The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1874-05-09
NEW NoR.WEsTERs.
-Dio Lewis full name is Diocletian.

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-" Salt . is Robert CoIlyer's new theme
! Prince Arthur Of England has joined
the Free Masons. y
3 Josh Billings acknowledges an incom'
: of $4,000 per annun. .szt ..
! Letting off Sleep is a little boy
! definition of snoring
-Schoolmasters are the switch tender
on the railroad Of life.
Hugo in "93 y nealls eating with eiae'
fingers s ssignoring civilization"
The conservatives triumphed in Eng
, land because there is no prohibit-tory Law
there. t
"A bar meeting in Arkansas has censurct
the killing of a Judge by . lawyer as uiapro
? fessional -.
The Indian appropriations have swolIer
in five years from So, 900 to $40, 100000
per annunl.
"A Michigan schoolma' am points out
J the sad fact that no sclloolmaster has ever
} been President. f..# atz4
-Bayard Taylor says that the famous
; sunny skies of Italy can't hold a candle to
the sunshine of America. t.s ,il
The Brooklyn argus ascertains that
Henri Rochefort declines the offer to start a
Sunday newspaper in Brooklyn.
q Tho number of people who died in
Philadelphia last year would have made a
procession a mile long, marching 10 abreast.
4 A fellow who was sent to jail in Ohio for
sheep stealing said to the Justice: !" Well,
and Bazaine and Tichborne can stand ii. y
| Few friendships are lasting-the Vile
du Havre, Europe and Amerique, for
instance--three Friendships suddenly lost.
Only one man has ever dared to climb
the spire of St. Paul's urel, London
though e20 is offered to any one who will
repaint the ball. 1e
-"Boy," said Uncle Testy, "what are
you hollering for when / go by 9''af" " What
are you going by for when I'm holleringso
returned the boy. A.. 4 aa7
The Persians behave that all diamonds
i fell from heaven during the earliest stages
of the world, and are therefore entitled to
religious yeneratIon.
-Pittsburg is going to cast cannon
twenty eight feet long. If the ball don't
kill, they can punch man in the stomach
with the lnnzzle Of the gun and severely
injure him. ...ss.
4, Within year 772 persons have been
offered up alive ON the, Atlantic ocean by
the laundering of 1.-The steamers Atlantic,
Cityo Of Washington, Ismalia, Vile du HaEre
| and Europe. g.. 5,.. gss ,4t
| -Webster's Dictionary contains over
| fifty thousand words. Jones says when he
came home late the other night, in the space
of fifteen minutes his wife applied them all
to him, including some extra ones and the
| fire shovel. seiRaf3
The Siainese twins were Baptists,
"But," says the Pres6yterian, g suppose
cne had been a disbeliever, how could the
other have been immerseds'' But another
says they were not Baptists they were
United Brethren
tan OK does not as good as an
oyster, but it can run twice as fast, was
the result of boys efforts to write COM
position on oxen. Another defined pane
gyric as 9 something good for baby when
it had the stoma chachen
--Fisk's Grand Opera House bar and fix
lures was knocked down at auction the
other day. for $4,000. Fisk spent SIG, 900
fitting it up. The glass from which he
quaffed his lass lemonade, Che drank nothing
worse), ON that fatal afternoon, was pre-
served and is g memorialized' with an
inscription thereon.
There are 8, ,000, ,o00,00 people on the
earth, and they speak 3,e63 known langaa-
ges. The average duration of life is 335
years. One-fourtll of those born die before
they arelat the age of seventeen. Out Of
one hundred persons only six reach the age
Of sixty. Ont Of five hundred persons only
one attains the age of eighty. ssbs!
s--In q Sunday school the other day, when |
the basket was handed around for collec-
tion for the heathen, the teacher was some
what surprised to find a bank note iii it.
Cluser1examinafien revealed the fact THAT it |
was a counterfeit. The inquiry among the
boys brought to the front one who acknowl.
edged having handed in the spurious scrip.
g Did you know it was counterfeit ?' was |
the question. sYes!' he said. but i I