The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1874-10-31
NEW NoR'-wEsTERs
Short erops-Convict's hair.

Corn stalks nineteen feet high at Los
Angeles.
The height of cooness-The top Of
Mount Powell.
A chance for 4-n-sie display-Tle
Glendenning case.
The lazy schoolboy spells Andrew
Jackson "&ru Jaxon."
George Alfred Townsend intends to
turn lawyer next year.
What did Noah's bees do while ahoat?
They kept the Archives.
| The whole human race, on an average,
uses seventy ounces of tobacco year.
Charles Summers estate has just been
appraised. 1t is valued at $134, 759 20.
jay Gould was married to Miss Susie
Hasbrouck, at Poughkeepsie, Sept. esd.
When Chicago man cuts his corns
he generally amputates half of his foot.
=" Moonlight Mechanics is the name
which the Albany Journal applies to bur-
glars.
They have been having cotton banquet
in st. Lous. The flowing boil circulated
freely.
The New Postoffice in New York is
nearly completed, and is ordered to be open
ed January 1.
-Barnum has bought the Mutton news
paper. He has now chance to get rid Of
his surplus cash.
-Ex- Senator Ross of Kansas. has gone
back to his first love-type-setting for a
Lawrence paper.
MIR. Bergh denies the report that he is
| about to cause the arrest of several parties
for bottling cats-up.
"A COW died in Springfield, O., from
eating too many apples, which gave rise to
some trouble in cider.
The McHenry mine, in Perley's cafion
(Utah) has stopped work, having now t.
500 to 1000 tons of ore on hand.
The Roman Catholic priesthood of Ire
land are about to issue an answer to the ar
guments Of Professors Tyndall and Huxley.
The Duke of Brunswick, eighty-six
years old. is about to marry the daughter of
the expatriated King of Hanover, who is
but twenty-six.
"A "practical Christian" according to
Brooklyn Interpretation, means man who
can get up from prayer and knock seven
bells out of q hackman.
Puget Sound furnishes the rafters used
in the NJ. E. Church Salt Lake City. There
are twenty-five pieces, ten by twelve inches
and forty-five feet IL length.
The Johnston iron works, the largest
in New York state have 5000 workmen out
of A., 900 busily employed filling orders for
$4,000 tons of railway bars.
Railroad employees in Nevada, from
the conductor to the fireman, carry firearms
for the purpose of putting gamblers and
other thieves off the trains.
AT Patterson, n. J., nine chickens
were Matched out of a nest of eggs that hap
pened to get covered up in manure heap.
The natural warmth of the manure did the
business.
An Indiana man who worked three
days in harvest field and received therefor
a litter of pups, has come to the conclusion
that it is not more currency we need but a
better currency.
The CenJraI RACINE rta1ruau cur1=ptny
are constructing a fire alarm telegraph be-
tween Tuclzee and Emigrant Gap, for the
purpose of more efficiently protecting the
snow sheds from fire.
The appearance of a red-haired chicken
in Kentucky, leaves no doubt on the minds
of the wise ones that State that bloody
war is now at hand. Red hair generally
There are 4, 900 postoffices in the United
States. Under the new postal law each
office will require new scales, as those now
| in use in small postofices weigh only four
| pounds. Here is q chance for scale makers.
The greatest wonder in Kentucky, just
now, is q three-year-old baby, which weighs
| 1876 pounds, measures 80 inches around the
| chest, 40 inches around the waist, about 56
/ in
height.
-Diminutive Switzerland has been de-
priyed of 1900 acres Of territory through
the arbitration of Minister Marsh, who was
chosen to settle a boundary dispute between
that country and Italy. She still has a few
acres left, however.
The Graphic prints an admirable car
toon illustrating the recent discussion be-
tween Reverdy Johnson and Charles o.
Conor in the columns of the ". 7. Herald
The two eminent jurists are represented
splitting hairs, illustrating the lines
| They could distinguish and divide
hair 'twixt south and southwest side.
The sword of the celebrsted French
grenadier-Latour d'Anvergne, killed al
| Oberhausen in 1S00-has been left by his
nephew to Garibald. Tho custom of call
ing out the name Of Latouf d Auyergne frs
at roll call. and some one replying 'Dead
on the field of honor" which, after many
years, had been at last abandoned by hi:
regiment, has just been introduced by tht
new colonel, Aubrey.
/ The other day young lady from New
Haven was walking the Central Park, IN
der the escort of q New York gentleman
Passing the bust of Humboldt, the gentle
man called his companions attention to it
"Oh, yes," remarked the lady with mucl
animation, "Hembold that kept the dru.
store. believe I did hear that he wa
busted
"A literary curiosity is now for sale a
Peking. 1t consists of copy of a giganti
work, composed of ,109 volumes. entitle,
can Imperial Collection of Ancient ant
Modern Literature" The huge encyc1o
padia, was commenced during the reign o
the Kan-he, (1662-t722) and complet
font of copper type was cast for the purpos
Of printing it. Very few copies are now j
existence.
All bank checks, bank drafts and banl
orders for the payment of money at sight 0
on demand, require a two-cent stamp. n,
others require to be stamped. A change il
the law applying the stamp to all none.
orders of the above description, leaving on
the qualifying words g at sight or on de
mand, . passed both houses at the last ses
sion of Congress, but was attached to bil
which failed in the conference committee
and is therefore not in force.
To dun debtor ON postal card ha
, just been decided by the Supreme Court Q
Ohio to be unlawful. The court held tha
anything so written that it isliable to injur
the credit or reputation of anyone is a eri me-
The decision was made in the case of
man who dunned a debtor for an old az
J count on a postal card, and in that manne
J made the matter public and to the detri
, ment of the latter's credit elsewhere.
The Harriet Lane, once well-know
United States steam revenue cutter, trans
formed into a trim sailing vessel, is takin
. cotton at Galveston for Providence, r.
She appeared in Galveston harbor in 1856
! after the city had been abandoned by til
= ConfederateS On the 1st of January 1S6.