The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1874-03-14
NEW NOR WEsTERs.

jay Gould wants to retire.
-Agassiz wrote small hand.
rothers-in-law-The Judges.
Goldsmith Maid is II years old.
After dog fights. P. C. T. A.
Theodore Tilton is writing novel.
Slippery business-A corner in lard.
The Indian question-Arnls or aims
Putting on airs-Lashing a chignon
fast.
Iowa has built 1,246 schools in two
years. is=
| The Derby race course is milo and a
half.
The society at Washington dotes on
Fish-balls.
The New York Trt5une's circulation is
set down at 10000.
"A New Hampshire fighting cock has
been sold for $4,000.
l-Harper's Magazine is offered 100 articles
q week. Less than ten are accepted.
Hood called the slamming of a door by
a person in passion "a wooden oath"
/ Charles Astor Bristed (Carl Benson)
left half a million Of dollars, mostly to his
wife.
| "A Pennsylvania farmer offers premi-
um chrome with every load of manure
bought of him.
--Pittsburg is trying to find man who
does net belong to q lodge, grange, club,
post, temple, encampment or order.
Train has lucid interval. He writes:
"My speech-making days are over. Those
who have never heard me never will"
The Bessemer anti-seasickness steam
ship is nearly ready for use. IF it proves
success nine more will be built to run to the
continent
Justice Haines, of Chicago, has decided
that editors are professional men, and that
their scissors, paste pot, ETC., cannot be
seized for debt.
A juryman remarked, "May it please
yer honor, | am deaf in one ear.'' Then
leave the box" replied the judge, "a ju-
ror must hear both Sides .
-Ex-Governor Coburn of Maine is a
pleasant citizen to have about. He has
built and presented to the county of Somer-
set fifty thousand dollar court house.
-Major-Genera1 Tom Scott has formally
assumed command of the lobby forces at
Washington, and, as a consequence, the
Texas Pacific revival scheme is growing
in favor"
=" Murder is very serious thing, sir"
said ali Arkansas Judge to a convicted pris-
oner It is next to stealing horse or a |
mule, sif, and [ shall send you to State prs-
on for six years, SIR
There has not been for many years a
member named Taylor in the firm of Lord |
q aslnr, OF view IurK, ny spectral ;tcJ I
of the Legislature the title can be retained /
so long as there is u Lord connected with it. |
A book binder had book brought to |
him to be rebound. After the job was
finished he made the following entry in his
book: "To repairing The Way to Heaven,
25 CENTS
A correspondent piteously inquiries
:" How long are the people in Missouri to
be robbeda'' We cannot answer, as the /
Legislature has not yet fixed the day of adj
journment.--St. Louis Globe. /
s. A Green Bay, Wis, politician, who
wants to stand well with his grangers, says:
'sThe hickory berry vine entysines
.afsf The brown nuts of the turnip tree; T.
.1 The cashmere Eefer skips and plays .e..#
To the tuneful bleat of the feathery bee,
On tall houans mid the buckwheat buds
saE We hear the low of the fnpy plover,
Whiie the bay bull hitehed TO the ruubling
scythc ..f
Husks ont the gelden clover" ..
Smith once fell into an argu-
ment concerning the comparative stature
and amount of brains among the men Of
his day. 'sWhy," said he, "you would
never suspect our friend Jeffrey of knowing
much, and as for ---, he has not body
enough to cover his mind decently with;
his intellect is improperly exposed
g Mr. Hornsby, Of Fond du Lac, attempt
ed to go down cellar to get q pitcher of
cider. His wife warned him to be careful
and not break the pitcher. He slipped on
the first stair and fell to the bottom, skin
ned his elbows and knees, bumped bis head,
broke his nose, tore his coat, sad landed on
the cellar floor total wreck, but didn't
break the pitcher. Mrs. Hornsby called to
him in Mortified accents: "Mr. Hornsby,
Mr.. Hornsby, did you break the pitcher?''
He growled: No, didn't: but, by tbr1n-
der, Il will" And he did.
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81 A Tale of Two Cities.