The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1874-07-25
NEW NoR-wEsTER

The elephant is said to be dying out.
The lawyers adyice-Damnans sum.
Jonah pitched into the sea and get whaled
Nickelplated croquet sets are now in vogue.
Orange peel is often the power behind the thrown.
King John signed the Magma Charta Csc years ago.
Bonner's Ledger has declared against third term.
So deep is he that they call Gideon Old Artesian
Welles."
The wisest men arrive at week conclusions satur
day nights.
About 1000 bills have gone to the next session
of Congress #
Lunch in Georgia-One cracker, two onions and one
quart of whisky.
The ST. Lons Globe talks fippantly and eisrespect-
fully of Kis columbus.
General O. o. Howard has sold his residence In
Washington for $32,0
It is now said that Longfellow has consented to
write life Of Sumner.
On the 18th of October 1854 the stone OF the
White Iouse was laid.
Gen. Butler makes boast of belonging to the Geek
eye sian race.--GrGphic.
1t takes sixty fortune-tellefs to keep the Chicago
folks comfortably swindled.
Thirty prisoners in the Kentucky PeDtentiary
recently broke out Measles, -..--
1t is taid that cork screws have sunk more than
cork jackets have ever saved
seyenty-two steamboats, are engaged in towing
lumber on the upper Mississippi.
Which are the four most corpulent letters In the
alphabet?-O B. CT. tobesity)
The Globe says Life is uncertain; but it can't com
pare with the United States mails.
Caleb Cushing does not like Madrid, and people ere
looking for his resignation any day.
When were there only three vowels in the alphabet I
Before yon and I were thought Of
And now Elihu Washburne is spoken of as "Next,'
If Grant concludes to stand on pair
Cen John Breckenridge is seriously i'll with
hemorhage of the lungs at Lexington, ky.
4 Wisconsin book agent has been killed by the
kick of horse-man's most faithful friend.
The original chiropodst is said to be the crow as he
was the first to remove corn without paying.
Chetopa, Kan, is moving to new townsite, to
avoid paying bonded Indebtedness of 100000
w F. Lee and r. E. Lee cons of Gen. Robert
e. Lee, are now farming successfully in Virginia
Mark Twain reported to be at present engaged in
writing work on English manners and customs
A Georgia paper promises TO publish thrilling
cereal" Its readers will probably make an oat of it,
ualstead has gone Europe, leaving the country in
charge of Watterson and Bowles. Louis Globe.
An iceberg two miles square and 400 feet high is
reported east of the Grand bank with hosts of smaller
ones.
A new panet-the fourth of the present year-was
discovered by NJ. Perrotn a. Toulouse on the night oi
May 10.
Andres pocketbook has been placed beside Arnod's
watch in the cabinet of the Connecticut Historical
Society.
There are eighteen peaks that rise To the attitude
of fourteen thousand fet above the level OF the sea
in Colorado.
Green Bay has decided that widower ought &c
mourn at least three weeks before shyng around for
second wife.
Dr. Mary Walker and young treasury clerk9 HIN
Is it eetted which party is going to weai 'em Koch
Dem and ChroR.
1t s lust 1873 years since professional ballet ladies
were first seen the Paris stage. Till then ballet
girls were men masked as women.
The Baltimore Sun describes an alteration between
Mosby and another Virginia politician in which cant
and carriage whip were freely nsed
Barnums Hippodroae has been running in New
York month, and the average attendance has beel
ten thousand people atleach performance.
PENNSYLVANIA town has an ordinance ''to prevent
bathing in the borough limits" Do the people have
to 20 out of town TO perform their ablutions!
The example of james Lick is catching; Henri
Shaw now proposes to deed to St. Louis his magnih
cent botanical garden, long the pride of the CITY,
Butler as a newspaper publisher-well! well! W
shall probably next hear of the devil blowing soap
bubbles with holy water.-Sprinaaeld Republican.
Il was with some astonishment that the good peop.
of Pittsburg read in one of their own papers, :. Th'
Legislature pasted the bill over the Governors headF
I'm glad that this coffee don't owe me anything,
said Brown boarder, at the breakfast table. ''Why7
said smith Because don't believe it would eve
settle
/: is said thai the fumes of sngar snned the nos
will cure ordinary cases of neuralgia. Put small
quantity of sugar on hot shosel AMI try it al
directed
4 new design for postal cards is to be brought Il
the attention of the new Postmaster General. Blac
ink will probably be substituted for the reddish brow
ink now nscd.
The Milwaukee Sentinel thinks that it wouid be
good idea to make onr Vice Presidents &c Qfcto Gov
ernors of the District of Conmbi trat they would
have something do.
Out in Wisconsin horse kicked and killed boo
agent, whereupon the citizens made donation part
for the horse and he now has oats en- ,ngh to last h
full horse lifetime.
The witty wife of a noted prat tising physicia
advised her husband to keep away from the funeral
of his patients as it looked too much like A taile
carrying homeshis own work.
An Albany man who was excitedly demonstratin
to crowd that there is such thing as hydrophobi
was the first to shin up a BARRIERS pole when sma
yellow dog came rushing down the street.
A Nevada paper says: e There WAS no regiar tri'
i'm the case of John Flanders yesterday. lie had a
interview in the woods with few friends. howeve
and it is perfectly certain that John won't burglar an
more.
The remark of :, little S-year OLD on Monday was
accordance with the wish of many people Mot
er he said wish was built like hen-coop, OF
of aths and then the breeze could blow right throug
mea--Bosfon Trave.er.
Judge David Noggie, chief justice of Idaho. Gel
brated ae an orthographist is visiting at Janesyil
| Wis. his aid home. It was David who spelled Il
name OF the Deity jodd aud whose general style
| smelling surpasses in design Mediiis fonetiks.
Garihaidi, according TO advice, from Caprefa, date
June isth is SO nwell not TO be able to hold Il
pen ii, his hand or move his arm he cannot By hase
| bring food to his mouth; indeed he cannot move
nil. He noag receives ono except his most intima
| friends.
1 & 80 81.
| The Antarctic icebCs..a are nearly all table t0pp'
cbes.of ice from quarter 10 half mile across ~
from l5 to $50 feet high, above water which portit
il fir osted over it'll saskling suow, bearing fesea
/ lance l.. si..az e,serai cak.. Invested Of ai color
orname esits
HAIRY GsaY Del bntll,d in the Misso:ni lust wee
The event was rt Indicated By the color OF the wat
| at st. Charles; then dead toafs and pckerel can
4 floating down. and at last. it Is reported that ne
sand.bar has formed iast below the spot. Ainnea
| oils Tribune.
| The Rev Isaac Kalloch, who has returned TO q
pulpit from the profans and nLpramising path I
politics. recently chose Senator Poeroy for his ter
4 He referred in touching terms 20 the ingrattude