The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1875-12-17

"A new name for tight boots--a corr
crib.
Webster was twenty-five years compit
ing his dictionary.
Moody seems to have been born of hon.
est Unitarian parentage.
1t is a great art to be able at all times to
tell less than you know.
Ira Harris, formerly United States Sem
ator. died December I'd. at Albany, New
York.
An economical Japanese family can
live on three cents day if buckled down
to it.
The population of Massachusetts as f.
nally corrected at the State Census Bureau
is 1851, ,902.
-Zebulon B. Vance is proposed as Demo
cratic candidate for Governor Of North
Carolina next year.
General Mcclellan will take up his per
manent residence at Baltimore about. the
middle of December.
What requires more philosophy than
taking things as they come? Parting with
things as they go.
1t is said that Colonel Tom Scctt has
taken elegant apartments at the Arlington
Hotel, Washington.
I'm New York city there are $50 miles of
street railway, 1900 cars, drawn by 10000
horses, and carrying annually 100, 600, 900
people.
Emperor William'keep French cook.
and is said to study the bill of fare pro.
posed by that functionary as carefully as
one of Bismarck's S reports.
Visiting cards for the coming New
Years day in Paris, are made of cardboard,
covered with gold leaf, having the names
picked on them with bodkin.
-"You haven't opened your mouth during
the whole session." said an NJ. P. to fel-
low member. "Oh yes, have" was the
reply, "I yawned through the whole of
your speech
The Philadelphia Evening Telegraph
says the Navy Yard was bought by Drexel
g. Co., banekrs, and W. W. Welch, for a
large shipping firm in that city.
-Chas. r. Luster is the name of the m an
who has been doing the fun for the Bruins
wick (Mo.) BrGnsoicker. He will now
shine for paper of his own-the Brunswick
Meas.
Henry Wilson, though teetotaller in
drinking, is said by his friends to have
been an inordinate eater and altogether too
fond of good dinners. He lived not wisely,
but two well.
Ex-senator Nye, has so far recovered
his reason and health that his friends have
removed him from the Insane Asylum.
Strong hopes are entertained of his com
plete recovery
Brick Pomeroy says he has not suspended
and he proposes to prosecute for libel all
journals which said he had. Brick will
have his hands full, as every paper in the
country has made the announcement
Emperor William is described as a
robust, bald old man, an economical, un-
ostentatious sovereign, who lives now very
much as Wi1efi he lie was Crown Prince, and
in the same palace which he built in 1899.
The Chicago Times headed the an
nouncement of the death of Vice President
Wilson with g The Cobbler's Last There
is probably no other newspaper in the
United States that is capable of vulgar
jocularity at funeral.
=" Coal Oil Johnny" instead of work
ing as lahoring man on a railroad, is at
present building fence around two hum
dred acre f;,rin which he lately purchased in
California. He saved $4,000 ont of the
general wreck, and "Johnny" has become
a granger, and is doing well.
The Boston Journal says that when the
war broke out the accumulations of Henry
Wilson amounted to some few hundred
dollars. When the war closed he was some
81, 500 in debt No sick soldier was ever
left uncared for If his peeuniary means rem
dered it possible to afford relief.
An appeal is being circulated through
the banks of New York, Philadelphia, Baiti-
more and Washington, petitioning Con-
gress to repeal the law recurring the affix-
ing of a two cent stamp on the checks, on
account of the annoyances, misunderstand-
ings, and the actual losses to banking institu-
tions occasioned thereby.
The editor of the Alabama State Jour
nal is now Sam Bard, and he wants it un-
derstood that his paper will admit no long
contributions whatever, and personally
abusive articles will be charged at the rate
of 800 per line." He states that he has
been connected with journalism, directly
and indirectly, since 1845, and has learned
at last what not to put III the columns of a
newspaper.
The surgical examination of the body
Of Lexington, the great Kentucky race
his death. That part of the skull under the
left eve, where the trouble Of the horse
seemed to be located, was filed with at
least qnart Of masticated food, which had
been forced into the cavity through an OPEN
ing into the upper jaw, caused by the loss
Of tooth.
In the pocket Of a man who was killed
while drunk in Cincinnati gambling house
was found the following memorandum :
g Took my last spree May the Is, 1875.
Five rules from this date. First Is never
to eat but three meals a day. Seconds
never TO eat anything between meals.
Thirds TO eat as little as can every
meal: Fourth--Is never to drink any kind
of intoxicating drinks. Fifth--Is never to
use any tobacco. z
A ToUaH FooT. They tell big stories
about the tough feet Of the Louisiana dar-