The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1874-06-20
NEW NoR'-wEsTERs.

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Chicago is building new opera house.
Joseph Arch is rapidly failing in health.
Jonah was the worst whaled man on re-
cord.
-Everybody's companion is nobody's
| friend.
To keep food on weak stomach-Bolt
it down.
There are 800 different religious sects
in England.
| -" "Shakerag" is the name Of school
district in Illinois.
The Chicago Post and Mail calls Roche
fort, Frances fea.'
"A Lehigh (Pa.) man trails beard four
feet three inches long.
The season for sleeping ON window-sills
and rolling of, is here.
-Eighty-three theatres in this country
have beendestroyed by fire.
/ Forty seven Kansas newspapers have
died since the Spring of 1879.
There are only thirteen Democratic
candidates for Governor of Missouri.
Horses are used at funerals, where their
long faces add to the gravity of the occa-
sion.
When was Earth the mother of Wis
dom? When she brought forth sage
bush.
1t is rumored in Boston that Benjamin
F. Butler is negotiating for the purchase Of
the Atlantic Monthly.
The eolored population of Kansas City
have RssOlued, That negro minstrel shows
tend to degrade our race.
-"Ton, what in the world put matri-
mony in your head ?'' "Well, the fact is,
was getting short of shirts"
Collins Graves is, in the estimation of
man who ever ran away from water.
The London Times has private tele-
graphic wire from that city to Paris includ-
ing cable across the English Channel.
-Thirty-one years ago Hon. Schuyler
Colfax began "public life by reporting the
proceeding of the Indiana LEGISLATURE
For charades: " Cremate. Scene L
A plate of ice-crealn. Scene 1.-THE same
plate emptied. Scene III-An urn, Gagged
26."
Blocks of granite weighing eleven tons
each are to be used in constructing the fifth
story of the new Tribmns building III New
York.
The now famous black horse of Mill
River is stump-tailed, scraggy animal
and condemned New York street-car
steed.
A little boy, who had been enyeloped
in garment much too big for him, told his
father that he felt awful lonesome i'll his
new shirt.
Most people object to it, but for all
that, "perlte" is Il good English word. If
you don't believe it, look in Webster's I'm
abridged.
-"One man is silent, another talks all
the time, and twelve men condemn the
silent one." 4 Chinaman's description OF
an American court.
The Toronto Globe thinks that as the
millennium has not arrived, it would be
just as well for Canada to build few forts
on her southern frontier.
A gentleman having his hair cut by a
talkatiye barber, was asked how he would
like to have it done q If possible" re-
piled the gentleman, Sin silence"
-" Where do wicked little boys go to
who .ish Oh Sunday?'' asked teacher in
pl5s:. a als:~'A@"th street snndaz School " Down
The subject oi lakes with two opposite
outlets-tl,at is, lakes lying across water
sheds agitating the scientific men of
England Just now. Such lakes are said to
exist III Norway.
1t is announced that Cheney, the gate
keeper at the hIill River reservoir, has let
himself to Snowman to travel about the
country, and exhibit himself with the horse
he rode on the fatal morning.
+ The will OF the late General Dyer is a
model for brevity and clearness. 1t is as
follows. 81, Alexander Dyer chief Of ord
nance, L. S. A.. rerosing the utmost conti-
dence in my beloved wife, Eliza B. Dyer,
bequeath all my property, real and person.
al. to her, and constitute her sole exccu-
trix.7
MIR. II. B. Aldrich hastens into type to
DENY that lie he ever1said of the Cambridge
Mass people that they are very pleas
ant, very intellectual, very delightful, and
they come to see you and talk like so many
books; but when you approach them social
ly they all climb into their genealogical
trees as though they were frightened.
Evansville, Indiana, desires to change
it's name to Lamasco, "a word which it COLL
ed itself, and of which it is very proud.
The original plat Of the place was made by
Messrs. Law, Macall and Scott, and to de-
eide upon a Hame the first two letters OF
Laws and Macalls names and the first
three of SCOTS name were combined into
Lamasco. 1t is q triumph of originality.
| The public are warned against using
the "snow fake" cards which are being
extensively introduced by agents and adj
yertisements. Enough arsenic is used in
manufacturing the cards to make them n
deadly poison. When first introduced in
the East some years ago, large numbers
ere sold, but as several fatal cases of pois-
ming occurred by children putting them
in their mouths, they went entirely out OF
| use.
The Chicago Times thus explicitly de-
| fines it's opinion of Professor Swing and his
i accuser: ''David Swing is simple, honest
man, born with great gifts, but among
/ them is not belligerenee. lie has not the
| temperament to fight men for his own sake,
boweyea. bravely Inc fights for God S; and
|, sees no reason for Gods sake, Oh his
own. TO fight an incarnatc theological devil
like Professor Francis l.. Patton
| The Chinese undoubtedly made gun
powder one thousand years before it was
invented in Europe by Il Swiss monk. Bul
it seems hat they have never known exact
/ ly what to do with it except to use it foi
4 m aktng fire-crackers, FIRE works, and SINH
lar articles Of noisy sport. They are now
purchasing all the old cast off guns used by
| the Prussians in the late Franco-G German
war.
AT EIko, New, there are hot springs IL
which numbers of fish can be seen swimming
about, though the water is 50 hot that egg
are cooked ii, g less than three seconds.
The exclamation of this phenomenon lies II
the fact that these hot springs rise IN tn
banks of the streams, the water OF which i
intensely cold. The cold water, on aceoun
of its greater specific gravity, runs ON tn
: bottom without mixing much with the waite
above and the fish keep in cool stream.
A CHIEF JUsTIcE's WILI.-The intro
ductory paragraph of the last viii ana tes
: lament Of the late Chief Justice Georg
I Robertson OF Kentucky, reads thus: " Uni
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