The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1874-10-17
NEW NoR,-wEsTERs
1,ho Modoc t,.;bo ,,,,n,hers 14e

The Modoc tribe numbers 14e.
What part Of speech is a frog PA
bloody noun.
Southern Colorado is Purple with
wild plums."
The cash value of Illinois taxables is
$4,000, 100000.
Thirty Icelandie families have already
settled in Wisconsin.
The latest Irish fashion Is home-rule
hiatt has no crown.
The great end Of good education is to
form reasonable man.
The British museum library has twelve
miles of book shelving.
John Smith is dead! He died in Iowa..
Pass along the banker wiper.
Thomas Jefferson's armchair is again
for sale, this time iI Detroit.
Fifteen thousand kegs of powder are
annually used to blow out Michigan's cop
per.
Florida feeds her prisoners on ham and
eggs, and everybody is trying to get into
jail.
Some Japanese youths are to be sent
to Germany to learn the art of brewing
beer.
-Mohammedanism has been defined as
"that blessed religion which makes people
wash themselves" -4
Dakota means 'cut-throats." The
native born of that Territory must there
fore accept the name.
Embroidery will continue in favor, and
many of the new street and house costumes
are completely covered with it.
-Burmah is to have her sovereign CROWN
ed shortly, and he will wear on the interest
ing occasion suit of solid silver.
"A Nebraska pomologist claims to have
raised the largest apple ever grown in the
United States. 1t weighs 29a ounces.
In Sicily, if one wants to get fellow
out of the way, all he has to do is to drop
SO into the hand of brigand and point out
the victim.
"A Sioux City deacon asked stranger
to start hymn, and when the stranger
struck into "Mollie Darling" they tried to
drown him out with "Old Hundred"
Pennsylvania has 195 blast furnaces,
130 rolling mills, 16 rail mills, IS steel
works, and 81 bloomaries. All the other
States put together do not contain so many.
As white garment appears worse when
little soiled than does a colored one, SO
does small fault in good man attract
more attention than great offense in
bad man.
A Pennsylvania man ate forty quarts
of pea nuts at one sitting, and then in the
beautiful language of Tyndall, " faded like
a streak of nolnipg elond info tho infinite
Mrs Wilcox, writing from the National
Capital to Nashville paper says: "Gen.
Grant can say of Washington as Caesar
Augustus said of Imperial Rome, / found
her brick and left her marble.
MIR. Emerson says: g I never had a
trouble or sorrow which could not for
get in fifteen minutes in the perusal of
some fayorite author" Jenkins concludes
that he never had mother-in-law.
There was something lovely about them
even in death. It was on a Kansas prairie,
and they lay side by side. Toms thumb
i'll Jacks left eye, and Jacks revolver
pushed into Toms right ear. They had fit
it out.
Said a Detroit lady to small boy
whom she found crying in the street, the
other day: "Will You stop crying if l will
give you penny % "No," said he, but
if you'll make it two cents I'll stop if it
kills me"
AT the beginning of the present year
the Order of Jesuits numbered 8, 104 men,
bers. Of these 2, 3o3 live in France, 1,527
in Italy, 1880 in England and English Col
onies, 1858 are ON missions, and 2,706 in
the United States.
The general convention of the Disciples
of Christ, usually known as Campbellites,
will be held in Cincinnati, October 30. It
will also be the twenty-fifth anniversary of
their missionary organization. The "Dis-
ciples'' are a numerous body in Kentucky
and Indiana.
-Strasburg Cathedral is now beaten. 1t
no longer has the highest spire in Emope.
The new Church of st. Nicholas Hamburg,
has just been finished, and the great cross
was placed on the summit week before last.
The total height is 472 feet. This is six
feet higher than Strasburg.
When an interviewer calls upon Gen.
Sherman the General places a bottle OF
brandy ON the table, and says he has got to
step out for a moment, and is not seen
again until next morning. This arrange
ment, however, has never been known to
| stop the progress of an interview.
The total area of the 81 United States,
without the Territories, is 1850, ITO square
miles; the area of coal-producing sections
| is 191. 900 square miles. which is about one
square mile in ten. The area of the ten
Territories is 995, ,o32 square miles, making
an aggregate of z, 9f5, ,203 square miles.
The Pope has made the Seeof Milwau
kee an Archdiocese. Baltimore is the
oldest Archdiocese in the United States
| st. Louis the second. New York the third
There are now eight and will soon be ter
Archbishoprics on this continent. Those
of Santa Fe and Philadelphia are soon tt
be added.
"A smart little boy in New Orleans wal
reproved by his mother for telling fib
He insisted it was only in fun, but his pioul
mother told him he must ask divine pardon
So the good little boy kneeled down ans
said, 30, Lord, forgive me. / wonldn'
have done it only thought you could TAX
q joke"
--One of the excursionists OH Il Lax