The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1884-09-19
NEW NOR'-wESTERS.
The Chinese think railways noisy, smoky,
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| Ihe recent Chicago pork corner made 81,
100000 for Mr.. Armour.
The New York Graphic calls Butler 9Th
strabismstic child Of destiny"
A pile of 1 1,0Oo, 900 81 bills would be fort,
feet high. You can prove it-by making |
| pile yourself.
Maurice Grau says he has signed an agree
ment with Sarah Bernhard to again yisi
America the coming season.
Upon large steamers the telephone coul,
be introduced whith advantage. It has beer
tried on an English steamer.
The slang word of the moment is sels
CANT" Everything is "elegant" now from &
cheap cigar to thunderstorm.
1t Is stated that more schools have beer
| established In North Carolina during the last
four years than during the previous twenty
years.
Mr.. Bonner's latest remark, complacently
made, Is to the point that his ownership OF
Jay Eye See, At an outlay of $50, 1000, is only
matter Of time.
Richard Tweed, the eldest son of William,
Tweed of New York, recently died In m mad.
house In Paris. II is understood that he left
little or no property.
The "mistral, whose blowing at Maseilles
Is said TO have checked the chorera, Is q dry
northeast wind, like our nerthers, usually
much disliked by the Marseillaiss.
The fire insurance companis of Sweden
have offered q reward of 1900 crowns for the
most practical device to arrest sparks and
cinders from locomotive and steambos t
smoke-stacks.
Fifteen years ago, says the Medical Ga
zette, extirpation of the kidneys was looked
upon as a curiosity, If not exactly q mon
strosity, of surgery. At present there are
250 cases on record.
Solutions of chloral should be kept In dark
glass bottles. Sunlight decomposes 1t into
chloroform. The change is not easily per-
ceiyed, and has caused number of accidents
in the past FIVE years.
Nilsson has signed q contract with Colonel
Mapleson to sing In England and America
for s., 400 night. Strakosh has engaged the
whole company of the Apollo Theatre of
Rome for three months In London.
To make plaster set quickly mix 1t with
water into which little sulphate Of potash
has been dissolved. To make plaster set
slowly mix 1t with fine slaked lime. The
time OF setting may be regulated after few
trials by changing the relative proportions.
OFF the Gulf Coast of Texas Is the Padre
Island, containing 350, 900 acres, and owned
by no man knows whom. There are scores
of claimants to the title, some of whom have
already induced credulous Englishmen TO
sink 100000 in ideal schemes of improve
ment.
Michael Serrano, OF Spain, soldier and
statesman, who Is said TO be dying at Biar-
ritz, France, Of dropsy of the liver, In the
seventy-four years Of his event full life has
been by turn queens favorite, commander,
revolutionist, State prisoner, exile, President
OF Republic and royal minister.
The total muster Of the House of Lords Is
5lS. Ofthese five are members of the Royal
Family, who, in accordance with usual prac-
tlce, abstain from division on q political
question. or the remainder. 2sS rank as
tories and 2lS are usually classified Is LIU-
erals. But many nominal Liberals, like Lord
and Lsrd Dunraven, usually vote
against the Government on party questions.
The Iowa State Register predicts that .
hundred thousand Iowa people will visit the
New Orleans Exposition. Iowa Is raising a
fund of $4,000 with which to provide for
suitable exhibit, the money being advanced
on individual pledges with the expectation
OF reimbursement by the Legislature, In
The same way that funds for the same pur-
pose are being procured in Minnesota, Mon-
lana aud Wisconsin.
The favorite stimulants of some of the
great ones of history are as follows; Bona
parte used snuff; Byron's favorite drink was
gin and water; Pope's, strong coffee; Mrs.
porter; Edmund Kean's, beef tea,
,old brandy; W. E. Gladstone's, an egg
beaten up In sherry Disraeli was fond Of
champagne jelly; Lord Erskine and John
kemble used opium Wedderburne, the first
Lord Ashburton, used to place a blister on
his chest when he had to make great speech,
N. y. Dial.
Among the most curious things which will
De on exhibition during the Philaielehia
Electrical Exposition, will be the original
Morse telegraph instrument, upon which the |
irst electrical message ever telegraphed over
. wire was sent from Washington to Bslti, |
more. As comparison TO the simple key |
With which Prof. Morse sent bis first message |
here will be placed side by side with 1t q |
yHcbrenous multiplex telegrapbic machine,
~ which an operator can send 72 messages |
It once over one wire.
Red hot lead is an excellent thing In which
o heat q long plate of steel that requires
ofteniDg or tempering on one edge. The
teel need only be heated at the part required
nd there Is little danger of the metal warp
ne or springing. By giving sufficient time,
hick portions may be heated equally with
hin parts. The end Of wire springs that are
o be bent or riveted may be softed for that
urpose by this process after the springs have
cen hardened or tempered.
Mrs. Burnett's rupture with the Centwyis
aid to be due to this incident, The last
ovel, "Through One Administration" was
)und to contain an altogether too life like
ortrait, and not an amiable enc, either, of
ertsin savant who had intimate professional
nd social relations with the Century itself.
frs. Burnett was told thereof, and change
, the story was insisted upon. It was made,
nd then the author Is reported to have re-
ised all further contributions. This is the
ossip that floats in Washington.
A correspondent of the Scientific american
as been figuring on the red sunset question.
le says: ITO estimate the possible quantity
ashes required TO give the red tint observed
] the sky, let Us assume that an ich of ashes
spread through ten cubic yards of air.
bis gives dilutIon of 155, 900 times. As
onomers tell us the cause Of the red light
'aches 60 miles high In the sir. At the rate
diffusion Of ashes that Is assumed, this
orld require mass Of AZ miles of cube, or
pile OF ashes one mile high, 42 miles wide
I'd 1,7oo miles long,"
As always, the Jews In Toulon and Mar.
lilies have escaped the ravages of the chol-
.. OF the Jewish community of four
ousand souls In Marseilles, only seven
I've been seized with this disease, Two Of
ese seven were lifelong invalidsi another
as ninety seven years Of age, and two 9TH
. had not observed the Jewish law. The
merican Hebrew of this city ascribes this
is comparative immunity to the dietary
VS. of Judaism, and lifts up iis voice against
he unclesn offal feeding things OF sea and
nd" which the Christian epicures prize 30
ghly.
The "harvest of the sea- so far as IL Ia
thered In Scottish waters, has Just been
lde the subject OF an official valuation by
9 officers OF the Fishery Board, by whom
10 estimated rs amounting In money to q
tal sum OF f3, 3,2s6,242. The larger por-
N, . Iittle over f2,00o, ,000. 10 derived from
. herring fishery, which has for long
Rod been the most important fishing In
stry Of the country. The haddock Ii taken
vast quantities by the Scotch fishing boats;
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