The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1874-11-27
NEW NoR'-WEsTERs.
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ia stove.
= 7. The press that printers like--a press o
n business.
e - --*Gi1ty" ,sguilte5,'' '*giltey,'' apt
g sJilty'' were a Rochester verdit.
"A reflective reporter described new
= e hearse as "a splendid but sad Vehicle"
Twenty dollars in greenbacks is tile
standing price in Savannah fop $1,000 in
= Confederate notes.
r The Fort Wayne, Indiana, artesian
t well is exactly 1880 feet deep, and no wa
s ter yet.
: Judge Rising was elected District
. Judge of Storey county, Nevada, by 1854
= majority.
. There is no rain heavy enough to dam
{ pen she aTdar Of the local politician, and no
} nan has seen him when he was not dry.
els not this butter tainted?" asked a
customer at an uptown provision store.
1T taint, said the ungrammatical dealer.
Paris has 800, 900 0Ioungers in the streets.
$50 cafe concerts, 238 public bathrooms,
$4,000 wine shops, and !, 1926 billiard rooms.
There seems to be determination of
the European Powers to sustain Roumania
III her contest with the Turkish govern
ment
The marriage Of the Prince Imperial to
a daughter OF the Russian Grand Duchess
Marie is mentioned in Bonapartist circles
as probable event.
When the yellow corn sighs to be husk-
ed, and the golden pumpkins yearn to be
gathered, it is no time for a paper to stop
and argue whether Edna Dean Proctor is
10 or 80.
The sensitive boy lives in Delaware
| lie arose at midnight, footed it nalf mile, |
and awoke store clerk and bought fine |
comb. He didn't want any one to hear him
ask for it,
Mr.. William Blackmore, of England, |
| who has been down the Kansas Pacific, on
grand hunt, estimates the annual slaugh-
| ter of buffalo on the plains from 1000, GOO |
to !, 10000
The matrimonial market has picked ND
so fast since September that one New
Hampshire clergyman has Laid Il Il tlAfeo bar
rels Of beans, a barrel of CIDER and three
dried calf skins.
-sUpon my soul, she's iaunty craft"
said gallant naval officer, eyeing newly
married couple. ''Yes," said tile groom,
who overheard him, tand what's more my
friend, I'm her first mate"
As far back as 1740 London had daily
evening newspaper, sold at one farthng,
and entitled Tie Daily Eoentng Post. Tie
making of farthing newspapers may be
reckoned among the lost arts.
The difficulty between China and Japan
has been amicably arranged. China agrees
to pay an indemnity of 500, 900 taels, in con-
sideration of which the japanese troops are !
to be withdrawn from Formosa.
AN artist after sketches of the SA1tsris
mansion, was greeted by Sartoris the elder,
who is bluff and loud with "Why, demme, $
of course; of course, demme, sketch away, ]
anything you like, of course, dem itp' |
-"Wha has become of your monkey?, /
in4uiEcd woll-known but slightly inebri- I
ated politician of q erset,-sstt1Ssor on Penn c
reply.
The average weight of boys at birth is :
G5 lbs; tha5 OF girls G3tbs; The average ,
weight of males at twenty is 143 TBS; that
of females 100 lbs. Men acquire greatest ;
weight, on an average, at 35 years, weigh !
ing 152 lbs; women at 80 years, weighing
12S lbs. /
The picking up of the new direct At t
Iaptie telegraph cable, which was lost q
short time, from a depth of 1926 feet, t
may be accounted one of the feats of mod '
ern science, II hot prevented by storm, a !
success fut landing in New Hampshire will |
soon be effected
A gentleman travelling on Il steamboat J
one day at dinner was making away with {
large pudding close BY, when he was tod
by a servant that it was dessert. .' 1t mat
ters not to me, said lie, II would cat it if
it were wilderness"
Arrests for the violation Of the enforce !
ment laws have been extensively made in .
Memphis, New Orleans and othef places III !,
the South. The alleged offense of the mer j,
chants arrested was the discharge ofnegroes
for not voting as they were ordered. =
The only alpaca factory in the United {
States has recently been established at t
Jamestown New York. The machinery t
alone cost a quarter OF million. Some
sixty thousand yards day are being turn {
ed out and the demand is said TO exceed the t
supply.
The Virginia Enterprise say that tbe
recent fire at he HeIclIer 1nine has deval-
oped some strange facts egarding The ven +.
tilation OF mines, oe o. which IS that it is
not improbale that when Sntro gets his
tunnel completed he Will find 5e air draw
the wrong way.
'sJohn, stop your crying" said an en-
ragged father to his son, who had kept up
AN intolera5le yell for the last five minutes,
ssStop, | say; do you helr!' again repeated
the father after few minutes, the boy still {
crying. lyon don't spose I can choke off
in a minute, do yon9o cried the urehin.
20 How do you identity this haudker- :
chief?' Witness: "By its general appear !
anee, and the fact that | have others like
it." Counsel (eutely); "That is no proof,
for have one just like it now in my poek-
ct. !" Witness Gnnocentlg) Il don't doubt /
that, as | had more than one of the same
sort stolen. !"
When the Centennial opens, Philadel-
phia will have two OF the widest bridges III
the world. The Girard avenue bridge, for
foot passengers and carriages, IS 100 feet
wide; and the bridge i'll course Of construc
ton for the Philadelphia and Reading rail
road, over Richmond street, will have a
span of Ga feet and a width of 100 feet.
The Bismarck Tribune el;,ims that the
recent election of Judge Kidder rs delegate
to Congress will cause the Territory of Da-
kota to be divided at the next session OF the
national legislature. This project was
killed at the last session of Congress, when
the bill to establish the Territory Of Pe.nbi-
na was defeated.
David Randolph, an old gentleman liv-
ing in Trigg county, Ky, recently cut his
third set Of teeth and his eyesightis SO far
restored that he can read the finest print
without the aid of glasses. lie is now in
his seventy seventh year, has been a Wild
over twenty ty-seven years. and speaks hnpe-
fully Of his matrimonial prospects. He has
a full suit of luxuIitnt curly, hair slightly
tinged with gray.
AT Bologna, Italy NJ Thiers was inter-
viewed by writer for the Moaitore di B0-
Eoqna, to whom he said: ..ifaly has moth
ing toapprehend from France eifhes by acts
Injurious to her pride or contrary ts her IN
terests; but she must expect to feel from
the actnal gogernnlenLnl Fgance tie effects