The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1874-02-28
NEW NOR WEsTERs.

| "A goOu HoOr managef-A ofooih'
-Suet is the lawyers favorite dish.
There are 1864 miles of railroad il
the United States.
-Washerwomans S motto-"Whi there
life there's soap"
The colored men have majority in th
Mississippi Legislature.
When you bury animosity, don't set
stone up over its grave.
-"The hyphenated brothers is hipha
lootin for Siamese twins.
The Kentucky Senators smoke thei
pipes while making laws.
In % years Ireland has sent $3.50, ,0ot
emigrants to this country.
Marshal Bazaine is treated with segeri
ty, and no one is allowed to visit him,
Something over seven hundred million
postage stamps had their eyes put out last
year.
When the name of John Smith is calleG
in the Ohio Legislature, eight men respond
"aye''
What word in our English language is
made shorter by adding two letters to it
Short.
The Persians say of noisy, unreasonable
talk, 81 hear the sound of the milestone,
but see no meal"
The Chicago Post and the Chicago Mail
have been consolidated under the name of
the Post and Mail.
A New Hampshire town betrayed the
expense of providing a municipal hearse by
giving fancy dress ball.
A Chicago man wants the thief who
stole his well-bueket and rope to come back
and get the well, as it is of no use now.
A Cincinnati editor says that another
editor there is a liar-or rather, that she
is prone to impart an unhealthy swelling to
truth
The Utica Observer alludes to that Sia-
lnese capital letter II, which DR.. Pancoast
is about to spoil with his little surgical
hatchet.
The Methodist Episcopal Church,
North, during the past year, is said to have
gained in money 81, 900, 900 and in member
ship 5000.
They have nice divinity student in
Indiana. He breaches in English, prays in
American, sings in Turkish, and holds his
tongue in eleven other languages.
When the jury returned verdict that
John Jackson, of Green Bay, was guilty of
Mr. jackson rose up and said:
g I'll bet hundred dollars ain't!"
1t is estimated that during the impend-
ing famine in India, the government will be
called upon to supply half a pound of grain
per day, for eight months, to 25,00o,00o
people.
A MichIgander has taken out patent
or pneumatic tube by which he proposes
o send grain from Chicago to the coast in
eleven hours, at cost of fifteen cents a
suslsel.
A Vermonter who sold his farm and used
I'll the money he got for it in buying
ottery ticket, drew $50 and brass watch
lie then threw himself upon roaring
ouzz-saw and closed his eventful career.
-Ex-Congressman Frank Palmer has
secured the controlling interest of the Chi
ago Inter Ocean, of which paper he has
oeen for some time past editor-in-chief and
'art proprietor. Thepaper will be changed
Il form and generally improved.
The most artful dodger is married
nan who lives in this city. He points with
'ride to the shattered wall opposite his
eat at the breakfast-table, where the tea
ups, salt-cellars and slop-bowls that she
leaved at him struck.--Brookgyn Argns.
81 am q self-'nade man. said native
# Stonington, the other day, to New York
'entleman, with whom he had been driving
sharp bargain. "Glad to hear you say
o." responded the New Yorker, who had |
een worsted in the trade, "for it relieves
he Lord of great responsibility"
The New York World, in referring to |
he proposition to "put God into the Con-
titution," says: ''In our humble Judgment
would be great deal better to put Him
nto the hearts and consciences of the people. |
We have no faith in attempts to propagate
eligion by political or Governmental
A " Dead Beats Directory has been
rinted anonymously in Chicago. It is
ltended for the use Of boarding house
eepers, grocers, butchers, &C., and con-
aims the names Of a thousand men who |
abitually neglect paying their bills. The
st includes lawyers, actors, ministers,
ldermen and officials, and is to be revised
1onthly.
-"Got anything for sick man to read?'
lquired a pugnosed boy at the news stand
ne other day. "Yes. anything you want
Bibles, poems, religious books, Christian
Eerald, and SO forth,'' replied the clerk.
Bibles!" echoed the boy; do you think
ads hangel? Gimme dime novel-one
18th an 1njun sculping soldier r'-Detroit
rec Press.
The win of Governor BIatchett, of
'lymouth, Mass, proved in 1878, contains
le following singular clause: g I desire
~ body to be kept SO long as it may not be
fensive, and that one of my toes or fingers
lay be cut off, to secure certainty of my
eing dead | further request my dear
ifc, that as she has been troubled with one
,ol, she win not think of marrying
,cond.''
"A Western paper speaks of the house.
eamng season as that when divine wo-
AN has her own way at the house, while
he "old man. takes his solemn repast
om the top of the flour barrel, and, in
eeping, enjoys the freedom of the interval
etween his bedroom and the front fence.
Is a season IF meditation, x,,I,;4a,.,.,l o,,,1