The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1884-08-01
NEW NOR'-wESTERS.

Brooklyn's directory gives her 700, 900 pop
| ulation.
Hay fever is the fashionable ailment in
London.
Belleville, Cal, ships seventy-ive tons Of
borax daily.
Germany is said to be considering the pur-
chase Of Cuba.
Henry Ward Beecher's library is said to be
worth $4,000.
Crickets are becoming scourge in Wash
ington Territory.
Baltimore has ordered German taught in
the primary schools.
1t is proposed to open buttermilk saloons
in Iowa to replace the beer.
One hundred and forty-eight New York
City fremen were hurt at fires last year.
Bergh has written letter to Gov. Click, Of
Kansas, deprecating the Dodge City bull
fight.
Philadelphia is the second largest city in
the country, but not one of its theatres is
open.
"The harvest is plenty, but the labor.rs
are few" is the complaint throughout Ken
lucky.
A recent hailstorm in Russia destroyed
forty lives and property valued at over
$500 900.
The New York City and county expenses,
a. estimated for the next year, amounts to
81, ,s9o, 900.
An Erie, Pa, man has made telephone
without battery that conveys a whisper dis
tinctly eight miles.
Boston ships tracts to one part Of India
and wooden idols to another part. There is
nothing sectarian about Boston.-LUe.
John r. McLean's latest scheme is to secure
control of the Chicago Times, and run 1t in
conjunction with his paper, the Cincinnati
Enquirer.
During hurricane in the Philippine Is
lands the Spanish irenclad Gravino was
wrecked. Two officers and seven Of the crew
were lost.
According to German medical journal, a
large quantity Of the so-called dried turtle
that is sold in London and Paris is nsthing
more costly than dried whale.
The city Of st. Paul, Mimi, has . police
force numbering seventy-fvs men, and Ii
censes 5o7 liquor shops, which yield it an
! annual income Of ever $4,000.
Henry Willard with his wife and children,
is in Germany searching for some quiet re-
treat where he may stay with his family, aud
secure rest for himself and education for his
children.
st. Louis il suffering from an odd kind of
monopoly. The sand-sellers have combined,
and charge builders and masons four times as
much for each load of sand as was charged
last year.
The Washington Republican thinks that
VIM. English would sweep this country. So
he would IL he thought anybody had lost a
nickel and he was likely to find it in the
sweepings.
Plus Raible is in Jail at Pittsburg for falsi-
| flying pension papers. A whole family were
| burned to death at Bradford recently who
were his only witnesses. without them he
hrs no defense.
French matches are atrocious, and Figaro
estimates the number necessary to light the
gas as 2, a candle 3, a cigarette 4, a cheap
cigarette 1s, cigar %, a pipe 81, a fire in a
stove the whole box.
Telegraphins was done for the press from
Chicago, during the convention, for a dis
tancs of 1000 miles, in some cases as cheap
as a quarter of cent a werd, or hardly two
cents line, or about So column.
| An authority on mechanics says a monkey
wrench is not SO called from its eccentrici-
ties or any resemblance in appearance to a
monkey, but because 1t was invented by one
James Monkey, a noted English mechanic.
and Edward Thelton, of Cleveland, Ohio
have purchased 40, 0,00O-acre land grant near
Santa Fe, N. NJ, and will construct the most
| extensive system of saw mills and lumber
plant in the Southwest.
Work on laying the huge iron syphon un
der the Milwaukee river will be completed
in few days. The syphon is part Of the
special sewerage Of the city, and is the lar
gest submerged pipe In the world, being
fifty-two inches in diameter.
Japan journalism has developed with grea
rapidity during the E't ten years. In 1871
the Japanese Empire counted only fifty-thre,
periodical publications of all kinds. To-day
there are published within its boundaries al
least 1900, counting periodicals of all kinds.
A Milwaukee capitalist will. make move
experiment at Aberdeen, OAK, this fall. Al
artesian well has just been completed tha
flows 5000 gallons minutes. Another wei
win be made large enough to run mill car q
BILE Of making 200 barrels of -four q day, ant
the experiment Of artesian-well power as ;
perpetual motor will be made.
There is q strong feeling in various por
tions Of the United States In favor of th,
total abolition Of fences. It Is stated that th,
cost Of the maintenance Of fences annual,
in this country is not far short Of $50 900 900
pretty snug sum IL 1t might be saved to tn,
farmers. 1t Is estimated that there are 5000,
600 miles Of fencing in all In this nation.
The Holier than Thou Republicans VIII,
will not vote for Mr.. Blaine and yet hope .,
retain their party status by not voting agains
him, recalls the story Of the old Quaker phi
lanthropist, who was asked to contribute to
ward the erection of Methodist church
His answer was: "My conscience win no
allow me to give money to help thee put tn
new church up, but viii give $500 to hell
tear the old one down."-Chicago Herald.
The public security in the suburbs Of Con
stantinople have never been In worse con
dition. Brigands entered mosque fou
miles from the city, and after firing severa
volleys into the ceiling, rifisd every persel
present, securing money and valuables. Bri
gands also attacked and plundered the vii
lage Of Bozkhali, q few miles outside of tn
city.
A London scientific paper is not sanguin,
as to the success of the new Russian scheme
fer reaching the North Pole by means o
sledges starting from the Siberian Island
and having depots at intervals, inasmuch .
the most northern part Of the islands is 90
nautical miles from the Pole; and, judginI
by the experience in other parts, it woul,
be no easy matter to haul sledges over tn
hummocky ice.
Capt. Bsloit, Of the Arethuse, COMMITTEES
suicide at Toulon, In . state Of deliriun
caused BY fear Of the cholera. This officer
though courageous sailor, had been affcctes
BY what was passing around him, more espe
cially BY the death Of a neighbor, who wa