The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1874-08-08
NEW NoR'-WEsTERs.


Pennsylvania owes ss5,OoO,ooo.
Theodore Tilton is 38 years old.
Connecticut has 3,547 Odd Fellows.
There are 10000 Israehtes in France.
What man is mentioned before Adam
Chap. 1st.
Henry Ward Beecher weighs 164
bounds.
First law Of gravity-never laugh at
your own jokes.
Don Carlos wears his beard full and
his skull empty.
Whenever business falls off it always
seems to get hurt.
--Bessemer's anti-sea-sick vessel is near
ly ready. It isn't sinking.
The screw-driver begins to loom up us
a natty little instrument of murder.
The increase in taxable praperty in
New York last year was $3.50, 100000.
Little Oshkosh, in Wisconsin, burned
six hundred buildings herself the other
night.
Sad news from Washington-Belknap's
lament: stI'm lonely Tecumseh without
thee"
Those Indians don't appear to mind
General Ord any more than they do General
Orders.
%. How long can a goose stand on
one foot? A. Try it-that's the way the
goose found out.
-Arizonians say Gen. Crook is first
class military necessity" and the only one
they take any stock in.
Goldsmith Maids best time at East
Saginaw Thursday was 2:16-the fastest
trotting time on record.
The man who went to sleep on the rail-
road track, found his rest was good deal
broken-and his leg too.
The Times says Chicago has ''the finest
assortment of ruins in the world.' The
Times is cheerful paper.
The Leavenworth Commercial thinks
the Kansas Penitentiary will boast 1000
prisoners inside of ten years.
Several victims of enBai have lately
taken advantage Of the dullness that enyi-
roned them, to remove to Brooklyn.
"A father in Wisconsin offered his son
five dollars to take dose of castor Oil, and
then got counterfeit bill off on the boy.
Said Young America to his papa : 'sPa,
be you Britisher?' Eyes, my son, I was
born in England swell, we whipped
you.'
-"Buckling the Nations Iron Belt, is
the best and pithiest description we have
yet seen of the St. Louis Bridge celebra-
tion.
The ReY. Henry Boehm, the patriarch
of American Methodism, was 100 years old
June Sth. He has been q preacher for rs
years.
The Chief Justice of Wyoming is con-
valescing. He was SO near DEATHS door
that he could look through the key-hole.
Rheumatism.
Gov Hartranft, of Pennsylvania, had
the Roman firmness to sign the death war;
rant of one of his old servants, and the man
was duly hanged.
The letters B. B. are becoming familiar.
In Washington, they stand for Ben. Butler;
in New York, Barnun's Balloon; III st.
Louis, Big Bridge.
A lecturer aptly demonstrated the the
ory that heat generates motion by pointing
to a boy who accidentally sat down on a
piece of lighted punk.
i If anything will impress the human
mind with awe, it is the expression of the
mans face who who has just been aroused
from snoring in Church.
An illinois man has family of twenty
five children, all of them over twenty one
years of age. He was brought up by his
parents to habits of industry.
Our Times, a new journal New York,
remarks that our Republic g now totters
in its imbecility towards it's centennial
year. You can't please everybody. .
A Tennessee man wrote his will on a
paper collar, and it passed through the
Probate Court as well as any other will,
though q little unhandy about fling.
An Illinois editor returns thanks for a
centipede sent to him by mail from Texas,
"it being" he says, the first cent of any
kind we've received for several weeks.
The Brooklyn Union asks: s'Shall
hydrophobia become common ?" If it's all
the same to the Union we'd rather it
wouldn't. Let it be high-toned, if it
pleases.
"A Virginia City (Ney.) lawyer has this
notice placarded on the door Of his office
sssAll book peddlers and canuassers who en-
ter herein will be ruthlessly slaughtered
and destroyed
This is the season when the gentle red
man shouldereth his little Government
Remington, and goeth forth from his reser-
vation to phlebotomize the descendants of
the forefathers.
"A preacher in Pensacola, Fla, was re-
Gently compelled to break off in the midst
Of his sermon, the frogs near the church
keeping up such an uproar that his congre-
CATION couldn't hear him.
II wnd knott dye in Summer, and leave
the garden sass, the roasted lamb, and but
termilk, the cool place on the grass. I wud
knott dye IN Summer, when everything is
hot, and leave the whisky jewlips owe, no,
itle futher knott.
"A painter being asked to estimate the
cost of painting certain house, drew forth
a pencil and paper, and made the following
calculation: 9 A nought is a nought; three
into Eve twice you can't-I'n paint your
house for fifty dollars. =
"A mathematical professor i'd a Sacra-