The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1873-12-13
EVANGELICAL CORNER.

Broom handlcs--s:, 900 just received,
and for sale" Another warning to hus.
bands.
"What is your name. little gir!:" Min
mic" minnie what:'' minnie Don't;
that's what Mamma calls me-
Gail lIamilton'> new book Of social and
domestic sketches will have the curious
title Of "Twclvc Miles from Lemon"
\ Kalamazoo female seven feet high.
hangs her little four-lcct husband ut her
waist belt. and is thus escorted to the cir.
Gus and theatre.
The daughter of Senator Carl Scllurz is to
be married to Mr.. Boxer, Of Bavaria. The
wedding will take place in Washington.
\ loving couple at Atlanta who wanted
to start right of on the tour, were married
BY telegraph the other day, the minister
being fifty miles away.
Western women arc srumblins terribly
because the managers OF the agricultural
fairs don't give ut least Il year 5 notice when
they offer prizes for the finest babies.
.'Do try and talk q little common sense"
exclaimed sarcastic young lady to a visitor.
"Oh:' was the reply, "but wouldn't that
be taking an unfair advantage Of your
4 New Haven miss who dislikcs mis-
sionary sermons on account Of their
length, Oh being asked if she would like to
go and hear the Rev. Shchadrai, meckly
replied that Shc-ha hall-rai-thcr not.
Mrs. Patterson, who was the lady Of tho
White House during the administration "f
her father, President Johnson, has taken =
premium for making the best butter in
Tennessee.
\ Maine woman ate four quarts Of "ys.
tcrs at one sitting, the other day. and won
one hundred dollars by SO doing, which,
after dcducting her burial expenses. eighty
five dollars left her fifteen dollars to COM
mcnce the next world with.
An Iowa politician ran for the Office Of
School Superintendent against u woman.
lie got eight votes and she received tw"
thousand. lie says General Apathy was
the cause. We suspect General Antipathy
had something to do with it.
Uncle James, walking with niece Mary,
aged four, points to the moon, on whose
disc the dark spots show quite plainly, and
says: ''Thcrc is Il man in the moon, burn
ing BRUSH: The infamtic rcalist puts up
her little nose and snuils, saying: Yes.
'mell the 'moke!'
young ladies' the theory according to which
the body is entirely renewed every seven
years, said: 'Thus, Miss g., in seven years
you will Lc in reality no longer Miss b.
~ really hope shan't," demurely respond.
cd the girl, casting down her eyes.
Miss Charlotte Cushman in her travels
enters the most rural towns, and isaccorled
the same strongly y-cxprcssed approval which
she gains elsewhere for her remarkable per-
sonations. Her Meg Mcrrilics has lost none
Of its weird grandeur with the march Of
time, and her Lady Macbeth is marked with
the same tragic force and intellectual power.
Speaking Of saints Bcechcr said in re-
cent sermon: my ideal of saint is
brown woman, with red arms, who gets up
early in the morning and goes to work for
othcrs--who stands tho brunt Of household
work, and who bears with children that she
did not bear That is my saint. Rather =
busy, bustling saint, but She is a saint.
People say Of her, what hOmely, good
creature she is To my mind that is more
complimentary than to have the Pope put
her in tho calendar