The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1874-12-04
NEW NoR,-wEsTERs.

-Fechter is in New Orleans. "Ophelis
: Ilofes you.
The school population of Kansas has
doubled in five years.
William Shakespeare is member elect
Of the Delaware State Senate.
One hundred men are employed ON the
Mormon Temple at st. George, Utah.
Seattle, W. T., naturalized the first
, Chinaman in the United States.
The prayer of an Office seeker" Oh
that were an event, that might take
place!"
1t is hard to look at chrome nova
days without experiencing something like
a Prang.
During the past season about ten per-
sons day have visited the summit of Pixies
Peak, Col.
"A Milwaukee dry goods clerk wears a
shingle under his shirt-front to keep the
wrinkles in subjection.
Indianapolis, Ind, which had only
5000 inhabitants in 1850, now boasts of a
population of 100000.
The New York Herald says the Demo-
cratic party was never in so dangerous a
position as it is to-day.
"A politician spoke of his conscience as
an /" Onward monitor eyes," said the
auditor, "it's reg lar iron-clad."
Mr.. Henry Clews, banker, has scattered
creditors have been declared null and
void.
George W. Curtis feels so uneasy in
his (" Easy Chair" since the election, that
he'd just as lief get up and sit on picket
fence.
The Rev. Geo. H. Hepworth thinks
there are times in every mans life when to
say "No " is Heaven, and to say '' Yes"
is hell.
| 1t is reported that shaft 1000 feet
deep will be sunk at the Imperial mine,
| Nevada. When completed, it will be the
deepest shaft in the world.
Petroleum V. Nasby will give us book
singulally entitled :" The Morals of Abou
Ben Adhem. Eastern Fruits in Western
Dishes," dedicated to his mother-in-l law.
"A New York minister, in preaching the
funeral sermon of a celebrated skater, said
Qe had gone where there was no ice. That
was capable of avery serious Interpretation.
"A country paper announces another
Brooklyn libel suit in this moderate and
tidy fashion: "The Shiny folds of the
scandal draw tight around still another
pocket"
The Evansville Courier speaks of the
lunar eclipse as one of the grandest of
of national phenomena" We have always
thought the American moon the loveliest of
her sex.
Those who have not read the details of
the Beecher- Tilton- Moulton mutual scandal
should subscribe for a paper published in
New Mexico. They have just heard of it
down there.
While Mrs. General Rawlns was dying
at the Railroad Hotel in Cheyenne, the
statue Of her husband was being unveiled
at Washington, i'll presence of the Secretary
of War and many other persons of note.
"A Georgia paper knows man who
went all the way from Cassville to Atlanta.
On his return he looked solemn with the
weight of garnered wisdom, and said: eff
the world is as big t'other way as it is that
it's a whopper!"
| "A Pittsburg post-ofice clerk was some
what fiurried when q well-dressed man
called for $1,000 worth OF Ntter and paper
stamps and passed through the window to
pay for them five crisp $1,000 bills. He
was patent medicine man.
Novel playing cards, i'll which, while
historical personages of the present time
are introduced as the honors, the traditional
quaintness of the old playing cards is pre-
served, so that the card players attention
is not disturbed, are coming in vogue
Good advice. When you use postal
card, always write the address the first
thing. Tons of postal cards without any
address are destroyed in the Dead Letter
Office, because people write their message
first, and then forget to address the card
The Springfield Republican, foreshad-
| owing the election of William Sharon, the
great capitalist, to succeed Senator Stewart,
| says that "Nevada, having the smallest
population of any State in the Union, will
have the two richest, and we do not know
but we may say also the two ablest, men in
| the whole United States Senate .
--Abd-el-Kader-E -El- Kerim, one of the
wealthiest inhabitants of Constantine, AL
geria, has arrived at Paris. He possesses
thousands Of acres of land, has $50 sporting
dogs, $500 horses and mules, 1850 camels
and 1ao, 900 head Of cattle In case of war;
he furnishes / 200 soldiers and horses to the
French Government
"A Vermont editor named Clarke went
off on his vacations recently, and while he
was away his assistant accepted and pub
lished some poetry, s. To October" The
paper had tremendous sale, and when the
edition was exhausted some one discovered
that the poem was an acrostic, reading
Albert Clarke is an ass.
-Of the 175 congressman elected this
fall, there have been but three representa-
tives of our several million colored people
chosen. This number viii, however. with
out doubt be increased to four. Only one
colored man will he member Of the Senate,
and his will be the seat once occupied by
Jefferson Davis.
Z. "A Clergyman was one day much annoyed
by those who dropped in after the services
had commenced, inyaribly closing the door
after them. He bore the vexation will
Job-like patience, butatlength, being fairly