The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1872-08-17
"IHF LAST WoaD. !"

"TnE last woao."
Eueenies diamonds auctioned for $25O,.
600.
The Heavenly Hierarchy" Is a London
society of women.
The modern female isn't warped as much
~ she was.
Miss. Charlotte Cushman made over 500
600 by her performances last year.
Anna Swan" the giantess, Is dying OF
consumption. There 10 considerable OF her
left yet. .g
A Dubuque woman has picked $4,000
quarts Of strawberries this season. Ne.
ceipts, $2,250.
A new drink called ''tea sour" is held in
high repute by the spinsters.
Marriages are most numerous In the au'
tumn. So it was in Eden: the first marriage
was in the early fall.
"Old maid" signifies woman VIII" has
been made long time.
A Chicago woman aged 70 has swelled
the next census by SOD.
A recently published English pamphlet
asserts that Queen Victoria has boarded
s35, 100000.
A gentleman advertised for o wife and
received answers from eighteen hundred
and ninety seven husbands, saying he could
have theirs. This Is given as an illustration
Of the value of advertising.
Miss Dodge, Miss Spooner, and Miss
Burnham-American ladics-werc among
the bridesmaids at Miss Nilsson's wedding.
Peschka I.eutncr. the German prima. don.
na now in this country, is tho daughter Of
poor cigar maker, and appeared first in
public singing in the streets OF Vienna,
with an itinerant hand.organ player
peter. what's the matter with your cyc:"
''Eh? Oh, nothing; only my wife said
Id better get up and light the fire. told
her to make it herself. That's all.
A youthful Connecticut lover who sang
and played before his young lady's house
for two mortal hours the other night, was
electrified by cordial thank you," pro.
nounccd by the ''other fellow" who ap.
peared at the window.
A slandcr which needs only to be stated
TO be refuted: A bachelor says TINT If you
hand a lady paper with scrap cut out Of
it, not line of it will lie read, but every
interest the paper possesses II centered In
finding out what the missing scrap con.
tanned.
Henry Harris, genial coal miner, Of
HOLES, Illinois, experienced some difficulty
in getting his usual supply Of whisky, and
on inqniry learned that his wife had for
hidden .hn b"~ra" nf the family Aiaas..a,>n~ce
from selling it to him. Thereupon Mr..
Harris walked home in an indignant frame
of mind ana filed the unreasonable woman
full of buckshot
This is the way it Is done in Grand Ha.
ven, according to the Herald: ''The other
night a young man propounded the usual
question to the idol Of his heart. She laid
her soft, white hands In his, put her head
upon his manly shoulder, hove sweet sigh
of resignation, and in dulcet accents tha,
sounded like sweet music upon tho water,
whispered: Yes, dear, anything to beat
Grant,"
The Boston Sunday Courier says: "A
thrifty citizen who effected insurance on
the life Of his wife to the amount Of 41O,.
600, the other day took home box Of little
rcd Maryland plums, and enjoyed q whole
evening in watching his wife eat them.
His enterprise had its reward. Dcductin.
$296 for funeral expenses, he Is now o..
zoe richer than lie was week ago." ...
Tie mode, lover of the period lives in
Danbury, Connecticut. The parents Of his
sweetheart arc opposed to tho MATCH but
it doesn't make him proud. Sometimes the
old gentleman reaches him with his
boot before he can get over tho fence.
bot the young man doesn't lay up
i'll feelings on account Of that he
only smiles ut the dcspoiler Of his
pantaloons when he meets h,m, and calls II
''heaping Goals Of fire on his head" The
other evening lie thought he .ould gel up
q surprise for the old chap. He put pa
wing stone in each of his coat.ta.l pockets.
and started for the fence q usual. The old
gentleman let ont for him with increased
enthusiasm, and caught him-caught him
good. Then he lay down on the grass and
said, I" l die by The hand Of an assassin"
But the young man passed ON without a
word, and smiled the most heavenly smile
of forgiveness ever seen on that street.