The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1889-04-26
CRISP CONVERSATIONS.

The late Melbourne exposition resulted
in deficit Of $l.250.000
Calvins old church, the Cathedral Of
ST. Pierre, in Geneva, is, it is said, to be
restored
a spring of natural cologne, with tho
perfume of patchouli, has been discovered
in Algiers.
a new theatre TO cost nearly s., ,000, 600
is TO be built Oh the Champ de Mars, st.
Petersburg.
The SO called antique oak is ordinary
American oak sawed in Il peculiar way
and stained to look like the oll English
oak.
India rubber is being tried as 4 substi-
tute for asphalt in pavemcMts III Berlin,
and the result is said to be good, but OK
pclsvc.-
The total Indian population of the
United States i'll 1856 was al1,1Gl, and
tIle Indians had 2l2 tGG square miles of
territory reserved for their use
The Prussan minister OF war at Il re-
cent reception to the emperor SURPRISED
his guest with music furnished by an
y Russian joint stock company is
building Hn immense boat theatre 10 float
up and down the Nolga river. Perform
anecs are TO be siven;lt every large town
There is Il great increase in the con-
sumption OF African lockwood. on ;,c-
count of its spropcrly of preserving from
rust iron orsteei that is i'll contact with it.
English gold coin is so deprecated lly
wear that Il banker Who recently accepted
El,NO1 III gold half suvcrcigns upon de-
posting it found it Short weight by El9.
The saw is largely used now instead of
the eaX i'll bringing down the giant rod
woods in California. The tree is sawed
partly through, and then is forced ov,4
by wedges.
An offer OF $500 was recently made for
maidstone owned in Charlotte, n. c.
The stone has Il recor; of having cured
more than II hundred cases of mad dog
and snake bites.
a fashionable Young woman in New
York has undergone /, remarkable surgi-
cal operation long and painful BY which
her tip tilted nose became an organ OF
pure Grccian design.
4 fox that WAS being closely pursued
down in Georgia by hounds and hunters
threw Itself i'll front Of an express train
and WIS so Inutiiatod that not even the
brush could be found
Seamless boiler tubes are now made
from solid ingots Of metal by Il process
that twists and stretches the iibcrs, and
is said 10 make Il tube much stronger
than the ordinary ones
A resident of Washington, who is no
tablo as the possessor OF an cNtraordi-
narily large head, is said to have sold it to
certain number of physicians for 49,
600, the delivery of tho head to take
place on the death Of its present owner
The demand for lizard skins for purses
and similar objects is said to have OK
hausted the supply in Java. The gov
ernmcnt has interfcred to protect the
lizards, who are wanted as scavengcrs,
and lizard skins have to be obtained now
from South America.
A peculiar accident was met with by
Oliver Tucker, whose home is at Elder.
vile, Pa. He was climbing tree, when
~ AHiAl' 'thSNhiso Atltll W oloP 1Hto Tie
opening, which closed upon him, crush
ing him terribly. Ono of his eyes was
squeezed from its socket.
Philadelphias Exchange for Woncn's
Work shows among other curiositics a
small bit of mummy wrapping more
than 200 years old 1t is part of the
wrapping of Rameses II, and was
brought thithcr by f. T., Wilson WIN
CHANGED to be on hand when the mummy
was unrolled.
An employment which would seem
perfectly delightful to small boys is tast-
ing molasses. The molasses faster fire.
qucntly has twenty or thirty samples to
experiment upon, taking care to swallow
as little as possible. 1t is said that only
man with Il sweet tooth and clear head
can bear up under the strain of the oc-
nny,o