The new North-west., 1871-12-16

Above. .board"- -HousekeeperaL
"A waist of time-A stout old lady'a
Paper callers-People who leave their
cards
The Pacific slope-West Side elope.
ments.
-"lIard to deal with an old pack Of
cards.
Twenty one Chicagoans are still miss.
ing.
Gov. Palmer of Illinois is sick with mea.
sles.
Thirty Hindoos are studying law in
London.
Tho new name for bartender Is "Fu.
sil Artist"
Mrs. Brandshaw of Wisconsin-non,
explosive.
General Halleck is very sick at his home
in Louisville.
The Revolution has changed hands and
favors marriage.
What is the best name for (n)ice belle:
Why. it's Kate
-Paradoxical-In surgery the lancet is
always applied in vein.
Brick Pomcroy was last week admitted
to the bar in New York.
-"Astor and l." said . new York boot
black, "are worth millions."
Forty bull dogs were recently shipped
from London to Calcutta.
There are eighty thousand unoccupied
houses in Paris at present.
When is a small baby like big banker!
When he Is wroth.child.
FIT you with . tin ear" IL the success.
sor of put head on you"
-Camargo, H., has population of 1000,
and not single young lady.
The British museum has On anvil which
belonged to one of the Pharoahs.
Upward of 1900 "Hesthen Ch,nee"
are hunting for gold in Australia.
-Widowers never die of grief. Just let
them alone. They'll soon revive.
The Prince Imperial is studying me-
chauics in Kings College, London.
Small waists have gone out of style.
Dio Lewis triumphs over fashion.
of the 10000 English miners, one in
every thirty is killed by accident yearly.
A Washington monster has made col.
lection of ninety y-eight cats, no two alike
The Hartford Courant has reached the
ripe old age of 107 years. One Connecticut
family has taken it continuously for 80
years.
Items relating 10 women are now pub.
lished under the beading of THE Suppress.
ed Sex"
Iowa comes to the front with bale of
cotton of as good quality a. any in the
South.
Olive Logan. according to the New
York Globe will be married on Christmas
Day.
The reporters interviewed a Louisiana
prisoner until he begged piteously to be
hanged.
"A Tennessee candidate wants the sup.
port of those ''who fought on both sides
during the war"
1T is said that Boaz married because he
feared that his laborers would think him a
. ruthless master.
Notwithstanding his alleged poverty,
the ex. Emperor Napoleon has sent million
francs to the Pope.
The Pope said lately to . French pre-
late, that he never paid his tailor more than
fifty dollars year.
"A precoc,ous scholar out West has an.
nounced that he cannot spell Hannah any
way except backward.
Blind Tom, It 10 said, clears more
money from his concerts than any other
man or woman travelling.
One hundred and ten years ago there
was not single white man in Kentucky,
Ohio, Indiana or Illinois.
MARY had = little lamb (that beast no
more will vex us); she tied ribbon round
his neck, and sent him to Alexis.
There are six millions of real estate
owners in the United States, the farmers
being four millions of the number.
About three hundred Indians still in.
habit the everglades Of Florida, and spend
most of their time in getting over drunks.
The Norwich Bulletin thinks that the
chief advantage of roasting chestnuts 10 the
rich and gamey flavor it gives the worm.
Rev. Green Clay smith, ex.0eneral
and x.Governor, is conducting protracted
meeting in the Baptist Church at Dsnville,
Kentucky.
"A pompous but benevolent Bridgeport
Conn., gentleman has had his photograph
neatly framed, and sent on to the Wisconsin
sufferer.
We hear = great deal about labor 70.
form. but there seems 70 b greater need
Of reforming some Of those fellows who
don't labor. e
"A gentleman Of Herts he's . favorite