The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1875-05-14
NEW NoR'-WEsTERS.

-Cone, OeAtlo opfiuR, SApLaiA yo1lneia
Dan Bryant's real name was DAME
Webster O'Brien.
Thirteen railroads in Illinois are in the
hands of receivers.
Mark Twain bears a startling resem
lance to Frank Moulton.
An Indianapolis politician is member
of the church and ten secret societies.
The acting Governor of Wyoming Ter
ritory is party by the name Of johnson.
The people of the Zenith City of the
Unsalted Seas " are facetiously styled Du-
lutherans.
=" We will miss that bunch of eels en-
grayed in the corner of our greenbacks," !"
says an exchange.
AT present there are fifteen States of
Europe which recognize horses, donkeys
and mules as legal food.
The FREELY only shines when ON the
wing SO it is with the mind when once
we rest we darken.-BaiIey.
One of the rules of Rhode Island base
ball club is that no man shall make count
by knocking his ball into Massachusetts,.
Edgar A. Poe is to have monument.
The Boston Trauezler says, He asked for
bread, and we gave him stone'
-Ex-Confederate General j. B. Hood
has beaten his sword into plough-share
and upturns the soil Of Minnesota with it.
The story Of a man who had nose so
large that he could not blow it without the
use of gunpowder has turned out to be a
hoax.
-"Edting Mississippi paper" remarks
q Western editor, "means buekshot after
the first month and II funeral after the
second"
Out in Nevada they are making fuss
over some sweatcd" double eagles. Pass
them this way. We do not trouble our
selves about the perspiration.
There is IL man in the penitentiary at
Michigan City who was sent there for black
mailing John G. New, the new Treasurer
of the Uaited States.
"A noted gunner in Maine, who leaves
wife alrl five children, tried to pull
double -baneled gun out Of chest by the
mnzzle the other day.
Oregon has already spoken for place
for board at the Centennial. She propos es
to send on fir plank one hundred feet long
and twelve wide for exhibition.
A New Jersey politician who accident
ally drank from the wrong bottle with
friend, is one OF the few men in America
who knows how e-linament tastes.
Tom Paine's spirit has been heard from.
1t contradicts the story that good little
boys who goa fishing Sunday sit upon fence
rails in Paradise and play the jewsharp.
Our two German afternoon cotempora-
ries turned up their toes to the daisies last
week. The past year or two has been very
hard Oh infant journalism, Louis Globe.
The Fitch-Sherman diamond necklace
was stolen ON its arrival in Washington.
Minnie Sherman was half crazy, but six
detectives found it the SAME night, and sent
the thieves to Jail
Several miles of well-known citizens of
are passing between the legs of
heir idol, Urabemura Inabagori, under the
that this performance will keep
off the smallpox.
General Spinner intends to spend his
summers at his home on the Mohawk, in
New York, and his winters with his daugh-
ers in Florida. lie feels that he has earned
| holiday.
THE library Of Congress at Washington
las copy of the first book ever printed in
he United States. It is Eliot's account of
lis labors among the Indians, a thin volume
If twenty pages, dated 1860.
notwithstanding the halo Of fair prom |
ses which shone about young Alfonso as
le mounted the throne, a conviction grad |
lally ripens that the youthful monarch is
,eing moulded, whether by mis- inclination
" his advisers, into tyrant before whom
spanish liberties may vainly kneel for rec
ignition.
Cincinnati has got a ghost which |
launts lanyard. A bold drover, with
'eer in his stomach and twenty-five hum
red dollars in his pocket, attempted to
interview the spirit lately, and has not been
cen OF heard of since. Now the police are
lunting both drover and hobgoblin.
The San Francisco Call, under the
ead of "Personal, publishes the follow
ng: NoTIcE.-I will not be responsible
or any debts contracted by my wife, Maria
!. Charnay, she having put me out of the
ouse. ANTOINE CHARNEY."
A Western paper says that Mark Twain
i'd really tly to become a river pilot, but
e used up so many steamboats, trying to
lear the Mississippi of bars and snags that
g was forced to leave.
a Washington correspondent of the
ftepeInnd Ledger sayes he is told by high
uthority that Mr.. Washburne "has in
ormed his confidential friends that he has
ostiveiy withdrawn from, the contest for
he Presidential nomination
1T is not generally known that if per-
on dies by absolute drowning. bloody wa
sr will run from the body if cut IF death
g caused by blow given previons to fall
lg into the water, blood will not flow from
cut made in the body.
london has another new industry. A
ian advertises himself as .Knocker-up
nd window-tickler from to - Tie
axes heavy sleepers who wish to get mp
arly. Window-tickling is waking without
nging the bells. by means of long pole,
18th which he taps on the window-pane.
1t is said that railroad is shortly to
e built to Hot Springs, Ark. from NAL
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