The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1884-01-04
NEW NOR'-WESTERS.

jeff Davis says he will never visit th,
North again.
Carl Schurz is said to be writing life o
Henry Clay.
Strauss has smoked too much of late, ant
Is sick from it.
New York magazines pay $40 a page fol
available matter.
A weekly newspaper in New York, editet
by woman. is called Man. Il
Fashionable sleighs this winter will be
piumed and tasseled, as in Russia.
Lieutenant Governor Chauncy F. Black /.
to write the life of his father, the late Judge
"Jere" Black.
On Russian railroads is grievance book
| In which travellers may inscribe their wrongs
In any language.
Clouds Of paper and leaves filled the air
| near Lebanon, Mo-, several days after cy.
| clone had passed.
Through trains from Paris TO CONSTANT
noPle now make the journey in eighty-two
hours, with stops.
Queen Victoria's Balmoral estate covers
*, 1850 acres, and Is of the gross annual val
uation of Sl2, 100000.
Senator Colquitt, of Georgia, and Congress
man Milliken, of Maine, are said TO resemble
each other as closely as two Dromios.
The Cleveland Leader says: "Watterson,
OF the Louisville Courier. Journal, Is likely
to prove the FL Mahdi of the Democracy"
John Kellmer, of New York, tried for six
teen years TO coax his wife over from Ger
many; then became discouraged and killed
himself.
Mrs. DeLong, wife of the Arctic explorer,
will publish her husbands journal and
Noros, one of the survivors Of the Jeanette,
will canvass for it..
A Philadelphia owns piano which Ru-
bernstein once played on. 1t Is split in only
ten places, and the foil iron frame Is no,
broken at ell, only twisted q little.
Mr.. Samuel ]. Tilden, Of New York, has
arranged TO start very soon for trip In bis
yacht Yosemite, to pass the winter, like Mr..
Fairman Rogers, in West India waters. -
Pere Hyacinthe's plan for his travels in
cludes a tour Of several months across the
country to California, then to Canada, and
afterward, by invitation, to Athens, Constan-
iinope and st. Petersburg.
A learned American physician has been
telling people that fty-tbree diphtberia epi-
denies, seven scarlet fever epidemics, and
twenty typhoid epidemics In England have
been traced directly to the milk supply.
We wonder If funeral flowers will not 90
out Of fashion soon In New York. At re-
cent funeral there, which was principally
by sports and roughs, the flowers
required to represent the purity of the de.
ceased thief cost $500.
Brudder Jasper, of Virginia, has been fred
out of his church. He believed he was in
spired tn translate the whole Bible literally.
he declared against the beresy of Coperuicus
and science generally, and insisted that "de
sun do move" But he has failed. "The
stars in their courses" seem TO "have been
lighting against him"
A very successful endless chain towing
system has been tried on that most difficult
Of nsvigable rivers, the Rhone, and described
by NJ. Dupuy de LONE before the Academy
,f Sciences, Paris. Two endless lateral |
chains are employed, worked with independ- |
INT machinery by q single hand, serving at |
he same time to direct the course of the |
,essel.
Miss Eva Britton, the travelling "editress" |
II the Charleston Is. Co. Hurricane, semi |
occasional publication of vast influence and |
popularity, announces that when she takes |
money for years subscription, she does so |
With the understanding that the subscriber |
. to get twelve papers. She may issue two |
year or ten, but If the subscriber lives long
'nough, he will get bis papers. Now let the
'ublic cease its elamors.
"One gunboat on the Nile could command
be whole of Egypt" remarked Rev. Henry
4. Field, a great traveller, In speaking of the
angcrs Of further invasion by the False
'rophet. "People forget the shape and form
{ Egypt. Egypt is, in fact, more than one
housand miles long, and only six miles
ride. The only habitable or traversable
ountry extends some three miles on each
ide of the Nile. This IL fertile because the
lver overiows it; beyond are the hills, and
bove these the hot, glaring, lifeless DESERT
A recent visitor to the Hon. Simon Cam
ron found him in his library, two large
,oms, extending the entire length of the
ouse, the walls lined with weil-laden book
nelves. He sat near hIs desk, which was
.rewn with letters and papers relating to his
Irgc business Interests, and social CORE
oondence, TO all of which he still gives close
ersonal attention. The whole apartment
,okec like the Office Of O busy lawyer,
Iiher than the library OF q man of leisure
II past four score years. Mr.. Cameron will
Q eighty-six years old In March, but be
suds erect, and his well-marked features
high forehead, black eyes, prominent nose,
It lips and strong, projecting chin-have
nly been made bolder and stronger by the {
and Of time.
Ten years ago law was enacted In Mas
providing that when person is
,quitted of murder or manslaughter on the
'ound of insanity, be must, regardless of
10 condition at the time of acquittal, be |
,minittei to one of the lunatic hospitals for
fe. Since then there have been only four
,quittals on the insanity plea, although
ere have been nearly 100 persons indicted Z
r murder In tbe State. The four persons
quitted are now In confinement and will !,
g there. Thcsmethod IL satisfactory to the
,ople Of Massachusetts,, and o test of ten b
'ars Is sufficient to commend 1t to the peo- b
g Of New York. The Conroy case ought
impress upon the members of the Legs.
ture soon TO convene at Albany the wisdom
ite adontion