The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1874-04-11
NUTMEGS.
From the Danburv News. March 81.

From the Danbury News. March 81.
What Sodom was to Lots wife so is the
back breadths of one woman's dress te
another woman.
Oranges are SO plenty now that the man
who doesn't fall down and break some val
uable bone is lacking in public spirit.
The Burlington (Iowa) Daily speaks of a
couple resolving themselves into CON-
mittee of two, with power to increase the
number"
A preventive of sneezing, says DIR.
Brown sequard, is to press the upper lip.
That accounts for the small percentage of
sneezing on Sunday nights.
Christian Sharpe, the inventor of the
famous Sharpe rifle, died at Vernon, in this
Estate Thursday week, We have heard of
deceased for years, but never imagined that
his given name was Christian.
Economical wives have various ways of
getting ahead in the world. One of them is
in the buying Of secondhand furniture at
auction. Mrs. O'Clarence purchased a
lounge, Friday for two dollars. She wanted
something for Mr.. O'Clarence to throw
himself down on after supper Mr.. O'Clar-
ence threw himself down on this lounge
that evening, and passed Immediately
through it, splitting his vest through the
back, bursting one knee to his pants, and
nearly decapitating one ear with the end of
broken spring. 1t required the greatest
exertions of two neighbors to extricate him.
He hasn't spoken to his wife since.
This is the season when the industrious
housewife prepares for new carpet for the
back kitchen, and the unsuspicious husband
misses his dark green pants and light blue
vest, and catches his feet into endless
woolen lines, or loses his balance on large.
black coils which he comes unexpectedly
upon in the dark. And during the coming
month he will inhale variety of chemical
steam, while blue fingers will warm his
potatoes, yellow fingers draw his tea, and
red fingers cut his bread. And at the end
of that time u little old woman in a black
bombazine dress, and with snuff on her
nose, suddenly appears, and is Immediately
hurried into another room by his wife,
where both remain closeted in the greatest
secrecy. And later still he is further mys-
titled by short boy in heavy shoes, with
freckled face, and unpleasantly polished
jacket sleeves, who turns up at unexpected
times, to the great agitation of the indus
trious housewife, who is heard to gasp,
!" What? More color ?' as she hurries him
into another room, and from sight.
Why AL Nevada Rivers Run into the
Ground.
Prom Tie Virginia City City eraeaaa44
prise we copy the following:
1t is a well known peculiarity of orr
Washoe rivers that they all sink into the
earth. Each river empties into what is
called it's "sink," or lake. None of them |
get out of the State or empty into the sea.
This curious fact was once curiously |
accounted for by a queer old fellow who
made his home in the shadow of Mount |
Davidson. Said he: "The way it come |
about was in this wise-The Almighty, at |
The time he was creatin' and fashionin' this |
ere yearth got along to this section late on
Saturday evenin. He had got through
with all the great lakes, like Superior.
Michigan, Huron, Erie and them-had
made the Ohio, Missouri and Mississippi
rivers, and, as sort of windup, concluded
20 make river that would beat anvthing
he had yet done in that line. He started
sn traced out Humboldt river an Truckee
'iver an Carson river, an Walker river,
IN Reese river, an all the other rivers, he
vas leadin' of 'em along, calkelatin' to
BRING 'em all together into one big boss
liver, an then lead that off an let it empty
nto the Gulf of Mexico or the Gulf of
California, as might be most convenient:
)ut as he was bringin' down and leadin'
llong his branches-Truckee, Humboldt.
larson, Walker an them-all at once it
'ome on dark, an not bein' able to carry
nut his plan, he just tucked the lower ends
# the several streams inter the ground
vllar they war, an they have stayed thar
ver since.
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