The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1875-07-02
NEW NORTHWEST ERs.
-'Ours at home-The baby,

unouttoned.
A man in Tiffin wears the Masonic
apron worn by G.. Washington.
Phil Sheridan will not hereafter take his
orders exclusively from the war depart
ment.
Ben Butler refuses to talk politics. He
says: 81 renounee the devil and all his
works."
Ohio men are bashful. One hid under
hog pen for half a day rather than testify
in lawsuit.
"A new freak with gentlemen is to Save
the shirt bosom, cellar and cuffs lined with
colored linen.
/ The new postal card will be palmer
than the old card, and viii be made of
better material.
Who says farming doesn't pay? In
the Connecticut House of Representatives
there are 101 farmers.
The smallpox is spreading rapidly in
New York city, and it is said to be more
than ordinarily yrulent.
| The St. Louis Globe Democrat tenders
Gereral Sherman the position of army cor
respondent during the next war.
| Obtaining money under false pretences
| Borrowing fifteen cents for drink, and
| Immediately wasting the same for bread.
There are only two hundred men in
Connecticut who have not invented some
sort of clothes pin, or some kind Of salye Or
linimeDt.
The colored Masons of Boston are much
reioiced over the recognition extended to
them by the convention of Grand Lodges
recently held in Germany.
Passage WAS refused Chicago preacher
on an ocean steamer because his children
had the whonping- g-cough aud lie wasn't
willing to throw them overheard.
Paul Boyton undoubtedly stepped
ashore quite fresh and smiling but for all
that he says "there isn't money enough in
all England to tempt him to doit again"
-" Only eleven cents for the heathen ~
exclaimed Georgia colored minister;
''give it back, Brudder Jones-de Lord |
neber hear of dis one-horse congregation"
President Grant is credited with say
ing after having finished Il chapter of Sher-
mans Memoirs "Wcll, I'm beginning to
to find that didn't have much to do with
the late war - Il
1t does begin to look as if there wouldn't
be peace on the Rio Grande until VIC gave
those Mexicans another thrashing. Texas
would be glad to take the contract, and do
it in thirty days. at the very least.
"A new dish ofgrape leaves fried in egg
batter it is called French dish. An ex-
change remarks; eve can't think of any
thing that would be more delicious than
Tried grape leaves, unless it could be a
circus poster on toast"
An ex-Confederate soldier and an ex-
Federal met in the top of Bunker Hill monu-
ment, a few days ago, and formally shook
hands at two hundred and ninety Live steps, |
'over TIE bloody chasm." They were per-
ect strangers.
About eight hundred tons of old rubber {
shoes are worked up in Boston into car
springs, pump valves, soles and heels of
lew rubber shoes, clothes wringer rolls and
ike humble uses. Babies brought up ON
he bottle get the nearest to pure rubber. in 6
he black tubes-and they are entitled to
omething pure. c
Iceland is to be abandoned The vol
anic eruptions which during the winter
nd spring have been spreading ruin over a
arge part of the east firths of the island, e
ave made it impossible almost for the in v
abitants to live there, and many are going a
0 Alaska. s
The excavations undertaken by Sir d
ieorge Alexander for the purpose of re- il
overing the obelisk which is known to be
uried close to Cleopatra's Needle, in Egypt,
ave been commenced, the Khedive having
the explorer to convey the mon-
litli to England should he succeed in un- n
arthing it and i'll finding means to carry h
away. n
A Denver dispatch says project has g
cen started in London to raise So, 900. goo p
, run q mining tunnel through, the Color t,
10 gold belt. commencing near Black d
awk and thence nine miles to the middle v
ark. Work has already commenced on p
le tunnel. n
a newspaper editor, taught. doubtless, p
7 experience, says: Editors object to a
Ave anything written on more than one a
de of a piece OF paper. The only excep- e.
On to the rule is when then write prom .
3 to pay. On such q slip they generally q
licit the name of some other person to be cl
ritten on the reverse side. o.
States have made appropria =
on for the Centennial, New Jersey leading ..
with l00,000; Massachusetts, gives $5O,- - :,
o, Ohio $4,000, little Delaware $4,000, =
ID other States sums ranging from $500 -
S5,e00-the total amount thus far ap- -
opriatied, including the general approp- y
stion ofs5o5, 900 by Congress, being $780, y
10. ai
"A new wrinkle" in railroad Saucho !.
sdro is played with a full pack, white face :,
cluded, but this latter card only ranks as !,
o lowest of trumps. Ii counts fifteen to
Q holder, the other cards having the same !
latiye value as in the ordinary Sancho
sdro game, and the number of points is
erefore thirty three. The game, of course
Fords excellent scope for extensive bidding, Il
a player has decently good hand, and "
ere IS excitement enough, occasionally, to y =
d thirty-three, in the vain hope that the =
cts will favor such rashness. But he gem 81,
ally gets 8 set back ha
:, pl
TAKING THE CENSUS IN SNEvADA.-Wbile &c
'ptain Harper was engaged in his census y
king duty yesterday, q lady on whom he = =
lied asked permission to look at his book. r.