The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1874-08-29
NEWSPAPER DECISIONS.
EVANGELICAL CORNER.

The Elizabethan period seems to have
been revived in Brooklyn lately.
There is new hat for rainy days-a SIM
pie frame with handkerchief stretched
over it.
The coming bonnet will have soft box
plated crown and rim turned directly and
strait up in front.
The ladies are gradually coming back to
collars for morning wear They are far
prettier than the ruff.
Miss Kingsley, daughter of Canon
Kingsley, has written book about the
Rocky Mountains and Mexico, with a pre-
face by her father.
The Detroit Free Press declares that n
z.~ nIssn UuIasuuu WIG aImOSJ TO
death because their baby didn't get q prize
at baby show, and then offered to trade
the baby fora pig. sE
Miss Laura Redding, "Howard Glyn-
don,'' of the ". Y. HAL, was born a deaf
mute, but can now al ticulate quite plainly
and not unpleasantly.
A Washington widow who is known to
to have $4,000, is reported to have refused
| eight offers of marriage from discharged
clerks in one day and two nights.
Devout mother to young lady, who is
burning up letters: "What are you doing
there, my dear? Are you burning incenseP''
Young lady: Oh, no, ma; I am only burning
| nonsense
A Wisconsin farmer keeps tame wolf
| which has eaten up three of his children,
and he is reported to have offered to lend
him out at fifty cents a day to men with
large families and mother-in-laws.
Says Western critic of a local prima
donna "She has magnificent voice for
fog whistle. It's compass is simply awful.
She shakes the chandelier with wild whoop
that makes every man instinctively feel for
his scalp, and follows it up with roar that
would shame gorilla. ,-.,...
Mrs. Minnie A. Bedell, of Elmore, VT,
advertises the departure of her husband in
the following classic language: /" Where
as my charming husband, Daniel G. Bedell,
has left me for the twelfth time, without
| just cause or provocation, this is to warn
all persons from trusting him on my ae-
count, as am done paying his debts and
supporting him. Hereafter he must cut
his own feed or starve." .....-. IA.
The Saratoga Sun gives the following as
dinner-table feature adopted at some of
the hotels at that resort: CAT every plate
the snow white napkins, tastefully folded,
are placed in clear cut-glass goblets, and
carefully disposed in every napkin is beau
tiful little button-hole bouquet. These are
intended for the guests, and are cheerfully
appropriated. The effect, both while the
bouquets embellish the napkins and after
they have been transferred to the button
holes of the gentlemen's coats and to. tbs
ladies' dresses, is very pEpeettty' o. as q sort of
The Sunday bilsffg - 4"''t -
A correspondent of the Courier-JoufnGt
says of the Kentucky women; "fhere Is
nothing they don't know, and what they
don't know they divine. A man cannot
creep in a little late without disturbance
and an explanation, which comes OF their
: training. Even slybuck, who is the smart
est of smart Alecks,' has learned the futil'
:, ity of his best tricks. The sick-friend dodge
the all-night-in-the-country dodge; the late
= session-of-the-society dodge; the meeting
of-council dodge; the coming -home-from
!" market-with-a-br -brace-of- Chickens dodge; al
y the old shifts and expedients have playe'
out. The other night he slipped in abou
d one o'clock, very softly, denuded himsel
s. gently, and began rocking the cradle, as
m he had been awakened out of a sound slee
by infantile cries. He had rocked ava
S, for about five minutes, when Mary jams
O. who had silently observed the whole maner
nd yer, says, come to bed, You fool you! th
he baby amt thereP .rssa ss5aa