The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1872-05-18
NOR'IvES IL KS.

For astronomers the sun supported
| by its own beams?
Old maids are fond of pairs, but can
not bear any reference to dates.
The debt of nature should never I've
paid if it can't be paid without an ''execu
tion."
On the Panama railway the alligstors
run races with the trains. So says an
exchange.
Incredible as it may seem, MANY of the
richest planters In Jamaica live on coffee
grounds.
Illinois girls warmly welcome revivals
as having tendency u bull the engage.
mcnt market
"A story in q ,itle-''Quick as Light
ming; or, the Chemists Journey; tale Of
nitro. glycerine."
Why are the measles like fresh mack.
erel? b. c,use they run in schools, ard have
10 be caught before they Can he had.
There's captain of one of the Cunar.
dcrs who has crossed the Atlantic so often
tina. he knows all the waves by sight.
The hest charity is that which ''work.
eth no evil" the charity that prompts Us to
think and speak we'll Of our neghbors.
There is man in Washington who has
joined eighteen secret societies. in hopes
Of having the biggest kind of Il funeral.
Conrrn Dnt q, C,,. m ~ .>.,Il:,l,
in England an edition Of Bret Harte's tales.
with g"ssiping Glossary by Tom Hood.
"A Minnesota athlete. known as "Wild
Dave" challenges Weston to walk around
the world for the championship thereof.
American manufacturers have been bu-
sy for two years in making large numbers
"f repeating arms for the Russian Govern
ment.
"A New York physician recently gave
q gentleman soothing opiatc. and then
e!oped with his wife. Is not this NAL.
practice?
This is from the Boston Bulletins IAN.
swcrs to Correspondents" ''Son in law
S,rychninc is the most certain. Put n little
in her tea"
Some one wants TO know why an alma.
nae is simply advice thrown away. Be-
cause it comes in at one year aud goes out
1T the other
"A Michigan matrOn is the last woman
who set a tub of boiling water on the floor.
The baby was a beautiful one, and the
mother is incOnsolable.
A man who was told by clergyman Ia
remember Lots wife. replied that he had
trouble enough with bis own without re
rendering other mems wives.
Jones says that he first me: his wife in
Il Storm popped the question in 4 storm.
married her i" S'"rm. h~-i h;s rn.rriad
life in storm, and buried her in pleasant
weather
Immigration from Ireland to the United
States is steadily diminishing. while that
from Gcrmany,s IS proport,onstely increasing.
This year they come in the ratio Ut of three
Teu,ons to one Celtic.
-Crowds Of negroes were baptized at St.
Louis one warm day. lately. One old lady.
after she got out, exclaimed in ecstacy,
''Bress de Lord. that is five times Is been
hapsize'i; bress de Lord"
The making of plate glass was suggest
ed l,y the fact of a workman happening to
break a crucible filled with melted glass.
The fluid ran under n large flags,one, aid
Was found soliditied in the form Of u pate
"A man whose eyesiyht was not good
was recommended +" try glasses. lie says
he went and took four At the nearest drink
ing saloon. and the result was that his sight
was 50 much improved that he could see
double.
Owing to an accident in Marysville
(Ken,ucky) dis,illery the other day, guam
tity of partially made whi>key was turned
into pond near the building. A number
Of cows drank of il freely, and some have
since died.
Two young men of K noxville. Tenn,
have had gas bills presented them by young
ln'ies whom they visited and kept up until
the ''wee sma' hours" We know young
man WHO always takes quart Of ''benzine"
with him when he goes to see his intended.
How doth the little crocodile in Geor'
gia's placid streams open wide his jaws and
then with guile awaken from his dreams
the sleeping XVIII. hy the bite which sew
ers off his head, and numbers him that very
night among the sleeping dead!
"A modest young lady at the table. de.
string the leg chicken. said. "l'II take the
part that ought to he dressed in drawers" "
A young gentleman opposite replied. Ill
take the part which ought to wear the bus
tlr." The young lady tainted and was carr
ried out on = salver.
M. F. Maury estimates the numerical
addition to the strength of the Northern
States from immigration. since the census
Of 1890 at 1880. 400. and the value in
wealth ., 5000 100000. The immigration
a. between the late slave ard free States v a.
over 10000. .OOO in favor of the latter.
- .,n:,,,,; - - - 000 nnnnds Ia IN