The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1884-07-25
NEW NOR'-wESTERS.
.a,.pden. Mo has found pay gold.

S1,342.
Benjamin p. Shillaber C'Mrs. Partington')
is 70 years old.
Hungarians are going home by scores from
the Pennsylvania mines.
The births in Spain during 1858 numbered
453 ,OO0 and the deaths 41s,oO0
Cardinal Manning has made forty journeys
to Rome since he assumed office.
Seventy-one young men have entered this
year as cadets at the West Point Academy.
Alfred Mace, son of Jem Mace, the pugil-
ist, is holding evangelical services in Lon
don.
Senator Garland is regarded as the best
lawyer in the Senate next to Senator Ed
munds.
DIR. Koch, the cholera specialist, has a
brother in st. Louis. DIR. Koch is graduate
of Gottingen.
Y.C Douglass, of Parker, Neb., thinks he
will soon die, and advertises his body for sale
for dissection.
The prohibition law in Iowa is strictly en-
forced. Every saloon in Des Moinss was
closed Saturday.
Charles Francis Adams, Jr., has bought
site for summer home at Isle au Haut, far
out from the coast of Maine.
A sixty pound salmon, recently caught in
the Tay, is the heaviest fish taken in any
river in Great Britain this year.
St. Louis is already pluming itself on its
cable and elevated roads, the former of which
will be finished some time in the fall
Very few Senators take snuff. Thurman
was the last of the old school in that regard.
Yet Doorkeeper Bassett still keeps the boxes
full.
The first American. .bnilt steel ship which
ever entered San Francisco came in last
week. 1t was the T. F. Oakes, built in Phil
adelphia.
In Japan every newspaper employs man
whose sole occupation is to 60 to prison
whenever a court orders that punishment for
the editor.
During hurricane off the PHILIPPINE Is
lands, the Spanish iron-clad Gravine was
wrecked, and two officers and seven of the
crew were lost.
Free Masonry encyclical suspending for
year the obligation of bishops to denounce
secret societies.
Governor Cleveland, of New York, is a
granddaughter of the famous Father" Cleve-
land, at one time and for many years city
missionary of Boston.
lie Dimeache, an Amiens paper, has discov-
cred that next year is the nineteen hundredth
anniversary of the Virgin Mary's birth, and
advocates celebration.
John r. Lynch, who was temporary chair
man of the Republican National Convention,
will be the orator at the Lockport n. Y,
celebration of Emancipation day.
1t is singular coincidence that the funeral
Of the late Philip Hamilton, week ago last
Friday, occurred on the eightieth anniver-
sary of his fathers duel with Aaron Burr.
Col. Squire, the new Governor of Wash
ington Territory, was reared at Clyde, Ohio,
which was the residence of Gen. Mcpherson,
and during the war served on Gen. Thomas
staff.
Walt. Whitman confessed to a Philadel-
phia interviewer that he is half paralytic,
but claims the other half is good for poem
any after noon, and that he shall maintain his
own peculiar poetic theory to the last.
Zinco MIA, an extract from mineral found
in the South, is successfully used instead of
petroleum coke for the manufacture of cleo
tric-light carbons. A carbon point two
inches long, and which will last year, is
produced.
The dog is the only animal able to follow
man as far and as high as he can 60, but the
finer breeds of dogs cannot long endure the
conditions of height OF more than 12 800
feet, and there are towns in the Andes at as
great height as IL, 800 or 1900 feet.
1t appears from the recent investigations
Of the New York City Board of Health that
raw coffee, which had been put up through
some process to improve the color. Other
deleterious substances are also used in color
ing coffee
1t is said that there are but three persons
in the United States who have received the
three honorary degrees of Doctor of Divinity,
Doctor of Laws, and Doctor of Literature
President Barnard of Columbia, and Presi-
dent McCosh of Princeton. -5-.
Artificial marble can be made by soaking
plaster of Paris in solution of alum; bake
it in an oven, and then grind 1t to powder.
In using mix it with water, and to produce
the clouds and veins stir in any dry color
you wish. This will become very hard and
susceptible Of high polish.
w. NJ. Nelson, who was chief instigator of
the famous suit of Miss Hill against Senator
Sharon for divorce, has withdrawn from the
case. He says that he became aware that
she had made q change in the "My dear
wife" letters. The word "wife" had been
added. The outcome creates surprise.
A foreign contemporary says that lumin-
Gus waterproof paper, which may be of use
in places not well adapted for the application
Of the so-called luminous paint, may be made
from q mixture of 40 parts pulp, 10 parts
phospherescent powder, part Of gelatine,
! part Of potassium bichromate, and 10 parts
Of water.
Mr.. Fish, of Marine Bank fame, still lives
in his fine quarters in the Mystic Flats.
They are furnished in "Oriental splsndor,"
as the reporters say, and look directly out
upon the Moorish beauties of the Casino.
He is to be seen nightly on the roof OF the
Casino, always accompanying some lady,
generally Miss Sally Reber, an operate pro-
tsge Of his.
An idea of what single artist can pro-
duce, in mere money point Of view, may
be gained from the fact that the MISSIONER
collection, now ON exhibition in Paris, is in
sured for 100000. Ard yet only portion
of his works are there. Those owned in this
country alone would increase the above sum
by nearly IL not quite one-half.
Capt James b. Eads, the engineer of the
jetties, is in New York, ready to sail for Eu-
rope on Saturday. He has just been notified
that the Society of Arts, in England, has
awarded him the Albert medal '.for distln-
guished services In the science OF engineer
ing,p by which the waterways of America
have been opened to commerce. He Is the
first American to obtain this honor.
Caesar had short legs. Napoleon was bow
legged Lord Palmerston had caricature
legs, and so did Disraeli Alexander Pope
was bumped backed, and had q cripplss leg;
10 did Cowpar. Plutarch tells that Alexan-
der's left leR was badly out of plumb. Ham