The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1874-03-07
NEW NOR wEsTERs.

An air OF lmportance-The first BREATH
New Orleans peach trees are in bloom
Bricks are now made from coal shale.
-Epitaph for an mronaut-"G Gone up"
A nautical monogram-The crest of
the wave.
The best thing to take before singing
Breath.
There are over $4,000 idiots in this
country, who are acknowledged as such.
Indianapolis printers look upon their
recent strike as a typographical error.
Proctor Knott announces himself can
didate for Congress in the Fourth Kentucky
District
An inmate Of the Nashville, Tenn,
poor-house is a cousin of President James
Madison.
1t is maintained that Richard III. was
a Good Templar, because he stopped King
Henry's bier.
Cardinal Antonelli is laid up with the
gout, brought on by life of abstinence
and self-denial.
-" Let's go and initiate is the way the
statesmen in Washington put their convivia
invitations now.
The mayor, of st. Louis has vetoed an
ordinance providing free baked beans for
the INDECENT classes.
The statistics of Iowa show the import
ant fact that the greatest number of thieves
and mulderers have blue eyes.
-Rochefort thinks he will be pardoned
in couple of years, and he is planning to
come to America ard start daily paper.
AT the wedding of New York and
Brooklyn the Venetian ceremony will be
revived of throwing the g Ring into the
river.
At q recent dinner of shoemakers the
following toast was given: "May we have
all the women in the country to shoe and all
the men to boot"
DIR. David Livingstone was born in q
suburb of Glasgow in the year of 1915, his
father being q weaver in one Of the cotton
mills in that vicinity.
The editor of the Panama iSsar apollo
gizes for the, non-appearanee Of his paper
by saying that he had to haul off to dig
buekshot out of his legs.
An old edition of Morse's geography
says: sAlbany has 400 dwelling houses, and
1850 inhabitants, all standing with their
gable-entis to the street. a
The Green Briar (Miss.) Herald, in
suspending, says: "Hang this town Hang
| all men in it-throw the rest in the river,
; and plant the town site in cucumbers!"
| Leigh Hunt was asked by lady if he
would not venture on an orange. "Mad-
anne, )" he replied. '' ] should be happy to dc
| so, but am afraid should tumble off,
The South Carolina colored politician
has invented a new word for the times
"insinuendo' Make room for it, O.! Tn.
abridged
Il may safely say, and am proud to be
able to say, that ! am the most strongly and
the best hated man in Europe. Bismarck
| to Prgssi0B Dict.
+. Bret Harte, it is said, can command g
higher price for his work than any literary
man in the metropolis. Scribner's Monthly
has paid him as much as S10O page.
An old topper, learning for the first time
that the women in Ohio were emptyina
barrels of whisky into the cutters, patheti
/ cally exclaimed, "What happiness to be i.
! an Ohio gutter!''
"A young man who had just returned
from q sequestered village to the city
declared that it was so still at night in tn.
country tavern where he lodged that you
could hear bed tick. Ii
/ a Pennsylvania editor, disguised with
the ordinary prospectus, comes out fairl,
and frankly. He says his paper is G an air,
old sheet, devoted to wind, whisky, wick
edness, and other religious matters. Vo,
Populi, yox Beelzebub ~
There are 4,50O, 900 acres of arabic land
in Scotland; zoe, 900 acres. are annual,
seeded inssgreen crops, 4 and OF. this amoun
800, 600 acres, or one-ninth part of the tota
arabic land, is devoted to the cultivation o.
turnips. oT
i The original patent for metallic tips fo
shoes was sold for 500, and the compan,
which bought it became wealthy. Now
4 upon it's expiration, the inventor has obtain
ed its renewal, and compels the company d
pay him seaooo. ft.t
i The "One-hundred-year Almanac I
says the year 1874 win be very nnhealth
one. ssThere viii be an open, moist winter
which will give rise to fevers of low type
and much sickness during the sunme
q months. y
/ The statistics Of the New York Assem-
| bly, give % farmers, "a lawyers, is mer
chants, II manufacturers, 5 physicians,
undertaken, butcher, / distiller, / edito
and gentleman; 100 of the 1es member
are natives of New York.
In England street railways are common
" known as tramways. The word 6 atrana'
is said to be an abbreviation of g Outram.
the father of Sir James Ontram, renowned
for his military exploits in India, having
been the inventor of trans and tramways
Statistics show that the larger part o
crime 10 England committed by men i
committed by young persons between
twenty and thirty years old, and of til
crime committed BY females the create
share is committed by persons betweel
thirty and forty years Of age.
The public library Of Helena Montan:
i Territory, was destroyed By fire Jan. 9th
The managers Of It desire to rebuild. an
4 invite tile well-disposefi throughout th
lE Union to send them contributions of books
Packages should be addressed to Helen
Library, care of EFFORT & Petring, SC. Louis
Mo- The books we, Of tile East can hes