The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1875-08-20
NEW NoR'-wEsTERs.

now drives 81, 100 mare.
-"Max Adeler," the Philadelphia hu-
morist, is to lecture next year.
An American is dlckering' with the
Egyptians to buy the pyramids.
The bridge across the Missouri river at
Atchison, Kas., has been completed.
Sultan Abdul Assiz has authorized
the circulation of the Bible in Turkey.
The Israelites of Kansas City, Missouri,
are constructing magnificent synagogue.
"One swallow doesn't make a summer,
But many of 'em makes bumnier.
All respectable, high-toned Boston
families paint their front steps lemon col
or.
A new paper is to be started at Elijah,
Georgia. They will try to keep it from
going up. t.
Professor Hayden, the geologist, has
gone into the cattle business near Greeley,
Colorado.
The name of the river Garonne in
France is of Celtic origin and means " saw
age river" ..-..
The estate of the Congressman Hooper
is shown by an inventory to be worth 81,
804, 9s2.3S.
Old Hundred is the name of a new
North Carolina paper. 1t has ninety y-nine
years to fail in.
Major General Heintzelman, of the
United States army, is in London, accom-
panied by his family.
The Greeley Tribune hears of Colo
RADIO plot to prevent the admission of the
territory to the Union.
The area Of the Southern States is 507,
000,00 of acres. There are 55,000,000 of
acres under cultivation.
Harry Richmond has accepted an en-
gagement as "leading man" at the Acad-
emy Of Music, Chicago.
An Englishman was lately struck by
lightning out West, and they spoke of him
as "blarsted Britisher."
English pointer and setter dogs, to the
value of over 100000, were imported into
the United States last year.
That is quite respectable failure Of
Duncan, Sherman s. Co., for six million of
dollars. Few men can afford it.
Governor Stanford is erecting house
in San Francisco. 1t will cost nearly half
a million and be earthquake-proof.
The Greeley (Colorado) Jail has re-
mained empty for an indefinite time and
it is now proposed to use it as church.
A thousand flashes of lightning we're
counted in an hour during the great storm
ON the I'll, of .Tufy ut Geneva. Switzerland.
California is no place for yoa, my
friend, if you are quack doctor. They
use 'em there to make corduroy roads
with.
Thomas Allen the fighting man, has
sold his fighting shoes, and now if he
could only get rid of his mouth, he'd be well
fixed.
-Twenty-six models have been offered
for the memorial statue of Charles Sumner.
Of these, fourteen have already been re-
jected.
-" How odd it is," said Pat, as he trudg-
ed along on foot, one hot, sultry day, "that
a man never meets cart going the same
way he is"
"A seventy-two inch cylinder, fifteen
fee. long and weighing thirty tons, intended
for the Chicago water works, was recently
cast in Brooklyn.
Fourteen practical glass-blowers from
Pennsylvania, are about to start glass
mandatory at the Soda Lakes, either in
Morrison or Golden, Colorado.
The Scientific american does not be-
lieve that Donaldson, the aeronaut, is dead.
His disappearance, it thinks, is merely an
advertising dodge of Barnum's.
"A Methodist Episcopal college is to be
erected at Los Angeles, California. Sixty
two acres of land and $500 have already
been subscribed. 1t is to cost 5000
So large were the hailstones which fell
at Damascus in tempest which visited
that city on the 1st Of june that three men
were killed by them and eight wounded.
The man who bushes when a lady ae-
quaintance sees him coming out of sa-
loon, is not entirely lost-he may be found
most any time afterwards going into the
back door.
Don't let your angry passions rise,
Because yonr neighbors advertise,
And draw away the dimes;
But boldly do as they have done,
Pursue the course they have begun,
And drive away dull times
"A negro highwaynan near Lexington,
Mo-, bought revolver of man for $3, the
other day, and then used the weapon TO
rob him of all his money, including the
purchase money.
Two hundred thousand Americans,
not one in five hundred of whom ever saw
reailies, mountains, cahons, falls or other
western sights, are over in Europe hoofing
it around through heat and dust.
"A New York paper estimates the cost
of a respectable funeral in that city at $2,-
191. A man Of sense win look at these fig
ures long time before he will consent to
play the leading character at New York
funeral.
Third Assistant Postmaster General
Barber estimates the consumption of postal
cards for the present fiscal year at 100, ,00O,-
600. This estimate, he thinks, is warranted
by the increase (1s, Is per cent of the
last fiscal year year which ended June 80,
1874.
The season is about month behind,
but those items about the rays of the sun
and milk can setting fire to barn, and a
thunderbolt stunning an old woman and
melting the knitting needles she held in
her hands, turned up this year with COM
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