The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1874-07-04
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EvE-ANGELIcAL CORNER.

A star engagement" Meet me by moon
| light alone"
| Everything continues to be beaded and
the mania RACES unabated.
Lydia Thompson has an average of three
offers OF marriage per week. ...
1t takes twelve cents to pay postage ON
| an ordinary Wisconsin love letter.
Pauline MARKHAM says Lydia Thompson
| is the prettiest woman on the stage.
For once, sad to say, dogs are like ladies.
Both need muslin in this hot weather
Kansas women are having picnics all by
themselves, ignoring the sterner sex alto
gether.
A little three-year-o down East recently
| said: There's two things do spise-Sun-
day and dyin'.''
The Siamese, like the Chinese, wear their
finger nails very long. The ladies some
times have them tipped with silver.
Between her ruff and the white frill inside
her hat, the fashionable belle peeps out
like chicken coming out of the shell.
A candid old bachelor says: 'sAfter all, a
woman's heart is the sweetest thing in the
world. It's a perfect honeycomb, full of
sell.''
@AA oohioAo JOuAS, AtsAJ cAbcIcu d uEuG
store lately and wanted to see the papers
for a week back, and the intelligent clerk
showed her roll of sticking plaster.
The New York World has figured up the
weight of a lady's toilet, from her hair to
her shoes, and the sum total is eleven
pounds, thirteen ounces and eight drachins.
Down in Kentucky the traveller hears
fond husbands say: "Come, darling, come
sr,o c,1, III i
head with club!'' +
Never marry for wealth, but remember
that it is just as easy to love- girl who has
a brick house, with mansard roof and silver
plated door-bell as one who hasn't anything
but an auburn head and an amiable dispo-
sition
Delaware, man arrested for murder,
proved that on that night and at the hour
OF the murder he was at home mauling his
wife, and this fact saved him. A word to
the wise is, and so forth
They were on q roof together in Chicago.
The next roof was fifteen feet lower. He
told her if she jumped down he would follow.
She did, but he didn't. She broke her leg,
and he broke his promise. She then broke
the engagement.
A clever medical man who has been to see
in a letter to the Paris Figaro that she
really does poison herself in the last act,
and takes an antidote afterward She may
poison herself once too often.
Mrs. Sartoris has cordially invited all her
bridesmaids to visit her at her home in Eng
land, and there is some probability that her
invitation will be accepted in one or two
instances. Her home is a few miles from
Southampton, and almost opposite the
beautiful Isle of Wight. Her husband has
American friends win make cruise in
August.
A hater of tobacco asked an old negro
woman, the fumes of whose pipe were
annoying to him, if she thought she was a
Christian. sYes, brudder, spect isl
"Do you believe in the Bible?" "Yes,
brudder.' - "Do you know that there is
passage in the Scriptures that declares that
nothing unclean shall inherit the kingdom
of heaven?" e'' Yes, Pse heard of it..
"Well Chloe, you smoke, and you can not
enter the kingdom of heaven, because there
is nothing so unclean as the breath of q
smoker. What do you say to that? ~
"Why, spects I leave my breff behind
when go dar."
The following is an instance of tho
"severely calm ., style of Western reporto-
rial description: g Yesterday morning ~
boy ssfsssszateased te 2 yard on Eight street
where woman was scratching the bosom
of the earth with a rake, and leaning on the
fence said: care you going round to the
back yard after while? ?" The woman
SAID she didn't know; may be she would;
why Because" the boy said, 81 just
saw the cistern lid drop ON the baby's head
a minute ago, and thought if you went
round you might lift it off," 1t is currently
reported that the woman went.