The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1888-01-20
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STRAY BITS.

The Daily Dinner Horn is the name Of .
new paper at Paris, Tex.
A row round Ireland in an open boat has
been attempted by q venturesome sailor who
started from Belfast Tough recently.
Asilver haired patron Of the Fifth Avenue
hotel, New York, who has lived there for
twenty-five years, claims that in that time
his lodging and meals have cost him $700, 600.
The Alaskan Indian is pre-eminently the
dude of his race. He is always clad in hand
some furs or blankets, and carries walking
stick which is often beautiful specimen Of
elaborate carving.
The man who blows the cornet in rural
brass band down in Maine is six feet and ten
inches tall, and the band is looking for q
drum major that won't look like midget
prancing ii front of him.
TIE srkssz1 l.a[.si13 police fssss sizseesa ii
number, weighs 2,882 pounds, is 640 years
old and 81 feet in height Its feet are 800
inches in length, it wears a size 116 hat and
has 527 buttons on its clothing.
Mosquitoes in China have a very poisonous
sting. In Tientsin hospital there were at
one time last summer man with an abscess
in his face and another with blood poisoning
from the bite of the insects
The forfeited railroad grant in Michigan
held by fraud for nearly thirty years is being
prc-cmpted with rush. L'Anse is nearly
depo;oulated. Even the editor of it's one
paper has dropped his shears and gone into
the wilderness.
Two families occupying the same house in
Wa]lingford, Conn.,, fought long and bitterly
until the woman on the first floor burned
feathers and cayenne pepper. Then the
woman on the second floor capitulated and
moved out.
The original Bartlett pear trees, named
after Enoch Bartlett, still stand on his
grounds, near Boston, and are over fifty
years old. Twenty years ago a new top was
grated upon these old trees and they still
bear fine fruit.
A letter addressed to "the best lawyer in
Washington was received few days ago
from a man in jefferson, Tex, who wanted
to get an opinion on some original poems
which he inclosed. Poets have to proceed
cautiously in Texas
Tho Klamath Indians have built up con-
siderable carrying trade along the Pacific
coast. In their large canoes, hewn out of the
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dairy and farm products for the settlers and
return with groceries and other supplies.
At Barre Vt, is being quarried an i'm
nenso block of granite to be used in Cali
fornia bank vault. It is to be twenty-five
feet long, five feet thick and five feet wide,
and it will require thirty span of horses to
draw it four miles to the railroad station.
An English lock maker claims to have per-
fccted door that can be used in public
buildings that will lessen the chances of ac-
cident in times of panic or real danger. It
can be opened from the outside only bv a
key, but slight pressure from within
causes it to swing open outward.
Many years ago the grounds whereon the
Atlanta exposition now stands was sold to
Mr.. Miles Dobbins, of Cobb county, for
s4OO. This year the 1871 acres were sold to
the Piedmont stock company for 81, ,0O0
This shows the increase of values in real
estate in and about Atlanta.
The Pitcairn islanders, the descendants Of
British mutineers, still live happily and are
prosperous A shipwrecked man from the
United States has married one of the natives
The islanders still keep the old country names
Young, McEvoy and Christian, and want
little except nails and fish hooks.
A passenger on Georgia railroad, with
ticket to Waters Station, found that the train
would not stop there. After appealing in
vain to the conductor, he went to the front
platform of the rear coach, drew out the
coupling pin, set the brake, and, when the
car slackened its speed, Jumped off into the
darkness It was not until the train reached
Sylvania, some distance beyond, that the loss
Of the car was discovered.
The largest orange ever produced in Flor
ida has been plucked from Gardner S. Har-
dee's grove in Brevard county. The variety
is known as tho London navel. The orange
was 15L inches in circumference and
weighed exactly two pounds and two ounces.
This specimen was not a grape fruit or pome,
OF any other overgrown variety Of the citrus
family aside from the orange, but was bona
fide orange in every respect
The Congressional library at Washington
will cover Ill 600 square feet, more than two
and half hcres Mr.. Smithmeycr, to whom
the library has been intrusted, has carried
on, says The American Architect, elaborate
tests Of the resisting power of the soil on
which it will stand A loaded car was
brought to bear on the earth of the exca-
waited trenches in such a way as to- prove
that the resistance was equal to thirteen and
q half tons to the square foot As the esti-
mated weight of the building is between two
and three tons to the square foot, the chances
Of subsidence Of walls and consequent dis
asters are reduced to a minimum. The Ger
man parliament house covers 10000 square
feet, the Royal library at Munich 99,0Oo
the library of the British museum 81 600