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

Billy McGlory Is going TO start up his place
in New York again.
Mushrooms have pushed up the asphalt
pavement in Reading, England.
Germany has an organization designed to
assist bankrupt noblemen to emigrate TO
Chilli.
New York Cinnamon love billiards. One
saloon has thirty Of them playing every
night. -
Arsenic does not usually kill person who
has taken poisonous dose in less than ten
or twelve hours.
Steel tubes retain twice as much magnet
ism as steel rods, and therefore are better for
permanent magnets.
John B. Wolf, of Washington, has chol-
era specific worth 100000, and he wants the
Cabinet to examine it.
Gen. Lew Wallace, home on four months
leave from Turkey, where he Is Minister, will
occupy bis time in stumping for Blaine and
Logan.
At twenty man wonders why he was not
born sooner; and at sixty he cannot under.
stand why he was born at Whitehall
Times.
The tax valuation Of Chicago Is, real and
personal, about s133, 900, 900; that of Cincin-
natl for the same year (1ss3) was $780,
O00, 1000.
The First Cremation Society of San Fran
cisco appointed committee to draft petit
tion TO the Legislature, which will be in
dorsed by physicians, advocating burning the
dead.
The newspapers are mentioning the some
what curious fact that Mr.. Blaine was for q
time teacher In a deafmute college, and
Mr.. Cleveland was teacher in an asylum
for the blind.
The Ajax and Agamemnon, Of the British
Navy, which took nearly eight years to con-
struct, and cost about $500, 600, are pro-
nounced to be failures.
Gen. Rosecrans is credited with having in
troduced more bills In Congress than any
other member of the House, leading the list
with 100. Vance, Of North Carolina, comes
next, being the author of l20 bills.
Three Of Bret Harte's latest stories, DAT
the Mission of st. Carmel" GA Blue Grass
Penelope" and "Left on Lone Star Noun
tain," are to be published together in Lon
don, under the title Of "On the Frontier"
The plan for the improvement Of the Co
lumbia river, now being prepared under the
supervision of the chief engineer Of the army,
embraces some of the greatest engineering
feats ever carried out. They are exciting
much comment in engineering circles.
There died the other day in the Peniten-
tiary of New Jersey, q convict who was for
merly jantor In bank at Elizabeth, where
he was caught fishing up bills from teller's
desk with . cord, sinker and shoemaker's
wax, through hole in the second floor
A Paris paper contains the following cool
advertisement: "Found on Sunday last, a
lace mitten embroidered with pearls. If the
person who lost 1t will be kind enough to
leave the other one at the Office of this paper
she will greatly obllge the person who found
the frst."
J. A. Schroppel, Of Wurzberg on the Main,
has an invention which will fully free pork
and all kinds of American pork products
from tricbina and hog cholera. He gusran-
tees a cure, and If successful, he wants $780,
600 from Government, payable In ten years,
$40 900 per annum.
The interest-bearing debt Of the United
States, which at one time reached $751;
600 900, has now fallen to 81, ,226, ,0oO, 900.
Nearly one-half has been paid of in eighteen
years, and by the beginning Of the twentieth
century, and perhaps before, II will have
been entirely extinguished.
The first line of telegraph was erected less
than forty years ago, and at the present time
there are more than 1,0OO, 900 miles in oper-
alton. The United States comes first with
250, ,0s0 miles, with the immediate proba-
bility of adding another 1O0, 900 miles; Ger
many comes next with 10000 miles, and
the Great Chinese Empire last with 200
miles.
1t Is said that six million copies of speeches
made In Congress have already been printed
on the order of Senators and Representatives,
and sent out to illuminate the public mind
on various subjects-chiehy the tarifE-and
1t is estimated that before the Presidential
election takes place this number will be in
creased to fully ten millions.
A. significant fact Is the result reported In
q leading st. Louis paper, whose editor in
ss,susou In'ossissssv, "a o osu'ass mauo
In the churches, and In the beer gardens,
theatres and other places of amusement In
that city, on bright Sabbath morning,
when 1t was found that only 5000 persons
were in all those places Of amusement, while
not less than $1,000 attended the house of
God.
A new word has been csined, and the tele.
phone Is responsible for 1t. The word is
"telepheme," and will doubtless in time be.
come as popular rs "telegram." ''cable-
gram" The word is of correct Latin deriv-
alton and is q good substitute for 'telephone
message" etc. The general manager Of the
United Press authorized correspondents to
use 1t in dispatches to that organization after
August 1st, giving it thereby an excellent
chance for life.
The members Of the First Regiment of
Ohio Militia that refused to obey their COM
manders during the Cincinnati riots have
been court-martialed, and now their SEN
tences are announced. Capt. Richard
Schnaps must pay fine Of $500, suffer i'm
prisonment for thirty days, and be dismissed
the service. Lieut.. Kline's sentence is . fine
OF 500, three months imprisonment, and
dishonorable dismissal. Second Lieut.. Beiser
Is dlshonorably discharged.
Tha finest private ship In the world, VIII
liam B. Astor's .Nourmahal,n Is nearly -
large as some Of those ocean steamers which
first began trans Atlantic navigation. She Is
made Of steel, and her length is 232 feet, her
breadth 30 feet, and depth 20 feet. Her en-
eine is l 400 horse power, and her supply Of
fresh water is 4,500 gallons. To this is add
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