The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1874-02-21
NEW NOR WEsTERs.

Hard pork-Pig iron.
Alaska has seal ring.
Light fantastic tow-A blonde.
Men of the time--W Watehmakers.
MIR. Stewards age is near A. T.
Cry of the e-cutters--Too thin.
Congressman Cain is an Abel speaker.
-A breech of the pieee-The butt of a
gun.
-" No cards. is what Western gam
bier attached to his wedding notice.
Last year there were 131 dissenting
sects in England and now the number is
1871.
AN act for the suppression of prize
fighting has become q law in Missouri. Time
FOR it.
= -Epitaph for the Siamese Twins: 'sThey
were one in life, and in death they were not
divided
The Chicago Inter Ocean says: eff
words were bullets, Toombs of Georgia
would Dc mlGFallleuSe.
1t is announced that the New York
Eepress (Dem.) is to be bought out and
made an Administration organ.
All the children of Jedo, Japan, are
henceforth to be labeled with the names
and addresses of their parents.
Sam Allen, of Texas, pays freight bills
ON his own account amounting to $12, 900 a
week, for shipping cattle North.
than half million lives are now
insured by the two hundred and odd COM
panies engaged in that business.
The Iowa Senate is heavy body. The
fifty members kick the beam at s, 527 pounds,
and average of 1703 pounds per senator.
The Conqregationazist explains what
it meant by lightning bug piety''-bright
while it lasts, but cold, and soon out.
Owing to the slippery condition of the
sidewalks Danbury people have fallen into
the habit of screaming "Goodu' with one
"o.''
During the past 81 years the Columbia
Bar has been crossed 1O,5OO times by YES
sells passing in and out. Eight vessels have
been lost.
Senator Stewards new house in Wash
ingten commands twelve streets. It has a
tower and doric, gothic and corinthian
dancing room.
A teacher at deaf and dumb school in
England has offered to teach an unusually
intelligent ape, in the London Geological
Gardens, to speak.
Hammond, the revivalist, is making
such a sensation in St. Louis that the Jo,sr-
nal of that city says " the air is filled with
a sanctifying smudgen'
IF a door does not shut without q
"slam," put drop Of sweet oil on the
catch, Or on the hinge if it creaks. Soap
will do, but not as well.
From carefully compiled statistics, it is
computed that mercantile failures amount
ing to 1928, 400, 900 occurred the last year
in the United States.
A young clergyman, small of stature,
preaching as q candidate in certain place,
one Sabbath, peering over the pulpit Bible,
announced as his text: SIT is I. Be not
afraid"
A Floridan heard the other day for the
first time the story of David and Goliah,
and he became so enthusiastic that he swung
his hat and called out: "Bully for the
fellow with the sling!''
The whaling gbusiness-excepti i'll schools
lis rapidly becoming extinct in this coun-
try. The entire whaling feet of the coun-
try numbers but III vessels, so vessels hav-
ing been taken off during the year.
DIR. Hulburt, of Corning, Iowa, while
in Europe recently, paid $4,000 for Gre
mona violin which was made in 1891.
There are only thirteen of these instruments
in existence. and this is the fifth one brought
to this country.
The Methuselah horse is still living,
hearty, fat and active, in South Durham
vt. He is the property Of Mrs. Pinkham,
and in his 42d year. Every fair Sunday he
may be seen ON his way to church-an
example to all old horses.
-" Julius, can you tell me how Adam
got out of Eden ?'' "Nell, I s'pose he
clum de fence.'' ''No, dat amt it."
+" Well, den he borrowed wheelbarrow
and walked OUT "No." 81 CUBS it up,
den.'' "He got snaked OUT
There is nothing quite SO exhausting to
a village newspaper man as to write up
complimentary notice of local exhibition,
in which there are thirteen performers who
design sending copies of the paper to their
friends. Meas.
"A boy living ON the Sugar Hollow road
ate twenty-ouc basckwlseat cakes one day
last week, and so disturbed his stomach as
tocause his death in three days after. The
last words he uttered were of modest tri-
urnph. He said: II slung 'em."
=" Rip Van Wrinkle " was played at the
Des Moines Opera House the other night.
After his twenty years nap Rip arose,