The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1874-04-18
NUTMEGS.
From the Danbury News, March rs.

| FROM the DaHDufY NEWS, MdcH GO
A D;snbury liquor dealer offers chrome
to all who get drunk exclusively in his sa-
| loon.
| In the good old times it used to be-
'Know Thyself.'' Nowadays we put it.
I" You know how it is yourself.
''Boiled Eggs (" is the name adopted by
the new Danbury base ball club to signify
how impossible it is to beat them.
The streets are looking quite lively again,
| as the grocers taking down their stoves re-
leases a large number of our citizens.
A Hartford pawnbroker's advertisement
begins with Don't be bashful if you need
money. That's the kind Of man we are"
DanbuIy and it's streets are playing very
exciting game Of whist. 1t is not necessary
to state which wins the rubber.
People who feasted on buckwheat cakes
through the winter, but omitted letting
their finger nails grow, are filed with the
most gloomy forebodings Of the future.
A boy of sixteen years of age left Danbury
eight years ago with the loftiest aspirations.
He said he would make people open their
mouths. He is now q dentist in Wisconsin.
RUINS OF THE TOWER OF BABEL.-Rev.
Gordon describes the reputed site of the
Tower of Babel. A high mound is sur
rounded by q ruined and unfinished tower
of brick, the summit 235 feet above the
plain. It is Of the same element as the
mounds of Babylon-masses of brick and
rubbish, interspersed with broken pottery.
These bricks are all of them inscribed on
one side with cuneiform characters, Of the
ancient Assyrian, and supposed to be the
oldest written Language. On one side were
excavations which have been made; you
may see walls Of brick ascending tier above
tier with mastery ambition. On another,
all is conyulson and disturbance. One
block has rolled bodily to the foot of the
mound, others are vitrified OF fused by a
process which can be none other than cleo
tricity on fire. Curiously enough, the
Arabs have u tradition that it has been de-
stroyed by fire from heaven. The sides of
the mound are pierced with holes and
strewn with bones, which plainly indicate
the lairs Of wild beasts. 1t is difficult to
resist the conviction that Birs Nimrod is
the tower Of Babel, the oldest ruin in the
world. There are those who believe it to
be the tower of Belus, and regard it as n
part of the tower of Babylon.
NEWSPAPERS WHICH NEVER RETRACT.-
Several of the papers here follow the rule of
never taking back anything they say. NAL
ice and stupidity have them at constant war
with truth, and of this fact they are fire.
qnently overwhelmingly convinced, yet they
never retract. In this respect they are as
culpable as the Texas editor who announced
that prominent citizen had been hung the
previous day for horse-stealing. The citi-
zen, in fury, called next day to have the
utterly groundless report contradicted, but
the editor, though convinced OF LIS error,
declined. Said he: ''We never take back
anything here: but if it will be any oblige-
ment to you, | will state in to-morrow's
paper that, after you were strung up, 4 par
ty Of your friends rushed in and cut you
down! This is the best can do for you.'
Why All editors pen-but too frequently
overshadowed by a donkey's ears-should
be considered infallible, and the writer be
malice or stupidity, is one of those conun-
drums the study OF which has done so much
to make polished skating g-rinks of heads
once clothed with hushy locks.-S. 7. Real
Estate CircWlar.
How TO Pull TEETH.-A peculiar dem
tai operation has just come under our OBJ
seryation. \ certain citizen living in the
south portion of town had an upper tooth
which was loose and troublesome, SO he re-
solved to extract it by fastening string to
it, but after a trial, finding the operation
painful, he hadn't the grit to grin and bear
it. He thought if the tooth could be ex-
tracted by some sudden mode the pain
would be but transient; and after mature
deliberation he hit upon an ingenious plan
to jerk it out in a jiffy. Procuring heavy
fat-iron he tied it to the other end of the
cord attached to his tooth, then shutting
both eyes he let the iron "drap," which
descended plumb centre on his pet corn.
After hopping about the room first ON one
foot, then ON the other, groaning in anguish
Of spirit and reciting choice passages from
profane history, he finally ealmed down suf-
ficiently to hurl the iron over the fence and
swathe his sore toe in champion and cot
ton. But he pulled the tooth, and with it
a chunk of gum the size of beefsteak.
And the man lived.--Centra!te Guard