The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1874-04-25
NEW NoRs-wEsTERs.

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The Grangers number 751, 125.
Persia is going to.bniId railroads.
A chest protector "A good paddock.
All flowers of speech spring from tulips.
No part of the system sleeps except the
brain.
"A Jersey infant, aged four caews
tobacco.
Joseph Arch is coming to America
again in June. a4s
London is the healthiest city In Europe,
and Paris next.
The salt product of Michigan last year
was 4, 116, 73o bushels.
Paradise has been finally located in
Daviess county, Kentucky.
A st. Louis clearinghouse marty is in
favor of crematloa-in his coffee.
The diamond fields at the Cape of Good
Hope are now well-nigh deserted.
Galveston is the only town in Texas
which has yet ordered postal cards.
Horses in New York are cheaper than
they have ever been for twenty years.
A Wisconsin dairyman asks for infor-
nation about the cremation" business.
Motto for the man at the hay-scales:
"They also serve who only stand and weigh
it,
1t is said three or four coatings of glue
ON the ends of timber will prevent it from
cracking,
The Louisville Courfer-.5o&rnal asks
for a law prohibiting the use of perfumery
by hotel walters.
The last day that Henry Clay ever sat
i'll the Senate, was Charles Summers first
day in that body. g-.. s.f-s..r
The Branch Mint at San Francisco is
now coming the trade dollar at the rate OF
fifteen thousand day.
Tickets of invitation to his execution
have been printed and mailed to his friends
by a Georgian condemned.
Don't take off your flannel yet. The
rheumatism gocth about seeking whom it
may find with his flannel off.
"A number of Cinnamon have established
a laundry in New York city, and are now
vigorously canvassing for trade.
Five of the most famous brewers are
members of the new British Parliament
the two Basses, Guinness, Allsop, and Coope.
One hundred and twenty newspapers
and periodicals have been suppressed in
France since MacMahon became President.
The granger shoe is coming. On its
sole is stamped regular grangers coat of
arms, rakes, hoes and scythes grouped
together. +i-@
"A Louisville reporter has had what he
called "a pleasant conversation with an
amiable undertaken" on the subject of
cremation.
The Grand Duke Alexis has semitic the
Park of Fruits at St. Louis $50 cuttings
and % varieties of grapes grown in the
Russian empire.
An Illinois judge has decided that the
marriage of a person subst quent to the
making of his will, acts as a revocation Of
that instrument.
=" Will the coming man steal?" queries
the New York Commercial, and likewise
answers: g We believe he will--if there is
an, thing left when he comes"
The suez Canal appears to be doing a
good business. During the month of Jan
uary III vessels passed through, paying
tolls to the amount Of 's43S, 900.
The Union Pacific Railr a is no in
the hands of Jay Gould. lie owns 81, 900
shares out of 100000, and is putting the
screws On to declare a dividend of four per
cent. a
Tom asked an old 8: teil-per-cent." !" what
he wanted TO accumulate SO much m ney
fo.. Says he, " on can't take 1T with Oh
when you die, and if you could it would
melt.'' ~
Tweed is to remain in the penitent ary
at Blackwell s island and is to serve out is
entire term Of imprisonment. This is the
gist of long opinion delivered by Judge
Brady, in New York. rs
How doth the little busy pig improve
each shining hour, and gather sausages al
day, from every opening flower? And
when the shades of twilight fall, he slumbers
in his stye, or sings his pretty evening hymn
=" = Root, little pig, or diel''
Senator Summer, in a speech to the
Republican State Convention at Worcester,
in 1865, said. .a..Three things, are now
needed by our beloved Commonwealth.
The first is, backbone the second is back
bone; and the third is back bone.''
I'll fear,' said q country minister to his
flock, ssswhen I explained to yog, in my last
charity sermon that philanthropy was the
love of our species, you must have under
stood me to say specie, (which may account
for the sinallness5of the collection a
If the last census is good authority,
farmers don't make much money. There
are exceptions, however, in the great West.
A lawyer bought 1000 acres of land near
Webster, Iowa. for $4,000, and sowed
| ZOO acres in wheat. In two years he has
netted $50, 900 from his crops
-ln the preparation of .epitaphs, says
Lord Kames, cmciseness is quite as desira-
BILE as truth. We do not remember to have
seen any epitaph in which a man $ virtues
are more coneisely stated than that upon
the late Mr.. Mink: w.
The angels o.nisht in theirmansions of light
Are a waltzing 70 nd Anthony Mink;
He was faithful and kind as ang yo,'ll find,
And gin was his favoritc drink.
appears that the Asllantees have
already given evidence Of their readiness to
adopt the ways of civilization. A cores
pondent, writing from Cape coast Castle on
the Goth of February, says: 9 / suppose you
heard that tic Ashantees could not under