The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1874-01-24
NEW NOR wEsTERs.

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i "A railroad contracter-Jaek Frost.
Williams is blue instead of ermine
Weather report-A Thunder Clap.
/ Oakley Halls first name is Abraham
Walt. Whitman says he istired of writing
poetry.
Pat DOMAIN is to start paper in Colunl.
bia, sc.
/ Wicked waste-Burning candle at
both ends
/ Ministers of the Interior-The cook
and the docter.
The President of the Swiss Republic
gets a salary of $4,000 year.
/ Dinners are supplied to poor children,
in London, at two cents per head.
Duluth has very Superior skating
rink 81, 900 square miles in extent.
1t cost Uncle Sam only six million dol
lars to double up his fists at Spain.
IF you wish to hear anything further
from the Virginius just drop line.
--Seventy-eight theatres have been burnt
in this country in seventy-five years.
Some of the French papers advise the
drowning of criminals convicted of capital
offences.
Tho Olio constitutional convention
has made it crime for editors to receive
free passes.
Alex. Fl. Stephens is actually in train
ing, or fancies himself so, for the Presi-
dental race in 1876.
Betting extravagant sums on cock
fighting is the vice that brought Santa Anna
to abject poverty.
"A Terre Haute man. who has been try
ing to make both ends meet, is living on
head-cheese and ox-tail soup.
"A circus elephant, wintering at Louis
vile, is on the watch for the man who toss
ed him an apple full of catarrh snuff.
What England made all the fuss about
was Bos-4-on harbor--a little ct" upset
in Boston harbor- Laurence american.
What is the difference between plan
OF battlefield and a roasted pippin? One
is war map, and the other is warm apple
JEFF. Davis is the sole survivor of his
fathers family, his sister, Mrs. William
Stamps, having died last week in Mississip
pi.
fffeyalond Iru ,roodo .I,,,,,,,,,o,, tca
during the last season, sold $50, 900 worth
of goods, travelled II, 900 miles and married
four wives.
1T lisa curious coincidence that Lorraine,
which gave birth to the great Marshal Ney,
who was executed for alleged treason, is also
the birth place of Marshal Bazaine.
:" Matrimony," said modern Benedict,
the other day, produces remarkable rev.
olntions. Here am for instance, in ten
to loving sire.
A New Orleans justice has decided that
where two families occupy a house, one
can't sing captain Jinks" over thirty
times in succession without being liable to
fine for disturbing the peace.
"A Detroit woman, who had been di-
vorced from her first husband, recently
married again. The first husband, to show
that he bore no malice, headed a party who
serenaded the newly-married pair.
| The Nation coldly shifts at the author
of 'sA1y Summer in Garden" and g Back
! log studies.'' In the January Scribner,
Mr.. Warner had spoken of it as "The
Weekly Judgment Day.
ia new instrument" says the Paris
Figaro, suggested by the life of NJ. Theirs,
has been invented by an ingenious savant.
1t varies with every change of the wind,
and is called the TAeirmometre. =
The introduction of twenty four-incl
shot is contemplated by foreign war depart
ments. Artillery experts say that the
weight of such an unwieldy sphere will in &
great measure destroy its effectiveness.
The American edition of Blanchard
Jerrolds '.Best of all Good Company, ha'
this advantage of the English, that it con
tains all those fine extracts from Dicken
that the law Of copyright made it impossbl
to publish there.
1t is said that DIR. livingstone ha
discovered, with great delight, the long
disputed origin of familiar lyric Of hom.
and childhood in the spirited war-song o
an African royal drum corps, which run
thusly:
boo tchai Boo tcha Kilda Kaffs
kntti muppy netti maf
Hangis Ida pom wall:
Dressitn bowman detf mall >
"A WAGNER passing a store was aske
what he had in his wagon. He replied:
Threefourths of cross and circle complete,
An upright. where two semi-circles do meet:
A rectangle triangle standing on feet
Two senli-crces and circle complete
People who are at a loss as to how man
} to invite when they want to give q a party,
, may be guided by the following:
;. For thinking, one; for converse, two. no more
+ | Three for an argument for walking, four;
For social pleasure five: for fun, score .
speaking of the lying-in hospital ther'
!, the Boston Adrertiser asks: Wonder If
lying-out- -and-out hospital is not urgentl
!. needed in Boston and other leading cities
the country -