The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1874-04-18
NEW NoR.WEsTERs.
Spring Mater-Anril showers.

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from Siam to this country.
IF Bedouin should lose all his teeth
would he talk gum Arabic?
"A Carroll county, Iowa, farmer is set
ting out 10, 900 white oak trees.
The patent Office has just reported
favorably ON three new kinds of corkscrews
A saloon keeper recently conquered by
the Ohio temperance people never Smiled
again.
| Exhibitions of human monstrosities Oh
deformed persons have been prohibited in
Japan.
| The Governor of the District of Mexico
has prohibited pugilistic encounters between
! male hens
|. The whisky war in Ohio is damaging
tho whisky trade of Cincinnati about $40,
600 per day.
The Pope's original name was Giovanni
Mastai Ferretti and he will be 81 years old
on the 18th of May.
%, bother cremation! We have to earn
our liying-and we don't want to be COM
PEELED to urn our dead.
No man is safe in these times. A con-
vict at Sing Sing had notice of a breach of
promise served on him.
-" He handled a gun carelessly, and put
his angel plumage on, y is an obituary which
apraarc in q Wac+arp r,opor
-There have been II executions in N. H.,
including that of Evans, the Northwood
murderer, during the past 134 years.
When the boys in Virginia City wish to
raise their kites they tie the string to a
dogs tail, and make tie animal run.
Fifteen hundred cars, loaded with 49,
100000 pounds of wool, passed through
Omaha, from California during 1878.
The homes and places of business of
the 100000 of New Workers are the
property of $4,000 real estate owners of
that city.
Some Hartford men rendered Mark
Twain q welcome supper, and the bill,
amounting to $208, was sent to him. He
paid it.
DR.. Lewis Brady, well-known as a
large manufacturer of patent medicines,
especially Brady's Bitters, died in Louis
vile, KY, recently.
At a horse race in Richmond the other
day the referee decided that "Wild Bill :"
won by seven-eights Of an inch. which is
the finest decision yet.
The executors Of Edwin Forest have
effected settlement with the divorced wife
of the deceased by paying her $95, 200, size
agreeing to forego all her claims for this
SUI.
James Fisk, Jr., according to Boston
mediums, spends his time in the spiritual
world discovering new planets. We should
suppose that lost stars would be more in
his line.
George Alfred Townsend will write
:: The Life and Friends of Charles Sumner"
He undertook the work before the death of
the Massachusetts, Senator. with his knowl-
edge and approval.
The artesian well at Fort kussel, Wy
oming, is now down 1850 feet. Rock was
struck at depth Of 1,2ia feet below the
surface, and thin vein of camel coal
hundred feet deeper.
Ohio men don't ask each other now to
go in and have something to drink, but
maintain personal friendship by passing
around handfuls of magniticently developed
peanuts and gum-drops.
They say that in Florida colored
school the boys are taught to sing this
verse: ''I am Il little Radical glory i'll
the name; would not be a Democrat,
Because it is q slIame!"
They are going to tear down the house
in which Ben. Butler was born. In youth
it sheltered him, but the fellow who has the
mortgage on it doesn't seem to care cent
for sentiment.
They have a genuine case of leprosy in
Detroit, and it is asserted that the disease
is more or less prevalent III number Of the
cities of the country, especially in San
Francisco where it has been introduced by
the Chinese.
Prince Bismarck has about 5000, 900,
or at most $250,000 a year in American
money. The King has about $3.50, 900
year of the public money, and possibly as
much more from his private estate since
the recent death of the Queen dowager.
I'm his day, Brabantio, the Venetian
senator, must have been one of the conserv-
ative school of politicians opposed to the
s'hay-seed = movement. for he says in
Othello, act I, scene /: "What telrst thou
ME of robbery? Myhouse is not grange
The New York Sun is Of the opinion
that man can lie and tladuce in the atti-
tude of prayer with greater ease to himself
than in the ordinary methods, stbecause he
raises his eyes to heaven and escapes the
unpleasant necessity Of looking his fellow
men square in the face;
"A modest young husband sent the fol-
lowing message over the wires to friends in
this city the other day: g See ninth chapter
of Isaiah, sixth verse The dusty old
Bible was hauled down in an instant, and
the above chapter and verse were hunted
ont and found to explain all. The verse
reads, " For unto us a child is horn-unto
MS son is given.
A Boston infant, ;etat 4. of scientific
Drocliyities beinr tIssiroIrs of ey pe rinentinp
on its baby sisters Uranium. placed thereon
the family bean pot. The head piece was
a perfect fit, but it wouldn't come off, 4
surgical operation was necessary to remove
it which entirely destroyed the bean pot;
and the child has been pronounced too
clever for most purposes in this world.
I'm Kansas City. If you call for a plate
Of Indian cakes, the waiter puts his hand to