The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1885-10-16
NOTES OF THE DAY.

were felt at Lynchburg, Va, IN the night Of
the 10th.
Chill has control of the Straits of Magel-
Ian, and the country called Patagonia Is
wiped of the map.
At the Armstrong works, in England, =
gun that will cast q one-ton shell fifteen
miles has been made.
Pope Leo desires the Franciscan monks to
suppress the numerous brew cries In Bavaria
belonging to that order.
A crank, according to DR.. Howard Crosby,
Is "a man who has q capital idea without
sense enough to work 1t out"
A North Carolina farmer recently bought
tract OF land for So 200, and the very next
day sold from 1t towering walnut tree for
81, 800.
body Of Moonlighters raided farm in
county Kerry, Ireland, from which tenvnt
bad been evicted. They slit the caretaker's
ears and cropped his hair.
recent earthquake in France affected
only the chalk formation of the earths sur
face, and was neither heard nor felt by men
at work in the coal mines beneath.
Gladstone has openly resumed the dlrec-
ton of the Liberal campaign. He has al
ready managed TO compose the difference
between Harrington, leader of the Wings,
and Chamberlain, leader of the Radicals.
The American drummers have agreed not
to pay sleeping car porters gratuities any
more. Il is calculated that this will make a
difference in the aggregate to porters of
100000 year.
The highest plateau In the world, some
IS 900 feet above the sea level, Is that of
Northern Thibet. Its lakes are frozen over
until nearly June, though they are 600 miles
nearer the equator than we are.
Acting under imperative orders from Pres.
ident Diaz, the Governor who dispossessed
the American miners from the Los Cruises
silver mines has been compelled to surren-
der the mines to their American owners.
The imitation of imported sardines can 60
no further. The packing box is made in
Jersey City, the wrapper is printed in New
York, the tin cans ara manufactured In Bos-
ton, the fish are caught on the Maine coast,
and the oil is extracted from the cotton seed
in Georgia.
Advices just received in Holland from
Java show the great development of the
sugar industry In the East Indian Island.
The crop just gathered amounts 10 374, $3.50
tons. There are about 100 sugar mills in
Java, but the land suited to the cultivation
of sugar is practically unlimited.
A note from the publisher of the States
man from The Dalles says that the China
men appear to be leaving the upper country,
for every train comes down full of them.
They are principally from the mining camps
along the Columbia and Snake rivers, and
from Idaho and eastern Oregon.
Boston's latest literary triumph is q
Handbook of Burglary" written by one of
the most accomplished crscksmen in the
city. Its literary style Is said to be almost
faultless, but the numerous technical terms
necessarily used render the text almost I'm
Ineligible TO the non-professional reader.
A man at Rochester, Mimi, has Just COM
pleted a monument made from stones gath
cred from all parts Of the United States.
The monument is about six feet high and
four feet In diameter at ths base. 1t con-
tains stones from nearly every State in tie
Union, and from the highest peak In the
Rocky Mountains.
There Is rage for libraries among the
newly rich In Chicago, and various stories
are told of the manner In which books are
ordered. One buyer said: "Two hundred
dollars worth of books. My library carpet
10 red. Have the books match it," Another
gave the order: "Just fill the shelves with
books, and put in plenty of gilt backed
ones"
The proposition Is said to be seriously
entertained to arm the British infantry sol.
der with shield. The new implem ent has
q surface foot square, Is bullet proof, weighs
but three pounds, and Is attached to the rifle.
Skirmishers can thus CARRY their own cover
with them, and with the point of the shield
in the ground, they will not only be protect.
ed when firing, but will have rest for their
rifles.
Chautauqua Lake Is the most elevated
navigable body of water in the United
States. The summit of the edge Of land
separating Lake Chautauqua and Lake Erie
Is the water shed of that part of the country.
Here stands the barn, so often alluded to in
s. 8. addresses. The rainfall on the north
side finds its way into the Gulf of St. Law
renee, and on the south to the Gulf of
Mexico.
At a Montana hotel table, last summer, an
English traveller deposited his dusty cap
close beside the plate of his neighbor, gen.
tleman from st. Paul. "If you were in
England" asked the St. Paul man, quietly,
"would you put your bat on the table ?"
"But I'm not in England, you know" re-
piled the Briton. "You are sitting at a
public table with gentlemen" answered his
neighbor, "and If you do not remove your
dirty cap shall throw 1t on the floor" The
cap was promptly removed, and its owner
said, alphabetically, that he supposed in q
rough country like Montana man could do
as he pleased.