great help to the
police, IL to be introduced there on the inItia-
tive Of Kiamil Bey, Minister of Police. A
permanent Photographic atelier will be es-
tablished In the Central Prison of S.amboui,
where all malefactors arrested will be photo
graphed. A number of these photographs
will be sent TO all the commissaries Of police
OF the capital. The new Photographic de-
partment is under the direction Of Mr.. Vas
silaki Kargopula, photographer to the Saltan,
and will begin to work In few days.
The death near Liverpool, England, Of
DR.. Richard Sumner, aged So years, recalls
this story: On stormy night In December,
1888, pilot boat containing twenty-five
persons struck on bank within sight Of
those on shore. Even the hardy fishermen
feared to put out until Mr.. Sumner, who
was man Of splendid physique, six feet six
inches In height, and Of great strength, sluHg
bottle of rum around his neck, stripped of
his cloihes. tied slender line around his