The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1888-02-03
HERE AND THERE.

Garfield avenue, at Washington, has been
renamed Wyoming avenue.
Boston savings banks contain half million
dollars in unclaimed deposits
A troupe of Persian female dancers, the
best ever seen in Teheran, are now en- route
for Paris.
The congressional library at Washington
will cover II 900 square feet, more than two
and half acres
The project for building a bridge over the
Mississippi at Memphis seems in a way to
take definite shape.
The Stezerer rifle factory, in Austria, two
weeks ago took on 1000 extra hands. Peace
in Europe is booming.
A solid cut glass bedstead, richly worked,
was lately made at Birmingham, England,
for a Calcutta millionaire.
An interesting sale Of autographs recently
took place in Paris. Liszt's signature brought
$40, while Zola's sold for $780,
The bicycle has been adopted in Persia.
Six of the machines are in use in Teheran-
two by mobiles, the others by telegraph men.
Tubac, small town in Pima county, Ari.,
claims to be the Oldest settlement in the
United States Its town records extend back
to 1889.
The largest plate of beveled glass ever set
in the United States has been placed in q De-
troit saloon front. 1t is thirteen feet across
and three-eighths of foot in thickness.
Representative Whitthorne, of Tennessee,
has an idea that the government might begin
establishing postal telegraph system by
contract just as it has established post roads.
The Audubon Society for the Protection of
Birds, founded in February, 1856, has at
tained membership roll of 4O, 600, represent
ing all parts Of the United States and Canada.
The total daily attendance at the schools
of London is reported at 81, ,561. OF these
pupils 33,4o7 go to the Anglican schools,
24,O55 to the board, or public schools, and
22,o7O to the Catholic schools.
One thousand two hundred and forty di-
vorces were granted in Franco in 1888, the
first year of the existence of the divorce law
in France The last twelve months produced
4SS Parisians divorced, the most being in the
rich quarters.
Toxic alone has eleven daily and eleven
weekly papers, only two Of which arc printed
in the English language. Nagasaki has u
Japanese daily and az. English weekly. Eigh-
teen other Japanese towns support at least
one daily paper each. They are all large,
handsome sheets.
A few weeks ago a woman at Elk Rapids,
Mich, sold to ragman rebel flag that had
been in her garret for twenty years She
didn't know what it was. The pcddler took
it to neighboring town and exhibited it. 1t
was eighty feet long and bore the word
"Nashville" and it is thought to have be-
longed to the blockade runner of that name.
The peddler offered to sell it for IS, but there
were no buyers. ....
Baron Hirschs offer of $4,000, 600 to be
expended by the car of Russia in promoting
the welfare of the Russian Jews has been ac-
cepted The money is to be paid into the
Bank Of England, end Baron Rotnscn11d ana
Baron De Worms, who were appointed trus-
tees will receive the interest Of the sum de-
posted. It is estimated that it will be posi-
bic to open 1000 schools for $4,000 children
with the money, other charities not being
neglected in the meantime.
The Late Rev. A. S. Patton, ID. D.
The Baptist church, and especially the
Baptist press, has lost an able man by the
death Of the Rev. Alfred S. Patton, pro-
prietor of The Baptist Weekly. DR.. Pat
ton died at the home Of his son-in-law, in
Brooklyn, N. Y.
Born i'll Suffolk, England, ON Dec rs,