The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1885-08-21
NOTES OF THE DAY.
Oscar Wilde has become father.

oscar wide mas become Iatner.
Natural gas at Pittsburgh has thrown 1000
men out Of work.
Keen observers In London society say the
Princess of Wales Is bald and wears wig.
Governor Marmaduke, of Missouri, dis
penses with his coat and vest during office
hours.
Sir Moses Montefors leaves his fortune Of
81, O0O, 900 to his two nephews, Joseph Seoog
and Il. Guedalla.
Gov. Marmaduke, of Missouri, says that
civil service reform Is ga brilliant theory
but practical humbug."
Mrs. Garfield Is said to have great aver
sion to newspaper men and to have permit
ted no secular newspapers In her house LOT
several months.
OF the seven unsuccessful candidates for
| the Presidency during the past 70 years, hve
| are dead, while Of the seven unsuccessful
| aspirauts five are alive.
The Turkish government has ordered from
Krupp four or five hundred cannons. Seven
| OF them are heavy Ssh centimeters bore, de-
| signed to defend the Dardanelles.
The first grandson of Hon. Roscoe Conk-
ling was born at his wfe's residence in Utica
on July 80, the infant of his daughter, Mrs.
| Oakman, whose eldest child Is girl.
Ex-Representative Robinson, the twister
Of the British lions tail, having completed
his Congressional career, has returned to
Journalism, and Is writing over his old sigma
ture of "Richeleau."
The Duke of Ednburg is averitable miser.
When in Paris he is too stingy to hire box
| At ba fpr hia Nj fa and at second
class hotels. He eats largely and drinks
much without getting drunk.
The cattle trade at the great Kentucky
center, Cynthiana, Is at standstill on &C
count of the prevalence of pleuro-pneumo-
mia, introduced last year by herd OF Jerseys
bought by Frlsbie & Luke, in Illinois.
Villages and gardens in the envrons OF
Herat are being demolished, so as to prevent
their use for covering the movements of the
Russian troops. In case of hostilities Eng
land will pay for the property destroyed.
Ex-Marshal Bazaine, who has been living
in Spain for some years, Is reduced to such
straits that he was unable to attend dinner
to which he was recently invited because hi
was absolutely without presentable clothes
An Indiana corpse is said to have come tc
life and asked for a glass of water. TIL,
story Is q canard. An Indiana man nigh
possibly come to life after being prepared
for burial, but q glass Of water Is not the
tipple he would call for.
samuel Bowles, editor of the Springfield
Republican, and third Of the line OF th'
same name," says the Concord Patriot, "wa
presented by his wife with son on Sstur
day, who will also be named Samuel, and h
expected to succeed to the editorship Of thu
Republican If he lives"
There is to be "circle hunt" TO destroy
colony of forty wild dogs infesting the foo
of the mountain in Blair county, Pa, be
tween Dry Gap Road and Mill Lane. Thu
dogs recently killed a COW, and ten of them
blocked the way of farmer on q countr,
road, and growled so fercely that his horse
refused to pass them.
As q result of the Governments stopping
the printing of ST. and 81 bills, the New
York banks begin to call for silver dollars II
unusually large quantities. Yesterday the,
7 took from the subtreasury $4,000. Here
tofore the people of New York City have
hardly known what . standard silver dolla
looked like.
The completed census of Dakota show
that II has a population of over 400, 900, ant
that 1t has increased In five years over 20t
per cent. 1t will be more difficult than eve
for the Democrats in Congress to find An ex
cuse for refusing to admit the Territory as
State. The population is now six time'
greater than that of Nevada, and is made vi
of an intelligent, enterprising people. Texas
has twice the area, and q less intelligent
population. But Dakota has Republican
majority, or did have in the last election
which is the reason Democrats deny 1t jus
tice.-N Y. Tribune.
The recent purchase by the State Of Palm
er's bronze statue of Chancellor Livingston
IN the new capita. at Albany, reveals one
fact of which the great State of New York
should not feel at oil proud. Within the
borders Of New York not a single dollar Of
public money has ever, till now, been conse
Grated to the memory of the illustrious dead
No granite, no marble, no bronze attested
the gratitude Of this people for the deeds OF
those who made the State what 1t Is. Liv
ingston, Clinton, Marcy, Hamilton, Seward
Wright, Schuyler and their compeers seemed
to have been forgotten.