The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1884-08-22
DEER LODGE, MONTANA, AUGUST 22, 1884
NEW NOR'-wESTERS.

Flowing races are the rage In Texas.
San Francisco sent twelve iepets back To
China.
General Butler will be 90 years old in No.
| vember.
One Of Tennysons pieces was rewritten
| fifty times.
Rufus Hatch describes bis complaint as
Financial malaria"
The prejudice against crematIots In Eng.
land Is fast dying out.
The value of the crops this year Is put
down at S. ,ooo, 100000.
The Ohio river is lower now than 1t has
been at any time in ten years.
The venerable George Bancroft is one of
the favorites of Newport society.
A London World writer declares that no
epidemic ever got hold Of Swiss town.
John Keliy's residence is one of the finest
In New York, and Is valued at 5000
Ex-Gov. Cornell, Of New York, is worth
SIC, 900, mostly made out of Western
Union.
Philadelphia has eighteen miles of street
car cable ready TO put down, and will soon
move passengers on the highways by steam.
Mr.. Hoe, the inventor, hopes soon to give
the public an invention in the way Of pho.
tographic press that will turn out 100000
papers an hour.
The managers of the Worlds Exposition
at New Orleans have placed 5000 at the
disposal of the Governors of each Of the
States and Territories.
"Oid Kickapoo," an historical cannon
from Kansas, was sold In Chicago for old
brass, but has been purchased by the Kansas
Historical Society for SIP.
DIR. Vigorough recommends glass of lem
onade, taken as hot as possible, every hour
or half hour, as not only an easy and agreea-
BILE, but most efficient cure for disrrhea.
President Arthur's state dinners. last win
ter, are said to have surpassed those given
by any Of bis predecessors In costliness.
The nine he gave last season averaged $500
each.
"How many are aware" asks DIR. Page,
that the tbinnest fruit Of all, the watermelon,
contains, pound for pound, more nutriment
than beef tea, besides being absolutely
pure?"
Gen. Sir William John Codrington, one of
the heroes of the Crimea, and who succeeded
Lord Raglon and Gen. Stephenson rs COM
mander of the forces, died In England on
Saturday.
Bitterer than the bitterest beer must be
the new drink, "pulque," Of Mexican origin,
and made Of aloes. Compared with "stone-
fence" its intoxicating qualities are said to
be as four TO one.
A New York Sun correspondent has found
several mills among the Catskill mountains
where they grind poplar trees up into -four.
Instead OF being converted into railroad res
taurant pies, however, 1t Is chiefly sold to
Indian contractors.
A company has been organized In New
York, with Gen. Mcclellan As q member,
with ranch measuring 40 by 60 miles, and
containing 100000 acres IN the southwest
corner Of New Mexico. The concern starts
with 10000 cattle and $50 horses.
General Manager 5. III. III. Clark, of the
Union Pacific road, has issued circular
stating that the freight, passenger, coal and
stone departments have been consolidated as
the commercial department, and Mr.. Thomas
l.. Kimball appointed general traffic mana
ger.
Gen. Grant will contribute twenty arti-
cles upon the principal battles of the war,
to be published in the Century. For these
he will get $4,000. He formerly declined
to do this, but owing to his recent financial
reverses he has accepted, and will perform
the work.
Prof. Douglas, of the Michigan State Uni |
versity, amuses and amazes his classes by |
charging q suspended copper plate heavy |
with electricity and producing miniature |
cyclone, funnel shaped. and whirling with |
sufficient velocity to catch up pens, pennies,
and pith balls from off table.
Among the notable bridges of tho world is
the one of LaDgang, China. 1t crosses an
arm Of the China Sea. This structure Is
some five miles long, and has not less than
300 arches. Over the pillar of each arch
reclines lion made out of single block Of
marble, aud ettwenty feet long. The road
way of this bridge is 10 feet wide.
At Munich on July 2 q sub-commissioned
officer named Jacob, who had been directed
10 clean q Cannon, put q charge into the
weapon when no one was near him, and
placing his chest against the muzzle, fired the
vent. His body was blown horribly TO pieces.
II is believed be was impelled to the act by
fear of punishment.
There are now fully las 600 miles of rail-
road track in the United States, and there
lore about 391 ,000, 900 ties, and the average
for rene walls should be- about
u, ,0O0,0OO, or the product of 100000 acres of
and, at 100 ties per acre, requiring 126, 800,
700 scres-26, 600 square miles, equal to less
han half the area of Michigan.
The spring wheat crop In the Northwest
,rn States is estimated as follows: Minne-
Iota, 44.000,000 bushels; Iowa, 33,O00,OO0
bushels; Nebraska, 1900, 900 bushels; Da
rota, "a, ,0OO, 900 bushels; Missouri, 81 100000
bushels, making total of 156, ,000, 900 bush
lis. Washington Territory and Eastern
Oregon car safely estimate their yield at
J, 900 900 bushels Of fall sown wheat, which
will Increase the amount very materially.
"The population of Alaska" says The
correspondent Of the New York
Evening Post, ais reported at about 5000,
II whom 30, 900 are natives, Il, 600 Russians,
md the rest made up of Europeans and
Americans The action of Congress In
,roviding for the organization of Terrific
ial government for that region has already
lad the effect TO stimulate prospecting and
mining.
The word candidate, so frequently used In
'olitical Literature and parlance, has an orig
nal Significance that could hardly be traced
n Its present application, According to
roman custom, when . citizen aspired TO
ublIc Office he was required to appear on
he street clothed i'm q pure white toga, as
eing significant of q man whose purity OF
haracter made him Dit for public trust. Thus
pparelled he was said to be candidaius,
lothed In white hence our word candidate,
. applied 10 the aspirant for Office. How
many seekers after political preferment are
ntitled TO the glittering white robe as signi-
ring what IL did to the Latins?
When In England Cetywayo and his at
.ndant Zulus are reported 10 have sought
nd found relief from colds and coughs In
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