The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1874-05-30
NEW NoR'-wEsTERs.
The nick of tirne-A wrinkle.
Engaged for every set-A hen.
"A Rant;ct diseoSo hin tbaa,-v

Ohio will be 70 years old on Nov. 80.
Once for all, his name isn't Saleratus
Red Cloud is in Jail for petty larceny
Germany is making 100 cannon a week
-Chicago's new theatre will cost $3.50,
900. IS .
kentucky is troubled with six daily
newspapers.
"A new town in California has been
named Sumner. rs.
The bachelors toast-Large fortunes
and small waists. r.
San Francisco thinks it needs another
vigilance committee.
"A favorite song with hjuveniles-"Good.
bye, sweet tart, goodbye" c~
He IS coming, sure enough. Martin
Farquhar Tupper. Let's go.
The spanking period is appropriately
called the palmy days of childhood.
-One-fourth of the members of Congress
have signed the total abstinence pledge.
Mississippi has one consolation. There
is no danger that she will cry her ''is ''out.
Stanley has been formally received as
az honorary fellow of the Royal Geograph-
ical Society.
| There are over six hundred Indians in
Philadelphia. All Of them are attached to
| tobacco establishments.
| There is some good in John Morrisey.
| He knocked man down the other day for
calling him a politician.
| In some localities in Denmark man is
not allowed to drive white and black horse
together, as it is a sign of ill-luck.
| The Cincinnati Enquirer complains that
the Mississippi river is too much inflated,
and calls on the President to interfere.
| "A Chicago company has undertaken to
build a bridge across the Missouri at Atch-
ison, Kansas, within twelve months.
-" kissing your sweetheart says a
trifing young man, sis like eating soup
with fork; it takes long time to get
enough"
| New York Commercial. ''Col. Forney
predicts that Butler will sweep New Eng
land 1t will be some time before he does
it, however,
An ex-English officer who once out
ranked Sir Garnet Wolseley in his own
regiment is now a reporter on q New \ ork
evening paper.
An English boy, on being asked the
other day who was the Prime Minister of
England, answered without hesitation, "Mr.
Spurgeon." a"@ #
Canadians drank over eighteen million
gallons of Intoxicating liquors last year
| over four gallons and half to each man,
woman, and child.
--ss Shrouds. ~ exclaimed an old lady
who was listening to an old sea captain S
story, "what doyou have them at sea for?'
"To bury dead calms in .erart
"A beautiful thought-that two little
street Arabs will sit down and suck molasses
off their fingers with more real joy than
kings or princes ever feel.
1t is all very well to talk of the Golden
Age, and all that sort of thing, but there is
nothing more popular with the ordinary
emigrant than the steerage. g.
A large English capitalist, shipbuild-
Ell on the Clyde, is searching along the South
Atlantic seaboard for a suitable place to
found large shipbuilding establishment
General Butler, according to Washing
ton rumor, has several times since his recent
illness stated to members without conceal
ment that he does not intend to be a can
-''What are you doing there, you rascal?'
"Merely taking cold SIR ''It looks to
me as if you were stealing ice.'' "Well,
>
A man having bill against distant
merchant sent letter ofinquiry to banker
of that locality. The reply was: 'He is
dead; but he pays now just as we'll as he
ever did -.ss......a
didate for Governor of Massachusetts, nor
for reelection to the next Congress. He
says that his private law business is sufficient
to occupy all the time which he desires to
give to affairs
Abiding to the fact that three steamers
have been fatally weakened by additions to
their length, the Christian Register says:
Many fil1e sermons have been ruined in
the same way" 5l.
An un sophisticated rural Pennsylvania
journal thinks it rather mean in Congress
to hesitate about giving $4,000, 900 toward
the Centennial, when it has every conven-
ience for printing the money rf.
DIR. Newman has such good thing
visiting consulates, that he won't come
back to lecture next season, but DR.. Tiffany
of the Metropolitan church in Washington
will try to make his place good.
An exchange recommends that when
you buy a new lamp chimney you put it in
a vessel of cold water, set it on the stove
and boil. You can never break that chimney
unless you throw a fiatiron at it, and it
wont break then-if you miss it.
A Western paper says dealers in butter
classify it as wool grease, cart grease, soap
grease, yariegated, tasselated cow grease,
boarding house breakfast, inferior tub, COM
mon tub, medium roll, good roll, and gilt
edge roll. The terms are strictly technical.
IA wild daisy blossom was picked off
the grave of Edgar A. Poe, in Baltimore,
lately, by young lady, who sent it to
Tennyson with n white satin ribbon, on
which was written, " The only blossom from
the nameless and neglected grave of Edgar
Allan Poe, 1874. y # f.gfaatF .7Srr.
England abolished slavery by act of Par
lament, which took effect August /, 1884 ::
France abolished it in her colonies in 1S4S:
Sweden in 1861; Denmark in 1S4S and
Holland in 1860. Serfdom expired in Rus
sia March 3, 1868. "a v,5.l.ssl.t .-a
The VaIleyo Chronicle says: GA new
'cut-throat ; game of cards has come in
vogue, which promises to become the rage.
The stake played for is can of oysters.
The first man out gets the oysters, the last
man out gets the empty can, ond the mid
dle-man gets nothing. 1t is called Gram
ger Seven-Up.'" s ..
Nine of the largest cotton parishes of
Louisiana are inundated, and 250, 900 acres
of cotton and 100000 acres of corn are
destroyed, without counting small farms
and gardens. Twelve parishes, producing
annually 10000 hogsheads Of sugar, are also
oyerflown. Twenty-Five thousand people
are already suffering for food, and the num-
Der is rapidly increasing. Crops are also
washed out in the uylands by rain. a
George w. Childs of Philadelphia has
become the owner of the original manuscript
of Dickens S sOur Mutual Friend The
manuscript was given by it's author to e.
s. Dallas, the husband of Miss Glynn, the
actress. Dallas had quarrel with his
friend, and was therefore willing to part
with this inemento of his friendship. He
offered it for sale in the United States as
the better market for curiosities of this
kind.
The great Washington monument is to