The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1873-12-20
INV NOR WESTuS.

The cheese il mitier than the pen.
Quebec has put on ten feet of snow.
Sir Edwin Landseer was q milliouarc.
Charles Sumner and Henry Wilson
have made it all up.
1t costs % to swear out loud in the
street at Springfield Mass.
Church property in the United States
is estimated to be worth $3.50. .O0O, 600.
joaquin Miller IL said to intend joining
the Carlists. This is too good to be true.
1T is said that Gen. Fremont has can
Ger Of the stomach, and may not live year.
1T is estimated that G,O0O Of tie 5000
jewelers. in Newark, New Jersey, are now
idle.
In Japan there are said to be trees 400 OF
so years old, which produces teas worth Is
per pound.
The new desks in tine House Of Repre-
sentatives in Washington cost the Govern
mcnt $2l each.
1.-THE American man Of leisure" says
writer in Scribner's for December, "is a
sort Of lost dog"
Tho greatest depth Of the Pacific Ocean
between California and China is only two
and a half miles.
Twin babies werc born in Portland,
Maine, joined together like Siamcse twins.
Both died in q short time.
-"Coloner' Fuller, tho original Jenkins
Of the New York press, has come into an
inheritance Of &125,O0O.
Mr.. John Reed, Of Lexington, KY,
thinks that he owns tho Oldest horse in the
country. The horse is forty-onc years Of
age.
An eastern clergyman recently declared
that the whistling Of the railroad engine on
Sunday "snortcd defiance in the face Of
heaven
"A Sioux City justice Of the peace, about
to marry couple, said: "Hold up your
right hand. Now, what do you know about
this case p
An advertiser in Georgia paper offers
his services to wealthy murtlerers as sub
stitute OH the gallows for the moderate sum
of $4,000.
Jenkins told his son, who proposed to
buy COW in partnership, to bc sure and
buy the hinder half, a. it eats nothing and
gives all the milk.
A company has been formed to build
in Philadelphia hotel that will cost $5,0OO,-
600. 1t will be eight stories high, and have
an immense dome. 1t il to be done before
the centennial.
Mr.. Asabcl Finch, Of Milwaukee, il nam
ell as the possible successor Of Judge Miller
III the United States Circuit Court in Wis
c"nsin. Mr.. Finch is IN able lawyer.
-" Mississippi" - word Of four syllables,
contains only four different letters; "intli-
has m "r' in every syllable but
one, six in all: and fAcetiously'' contains
all the vowels in regular order.
"A very rich and fragrant combination
has been discovered in mine in Virginia,
which, according to the lral journals, con-
tains "mica, silver and asafGtitla with
some indications Of pct~leum-oil gas.
--"Thc man At the other end of the ci-
gar is doing very well. lie is taking
proper care Of the flag, and il Congress
says the country wants to fight, the dogs
of war will bc turned Loose at the proper
time.
The editor Of the Vicksburg Herald
spent $500 on church far. hoping to get
the prize Of 5000 in gold, and drew
brass chain and u photograph Of George
Washington. Tho world has no further
pleasure for him.
I'm the bull fighting days, a blacksmith
who was rearing bull-pup, induced his old
father t" go on all-fours and initiate the
bull. The dog pinned the old man by the
nose. The son, lisregariing the ratcrnal
roaring, exclaimed: "lIOld him, Growler!
boy; hold him! Bear 1t father! bear it; ifN
be the making Of the pnp!'
All puns are abominable and indefcnsi-
bic. And some of them are very good. 4
Liverpool pilot was brought over Oh
White Star steamer, much against his will,
The weather being SO heavy that he could
not be landed. 4 gentleman being asked
what the pilot must have said when lie saw
Boston, replied: "IIc probably exclaimed:
That Mcrsey to others show, That Mer-
ICY show to me-
M. de Iesseps, Of suex Canal fame, is
now busying himself with the "Grand
Central Railroad of Asia" This is to run
rom Orenburg to Peschawur, distance Of
nearly two thousand five hundred miles. |
The preliminary surveys, it is estimated,
will take two years, and the building Of the
oad six years. 1t now requires twenty
;hree days to 60 from London to Bombay, |
y way Of EriMlisi and Luex; when the
DAD is finished It viii require but five. It
8 proposed to begin work within the next
'car.