The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1870-11-18
NOR. WESTERS.

old.
Dickens created nearly i've hundred
characters.
John G. Whittier, the poet, declines to
run for Congress.
,, Chicago has $50 miles of sidewalk, light.
ed by 5,3ss lamps.
The Pullman Palace cars are to be intro.
duccd in Europe.
Cincinnati has Norwegian giant seven
feet ten inches high.
The curvature of the earth amounts to
seven inches per mile.
Virginia City, New is engaged in whec.
zing over the influenza
A Scandinavian newspaper is shortly to
be published in Omaha.
General Beaurcgard is to be married this
Winter to Virginia lady.
A piece of calico mile long has been
manufactured in New England.
1t is said that the Usage Indians "went
through" their annuity in three days.
Towers are measured by their shadows,
and great men by their calumniators.
One-ffth of all the iron produced in the
United States is made from Lake Superior
ore.
Dr. James Wilson, Scotchman, contem.
plates North Pole trip, and will start
from New York.
A broad band of black ribbon 10 placed
across the aisle at funerals to reserve seats
for the relations.
Miss Matte Adams took the prize of the
golden apple. rs the handsomest lady at the
Georgia State Fair.
Eugenic, in making her escape, secured
nearly all her property; hut she left her
Paris all behind her.
Charles T. Bolts, San Francisco law
yer, formerly State Printer, is lying dan
gerously i'll at Sacramento.
The New York Tribune suggests that
Daniel Mcfarland be brought to the stand
prove John Graham's insanity.
J. ". Tucker, minister at Troy, N. Y,
has resigned a. pastor because the female
congregation got too intimate with him.
The latest style for the hair is to wear
large bow of colorcd ribbon on one side of
the head with one loop and two long ends.
The Uni.a Cdtsolica now appears with a
black border. and promises not to 80 out
of mourning till the Pope has his own
again.
The largest bill ever drawn on any bank
In the world. was drawn on the Bank of
England during the war Of 1919, and
amounted to five million dollars.
A learned doctor has given his opinion
that tight lacing is public benefit, mas
much as it kills off ali the foolish girls and
leaves the wise ones to grow into women.
Commodore Vanderbilt. who until re-
Gently had not entered church for over
forty years, has several times attended
worship in the temple given by him to
Rev. Mr.. Deems.
A raft covering four acres of surface,
containing 1890, 900 feet of lumber, 100,.
600 laths. and 10000 pickcts, and valued at
$40, 600, recently passed down the Missis.
sippi from Minnesota.
! An old bachelor says that giving the bal
lot 70 women would not amount to any.
thing practically, because they would keep
denying that they were old enough to vote
until they got too old to take any interest
in politics.
North Adams now manufactures total
of 1,710 cases of shoes per month in six
factories. Of these, Sampson, with his
Cinnamon, turns out four hundred, and the
striking Crispins' cooperative company
one hundred. ....-.. gs
A widower was married; be lost his wife,
and when she died he had tho grave.stons
split, and it thus served for the two departed.
He proposed to tho third, and tho lady
quantity remarked: II do not believe tha,
stone viii split again"
An Albany damsel asked one Of her fcl-
fow boarders, q stylish dry goods clerk, at
the breakfast table. "Why is your mustache
like my back bairs" He blushingly gave
it up, when the answer caused him to blush
still more: "Bccause it's all do,on :" ~.
Two physicians in consultation at thu
bedside of patient disputed a. to the No
ture of the disease. At las. one of then
ended the discussion by saying: ''Ver,
well, have it your own way now, but thu
post-n,orsem will show that ! am right.
The patient was not much encouraged. b
l; 'sDo you believe in the rod as IN instru
mcnt Of disciplins!' asked . mother Of |
school teacher in Nevada, to whom she haf
rent her unruly son. mo, madam" ''Oh
/ an 50 gladi What do you substisute to-
it," .The revolver, madam. !" Exit moth
er and unruly son." Btip aa9frg 4aa
/ Readers Of that sprightly journal. the
| Chicago Legal N1ss, edited by Mra Myr'
A. Bradwell, have noticed for soma week
pest palpable letting down in ito tone
q The deterioration is owing to the temposaT,
J retirement of it, talented cditrcss; but u
consolng to know that what was loss Z
tho Ns,ss has been gain - the census. :
Gne;snsH Engxirsr. tiae'if
j A Yankee editor thus sileuces ths toneu