The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1875-12-10
NEW NOR,-WESTERS.

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Paris laughed two days because Gam
J beta was SO fat that he could not get dow
ON his knees ir church.
Even the Philadelphia horsc-barns ar
being finished off to accommodate Centen
nial visitors. a
"A. T. Stewart, it is said, has bought
the woolen mills at Little Falls for sixt,
thousand dollars. #
The story is that Panl Morphy, tht
once world renowned chess player, has be
come hopeless maniac. s
The chap who is quoted as being ''as
honest as the day is long" had better take
a back seat until next spring.
MIR. Schurz is writing more nowadays
for his paper, the Westliche Post, of St.
Louis, than for several years past.
MIR. Stephens doctor thinks that the
Georgia statesman will be we'll enough to
take his seat IN Congress this winter.
At an auction in Chicago, the other
day, the auctioneer put up stuffed goose,
called it an eagle, and sold it to a colored
man for sixty cents.
The famous old stallion Strader's C.
NJ. Clay, Jr., has passed into the hands of
the wealthy horse-fancier, Gen. Withers, of
Lexington, KY.
Somebody says Whitelaw Reid will re-
tire from the New York Tribune ON the 1st
of January; that he has had his resignation
rendered to him.
They say now that onions are an infal-
lible remedy for the epizootic. Horses to
which they are fed eat them greedily, and
soon recover.-Noreoich Bulletin.
General Doubleday, who was Major
Anderson's second in command, will short
ly publish a memoir entitled Reminis-
cences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie."
Walt Whitman was so absent-minded
at public dinner the other day that he
spread the butter on the back Of his hand
and wiped the biscuit ON his napkin.
1t is fair to state that the late love poem
brought out by the Marquis of Lorne was
written before his marriage, a nd not two
years afterwards, as some seem to think,
A Laramie paper tries to bre ak the
force of the painful fact that a citizen of
that town was found dead with a Bible in
his pocket. 1t says he had borrowed it un-
der mistake.
Say, Johnny" remarked a Paterson
boy, "we're goin' to have bread puddin'
most all next week. Fathers an elder and
has all the bread that's left over after Com
munion Sunday"
On Major Andres monument in Eng
land there is group in which Washington
is represented. and the head of the father
ed off by indignant Britishers.
southern journalism is by no means
what it was ten years ago, No editor is
now content to copy and follow, but desires
to lead, and this ambition is fast giving the
Southern press higher standing at home
and abroad.
Did it ever occur to you that perhaps
the most pitiable illustration of total de-
pravity, occurs in the play of exit" where
the old Judge" driven to any device to
get whisky, pleads promisingly, sect me
drunk and haYe some fun with me %
The largest Touring mill in America is
owned by Hon. G. C. Washburne, of Min
neapolis, Mimi. 1t is seven stories high,
and crowded with machinery from top to
bottom. It's cost was 100000, has forty
un Of burrs, and turns out 1000 barrels of
flour per day.
One hundred thousand trade dollars
were yesterday delivered by the Coiner to
the Cashier of the Carson Mint. This is
the largest delivery of this coin yet made
at one time. 1t shows that they are not |
idle in that money making institution
Carson Appeal, Noc. 11M.
A wild goose flew into Oregon, and its
;rop being opened revealed new kind of
grain From the seed forty bushels have
been raised. and the Oregon farmers are
sitting on the fences with their elbows on
heir knees wondering what they shall call
;he new kind of whisky they will make
rom it.
The Khedive of Egypt has invited Ole
Bull, in his tour round the world, to give
arewell concert at the base of the Pyra-
nids. The entertainment will be incom-
'lete unless the American "bhoys" set ON
he apices and shower the shell Of the fra
,rant peanut upon the crowd.
"A Richmond journal furnishes facts
md figures to show that the negroes, obey
ng law of their nature, are gradually
rifting to the tropical or semi-tropical re-
lions of the country. The editor says the
lack man's passage towards the Isthmus
f Oarien is a matter of philosophical GER
ainty''
American Girl, recently dead, came in ;
o the possession of William Lowell in 1867.
hen five years old. She won for her own
r, in 1868, 1000; in 1869, $ts, 500; in
$40, $40, $50; in 1871, $15, 400; in 1872,
13, $50; in 1873, $14, 600; in 1874. $19,650; '
, 1875, S7,4Oo. Total in eight years, /
f02, 800, or an average of s12, $50 per c
ear,
AL the rats in the 0phir and Consoli-
ated Virginia mines were killed by the !
as during the late fire, and not one is to be = =
zen now in either mine. These rats eat
p the scraps of bread meat, etc., that are :
lrown away by miners, and which, if left !
ing around would make the air very i'm
nre. Their presence IS therefore bless
g, and it is very seldom that one Of them ],
molested by the miners.
-Valmaseda's latest order presents an Al
teresting view of life in Cuba He pro- c;
bits people from travelling at night be- d
Iuse they are liable to be shot by the num- eli
ous patrols through the country. As the ft
lfortunate Cubans are afraid to travel