The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1874-12-25
NEW NoR'-WESTERs.
-Tennyson chews navy.

-NOt saving clause-Santa Claus.
Idiots brains are mostly quite small.
"A dull season-Boarding house pepper
Byron and Scott had no taste for music
Thunder travels mile in four seconds
| Cold feet are one great source of dis
ease.
i The Hebrew language is read back
wards.
Philadelphia supports an Italian news
paper.
Every good sculptor is bound to make
q statue or bust.
Alexander Pope introduced the weep.
ing willow into England.
-"Oyster Stuze'' are what Chicago
slop-shop offers its patrons.
A duel is quickly managed. 1t only
takes two seconds to arrange it.
The coiored race will have five colored
representatives, in the next Congress.
Plenty of room in New York City
Over fifteen thousand signs " For Rent .
are up.
NO foreigner whatever will be permitted
to enter the forts in course of construction
around Paris.
A church spire in Cincinnati will be
three hundred and twenty feet high when
it is completed.
10 make penny go great way,
draw it out into 2,700 feet of wire as was
lately done in Scotland.
Gen. Fitzpatrick is said to be at work
upon anew war drama, with the assistance
of Nasby and Mark Twain.
San Bernandino county, CAL, comprises
an area Of over $4,000 square miles, and is
the largest county in the Union.
1t is said that carved wooden cups are
to take the place of wine glasses for sherry,
the fashion now being to drink it. out of
wood.
Mark Twain has brother named
Orion. He is a hunter, and lives near
Keokuk, Iowa. He hunts potatoes with a
hoe.
"A tailor, speaking of the winter fash
ions, says, very correctly: "There is not
much change in gentleman's pants this
month"
Daniel Webster has accepted position
on the New York police, and it is therefore
inferred that his dictionary has not proved
success.
Statistics just published show that
there are, in round numbers, 5000, 900
Methodists in the United States and
Canada.
The meanest thief in the world has
been discovered. He lives in Massachu-
setts, and tried to rob Ben Butler of his
hard-earned savings.
The highest prize in Chinese lottery
is 90 cents, and the man who drarUs it hes
his name in the papers, and is looked npon
as heap of fellow.
1t is estimated by the best judges that
the crop of cotton this year at the South
will reach at least 4, 900, 600 bales, OF 2,000,-
100000 pounds.
Germany is practicing economy in its
diplomatic service All superfiuous secre-
taries, attaches, &C., are to be recalled at
the end Of the year.
--Silas Card vas married the other day,
and backed on his wedding notice were the
words, " No cards. But he doesn't know
what might happen.
Mr.. Langlord, formerly a practicing
attorney at Walla Walla, W. r., has been
put in possession of the Nez Perce Indian
Agency at Lapwai, |. T.
Gen. Butler is about town looking
sunny rosy, vivacious, pugnacious, wicked,
and characteristic. He is the liveliest
dead-man above ground. L. Washington Star.
The Knoxville Chronicle says the pro-
gramme of the Tennessee Democrats is to
elect Gov. John G. Brown to the United
States Senate, "out of sheer spite to
Andrew johnson.
An American who has recently visited
Italy, writes: Venice is nice place,
only l must say think its damp. 1T must
have rained tremendous before our arrival,
for at present we can only get about the
streets in boats"
The Russian government has deter
mined to try the experiment of "compul-
so1y education - in the case OF children
between eight and twelve years of age in
the city of st. Petersburg. There are 49,
900 of these children and Is, 900 of those at
present receive no instruction whatever.
The military expenditure of Germany,
this year, rises to the immense sum Of
$135, 900, 600. This is nearly half Of the
whole annual expenditure Of the United
States, including the interest on our debt
Among the defensive projects now on foot,
is grand scheme for the fortifcation of
the railroads at all important functions and
passes. Germany is to be, indeed, forti-
fed camp.
"A grocer in Detroit keeps "a little
brown jug :" near his cider barrel, and when
he wants to do the fair thing by a customer
he mingles some of the contents of the
aforesaid Jug with the cider. He made a
mingle for an old farmer, but got in a great
deal of whisky and very little cider.
About an hour after drinking the farmer
was observed leaning against fence, and
was heard to soliloqulze: " It's too late for
sunstrokes and too early to freeze to death,
and guess it's a touch of the shakin'
ager."
Tom Scott VIII Take $4,000, 900.
Col Thomas 4 Scott was in town and