The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1874-05-23
NEW NoR.WEsTERs.
Petroleum is playing out.


Constantly on hand-Fingers
A good floor nlanager--A broom.
Signs of promise-Protested notes.
A pair of drawers-A span of horses
Sir Garnet Wolsely has only one eye.
Castelar, has written Spanish novel.
"A week enthusiastically night.
John C. Breckenridge is seriously ILL.,
e4 Lord Lytton was in favor Of cremation.
Brooklyn is the city of church quarrels.
Brooklyn youths style croquet " mud
billiards" 49,. ~ II
The Boston Post forgot to say that Riel
is wound up.
Epitaph for a cannibal-" One who loved
his fellow-men.'
Sc Initiating the truth" is the latest
euphemism for lying.
Gen. Frank Blair has joined the Pres
/ byterian church in St. Louis.
Bret Harte is about to essay juvenile
literature in the st. Nicholas.
Prince Bismarck's disease is neuralgia
| in the nerves of the legs.
/ Prince Arthur was made Freemason
| by his brother, the Prince of Wales.
st. Louis proposes to expend s., 500, 900
in raising it's streets up out of the mud
The area of the British Empire is about
one-third of the surface of the globe.
| The trotting gelding Ed Eaton died
April Sth, of spinal meningitis His best
record was 2:2S. -tt
1t is positively announced that Gold
smith Maid will be retired from the turf
after this season.
1t is stated that in New York there are
fifteen preachers whose salaries average
| Sl5, 900 per annum.
-" Crusade cordial ," is already advocated
as a summer drink. Santa Cruz, probably,
under a new name. ...
General Francis A. Walker Superin-
/ tendent Of the Census, refuses to receive
pay for his services.
B. p. Shillaber, alias Mrs. Partington,
| is now an invalid, and asks his friends to
/ buy book he has published. @
"A techy Wisconsin man has stopped
his subscription to the local newspaper just
because the editor eloped with his wife.
A gentleman in Pottsville has named
his dog "Penny," because it was one sent
| to him and has had ten mills with the cat.
Mr.. William Webb, of London, offers
to put the whole of the Bible, $500, ,4sO
letters, OH surface of one-eighth of a square
| inch. +-
-McCormiek, Delegate from Arizona,
declines to be candidate for reelection to
Congress from that Territory for a fourth
| term. G@
There is nothing like having a genteal
gospel. An episcopal journal has published
an article On THE Etiquette of the Lords
Table"
Millions and millions of caterpillars, ac-
cording to the Salt Lake NeUs, are Matching
ON the trees in Utah, and threaten to destroy
the fruit crop.
MIR. kavanagh, a member Of the Brit
| ish Parliament, has neither legs nor arms.
He holds his pen in his mouth when he
signs his name.
r--11eavenworth county, Kansas is agita-
ting the question of repudiating it's railroad
bonds, ON the ground that they were not
regularly issued.
! -Ofthe $500 new books published in
New England last year, there were two
thirds as many works on science and art as
works of fiction.
Getting born costs the people of the
United Stittes Ssss60, 055, ,0000 annually; get
ting married, $3.50, 900, 900; getting buried,
I 2so;oovs foo, ooehi Fo1o3 tCf3 1oo.
A writer IN the Pail KaU Gazette says
that "few persons, probably, as a rule,
sleep sounder or enjoy so much tandisturbed
repose as q night-watchman. -
/ Mark Twain's next book will have
g England and English" for it's subject
| There was Marked Wane in his "Gilded
Age. ."-Pittsburg Commercial.
| The word "hymeneal is now so COM
monty used by provincial papers in reference
to weddings, that births are shortly to be
headed ''Crymeneal " and deaths ssDieme-
NEAL"
The annual product ofsulphur from the
Sici]ian mines is nearly seven million hum
| dredweight, while that from all the rest of
! the world is only about $50, 900 hundred
weight. p.
The disappointed gold hunters who
have returned from French Guiana describe
/ Cayenne as a very filthy city. Smells and
religious preiudices are very strong, and
soap is unknown. +'.s-'
| As an illustration of the immense re-
sources of Texas, it is stated that one
! breeder there boasts that he will have 75,-
600 calves to brand this season. He says
that he branded 63, 600 last year, and 70, 900
! the year preceding.
| An editor in small town in Illinois,
who attended, an apple pairing, become i'm
ibued with the whrl of society, and this is
/ how it affected him: " We are in the midst
of the season for parties, dancing, mirth,
and festivity. The rosined hair of the
horse travels merrily over The intestines of
the agile eat evoking music to which the
! inpatient feet trip gaily upon the floor.
/ "A cubic inch of gold is worth one hum
dred and forty-six dollars; cubic foot, two
hundred and tifty-twe thousand two hum
dred and eighty-eight dollars and a cubic
| yard, six million eight hundred and eleven
thousand seven hundred seventy-six dollars.
| The quantity of gold now in existence,
! estimated to be three thousand millions of
dollars, could be contained in a cube of
| twenty three feet. ~t..< 4sr..5gss gs,sss5s