The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1874-04-04
NEW NOR wEsTERs.

/ NEW NOR wEsTERs.
4 Natural humbugs-Bees.
Ruled paper-The French press.
-=Anti-gamblist is the latest "ist. 2
-Bull-fghting is on the wane in Spain
Three lives of Chase are being written
-Bergh agitates the painless execution
of pigs.
The Danbury Nesos man is going to
Europe on the 18th.
Harvard says that ''enquire'' is right,
and Yale says it is I" inquire"
A cork leg found in the street is adver-
tised in a Vermont newspaper.
-'Gad swingers'' is the South Carolina
colloquialism for school teachers.
The New York World says church
music in Boston costs $4,000 year.
A South Carolina legislator has intro
duced GA bill to rejuice the bounding debt
Of the Stait.''
-" Prayed out Of town. are the words
nailed on the doors of several saloons at
Xenia, Ohio.
-Politeness is like an air cushion; there
may be nothing in it, but it eases you
wonderfully.
1t is q rule ofetiquette in Arkansas that
no true gentleman will eat with his leg
thrown over the back of his neighbor's
char, if he can help it.
1t is reported that Charles D. Warner
and Mark Twain have each received s15,-
600 as their share of the receipts from the
sale of the "Gilded Age
The latest trick of the frequent boy is
to chalk an envelope on the door-sill i'll the
evening, and then ring the bell. 1t is
impossible to pick up the letter.
The name of the Chinese plant which
changes its color three times a day is the
Hibiscus Mutabilts, and specimen has been
sent to the Garden of Acclimation in Brus-
sells.
"A philosopher says that "a true man
never frets about his place in the world, but
just slides into it by the gravitation of his
nature, and swings there as easily as |
STAR
"A shoemaker out West, with literary
turn ofmind, has the following poetical gem |
attached to his shingle: ....
Here lives man who never refuses
To mend all sorts of boots and shoeses"
The friends of an Indiana man who died. |
put his club skates into the coffin with him,
which shows what implicit faith some peo-
pie have in matters which they don't know
about.
The journalists will have their fun, as
witness the following from Cincinnati
paper: " A favorite amusement at Laramie
is slashing off strangers ears. One blow is
enough for all except Louisville ears"
"A Danbury man who received tele-
sram from Buffalo requesting him to come
hither Immediately to attend his mother
n-laws funeral, sternly declined, saving
hat he never attended celebrations during
lent.
-" "Figaro's" " valentine to Swinburne:
Bard of the hectic muse and lustful Tyre
Rant is not passion. nor is fever fire.
The sacred spring. oh! bard of blood and usti
foui not with satyrtread. with charne-dust
Lave thy hot lips in the pure Hippocrene, r +
But-shame sir! keep the MUSES. fountain clean!
eli where did yez get them trousers9''
sked an lrishman of man who happened
be passing with pair of remarkably
hort trousers on. 81 got them where they !
rew,'2 was the indignant reply. "Then, t
y my conscience" said Paddy, "you've ,
ulled them a year to soon ~ $
The bridge over the Kentucky river ON a
le Southern railroad will be the highest on j
he continent. 1t is 275 feet above low /
ater, and has span of 1896 feet. The G
'wers erected by John A. Roebling years i
20, cost 500, 900 and rise 365 feet above i
w water Y
Country practitioner (about to go up to 7
ondon ON business): "I shan't be more Il
IAN ten days at the furthest, Mr. Fawceps. q
+. !. i y =
QUILL visit the patients regularly, and take c
ire that none of 'em slip through your i
ngers-or get well-during my absence, ,, lt
Punch. d
Rev. Father j. j. Keane lectured in 9
neoln's hall, Washington, one Sunday y
Gently, on Goods Poor, the DEVILS Poor, d
I'd the Poor Devils" Gods poor, he said, Il
ere the orphans, the aged, the widow, the y
ind, halt, and MANNED; the devils poor y
ere those made poor by their own vices. !. !,
i'd the poor devils were those who were
pt so by their own peculiarities. .
MIR. Smith, of the Cleveland and Pitts =
lrgh railway, says that the business of :,
gineers is not SO hazardous as is generally !,
lieved. He has been connected with the :,
ad for years, and Of the ninety-seven :,
gineers employed on it he could remember :,
It one being killed and another slightly -
TT The brakemen suffer most. In the =,
ME time score of them have lost their !,
es, and hundreds have been pinched :,
tween cars.
"A gentleman afflicted with an impede it
mt in his speech was oaesday looking at es
siamese twins when they were upou m
hibition. After examining them for some W
ne in silence, he turned to the Snowman til
remarked, % BIB b-brothers. 70
,resume, sir p s. E9 ne
Said great Congregational preacher rv
9o.a hen: You're a beautiful creature r IL
5sesr The hen just for that tsl
Laid two eggs in his hat IS
And thus did the Hen-re-ward Bceeber
- A friend ! inquires of the editor of ~
Nationat Sunday School Teacher what
nomination he belongs to, and the editor 81
'mptly tells him in this fashion, g Really, by