The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1884-04-25
NEW NoR'-wESTERS.
Dakots has 1900 public schools.
Henry Willard In rninc 10 Enrnne soon

DAKOTA has 2,OVU puonc schooh. ~
Henry Willard Is going TO Europe soon.
Paris now contains 800 Buddhists, who
want q temple.
Pennsylvania has larger number Of post.
offices than any other State. ar=afrz 1;
Over one hundred lives were lost In Cole.
rsdo last winter by snow slides. VI
The Postofiics Department uses $780, 900
worth Of wrapping twine year. - =
Joaquin Miller has in press new novel,
with tho title, "'49-A Story Of tie Sierras."
| The dress suit Of the Partisan dandy is B
blue coat with gilt buttons and pearl gray
| trousers. ....
The name of Suakim, the slave port aId
seaport Of the Soudan, Is said to mean, "built
by the devil" .t.... --
During the last eighty years the Govern
ment has sold over two hundred million dol
lars' worth of public lands.
The Government printing Office at Wash
ington gives employment to 419 type-setters,
besides q number of apprentices.
Next to the President, the Clerk of the
Supreme Court is said TO be the best paid
federal official of the United States.
The Boston Herald says that there 10 no
Republican paper of any influence In Massa-
chusetts who Is not 10 favor of Edmunds.
Nevada has two Senators and one Repre-
sentative in Congress, with q smaller popu-
laton than the city of New Haven, Conn.
After the 10Th inst. the Central Pacific
Railway will run fast mail train between
Ogden and San Francisco. Time, 80 hours.
The first thing that the Puritans did here
was TO fall uron their knees the next was
TO fall upon the gines.-NeaD York Dial.
A novel feature in dining room at Niagara
Falls is q colossal mirror In which the falls
are reflected, so that the guests may admire
while they eat.
Cremation is gaining favor in England.
The city authorities Of London have decided
to establish = crematory at Ilford, suburb
Of the East End.
Col. George L. Perkins, of Norwich, Con-
necticut, who is 90 years old, said In a recent
interview: 81 have buried six family physi-
clans and still live"
Mr.. Blaine receives eighty cents q volume
royalty for his book. IL 10 said that about
100, 600 volumes already have been ordered,
so that the writer is sure OF $4,000 for bis
years worx.
Under the law of Iowa now no one can get
q permit to sell liquor, save for "medicinal,
culinary and sacramental purposes" and IL
will be astonishing how many new "drug
stores" will start up.
Among the popular health crazes Of the
last ten years are noted the fresh blood cure
for consumption, the mud bath, the blue
glass cure, the celery cure for nervousness,
and latest, the hot drinking water cure for
everything.
The following advertisement appeared in
the Middetown, n. Y, Press: hereby no
tify all persons that If any one sells me any
intoxicating liquors for twelve months from
date, / will prosecute them to the full extent
of the law. CHAs. ii. BoDISE.
March %, 1884.
An exchange considers it "the height Of
'chesk' to say grace over meat for which the
butcher has not been and never will be paid"
Well, there may be something in that, and
yet fro m another point of view it looks as II
thanks were especially In order In case like
that Cincinnati Saturday Night.
The earliest telephone on record was at
South Deerfisld, Mass, more than fifty years
ago. Employees of shoe factory sent up
large kite, TO the tail of which was kitten
in canvas bag. When the kite was high in
the air the mewing of the kitten could be
distinctly heard by those holding the string.
A little boy was buried in Meridian, Miss,
the other day, and behind the hearse in the
fuDeral procession walked his pony with Its
saddle draped with Grape. Strangers even
looked with moistencd eyes upon the little
fellows pet, upon which he had been often
seen to ride through the streets but little
while ago.
The annual alaries OF some of the leading
newspaper editors Of London are as follows:
Mr.. Buckle, of the Times, $25, 900; Mr.. Ar
mold and Mr.. LeSage, OF tn, Telegraph,
81, 500 each; Mr.. Mudford, of the Standard,
$l5, 900; Mr.. Stead, of the Pail Mall Gazette,
$4,000. Besides their salaries they occa-
sionally receive free ticket to show.
A small trader in Berlin, who was recently
summoned as . witness In court, and who
asked to be excused from appearing on the
day and hour q o'clock) appointed, on the
plea Of attending his wife's funeral, was told
that the alleged reason could not be consid-
cred sufficiently valid o. e. He presented
himself; but when the case had not been
called by O'Clock, he braved a risk Of con-
tempt OF court, left, and was finally excused
by the Judge.
There have been some changes In the claim
department OF the Northern Pacific road.
Mr.. d. B. Ford, with Office at st. Paul, has
been appointed general claim agent for all
lines owned and operated by that company,
to adjust all loss of stock and damage to
baggage, ETC., that may occur. L. Ii. Shaw
has been appointed local claim agent at
Helena. The general claim agent Is to ad-
Just aud settle all claims of Whatever nature,
except those for freight Minneapolis Trib-
une. ....... ..- .- -s
Three students Of the Harvard Medical
School, who last week passed their examina-
tions, are far from happy. One wrote most
excellent set OF papers, the other two copied
them word for word, and the examiner
ranked them at 9S per cent. He remarked,
however, that as the three papers were iden-
ticsl, this gave the three but about 33 per
cent. each, and as so per cent. Is required for
. diploma, all three were plucked, no invid-
uous distinction being arbitrarily made
against any two of them who might be sup
posed to be the copyists. @
It cost Clinton, Illinois, clergyman thirty
eight silver dollars to secure the attention Of
bis Sunday school children through one dis
course. He announced that he would preach
on the following Sunday from the longest
verse in the Bible without announcing what
verse it was, and would give silver dollar
to every scholar who found out for them
selves where tho text was. He was aston
ished when thirty-eight bright pupils claimed
their dollar, and he will adopt some other
method of impressing religious instruction
upon Clinton Juveniles in future.
A letter from st. Helena states that nearly
oil the storehouses and important public
buildings in jamestown (the principal viii
lage) are built Of iron and slate, q. within
the last thirty years the island has been sub
jected to the plague Of white ants. These
Unsuitable little monsters, who are three or
four times as large IS the ordinary black ant,
are able TO destroy speedily any kind Of
xoodxnrk They can honeycomh big log