The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1870-12-09
NOR. WESTERS.

Fortune tellers-Bsnk clerks.
The Land we Love-''pay grit"
The best music Overture of peace.
Parepa returns ID America in March.
IT'S ever sew, IS the seamstress said.
Bishop Simpson favors woman suffrage
Nilsson gets gee 45 minute for singing.
A mere matter of form-Cutting a dress
Woman's rites Matrimony and divorce.
Disraeli expects to visit the United States
next year.
The Georgia State debt il upward of
seventy millions.
Mrs. Emily Stalker has been ordained in
the Iowa ministry.
Yellow Jack is known as the Mobilious
fever down South.
An exchange says that hair-pins are now
called switch.tenders,
The Supreme Court of Massachusetts, has
1 900 divorce cases on its docket.
Thomas r. Connery has been appointed
managing editorof tho New York Herald.
''Soror" writes An obituary notice in the
St. Louis Democrat. A bad spell of grief.
Of sewing machines sec, 600 were manu-
fscturcd and sold in this country last year.
Nine out of the eleven members of Con.
gress just elected from Indiana are lawyers.
Mrs. Stephen A. Douglas has lately fallen
heir to considerable property in Europe.
It has been decided in Iowa that wife
can sue her husband for debt due her from
him.
Mrs. Scott Siddons is said to be the
handsomest lady now on the American
stage
In this country there are 300 pisno man
ufactories making annually 1850 instru-
mcnts.
Just now, as the prices of living do not
come down, ''thc dearest spot on earth" is
''home."
Grant has lost his taste for vegetables.
At least he wants TO dispose Of his Murphy
Collector.
Tho magazine "Onward" and typhoid
fever came pretty near sending Mayne Read
upward"
A Kentucky man opposes life insurance
as ''trying to bluff the Almighty out of a
sure hand"
1t is advisable always to eat salt with
nuts, as that is necessary to produce their
easy digestion.
Maggie Mitchell has cleared over $1,000
in the last four weeks, and hcr yearly in
come is nearly $4,000.
Paper clothing is made in China and Jap
an. A coat costs ten cents, and whole
suit quarter of dollar.
Boston and its vicinity consumes 450, 600
barrels of lager and ale annually, and the
worship Of Gambrinus is increasing.
The Mount Gents tunnel will be compile
ted in 1871. The Hoosac tunnel will re-
quirc three years more for its completion.
Diamonds in the London market have
fallen thirty per cent. owing to the great
quantity offered by refugees from France.
The latest social novelty is the holding of
fancy dress balls, in which each participant
represents some one of Dickens characters.
A little one, after undergoing the un-
pleasant operation of vaccination, exclaim.
ed: "Now wont have to be baptized,
will ~"
American newspaper statistics gives no
less than 5,2A as the total number of jour.
mails, Of which $40 are daily, 4.425 weekly,
and ~ monthly.
A teacher catcchising his scholars, put
the following question: "What was made
to give light to the world2' Matches, "
cried one of the youngsters.
The professor of chemistry in the Iowa
State University, said in lecture: ''Fluo-
hydro acid is very poisonous; drop on
your tongue would kill dog in minute.
"Fancy," said Sidney Smith to some Ia
dies, when he was told that one Of the 81.
raffes at the Geological Gardens had caught
. cold, - giraffe with two yards of sore
throat"
Philosophers have discovered that the
earth is cooling off, and will eventually be
so cold that the human race cennot live on
it. 1t is cooling at the rate of fifteen Dc.
grccs in 1900, 900 years.
The amount that laborcr would receive
for one year at 81 so per day would be
S476 GO, which amount would be the inter-
est on 81, $50, which latter sum would be
the cash value of the man to his family.
The extreme length of the new Iowa
State House will be ST feet; extreme width,
e55l feet; west portico, 100x25 feet The
principal front will be west---the building
standing north and south. The site selected
is on tho extreme east side of the great
square on Capita. HIN. -... A.. ...l...... '.'l..
The following illustration is given of tho
energy with which the English have already
availed themselves of the short cut afforded
by the Suez canal. Raw cotton shipped on
steamer at Bombay on the 12th of Febru
ary 1870, was conveyed to Huddersdeld,
England, converted into yarn, and returned
70 Bombay by the same steamer, all within