The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1874-01-31
NEW NOR WEsTERs.

in press" Yesterdays table-cloth.'
They still advertise for ~ good girl to
cook"
-Belknap has the biggest beard in WASH
ington.
The Chicago Times calls its reporters
ambassadors. -
Daniel has come to Judgment. His 9TH
| er name is Sickles.
Cash on delivery is the custom adopted
by popular lecturers.
Pine, Twiggs, & Co, of New York, are
manufacturers of kindling wood.
If you murdered man in Iowa previ-
Gus to 1910, they can't prosecute you for it
| now.
A prisoner got out of the Green Bay
calaboose by picking the lock with a tooth
pick.
---Smirkins looked at painting of a pig
and pleasantly asked, "Who is that pig
ment for?'
| -"Her Face Was Her Fortune" will
soon be followed by ellis Cheek Was What
Made Him.
Orders have been received at the Spring
field armory to increase the production to
200 Springfield guns a day.
-"Grangers, will sell you coffins cheap
er than any other man i'll the city" is what
a Council Bluffs man advertises."
-Broker-How are you off for money
this morning? Cashier.-I'm off with
what little there was in the bank. Good
by.
Some one has remarked that Treasurer
Spinner has gone to Florida to compare his
autograph with the alligator tracks along
! the bayous.
Wheeling, W. Va, the largest nail and
glass manufacturing city i'll the Union,
passed through the late panic without a
single suspension.
| There are more than sixty thousand
Protestant churches in the United States.
There are about three thousand Roman
Cath olic churches.
The Boston Trageler suggests that the
name of the condemned Miantonomoh be
changed to Conscience" on the ground
that it's a silent monitor.
| =" What comes after 7 ?" asked a teach
er of q small pupil who was learning the
|alphabet. He received the bewildering re-
ply, "You do-to see Lize'"
A clergyman at Hazleton, Pa, recently
appended note to a wedding notice in a
local paper, announcing that it was the
999th couple he had married.
In Boston discussion of corporal pun
ishment by teachers it was argued that
driving the spine up into the head could be
nothing else than hurtful to the brain.
1.-THE Israelites Crossing the Red Sea,
fessor in Maine, who claims in his adsrr-
tisement they were photographed direct
from nature"
The Colt Manufacturing Company at
present employ between six and seven hum
dred men in the manufacture OF printing
presses, portable steam engines and Gatling
guns The payroll is $40, 900 larger than
two months ago.
-"If,'' says Western editor, the day
before Thanksgiving, "we had dollar for
every glass of lemon slop, sweetened wine,
beer and thicker things that will be drank
tomorrow, we wouldn't dun another sub
scriber in year. But we havn't that
number of dollars, so pay up
-.s What do you sell those fowls for p
| inquired person of man attempting to
dispose Of some chickens of questionable
, appearance. 81 sell them for profits, y was
? the answer. s'Thank you for the inforna
: ton that they are prophets, y responded the
r querist. ssI took them to be patriarchs. >
The Bourbonville, KY, Mountain Ech'
4 says that the following is true copy OF
t letter received by Judge Randall, of th'
Knox County Court, few days ago from
: the county judge of - county: Mr.
enable P II Randle sir I am in sick Bed
wish my Case Continude l am the man
S Evidence to Explane the hole Truth hop
r this will Berite this the 23d 1873"
A German peddler sold a man liqui
> for the determination of bugs. And hoy
) do you use it ?" inquired the man, after h
:, had bought it. ''Ketch te bug, un dro
:, vun leetle drop into his mout," answere
the peddler. 1.-THE deuce you dor ez
;. claimed the purchaser; :" could kill it i
half the time by stamping on it. !" ''Vell,
!, calmly responded the German, "dat ish
~ good way, too
Y, "A pensive young man sang most p'
re thetically at an amateur concert, Whel
are the friends of my childhood p Befol
he retired from the side of the accompanl
at the piano, he heard g friend say qui
furiously to lady sitting by his side, "Tl
fri ends of his childhood are probably in
y, lunatic asylum if they listened much to SUI
70 singer"
s. The popularity Of Mr.. Beecher's Fl
:, mouth Church has not been affected by Il
~ panic. The annual sale of pews took pla
- on Tuesday night The total amount re:
, - lied was $50, 430, $4,000 being for prem
ums alone The total receipts last ye
he we're $59, ,5o1, showing an excess for t
y. coming year of s12s. Mr.. Beecher expires
i ed himself as highly satisfied, and gratef
mo- at the result.
IS, AS model of proof-reading, the Ka
ose sas City Journal is gaining fame that
i'm worldwide. 1t announced recently that
ain certain lecture a local choir would " pt
*, ish some soup,' whereas the choir OF
of intended to furnish some SONGS 1t v
ses the same paper which announced in 1s
ss, in hold tvpe. aThe Common-Ten On