The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1875-02-26
NEW NoR.WEsTERs.

| AN~-AAE -~N0NNSs
"A poor relation-A carb-uncle.
Something about milk-Water.
"A paper of tax-The assessment lists
Light wines may make a heavy head.
"A rare fioWer-The pink of politeness.
"A well written poem-The Old Oaken
Bucket.
AT last the terrible cold is all overall
over the country.
The inhabitants of Green Bay, Wis,
are called Green Babies.
An exchange translates fszo de 50 as
meaning fellow deceased.
Bismarck carries defiant smile ON his
face, and six-shooter under his coat
| 1t has been estimated that the gssat
American nation smokes s, 1853, 600 cigars a
day.
There are now ia the United States 81,
600 Oranges with membership of 1, 3oO,-
900.
| Bret Harte's promised play is nearly
ready His novel has been under way for
some time.
! A nephew of Stonewall Jackson mar
ried a niece of Geo. B. Mcclellan, at Dem
yer, the other day.
Charleston, S. c., has hairless horse.
It's skin is soft and black like india-rubber.
1t is to be sent TO London.
The real estate sales of San Francisco,
as compiled by the Real Estate Circular,
amounted to $23, 900, 900 in 1874.
The Pope has written a fatherly letter
to Don Carlos, advising him to relinquish
his claims to the throne of Spain.
A Berlin circus horse sits at the table
and eats like human being, with knife
and fork fastened to his two fore legs by
| straps.
The Pittssburg Wagon Works have
shipped a lot of wagons to Germany, where
it is expected there will he good demand
for such goods.
"A Chicago grocer, when complained to
about selling bad eggs, said: cat this time
of the year the hens are not well, and often
lay bad eggs.''
The Toledo Board of Education has, by
a vote of six to two, indefinitely postponed
resolution to exclude the Bible from the
public schools.
Why is a man who breathes hard in
his sleep like the craft which saved the an
imal kingdom during the tlood9'' Because
he snores, h-ark!
Senator Jones, with an income of $780,
900 a month, is boarding at the st. James
in New York, with his wife. He recently
bought the hotel.
The Methodist preachers applaud Wen
dell Phillips Faneuil Hall speech. He is
about the only one of the Boston Radi-
Gals who believes in the divinity of Jesus
Christ.
Toledo papers announce that there is
plenty of work in that city, but carefully,
conceal the fact that said work is sitting on
bench in front of a coal stove and wishing
it were spring.
The New York Post suggests that it is
likely to become matter Of some interest,"
before July 4th, 1876, to know the precise
honr and minute when the Declaration of
Independence was signed.
Mrs Ely, who hattered the Russian
Cars nephew out of his diamonds Ned
Buntline, Mark Twain, A. J. Butler-Ben's
brother-and George Butler, his nephew,
were all residents at one time of Hannibal,
Mo. .-
Carlyle, the Napoleon of English liter
ature, is writing history of the Norwegian
Kings who lived away back in the centuries
when the word 'sAjax'' was spelled Aiiyg-
gjaktagdfj, and accented on the first sylla-
ble. 4-.-s
Now they tell of q Photographic appa-
ratus by which plate, kept permanently
sensitive, can be put i'll a locket on the
watch chain, and with which the holder can
secure the portrait of a person he sees any
where, without the knowledge of that per-
| son.
The AtseR9uma says Of Mr.. Thomas
Bailey Aldr1ch, whose poems it reviews,
that they are among the dantiest and most
! delicate work America has yet given us,
and that ''if Mr.. Aldrich's place is not with
the i,nmortals, he is at least on the slopes
of Parnassus.''
| The Albany Times reminds us that
| whilst Virginia used to be called the ssmoth-
erof Presidents " New York is earning the
| title of mother of Senators. The newly
| elected Senators from Michigan, Nebraska
| and Observation-Disclosures. Christiancy, Pad
dock and Cameron-were. all born in New
| York.
/ There s mlny II rest on the road OF life
If we would only stop to take it;
And many tone from the better land
| If the querulous heart would wake it.
o the sunny soul that is full of hope,
And whose beautiful trust ne'er faiieth.
| The grass is green. aud the flowers are bright
Though the wintry storm prevalent
"A Boston party just returned from
| French Guiana report the gold fields OF that
country fully as rich as the early alluvial
diggings in California, although they have
been as yet little prospected. It is said
there is now exported from Cayenne alone
half a million dollars worth of gold a
] month
| "A money-spen.iins son was thus accost-
ed by his father: The next time you are
about to spend money fvolisi,ly, my son,
just think how long it would take you to
make il hack, by splitting rails at one dol
lar a hundred. This is the standard of
honest labor II this is the case, who
would split ten rails for a ten cent cigar?
The Antiquity Of Iron.
! Aeaordin. &, the IRON 1ge, wedge or