The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1884-08-22
GLEANTNGS.

100, 900 bushels of peanuts, Tennessee
for $50. 900, and North Carolina for
1876, 900 bushels.
According to Prussian papers, during
the last six years 87,247 young men
have left Prussia to escape the compul-
sorry military service.
The late Gen. Babcock left q neat
little fortune of about n quarter of q
million. including 100000 worth Of
Florida lands and life insurance of
$4,000
OF 100 of the largest cities in the
United States 70 have adopted and are
well satisfied with standard time. OF
the twenty-five that refuse 10 adopt it
Cleveland and Cincinnati are the only
ones of any prominence in the business
world.
A Florida negro who holds that
mules, not men, were made to work,
was sent out to replant corn. He I'M
dertook the work by straddling mule,
riding over the field, punching holes in
the missing places with hoe handle,
dropping in q grain of corn and cover
ing it over without dismounting.
1t is against flag etiquette not to take
it down at night The colors should
be raised to meet the sun, and lowered
when he disappears under the horizon.
Besides, bunting soon rots when so i'm
properly exposed; and, moreover, TO
leave flag out over night is declared
by the superstitious to be an invitation
to ill-luck.
An Austrian has devised a scheme
for bringing down rain to order. The
concern is in the form of balloon,
with charge of dynamite underneath
it. The balloon is to be sent into the
clouds, and the dynamite is 10 be fired
by wire connecting it with the earth.
1t is the intention of the inventor, ii is
stated, to make trial of the appara-
tus on the dry districts Of New South
Wales.
The Saturday afternoon holiday is
one of the fixed institutions of the
South. In the days of slavery the lem
lent masters were accustomed to re-
ward the industrious field hands by let
ting them leave their work at noon on
Saturday to 60 hunting and fishing,
much to the envy of those who belong
ed to harder owners. Now that all are
free, it is always taken and business
and worldly affairs are forgotten.
On an order from Spain has just been
completed at French foundry the first
large cannon ever made in France for
foreign power. 1t is said to surpass
all other guns, save possibly a few that
Krupp or Armstrong have made. Its
length is six meters, its caliber sixteen
centimeters and its weight $500 kilo-
grams. At near range its ball will PEN
citrate an iron plate thirty-fve centime-
tiers in thickness. The weight of its
charge of powder is thirty-three kilo-
grammes.
Caesar had short legs. Napoleon was
bow-legged. Lord Palmerston had
caricature legs, and SO did Disraeli
Alexander Pope was hump-backed and
had n cripple's leg; so did Cowper.
Piutarch tells that Alexander's left leg
was badly out of plumb. Hannibal had
VIGOROUSLY big heels and was knock
kneed. Cicero was very spindle
shanked, and Demosthenes was said to
have had a shutting, stumbling gait,
which meant that his legs were not
wholly in gear.
The census of Mexico gives the pop
ulation at 1856, III. No State has a
million, two states have less than 100,-
600, and several states have less than
200, 600 inhabitants. But Senior Rome
70 thinks that the population is really
not much less than II, 900, 900. Eighty
two per cent of the population lies
south of the parallel of Tampico. More
than half of the wealth of the republic
the federal district in which Mexico
City is situated.
At the battle of FL Teb Baker Pasha
was struck on the right cheek just be-
low the eve by ball which buried it
self in the upper jaw. The missile.
which was of iron, was afterwards re-
moved and found to weigh three
ounces; but, in spite of the severity of
the wound which it made, the General
kept his seat until loss of blood COM
PEELED him 10 retire. A recent opera
ton in England brought to light the
terrible nature of the injury, but the
patient is recovering.
English tourists in Paris are gener-
ally delighted with the cheapness of
wine, but their satisfaction would be
good deal tempered il they always
knew lis ingredients. The following,
it appears, is the recipe for wine for
the Partisan market: Pour into cask
a quantity of water, to which add po-
tato juice. barley juice, sugar, yeast
vinegar. cream of tartar, violet roots,
elder blossoms. bleaching liquid and
glycerine. Vary the name of the wine
according 10 the different proportions
in which the ingredients are used.
A strange death of little girl by ac-
cidentally swallowing lightning bug
is reported from Concord. The child
was playing in the yard with number
Of other children. Mt her parents house
near o lell's factory, and while laugh
ing and romping ABOUT a iightning bug
flew into her mouth and made its way
down her throat The little girl be-
came suddenly i'll, and though the
physicians did everything to relieve
her sufferings, she died few hours af-
forwards. This is the first death from
such cause on record.-Chdrlotte IN.
c. Observer.
A Washington cat has great fond
ness for sweet-scented flowers. "Sit-
ting down by tube-rose, says cor
respondent of the Syracuse Journal,
''she gently drew the sweet flower to-
ward her, pulling the stalk down hand
over hand that it should not break. and
there Miss Pussy sat by the hour inhal-
ing the rich odor, and at last letting it
up carefully that it should not be in
jured. With unerring instinct she
chose among the verbenas the sweet
scented one; and with like care drew
the tuft down and sat and luxuriated in
its perfume.
There was time not long ago when
the elegant belle slept with creased
hands in old gloves, and by day kept
them hidden from the sun, rs fashion
writer puts it, like mushrooms grow
ing white in cellar, SO they might
look and feel as though they had never
come in contact with anything rougher
than satin" 1t is wholly different now.
Athletic sports are in high approval.
The daughter of wealth grasps oars,
tennis bats. bride reins, and tricycle.
handle bars, all without gloves, and
she is proud of the callous palms which
ensue. and the red rosiness OF the
knuckles that used to be the hue Of the
lily. Her liking for outdoor sports has
not yet taken her into the base ball
field. where her fingers might get per-
manently disfgured by breakage, and
80 the hands are not becoming distort-