The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1886-12-17
FROM ALL SOURCES.

Omaha has 100 saloons paying 81 900 per
year license, and that money goes into the
school fund.- The result is that the public
schools of Omaha are as ine as any in the
country. s .z.-,. -. Il. f
A new cable, over two miles long and cost
ing S2,500, has just been placed over the
Brooklyn bridge, to take the place Of the old
one, which has been there since the bridge
was opened. s <5+
The soap manufacturers do not look with
favor on the introduction of natural gas as
fuel in Pittsburg instead of coal, The people
are now so much cleaner that they use only
one-half the amount of soap that they for
merly used.
In 1870 the village of Durham, N. c., con-
tanned $50 inhabitants. Now it has 6 800 and
1900 or 5000 just outside the boundaries.
Tie valuation has risen from $50,000 to $3,-
100000. Tobacco, cotton, and woolen facto-
ries account for this.
In South Carolina the colored people own
Sl0,O00,0O0 worth Of property. In North
Carolina there are twenty colored men worth
from $4,000 to $4,000 each In Louisiana
they pay taxes ON s15. .OO0, 900 in New Orleans,
and in the state on S30, ,00O, 600.
Auc IOkudlilS VI Iue nero,
Gen. Israel Putnam, to whom Connecticut
accords the honors of Bunker Hill, have been
removed from their resting place of century
and placed underneath new $4,000 monu-
ment which the state has had erected.
One of the most important industries of the
day is the canning trade, and Maryland and
California are the principal canning states.
Maryland alone gives employment to GO, ,O00
persons in canning fruits and oysters, the es-
innate being $4,000. 600 cans annually.
Europe's wealthiest cab driver resides in
Belgrave square, London, and has three new
hansoms on the Birmingham plan. He may
bo seen any afternoon in the West End
driving one or other of his vehicles. He
boasts the name of one of the Oldest families
in the south of England.
Tho free public library movement which
had its birth in New Hampshire in 1S49 has
assumed enormous proportions. There are
at present 1000 public libraries in the United
States, containing 13,0O0,O 900 books. The
Boston public library is the largest, contain
ing over 100000 volumes.
There are so persons named Shakespeare
in the United States. Their occupations are:
Blacksmith, l.; carpenter, /; city official
(mayor), /; journalist, l; lahorers, 5; liquor
dealer, /; lawyers, s.; physicians. 9; printers,
Q; real estate, !; shoemaker, /, taiIors, s.;
matchmaker, L; house and sign painter, /.
Benjamin Moore, who died in Berlin re-
Gently, left by viii a reward of 81 for every
policeman reporting a case of cruelty to
animals. "As men have no hearts, J" he wrote
in his will, II leave my money to the brutes"
And he did, enriching the Berlin Society for
the Protection Of Animals by nearly 800, 600.
Rosa Bonheur and half dozen other ladies
are Knights-fpr the masculine form, chova-
lier, is retained in their case-of the Legion
of Honor. An addition has just been rlade
to their number. Nine. Dieulafey, wife of
the head of the Archaeological mission at
Susiana, has been formally decorated at tho
Louvre.
The Oldest soldier in the service of the
United States government is Lee Snyder
He has been in the service fifty years, and
although 73 summers and winters haye
passed over his head he is rs bright as q dol,
lar. Two weeks ago he stepped aboard o
railroad train for the first time an his way to
the metropolis.
The Montreal hacknen's union have issued
the following circular: 1T having been
represented to us that it was wrong to work
On Sunday for good and sufficient reasons
first, because God commanded man to keep
the Sabbath day holy, and, second, because
our horses require rest from labor on the
seventh day as much as ne do ourselves
therefore, we, the hackmen Of Montreal, be-
lieving that we should act IN accordance with
Gods law, do hereby agree to abstain from
labor on Sundays IN future, and request all !.
hackmen not to bring ont their carriages for
hire on Sunday, and God help us to keep
sseadfast IN shis resolution.