The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1874-11-21
NEW NoR-WEsTERs.

Drawing Observation-Disclosures
Always safe bet-Tle alphabet
/ Hep merchants Dancing masters
The Sutro Tunnel is in 1890 feet.
Laramie is to have $100, 900 hotel.
| What can't be endured must be carrica-
tured.
-Chestnut-pie is the last abomination
for dyspeptics.
Thirty Icelandic families have settled
| in Wisconsin. ..
-Ifyou wish to sleep well, never take
1 your cares to bed.
Low church people may say what they
| please, ritualism is rite.
-Barnum will run his hippodrome in
New \ ork during the winter.
-Four-ffths of the wheat arriving off the
British coast is American wheat.
Just think Of Martin Luther running q
foot race lately at Portland, Me.
-" They complain of the size of my feet, ;"
is the pathetic title of new song.
The human man, woman and child
| average 70 OF. of tobacco annually.
John G. SAKE swears to have written
800 poems for the New York Ledger.
There are over $4,000 idiots in this
country, who are acknowledged as such
Minnesota Sunday school boys put
grasshoppers into the boxes instead of pen
MES.
Carolina newspaper leading ;lrti-
cles are as full Of italics as q school girls
letters.
-"Fighting" Jim King of Phoebe was
shot and killed on the I'd, but by whom is
not stated.
More than 10o,C gallons of wine will
be manufactured this year in the Mesil1a
valley, New Mexico.
The English folks have grown tired of
lending Joaquin Miller money, and he has
got to come home and go to work.
Statistics show that one in 2. 700 who
take chloroform dies, which is much worse
showing than can be made for the use of
liquor.
The Louisville Cou,1er-Journazis going
to place statute Of George D. Prentice in
a niche over the doorway to the new edifice
it is building.
1t is believed there are not over two
dailies in Kansas paying expenses, and not
one weekly out Of ten making ANYTHING
more than fair living.
-Three-card monte sharps have made up
a purse to fight the Union Pacific and Cen
tral Pacific Railroad companies and intend
to employ eminent counsel
1t doesn't look well, to say the least,
for Kansas City chnrch member to have
draw out his revolver in order to get at his
two cents for the contribution box.
=" Advertising costs money! So does
store rent, so do all good and useful things
The object of advertising is not to cause a
man to expend money, but to make it.
One reason for the long prayers with
which congregations are sometimes afflicted
i'll religious meetings, the Christian at Work
attributes to an incapacity to wind up.
The Salt Lake Tribune says more
polygamous marriages are now taking place
in Utah than at any other time since the
days of the reformation or Blood Atone
ment.
To clean chromos, use soft feather
brush, Or wipe them with chamois skin Ca
drop of oil may restore clearness) or with
linen rag very slightly dampened; always
tenderly.
There are 707 islands off the coast of
Scotland, of which about 1856 are inhabited.
Many of them are very small, mere rocks
rising out of the sea, without vegetation of
any kind.
An inqui1ing man thrust his fingers
into horses mouth to see how many teeth
he had The horse closed his mouth to see
how many fingers the man had. The curl
osity of each was fully satisfied.
The salary of $4,000 per annum paid
to President Jewett of the Erie Railway is
the largest paid to any railroad official in
the United States, and 1t is believed larger
than any paid to any railroad officer in the
world
When Henry was small boy his mother
reprinanded him one day for some misde-
meanor Not knowing it, his father began
to talk to him ON the same subject Looking
up i'll his face Henry said solemnly FsAIother
has tended to me.''
The aggregate value of Minnesota. this
year is 1916, 100, 730, against $112, ,2s9, 125
last year, on which tax of two mills and
three-quarters will be levied, as against five
mills levy last year. Minnesota is thor
ough-going State.
Brick vaults and safes are now manu-
factured SO that any attempt to reach their
interior breaks sundry bottles filled with
sulphuric acid into powdered carbonate of
lime. This produces instantaneously car
bonic gas enough to suffocate a regiment
Of burglars.
A recent test of the relative strength
Of oak and Oregon pine, made at San Fran
cisco, with bars each one inch square and
three feet long, showed that the pine was
equal to the oak. Both broke under the
same weight placed in the middle of each
bar, $50 pounds.
The British Museum has lately acquired,
at the cost Of e700, a splendid specimen of
the zircon, or jaeinth, one of the finest
known. It is no larger than a pea, but
the London Times says flashes and gIows
with red lustre which seems to denote the
actual presence of fire and flame.''
I'VE turn to the right on the street,
rather than to the left, as is the English
rule Our custom leaves the two drivers
on the outside, where they cannot well see
whether their vehicles will collide or not,
whereas under the English rule the two
drivers come together on the inside so that
they can see the danger of a collision.
The Tom Thumb troupe have just made
Il three years tour aronnd the world. during
which they travelled 55, 4S7 miles, 81. .216 by
sea- and gave / 1,474 entertainments in 57S
different cities and towns in the four quar-
ters Of the globe. During the trip they did
not meet with single accident nor lose
single appointment by sickness.
M D. Conway tells good story Of
Rothschild in his entertaining article on
Decorative art in England in the No
vemher Harper's A fop once bothered
one of the Rothschilds by boasting Of a set
of malachite studs he had Just honght, and
asking the great banker If he did not ad-
mire them. Oh, yes, = says Rothschild,
very pretty. indeed; I've got q mantle
sainaa liIya hat at tapaa ~