The new North-west., 1890-03-14
NUGGETS OF NEWS.


Tennyson is suffering from bronchial
,atarrh.
free on all roads by virtue of their offices.
Grover Cleveland cleared 100000 on
the sale of his "Oak View" property near
Washington.
The Governor Of Massachusetts invites
settlers to come and occupy the "unoccu
pied lands" Of that State.
Fourteen Chinese criminals were exc
cuted at Pekin recently, each one having
first been compelled to dig his own grave.
Owing to the lack Of snow in the lumber
regions of Northern Pennsylvania, crude
petroleum has been used to lubricate the
slides.
The people of Manitoba are too patriotic
and too well satisfied with their own gov
ernment to entertain any thoughts of an
neXatiOn.
kossuth is quoted as saying, "There are
men now alive who will see the day when
Ireland will become 81 State in the Ameri-
can Union."
The signatures to the original Declara-
y ,
only eleven names can be read without
microscope.
Robert G. Blaine, brother of the Secre-
tary of State, has been appointed superin-
tendent of the quarantine stations BY Sec
retary Rusk.
Since the 1st of January triplets have
been born in three families in Iowa, in two
in Nebraska, and in one each in North and
South Dakota.
A mail bag was recently found in the old
law courts at Frankfort-On-the- Main. Ger
many, containing 10 undelivercd letters,
dating back to 1885
Dr. McGlynn, who has been sick, made
his appearance Saturday night for the first
time in several weeks at the meeting OF
the Anti-Povcrty Society.
A special train of beef cattle made the
run from St. Paul to Seattle in four days
and seventeen hours, stopping but once for
feeding purposes. Humane!
James G. Blaine, Jr., has returned tC
Waterville, Me-, and resumed work in the
machine shops of the Maine Central rail
road, where he is bnsily engaged in learn
ing his trade.
Governor Horn, Of Larchmvirt, n. ",
preached his own funeral sermon by means
Of a phonograph, and, contrary to the usua
custom, enumerated the faults instead Of
the virtues of the deceased
After young doctor has practiced two
years in Mexico, an inventory Of his pa
tients is made, and if he has cured more
than he has killed, they recognize him, nc
matter whether he has a diploma or not.
i,,D, AZ
the late John Jacob Astor makes William
Waldorf Astor the wealthiest man ii
America, if not in the world. The com
bined estates is equivalent to nearly 5000
100000
Rev. DIR. Talmage has brought stone
from the Jordan for the baptismal font
stone, and one from Mars Hill. Athens
Brooklyn.
The spread of leprosy in Canada has be
come serious enough TO receive attention
from the Dominion government DR.. A. G
Smith, of New Brunswick, has been per
manently retained as government mcdica
expert in leprosy. o.@
According to Miss Frances E. Willard
there are women in Chicago who make /:
shirts for IS cents and furnish their owr
thread; women who Finish off !" Il costly
cloak for 1 cents; children who work /.
hours day for 81 per week.
A sensational story comes from Londol
to the effect that the Russian Governmcn
is sending emissarics to the United State:
to create a friendly sentiment toward Rus
sia and counteract the effect Of certain
magazine and newspaper articles on the
Siberian outrages
As Gov Stanford, of California, in sell
ing the famous trotting mare, Sunol, 2.l0l3
to Robert Bonner, retained her trottin!
qualities for the coming season, the Dun
dee Trotting Park management offer
| purse Of $4,000 for a race between he
| and Budd Dobles celebrated stallion
| ANtell, 212. TO be trotted the last Of Sep
! tember or the first Of October next. Bon
ner, the owner of snnol, says, however
| that, although Sunol is to remain with GOV
Stanford till October, he does not thinl
such race probable, N Axtell will be uset
| for the stud this season and will hardly b.
| in shape.
Michael Corcoran, of Lincoln, Neb, ha
written Il letter to the InterOce He ex
plains why the books and checks of TIL
| Irish Land League were not produced be
| don. Corcoran says that Patrick Egan lef
these papers with him in the Hibernial
| Bank, Dublin Jan. IS, 1888. Subsequent,
| Egan left for America and it seemed beS
| to him (C0rcornnl to have the books ant
checks burned, though Egan i'll a note
had assured him there was no treason il
them, Corcoran says it was his owl
| thought to burn them, without suggestion
from anybody else, and if it was II fault i
was his alone
| A market for American trotting horse
| is being opened out in England. p. T
| Barnum, when he went there with hi
show, took with him some fast trottcrs ant
they have remained there. American stocl
is known there in the present descendant
of Warlock, which are now the fastest trot
ters out Of America. Warlock was got il
Kentucky by Belmont, out of Waterwitcll
and sold when colt by Robert Steele, o
Philadelphia, to an English gentleman
who wanted him for u road horse. lie wa
used in the stud for five or six years il
England, until last year, when John Mad
den brought him back to this country ant
sold him to S. A. Brown s. Co., of Kala
mazoo. He has lately gone back to hi
native State, Col. II. +. Stoner, of Paris
Ky, having bought him for $4,000. Th
sons and daughters which Warlock left il
England are now, as three and four-year
old colts, bringing $4,000 to 1880 each il
market. 1t is Warlock and his descend
ants that have prepared the English peopl
for the introduction of American trottera
Interest was lapsing somewhat, but Bar
NUNS exhibition braced it up again, ant
now is the time to go in. But ut the pres
ent time trotting horses are not wanted TO
racing purposes, but for roadsters. Thi
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| THE WOOL INDUSTRY.