The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1874-11-14


York.
The Vermont State prison yielded a
net revenue last year of $4,000 to the
State.
| Walt Whitman is recovering from his
paralysis and expects to return to Wash,
ington.
| 1t is estimated that the yield of bullion
in Colorado this year will foot I'D about
100000
Henri Rochefort has established the
publication Office of La Lanterrae in Berne,
Switzerland.
Anger allwus hurts us more than it
duz the other phellow which we git mad at,
says Josh Billings.
The report that the President has fifty
thousand dollars stock in the New York
Republic is denied.
-"Darwin's Darlings' is the suggestive
name of a newly organized negro minstrel
troupe in the west.
1t is now proposed to navigate the st.
Lawrence from Quebec to the sea during
the winter months.
Tennyson is said to have spent nearly a
month on 'sCome into the Garden, Maud,''
rewriting it fifty times.
1t is a curious and significant fact that
to-day old Babylon and Nineveh are lighted
with American petroleum.
1t is pitiful sight to see the house
fly get out Of bed these mornings and hang
around the cook stove to warm his heels.
People who persist in travelling bare
footed around a newly-carpeted bedroom
Otter, find themselves ON the wrong tack.
Gen. Sherman's creed: ~ believe
that if people only act half as well as they
know how, God will forgive the balance -
There are two periods in the life of
man, at which he is too wise to tell woman
the exact truth when he is in love and
wien he isn't.
1t was q thunder storm that made Ber-
anger poet; a mothers kiss made West
painter, and it takes salary of 81 week
to make a journalist.
MIR. Donaldson actually permitted some
Cincinnati editors to take ga trip to the
heavens" with him. He told them he
couldn't go but once.
Nothing will sooner tempt a bacht lor
to abandon his resolution to marry than to
sleep in the adjoining room to young
couple with colicky baby.
When q Michigan editor goes visiting
he usually gets out two issues Of his paper
for u couple of weeks ahead, SO that no
loss shall come to his subscribers.
There are from 1000 to 1000 Chinese
in Chicago, and it is estimated that the Chi
nese north of Ohio river, and between the
Missouri and the Alleghenies, number not
less than 10, 600.
The Postofice Department estimates
the income under the new law for newspa-
per and magazine postage at about 81, 00o,-
900 for the year, or about half the actual
cost Of transportation.
The Senate Of Oregon has amended the
divorce law, to the effect that husbands
and wives having no children may procure
a divorce of separation simply by ceasing
to live together.
-Twenty-eight years ago, the writer of
this paragraph was offered one-third inter-
est in the Chicago Eeenirg journal for
$500. To-day that paper is worth half
a nillion.-Denrer Neacs
"A pathological lawsuit is pending be-
tween the proprietors of the Swiss hotels
Axenstein and Axenfels concerning the
right to use the later name. It turns up
on the delicate question as to whether
rock is stone.
When the beautiful feathers on the
breast Of a humming bird are examined
under the microscope, no colors are to be
seen. The brilliant tints come from the
display Of light upon the bird under differ
ent angles.
"A young blood dining at a hotel was
requested by q aneighbor to pass some arti-
Gle Of food which was near him. g Do you
yHlSldFSC Ii1C IUI u HfItGIE sttIA bii6 EAuuiS-
it. : No, sir, mistook You forI 4 gentle
man, was the prompt reply.
The celebrated Chesterfield is said to
have died with a witticism on his lip.
When told that he was dying by inches, he
thanked heaven he was not as tall by
foot and a half as Sir Thomas Robinson.
James Voorhees,, son of Hon. Daniel
w. Voorhees,, Of Indiana, after studying
law and going through two weeks expert
ence as q practitioner, abandoned his faith
er's profession for the stage and is now
travelling with the Fanny Price troupe.
The Salt Lake Nens estimates the
number Of polygamists in the Territory at
1000 men, 3, 600 women and 3, 900 children
and the cost aid loss by punishment Of all
at 81, 900, 900, and that the Courts would
have around them 8, 900 crying women and
1900 crying children.
"A CHI :ag, gush: The wedding cham
Der was adecked with saintl \ ht liotropes, Z
and with ssroses ID everY st,le, from the
baby bud, that whispers III IL, FRS lore
tone, TO ihe full blown Bio som that 30
plainly urges II passionate appeal II caree
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