The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1874-08-22
NEWSPAPER DECISIONS.
EvE-ANoELIcAL CORNER.

A Long Branch woman bathes in white.
kid gloves.
They begin to dance just after breakfast
at Long Branch. ....-.
A good imported night-gown can now be
purchased for seventy dollars.
A lady at Saratoga wears Roman breast
plate of emeralds and diamonds purchased
in London for $4,000.
The queerest freak of fashion are rufied
handkerchiefs, the edges of the rufles being
scalloped with soma delicate color.
A house maid in Chicago had her hair
turn white in a single night last week.
She fell head foremost into flour barrel.
An amorous swain declares he is so fond
of his girl that he has rubbed the skin from
his nose by kissing her shadow on the
wall. .-.-.
An Iowa widower, last week. teleglaphed
an offer of marriage to Susan B. Anthony.
She telegraphed back that she was on the
retired list.
"Hayen't I a right to be saucy, if
please?" asked young lady of an old
bachelor. eyes, if you please, but not if
you displease," was the answer.
One of the newest styles of necklace con-
sists Of black velvet, about an inch wide,
decorated with gilt or silver flowers. This
is fastened round the throat, and reaches
poarIu fo fba CT
An Illinois paper says: "Mr. -, who
has been in retirement for few weeks
after marrying and burying three sisters,
came up smilingly to the altar again yester-
day, having begun on new family
A good way to clean black gloves that
are soiled, turned white, and otherwise in
jured, is to take a teaspoonful of salad oil,
| drop a few drops of ink in it, and rub it
over the gloves with tip of feather;
then let them dry in the sun. Black kid
boots and slippers can be restored to their
original gloss by this method.
Mrs. Elizabeth Akers Allen (Florence
Perry, the author of ''Rock Me to Sleep,
Mother isat present editorially connected
with the Portland Adoertiser. The poem
was written by her while a factory girl in
| Maine, upon the sheet of coarse brown
wrapping paper in which she had brought
her noon-time lunch, and waiting for the
hour to re-commence labor.
Mrs. Helen NJ. L. Millington, of Ontario,
| N. Y, has written defense of Beecher.
She thinks that inasmuch as Solomon
wasn't blamed for keeping whole female
seminary in his private residence, Beecher
oughn't to be blamed for-well, for any
thing. Mrs. Millington, you had better
dry up. Get thee to nunnery. Unmuz-
zled as You are, You are more dangerous to
the community than would be howling
raccoon of the mountains.-Louisrizle Cour-
Ser-Journas. ..5.s. ...... .r..,.s..
| Wedding ebrations.-Addition are
frequently made to the re-eelebrations of
wedding occasions. The following, so far
as we know, is the latest revised and i'm
proved list: Three days, sugar; sixty days,
vinegar; first anniversary iron; fifth ami
versary, wooden tenth anniversary, tin;
fifteenth anniversary, crystal; twentieth
anniversary, China; twinty fifth anniversary
silver; thirtieth anniversary, cotton; thirty
fifth anniversary, linen; fortieth anniver-
sary, woolen; forty fifth anniversary, silk;
fiftieth anniversary, golden; seventy-fifth
anniversary, diamond. s--.a.
Then she (Mrs. Tilton) sought advice
from their mutual friend (Beecher), and
he turned her over to his wife. Mrs.
Beecher is not young and flirty flibberty-
| gibbet. On the contrary, she is the wife
and competent partner of the greatest intel
lect of the age. She is q woman of at least
6O-tall, handsome, dignifed, and serene.
| Her whitened hair adds beauty to an intel
| ligent face, through the keen blue eye of
which beams q glance Of rarely deceived
| intention. For instance: She loves and
has faith in her husband. She loves Mrs.
Tilton. She hates Tilton. And she regards
Frank Moulton as q snake.-N, 7. Star.
It will be remembered, says the London
Neaos of the nth inst, that in September,
1872, young American girl, named Alice
Blanche Oswald, who had come to England
from her native land with Scotch lady,
who, it was said, turned her out of doors,
committed suicide, when perfectly frieadless
and forsaken, by throwing herself into the
Thames off Waterloo bridge. Z he history
of the deceased was sad one, and many
American ladies and gentlemen, as well as
several English benevolent people, deter
mined to give the girl respectable inter.
ment, which took place few days after the
d event i'm the Metropolis, Woning. A COM
mittee, chiefly composed of American ladies
was formed to erect a simple monument
over the grave of thedeceased. Ithas now
just been completed. 1T consists Of arustic
cross in marble, resting on a cluster Of
rocks, ehiseled out Of white marble. On a
slab placed on the rocks is the following en-
seription: "Alice Blanche Oswald Kithless,
Kinless Orphan. Died os despair in the
Thames, 9Th September, 1879; 10 on the
Goth Of the month. By Thy infinite good
ness forgive me."g The monument win be
placed over the grave in few days. r.