The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1874-10-03
NEW NoR,-WEsTERs.

! Iceland has neither baths nor cannons.
Noah was an ark-itect Of the first wa
ter.
-Bayard Taylor has returned from Eu-
rope.
First train through Hoosac tunnel No
vember 1st.
-Migratious! The emigrant fares have
gone up again.
The largest of the Egyptian pyramids
is 4S1 feet high.
Gid big l1nave and little honest men
will worship him.
-"Bull Ghost " is the name of one of
the Cut-Head Sioux.
-Noah's ark was SAT English feet long,
81 broad and "a high
-Erratum in college paper: "For Alum
Water read Alma Mater.
1t takes over eight hundred cows to
supply Denver with milk
The number Of pilgrims to Mecca this
year has exceeded 100000.
One steamer brought 10000 watermel-
ons to Boston few days ago.
"A necklace of $50 human ears decks
the King of Dahomey's throat.
The Springfield Republican has II, 900
circulation in city of 40, 600 people.
Gold may be beaten into leaves so thin
that 10000 would only be an inch thick.
M. de Lesseps has become disgusted
with his project of Central Asian Rail-
way.
Arkansas has several schools of jour
nalism. They are principally shooting gal
leries.
"A lazy chap marked his handk erchiefs
by putting "Smith !" on one, and "ditto"
on the rest.
There is iron enough in the blood of
forty-two men to make plowshare of
twenty-four pounds.
Mormon Saints over sixteen are taxed
fifty cents per month each towards CON-
pleting the Temple.
-Morrissey's race-track and clubhouse
winnings at Saratoga are $500, 600 with two
partners to share IN.
The Philadelphia Press thinks Mosby
is as big nuisance as Sergt. Bates. Now
won't Bates be mad!
The railroad companies are now en-
ploying nearly fifty thousand less men than
they were two years ago.
The railroading of the United States
and Canada is done by 373,959 cars and
IA, 939 locomotive engines.
The President is charged with having
squeezed the hand of old lady who hoped
he'd be President another term.
The compulsory education law in Eng
land has increased the average attendance
in schools from 1900 to $4,000.
Moses Colt Tyler registered his name
in a Saratoga hotel, when Brooklyn man
wrote under it /: Tilton Colt Beecher, too.
The stallion Smuggler trotted his mile
in 2:20, on the Mystic Park Course, Boston.
This is said to be the best score ever made
by a stallion.
The Springfield Republican inclines to
Senator Thurman's opinion that the choice
of President two years hence is likely to go
into the House.
Three hundred men are employed day
and night in the rolling-mills at Patterson,
N. j., turning out flooring, etc., for the
Philadelphia Centennial buildings.
of course, we couldn't have him roam
ing around here and putting ON Congress
ional airs, saysa a Nevada paper in explain
ing how herse-thief came to his end.
-ssGuess your eyes are bad" replied
Green Bay traveller when told that his COL
lar was seiled; "why, bless you, mister, I
haven't worn that collar but two weeks"
There is yet nothing to mark the burial
place of Charles Summer, in Mount Auburn
Cemetery, but a visiting card fastened to
stake, on which is written, sCharles Sum
ner's grave
An exchange says: 'It is SO long since
there has been natural death in Austin
that Dick Pearce has turned his hearse
into chicken coop and used his coffin lum-
ber for flooring.
AS this is the season for ear-ache, dust
a bit of cotton with little black pepper,
dip the cotton in sweet oil and insert in
your ear. This is claimed to be the quick
est remedy known.
We see it stated that upward of twenty
Mennonite fa1ilies have returned to their
Russian homes disgusted. This isa matter
which the emigration authorities may well
take under consideration.
A ''Big Indian " strayed away from
his camp and got lost. Inquiring the way
back, Ire was asked if he was lost. ssNo,n
said he, disdainfully, ssIndian no lost !;
wigwam lost! Striking his breast, he
exclaimed, ssIndian here!'
"A club called "The Winning Cards y
has been established at Dubuque, Ia., It
is limited to fifty-two members, known as
the pack, each bearing the name of a
card. The presiding officer is the Jack of
Clubs.
"A wicked little boy III a Denver Sum
day school was asked by his teacher if he
had learned anything during the past week.
go, yes said he. What is it you have
learned p Never to lead a deuce when
you've got an ace back Of it, = was the re-.
ply.
The retiring editor Of q Southern paper
boasts that he has never been, . horse
whipped, revolvered knitted, kicked, lick
Led, bricked, pummeled or cussed, for any
thing I have said, written, done, or left
nndone as an editor, and in ceasing to be
one I am filed with a melancholy sadness. =
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