The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1875-06-11
NEW NoR'-WEsTERs.
Cardinal McCloskey is G5.
Hard drnks-chewing ice.
The best of fasts-Fast asleep-

, the world-the man in the moon.
} The Springfield Republican is anxious
to bet that 7'ilton and wife will be living
, together within six months.
The new incline engines for the Ophil
mine are of sufficient power to work the
mine to a depth of 5000 feet.
About 100000 Spanish troops have
been sent to Cuba in the last six years, and
most of them are now in the grave.
~ would rather" said Cato, "tbat
people should inquire why no statue was
erected to me than why had one."
Not an untimely suggestion, that the
"Fourth of July" be postponed one month
this year, -" on account of the weather."
There is no place at this season Of the
satisfactorily as newly laii-out garden
bed.
-" Why did you name your dog Back ?'
"From necessity. He is always running
away from home, and how could we help
calling him back %
Has anybody remarked the coincidence
that the Schiller was lost ON the anniversary
of the day, May O. on which, il 1895, the
poet whose name she bore died.
Ex-senator Pomeroy of Kansas has in
vented indelible ink. We knew he would
do something, but rather expected him to
go into the prize candy package trade.
We are astonished to read in such q
venerable and highly respectable sheet rs
the Boston Journal the startling admission
that Whisky is not a necessity Of lifc,''
! -'' At the earnest solicitation Of my
wife and children, have consented to
become IL candidate for County Treasurer" ;"
is the way a Mississippi candidate puts
it.
A chemist in Troy suggests that few
barrels of grasshoppers be caught, inoc-
ulated with smallpox, and turned loose
again. No thank yoa. One pestilence at a
time is enough.
MIR. James Lick, the California philan-
thropist. has been sued for $55, 600 by his
physician for alleged service during a period
of % years !; cln,.e estimate of the charge
makes it onI at the rate of about $500
pill.
-fieneral Iawley Mark Twain, and
Rev. DR.. Barton took part in spelling
match at Hartford, Wednesday,. "Trisyll-
able'' flooded Ilawley. Mark took his seat.
| an, al, o1l y.
on "calieoes."
! When Howell Cobb's GGbernatorial
term was about to expire, bis friends i'm
| portupcd him to run again. Waving them
! on he salt! Gentlemen, it is we'll enough
! to be governor of Georgia once bnt have
no respect fnr the man that would try it on
! the second time.
For the next year the newspapers will
have no lack of controversies on hand, ifali
the stories of General Shelman's book be
true. Veterans on both sides may as we'll
prepare to shoulderthei. pens aud fight their
battles DER again.
Last year the following drugs, all i'm
ported were consumed in this country
Arsenic, 1,G36, 325 pounds camphor, 1885,
1877 pounds jalap. 116, ,053 pounds ; ipecac,
26, 202 pounds :nux vomica, 297, ,213 pounds.
There was also imported $500, 800 worth of
vaccine virus.
Talk about puzzles, but here is the
toughest yet heard of: Two mrn, A and B,
bough 100 acres of land at $100 per acre.
Each paid S., 900. \ took his share off the
North side at $l10 per acre, while B took
his share South side, at 800 per acre. How
much land did each get? How can the
question be proveda Send in your answers
-Carruth, the Vineland editor, with the
bullet i'll his brain, still lives. Anthony,
the editor shot through at Leayenworth
seems likely to recover, and libel suits
against various prominent newspapers have
failed miserably. Is there not a special
providence for the unfortunate class of men
who grease tie wheels of progress on half
! wages?
Little Johnny, writing q composition
about pigs, says; Them at fairs is some
so fat that you can't tell which end it is
that eats till you set a basin of grule near
by, and then it swings around and points
at it like a compass. S5me men spend a
lot Of time curlin' their pigs tails, which
| is no use except to eat and is best roasted
though the trotter is good too.''
A nugget Of copper, 98 per cent pure
ore weighing 5000 pounds, is on exhibition
at St. Louis. 1t came from the Lake Su-
perior region, whore it was taken from an
ancient digging. The mass wnen round,
had evidently been detached from it's bed
by ancient miners, whose stone hammers.
in great numbers, were fonnd in the mine
A correspondent of the american Notgs
Reporter comes to the defence of the much
abused 'intcllgent compositor.' . lie says
1t is noticeable fact and the statement
can be verified---that manuscript is often
placed in the hands OF the compositors that
can not be deciphered by the writer's them
selves. How would some OF them like to
see their effusions i'll print exactly us they
put it down on paper?" They, doubtless,
would be horriiied, AMI deny the paternity
of their offspring.
"A queer story appears in a Chicago
paper about I'm Illinois soldier who was on
the steamer Ger. Lyon at the time she was
burned off Cape Hatteras. in 1865, but es-
capped, and, after clinging with comrlde.
to cabin door for four days, was picked
mp by schooner and left on an island,
where his companion died, and he lived by
himself 10 years, till he was taken of by II
Bridish man-o war in March, and carried
to London, where he is now sick in q hos
pital.
Dan Davis, of Virginia City, paid Il
visit 10 Pronontory, on the Central Pacific
railroad. He stopped at the principal
hotel of the town. I5 WIS rice pllce, aad
the landlord was very agreeablean friend
~ SORT Of a man. Says Dan 80 When din
ner was ready the lsndlord came out into
the street in front OF his hotel with double.
barrelled Shotgun. Raising the gun above
~, iao1s i.a f;rd off apa l,., .,.,i eaiI fr,