The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1886-11-26
FROM ALL SOURCES.


FROM ALL SOURCES.
Vienna, with its 10000 souls, hasn't q
single free public library
In st. Louis 1000 pounds of copper have
been used in making just one steam kettle for
brewery.
There are 1900 hawkers Of newspapers In
London-big men, little boys, old women and
young girls.
No arrest has been made in Matamora, Ills,
in two years, SO the police force has been dis
pensed with.
The streets and squares Of Berlin contain
upward of 5000 trees, and the number is
constantly increasing.
OF $1,000 Jews who immigrated to this
country last years only twenty-seyen were
dependents and had to be sent back
On "prairie schooner" that lately passed
through Ogallala, Neb., was this inscription
u came from Nemah county, Kan, and
don't know where am going"
A plasterer in Dickinson county, Ia, who
recently lost his wife, remarked tearfully to q
friend: SPY golly, that vos bat loss.
raider plaster dwo houses for nothings dan
lose him"
The children of Madagascar have no songs.
An American who translated "Old Mother
Hubbard" for them was threatened with inn
prlsonment, on the grounds that no such per-
son ever existed.
The White island volcano, in the Bay, of
Pie1ty, the North island eesstt, eesstt Ne Zee
land, is in active eruption, and sending forth
a of. md
an immense height.
The Fresh Pond erematory, near New
York, is no longer a novelty. Since the first
body was burned last December sixty-eight
incinerations have taken place. Business is
constantly looking up.
France and Great Britain have one physi-
, clan TO every l, 400 inhabitants; Switzerland,
one to 800; Austria, Germany and Norway,
one to 300. The United States require a
doctor for every 600 people
The strength of hand and wrist deyeloped
by the professional prestidigitator was illus
trated by Hermann the other day He took
new pack of ordinary linen back cards and
broke it in two, then broke one of the halves
into quarters
Railroad trains running through woods are
by leaves that are drawn to the track bsr the
suction OF the trains. They are ground under
the wheels, and the moisture thus pressed out
makes the rails slippery.
A st. Louis bank cashier who went on his
vacation was followed for two weeks by a de-
tective, and when he finally caught ON he re-
turned home and tried to lick the president.
They found the books all right, and Modified
him with a diamond pin.
As returned by the census of 1880, our
population in that year was so, 155, ,7S3 Ac-
cording to the official estimate now published
the population on the 30th of last June was
81, 1000, an increase in six years of over
$3.50, 900, or about II per cent.
Sumac gathering is becoming recognized
industry in portions of Virginia This year
the quantity gathered is unusually large,
some gatherers having made $500 each by
collecting the leaves and branches of the
shrub, which they call "shoomake.n
Scarcely a colored man can be found in
Washington who is not member OF q burial
society, organizations for the exclusive
purpose of making display at funerals.
All funerals era held on Sunday, and a brass
band is he inyariable accompaniment.
Amsterdam has great palace which the
king occupies only six days in the year. 1t is
built upon piles, and has cost, all told, S. 5000,-
OO0. This palace the king shows to visitors
for consideration. Pay two cents and you
are taken through by guide in livery
Mr. w. P. Miner, of Butte, NJ. r., went
away from home and arranged a heavy
charge of dynamite SO that anybody entering
would set It off. When he returned he found
his cabin blown to atoms, and few remnants
of the rash burglar who interfered with his
device.
An electric whipping apparatus has been
proposed by an ingenious Swiss, who claims
for his invention that it will infiict the neces-
sary pain without leaving those unpleasant
marks which are wont to prove such lasting
and unpleasant souvenirs to the castigated
school boys.
On the four sides of handsome tombstone,
rected by man in Niles, Mich, over the
grave of his wife. are these inscriptions:
The more Saints the more Hypocrites, !" 1.-THE
more Peace the more Plenty" 1.-THE more
Priests the more Poverty, /" 'sThe more Religion
he more Lying"
Willie Frankland. o 3-year-old Geor-
,ian, playing in n pile OF cotton, scooped out
me saw his feet sticking from the hole and
,ullcd the little fellow out. He was dead.
lis hands We're by his side, and the hole was
o small that he had been unable to put them
own and push himself out
When George Fl. Potts of Philadelphia was
n California some years ago friend offered
i'm S. 600 worth of stock In an Alaska gold
nine. Potts refused to buy, because he knew
othing about the mine, although the friend
aid it was good thing. A few days ago
nc friend wrote that the Sc, 600 investment
'as paying IS 600 cash each month. .
During a recent storm an empty freight
n was blown by the wind along side track
the rate of Is miles an cur. 1t ran out of
he switch and started for Aux Sable like an
xpress train. At the latter town an engine
arted in pursuit of the runaway car. After
sharp chase a brakeman succeeded in Jump
g from tho engine TO the car. He then
lecked its speed By means Of a rope, aud
naly sfoDped IL