The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1890-06-20
STRAY BITS.

Over ono hundred colored men now con.
troll newspapers in the United States.
Lacquer is made from the Juice Of trea
the Rhus Vernici fera--which grows lux.
uriantly In Japan. Il h 81
The Oldest college dormitory in the United
States Is that known as south middle at
Yale. TWAS erected in 1852. Ji5 "a
The Russian crown and other ornaments
known as ''tho crown jewels" are valued
Y at 81 ,0o0, 900. The crown itself is worth
e8,00o,0o0.
The government telegraph service Of
Great Britain transmits, it Is said on the
average 1,538,:70 words day to newspa-
pers alone.
A cedar stump on a farm in Oregon
measures twenty feet in diameter. A pho
tograph was taken Of 1t showing thirty
men and five horses standing on tie top.
The directors of the Provincial Bank of
Ireland have issued decree that no clerk
in their employ receiving less than E15O a
year shall be allowed to marry. A similar
rule Is in force in some of the principal
London banks. ~
A mineral oil Of beautiful pink color
has been discovered near Bowling Green,
KY. The oil is odorless when cold, but
when heated it emits an odor not unlike
that Of altar Of roses. 1t burns slowly, with
a rose colored flame
The cnne recently presented to President
Harrison by Col. A. L. Snowden, minister
to Greece, was made from the oaken yoke
that held the bell on Independence hall~in
l776. The gold cap on the end Of the stick
ia inscribed with brief history Of it,
A share company, with considerable
working capital, has been f1oated in Eng
II n mt oy,+f fo,, had &
the sterilization Of milk-that is, the
destruction of the bacteria, through which
certain diseases, notably typhoid fever are
spread
The biggest edible oysters in the world
are found at Port Lincoln, in South Aus
trnlia- They arc oorAetirraco r,aopa thar, m
foot across the shell, and the oyster fits the
shell SO well he does not leave much mar
gin. 1t is also said that their flavor and
delicucy are proverbial.
a new Atlantic cable is spoken of, to ex-
tend from Claw Bay, in ireland, to Greenly
Island, i'll the straits Of Belle Isle The
comparative shortness of the cable-1, 800
mtles-is used as an argument in favor of
hescheme, although longer telegraph lines
will be required than for any Of the Eng
lish-American cables.
Opticians and oculists say that belfry
at least q third Of those for whose benefit
they are set up. In many instances such
defect Of the eyes is unsupported in chill
dren, and probably hundreds Of children
earn at school reputation for stupidity
when not the intellect but the eye is at
fAult
A New York canoeist recently started on
the longest canoe voyage ever unde aiken
He set out from the Statue Of Liberty, in
New York harbor, and will end his voyage,
after 1000 miles of padding, at the mouth
OF the Columbia river, Fort Candy, Wash
He carries with him bottle Of water from
the Atlantic ocean, which he will empty
into the Pacific in October next.
The Rev. J. W. Sproull, of Pittsburg,
who is In Egypt, writes Of the great Mos
lem university at Cairo, founded in 975,
which, with its 10000 pupils and 370 pro
fessors, is said to be the largest in the
world. The pupils have no benches or
chairs, but study, ent and sleep on blan-
ket or straw mat The Koran is the only
book used for grammar, law, philosophy
and theology The professors receive no
salary, but are supported by private in
struction, by copying books and BY presents
from rich scholars.