The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1884-10-03
NEW NOR'-WESTERS.

Northern invalids are known in Florida a
"eyergieens."
A good medical authority says beer Is con.
ducive to heart disease.
Lieut.. Danenhower is on duty at the An
napolis Naval academy.
Admiral Courbet is of Irish parentage, the
family name being Corbet.
Five cents head is paid in some counties
in Dakota for killing gophers.
A st. Louis man wants divorce because
his wife makes him say please"
The French have a machine for stamping
letters and cancelling the stamps.
There is no public gambling In London.
The "club room" system Is extensive, how
ever.
Troy, n. Y, manufactures $4,000, ,0G0
linen collars every year, besides 3,360,00O
shirts.
There are 100000 goats in the Madras
Presidency. What place to start Masonic
lodge.-EI.
The man who always speaks what is upper
most in his mind should remember that the
froth is always at the top.
1t will be nip and tuck this fall between
the campaign liar and the dramatic advance
agent.-BGltimor american.
King Alfonso of Spain has the consump.
tion, aud there is but little hope of his re-
covery. Ex Queen Isabella is suspected of
plotting 10 succeed him.
The religious weekies are discussing with
some warmth whether private and public vir
tues are the same, some taking one and some
the other side of the question.
1t is estimated that the farmers of Maine
have this year scattered over the potato
fields $4,000 worth of paris green in their
efforts to destroy the potato bug.
The President has appointed Harry ks
lingbury, so of Lieut.. Kislingbury, who
lost his life in the Greedy expedition, as
cadet at large to the naval academy, Annap
oils.
Discussing the suicide Of animals, a Lon
don paper declares that the dragon fly "held
securely by the wings, curls its tail upward
TO rs mouth and chews itself viciously TO
pulp.
Continued observations made since the
year 1876 at the Mendon Observatory, have
confirmed the conclusion that the rings of
Saturn are extremely variable and do not re.
tain fixed form.
Henry Labouchefe, NJ. p, Is not only one
of the brightest men in London, with an in
come Of 10000 year from Truth, but has
big share in the Daily Ne,os which makes
an enormous income.
The latest discoveries render insulation so
perfect that to-day there is less loss Of cleo
trical force between the United States and
England than there formerly was between
New York aud Brooklyn.
Ten thousand children in Philadelphia are
deprived of public education for want of
room. The school buildings of Philadelphia
number 23S, 1876 of which are owned by the
city. Forty.two are rented.
Maggie Jones, of Baltimore, in filing bill
for divorce, alleged that she believed she
was marrying a bachelor of sixty years,
but discovered at his residence nine grown
children, eight OF whom are oldar than her
self.
"a Butler scandal is at last started" says
the Brooklyn Chronicle. at is claimed that
the condition Of one Of his eyes was brought
about by his winking at the old ladies on
Beacon street. This is a great year for
mud"
Experiments by DeCbamp, of Paris, show
that man Is more sensitive TO morphine than
is any ether animal. A dog can lake five
and monkey fifty times as much, in proper
tion to their respective weights, as a human
being.
The strength of the Brooklyn bridge was
shown in the last earthquake. Though the
shock was felt at both the entrance of the
bridge and at the depots, no jar whatever
was noticed Oh the span and in the center of
the bridge.
4 relic Of the olden time has died In Paris
In the person Of an attractive old lady, the
actress, Amelia Hanzinger. s. . was 81
years old, and had acted in the presence Of
Napoleon |. and Of Goethe, who mentions
her in his writings.
The once famous Hudson river tunnel,
upon which 81 900 900 has been expended,
has been abandoned. II seems, forever, The
hole is full of water, and as the janitor of
the dilapidated building which covers the
entrance, said to a reporter, "I've lost the
kay"
A new clock has been invented, and Is
coming into use in Europe, which Ia war
rauted by its manufacturers TO run for five
years without either winding or regulation,
The Belgian Government placed one in
railway station in 1881, sealed with the Gov
ernment seal, and it has kept perfect time
ever since.
According TO the Rural World, Mr.. Levi
Dillon, of the firm Of Dillon Bros, import
ers and breeders Of Norman horses, Norman,
ILL.,, saws that If you will give one or two
mouthfuls of hay 10 hoIse before you wa.er
him, there will never be any danger of the
as his experience is concerned, Is an infalli-
BILE Iule, and is worth being remembered by
all horsemen.
Shakespeare said that swallows loved pure
air In this line: "Where they most breed and
haunt / have observed the air Is delicate,'
but his saying was never so fully verified as
lately. Towns In France in which the chol-
era hrs broken out are completely deserted
by the swallows. As the food of the bird
consists of insects, there was no reason for
their departure except the air.
The manufacture of ''bufialo hern" furni-
lure has become an industry in New York.
The hoi rs are not those Of the bison, as Is
believed, but are from the cattle
killed in the sbbattoirs. They are sold al
the slsughI or houses for little more than
what the buttou manufacturers give, are
cleaned, dried, scrsped and polished. The
cost of making these horned goods is less
than that of carved wood, but they bring
: % or three times more than the latter. The
,ev industry is almost monopolizes by Ger
mans fiom Saxony. ...a ...a...s .....~.# #
The H.lley Qdsho) Times says; Bert
Reers. the so-called ''despersdo" captured
near American Falls couple Of weeks ago
while resisting arrest, is Q nephew of VIM.
n Reers. Vice President and Actuary of the
New York Life Insurance Company. He is
.lso related to many wealthy people. The
young man came West some time ago TO
,trike out for himself, but he has evidently
been spoiled by reading dime novels or other
cheap trash. aud probably dreamed OF be
coming sort of Claude Duval or Jesse
James, aud this was his first attempt TO stop
! train or do something equally "beroic" by
burning the fine railway bridge at American
Falls.
Charts of the geographical distributlon of
she lightning strokes of 1882 and 1855, pre-
pared from our fire records, show that they
are chiefly confined 10 that part Of the couli-