The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1874-10-24
NEW NoR'-WEsTERS.
Ben. Butler is worth s95, 600.

NEW NoR-WESTERS.
Ben. Butler is worth $25, 900.
The oyster is "of age" at 7years.
A favorite American letter-An x.
-Earth's holiest spot-The oil regions.
"A stirring gevent-Sweetening ones COT
fee.
1t takes 1-15o of second to photograph
the sun.
Where to find milkmen-At the water
ing-places.
New York.
Stokes pays $50 {. week for board at
Sing Sing.
Victor Hugo says France must lick
Germany yet.
There has been no eruption of Mount
Heela since 1914.
"A Missouri editors name is Wufadam.
His paper isn't,
The inmates Of the Wyoming peniten-
tiary are at work on an elegant residence
for the Warden.
Good news from England. Sturgeon
says that smoking is not sinful, and that he
smokes himself.
Ben. Butler is silent partner in the
Graphic newspaper.
Nearly 500 trains day arrive and de-
part from st. Louis.
One hundred thousand men make a
living out of the oyster trade.
"A man called his best hen Macduff," !"
because he wanted her to clay on"
An enterprising restaatrdteur announces
'paroxysmal stews" a speciality on his bill
Of fare.
Valentines recumbent figure of Gen.
Robt. e. Lee is to be made from Vermont
marble.
"A Philadelphia officer got up jury of
twelve cross-eyed men, and even the judge
laughed.
"A Louisiana minister says he won't
change his shirt till this Beecher business
is settled.
Another parson in trouble out West
No engravings in the case. Got tipsy at IL
horse race.
When John Morrissey colors his nous
tache, in Saratoga, they call HIM the dyeing
gladiator"
-" Statemented is the last new word
which has been forced on the long g-suffering
American people.
George Francis Train has got another
severe attack of his old and repulsive COM
plant, cacntdes scribendi.
"A modest editor says that ''the details of
the Brooklyn scandal were 286 for publiea-
tion." Two gross, you know.
We go to the grave of a friend saying,
" A man is dead" but angels throng about
him saying, A man is born. ."-Beecher.
-McMahon has said he does not expect
to live to serve out his term. The old gen.
tleman is becoming very superstitious, they
say
John Wise, aged thirteen, grandson of
Professor John Wise the eronaut, made a
balloon ascension from the Fair grounds at
Indiana, Pa. Oct. 1.
Gen. Leggit, Commissioner of Patents,
retires from Office on Nov. /, and will leg it
to Cleveland, Ohio, where, it is patent to
all, he will become patent lawyer.
The only unoccupied real estate in New
York is advertised thus: "a nice three
cornered lot in cemetery, short, and just
right for a fat man with only one leg"
The opinion is being strengthened ev-
cry day that the man who first made shirt
to button behind did more for the world
than one who has discovered five comets.
-ssI want to KNOW" said creditor,
fiercely, "when you are going to pay me
what you owe me 90 81 give it up" re-
piled the debtor, task me something easy"
The force exercised by growing seed
is able to raise the weight of 200 pounds.
This has been shown by inclosing seed
within ball requiring that force to burst
it.
A lad who borrowed dictionary to
read, returned it after he got through, with
the remark: I" It was very nice reading,
but it somehow changed the suject VERY
often"
The English postal system is SO thor.
ough that misdirected letter will reient-
lessly chase a man from one end of the
British domain to the other, and never give
up till it finds him or his corpse.
1t is said that Commodore Vanderbilt
now rs years of age-will retire from active
life, abandon the stock market, and resign
his connection with railroad and other
offices on the 1st of November.
Mr.. Ritz, of Walla Walla, w. T., has
one of the finest nurseries on the coast,
100000 locust trees for timber,
SO, 600 splendid peach trees, 10000 choice
grape vines and $4,000 orange plants.
Deacon Gaudam fIourishes in Lock Ha-
ven, New York When the minister wishes
a collection taken up for the little heather
con Gaudam, you please pass the hat" he
4, ha II WV, ha
ma.
Notwithstanding lagos objection to
wearing his heart upon his sleeve, the thing
may yet happen to somebody, as people are
making progress i'll that direction. At For
estville. Chautauqua county, there is ba-
by which has its heart ON the outside of it's
breast.
A large number of colonists, altogether
about ,000 families, 100 of them belonging
to Northern Illinois, were to leave Chicago
for Denver Oct. 16. It is proposed to colo
nize in large valley, % miles by rs, near
where the Grand river empties into the Col
orado, about 800 miles from Salt Lake City
and $50 from Denver.
After the year 1876, no person will be
allowed to vote in the State of Missouri,
who cannot read and write. The provision
is an excellent one, and one which should
become law in all the states. AS the
Oakland transcript says: Universal suf-
frage without universal education will in
time swamp any ration adopting it.
"A correspondent of an English paper
writes: IT is once more stated in Rome
that Archbishop Manning will have hat
ut the nextcreation of cardinals. The Sa-
cred College has been consulted as to the
propriety of admitting some of the American
Bishops, but the decision has been unfavor-
able to their claims. It is possible that one
Of the Brazilian Bishops may get hat,