The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1872-09-14
NEW NOR WESTtRS.

NEW NOR wESTtRS.
Rome has go converts.
The Khedhivc has % palaces
"A city that SCOTS people Pittsburg.
The press has totally ignored George
Francis.
INSTRUMENTATION - Whale. bone, wad
ding, po wdcr and paint.
Council Bluffs Spiritoalists exclude red
haired people from the circle.
The tax in Iowa this year is only two
and half mills on the dollar.
Apples can be bought for ten cents .
bushel in some parts of Illinois.
The st. Paul papers address the Missis.
sippi ~ the great ''paternal draincr."
Missouri girls are 80 sweet that the
local editors speak Of them as Mo. .lasscs.
The siamcse Twins are at last ''di.
vided." Ono is for Greeley, the other for
Grant.
1T recently rained hard enough in the
streets of Williamsburg, New York, to
drown horses.
Mosquitoes arc reported 80 thick at Key
West that it is sometimes impossible TO see
person across the street.
"A sufferer at one of the Mountain
Houses says the flies come down to break.
fast At the sound of the gong.
-Gipsy bands arc travelling throug h
Western Massachusetts, stealing children
and r,bbing orchards and corn fields
-''Ah, parson. I wish I could take my
gold with me-" said rich old deacon Swipes
1T might melt if you did," quietly replied
the parson.
"A man ut Ke0kuk took - much stock
in the comet business that he forgave his
enemies, paid his debts, AMI made arrange
mcnts to die.
~ will preach from dat portion Of the
Scripture dis evening"" said colorcd domi.
nic. "wbar dc 'Pos,lc Paul pints his 'pis,lc
at dc 'Phesians."
At Vienna it is proposed 10 erect grand
theatre to be opened with the Exposition of
1873. It is to contain 5000. ii so many
choose TO enter its wallf.
Fifteen Indians out Of an attacking
body of forty recently met their death at
the hands of plucky Texas sheriff with Z
force OF nine men to back him.
"A couple of crocodile eggs were recent.
ly placed under setting hen. When last
heard from the young alligators hal broken
their shells and were dong well.
"A peculiar disease prevails at Barton,
Vermont. called by the physicians there
typhoid dyscntery" There have been fifty
cases in rapid succession. several proving
fatal.
The World, in answer to an inquisit,vc
lady correspondent, defines stag parties rs
Entertainments whercat bucks usually get
enough additional horns to make them stag.
ger"
"A Cincinnati paper boasts that Cincinnati
is the best market for cheap jewelry IN the
Western country. 1t says that one house
alone has sold S375. 900 worth in the past
year.
1t is reported that the cupola of St.
Peters at Rome shows unmlstakab!e signs
of decay. A commission of papal srchi.
tccts and engineers has been appointed to
examine it.
"A Detroit gentleman, one hundred and
one years old, has lately been troubled with
failing in his eyesight, and his doctor
thinks it's the result Of smoking to excess
for the last ninety years or 80.
Mr.. Tennyson and Mr. Gladstone met
recently as party for the first time, and
Immediately had long consultation. The
subject was Homer, and they talked Homer
for four hours. Each was at home on Ho.
mcr.
The situation Of the American Legation
in Berlin is said TO be one Of the finest in
the city. directly opposite the beautiful
Theirgarten Park and promenade, and sur.
rounded on all sides by the palaces of Berlin
mobiles.
Illinois men are thick in Kansas at
psesent, buying cattle to ship to Illinois to
feed next Winter. Particularly is this the
place in Southern Kansas, and whole trains
of cattle are being taken out of the country
there almost daily.
The Valley Of Death, spot almost M
terrible rs the prophets valley of dry homes,
lies just north of the old Mormon road to
California, region thirty miles long by
thirty broad, and surrounded, except at two
points, by inaccessible mountains.
1T won't do n sav that Lightning
never strikes twiccin tho same place." Two
years ago It struck a pig s.ye in Meridcn,
Connecticut, without injuring the inmates.
On Wednesday last the lightning took bet.
ter aim at the same stye, and killed two
hogs that weighed three hundred pounds
each.
"A prominent citizen of Norristown.
approaching his sleeping apartments few
nights since, At late hour, gently tapped on
the door. who is it?' inquired bis better
half, to which very proper intcrroga.ory the
heartless man replied by asking, Whom do
you expect at this hour:'
--Barbcrs should frequently wash their
hands. A stranger, whose nose had teen
gripe.i for the eighth time by the offensive
fingers of his tonsorial manager, blew tho
sOap from his mouth, and suddenly In.
quired: Was the body identided!" ''Whst
body?" asked the startled shaver, in surprise.
why, haven't You hecn on Coroner's
jury!' ttat
Small dogs had better not ''fO0l" much