The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1874-05-02
NEW NoR'-WEsTERs.

Spring water-April showers.
On the CONTEMPLATING mule
1t is the Ditchborn Claimant now.
Wilhelm, Emperor of Germany is Y.
Aids to emperance-crusade and lem
onade.
The Agassiz memorial fund has reached
$685.
Moonlight is merely the beautiful old
age of day.
The new king of the Sandwiches was
once an editor.
The President is looking out for farm
in Maryland or Virginia.
An anchor, 4,50O tons i'll weight, is be-
ing forged in Camden, Me.
Cancer Of the stomach is Admiral Por-
ter's disease. He cannot recover.
Solitude shows us what we should be
society shows us what we are.-Ceca.
Sunset Cox says he is can electic pol't-
ical philosopher belonging to neither party"
Philadelphia has thirteen Aldermen
who have never been accused of corruption.
An Austrian officer was recently dismissed
from the service for refusing to fight
duel
1t is rumored in London that Disraeli
is to marry the Dowager Countess of Ches-
terfield
The bridge at St. Louis will be open to
foot passengers and street cars May !, and
for railroad trains July /.
The Troy Whig wants Andrew Jo'- '-nson
to be made the national poet, that being the
ouly office that he has never held.
Geo. Ripley, the reviewer of the Tribune
is the one man engaged in literature all his
life who has never published a book.
"A railroad is to be constructed from the
base of Mount Vesuvius to the edge of the
crater It is to be worked by ropes.
-Dlo Lewis proposes to make Yale Col
lege his objective point in Connecticut.
Yale is three-fourths "ale. .''-Boston Post.
Sir Garnet told the Queen that Ashantee
was blarsted dirty country. She replied
py conferring upon him the Order of Bath.
Boston Post.
The Milwaukee Sentinel says of broth
er editor: " He is one of the few Journalists
who can put an enemy into his mouth with
ont, fear of its stealing anything"
-Inscrirtion on a tombstone in Columbia,
Tennessee: Escaped the bullets of the
enemy to be assassinated by cowald1y pup
=, kind husband, an affectionate father"
| The Giant of Kentucky is dead. He
was seven feet high, two and a half feet
across the shoulders, and fifteen inches from
| toe to heel. His name was Louis johnson.
Joseph Hood, who lately died at Som
erset, Mass, weighed AIT pounds. The
Boston Commercial Bulletin writes his
obituary thus:
| Though he hia living may have earned,
When Joseph died, matters Stood
His weight forbade his friends TO say,
That they had urned lively Hood.
| - Burleigh' writes to the Boston
Journal that new church for Mr. Beecher
has been definitely decided on. 1t is to
cost, with the land, S40o, 900, and to seat
5000 people.
They were going to put man out OF a
| San Francisco theater for creating disturb
| ance. when voice cried: He's all right;
he's killed Chinaman! and they let the
man alone.
Twenty thousand persons, it is esti-
mated, have been drowned in Lake Erie
during the present century. This is the
most formidable argument the crusaders
have vet had to combat.
"A correspondent of the London Daily
Tegegraph speaks of Coomassie as g a town
| over which the smell of death hangs every
where. The odor of putridity is the air ap-
proved by its inhabitants. The sight they
love is severed necks and spouting blood,
and corpses that line the road in a dead
procession
dear dearl who broke my fayorite egg
| Cried Biddy Bantam to her daughter
s'Some lazy cur, too proud TO beg,
Has mashed it-and be hadn't ought ter.
The child gave pathetic craw,
| Her rGeful tears began to thicken:
| She sohbed aloud " broke it. ma
| This little person is my chicken.
! Some albuman and lime I'll buy,
/ And make another one to match it:
! Oh, ma: cannot tell lie
ibid it with my little hatchet.''
! "A local paper says that at a revival il
Jamestown, N. T., q short time ago, one oi
the brethren got the "power" and made {
yery impressive prayer, part of which wa:
the following: go Lord, feel like giving
every poor man III this place a barrel o.
flour, and barrel of pork, and barrel o.
salt, and barrel of pepper-oh, but that
too much pepper!
=" How much better it would have beer
mistake said detroit judge. ssThen th'
lion and the lamb would have lain dowl
together, and white-robed peace would hav'
famed you with her wings and elevatet
| you Will HeE SlHiles vi dPphop'eioh' Du'
no, yon went to clawing and biting ant
rolling in the mud, and here you are. TT
five dollars a piece.
ANOTHER WATCH SwINDLE.-A youn!
gentleman of this city has shown us lette
purporting to come from Howard 4 Co.
importers and manufacturers of watches
jewelry and silyerware 1s5 South Clarl
street, Chicago, and reads as follows:
The watch received from you Jan. 10 j
ready for delivery. You were correct whel
you stated it could not be repaired outsid
of our house. We have had great difficult
with it, but it is now in thorough order
and we warrant it to keep correct time fo
8 five wears. You wrote tie watch was found