The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1875-01-22
WHAT THE WITS SAY.

consequently be more sought after. DE
troit Free Press. sss ip tsl
A Chicago paper advertises for poor peo
pie gratis, and is building up quite repu.
tation as a poor advertising medium. m.-Lou
| ispigle Courier-Joarnal.
til reported that Ben. Butler wants tc
| join the Democratic party to steal the silver
lining of the cloud in the political sky
N. o. Picayune. .11s e z.z
I They are soon to have senatorial fight
in little Rhode Island. Eastern editors
very properly will form ring around the
State and see fair play.-Missouri Repw51i-
| can. es#i.3@5 1i va .eF.e
| 81 Tt cost Barnnm but five dollars to get mp
that imaginary rhinoceros fight and secure
its publication, while many papers charge
fifty cents for three-line obituary notice
of good boy.-Detroa Press. .'a taa
When the editor of the Courier-Journa1
was in New York, and a restaurant waiter
asked him what part of the oyster he liked
best, he promptly replied: 'HI'll take a
breast bone. ."-Detroh Press -'a 2' -
The broken down sinner who does the
"minor topics y of the Milwaukee Neees
says that ga lot of popcorn balls hung all
over a Christmas tree will create more in
terest in a Sunday-school than twenty mir
acles possibly could. s
Ailarge party of Michigan lnmbermen
passed East yesterday with their axes and
cant-hooks, having secured a job of chop
ping ont engravings for some of the New
York illustrated police Journals Detroit
Free PreeS. ,:.a,a5 ,sa@G5#aa& t1= ,.s,s
? Mr.. Tardy, Of Alabama, kept shooting
appointment yesterday with Mr.. b. D. Lay,
and was killed. Under the circumstances,
we shoald have preferred to D Lay-ed,
rather than to have been rdy.-Coamer-
cSaJ Adcertiser. --.
According to the Detroit Free Press, Jen-
ME June says she wishes she had twelve
children. She probably never said any
teing of the sort, but if she did, she ought
to have said it exclusively to Mr.. June
Louisville Courser-Journa1. .ssss .
Mrs. Sally Tucker Of Hamilton county,
Ohio, is lecturing in Franklin county. AS
Sally is young, handsome and amiable, we
wouldn't be surprised to hear that some
gallant Hoosier had Tucker for better or
wOrse.--1sdiGRapolis Herald. s.s
A young lady in town who has been cour-
ted by a proerastinating young man for
several years, told him the other evening
that he was like the Kentucky Library
drawing. He couldn't see the resemblance
until she explained that he was full of post
nements.-Norristoaon Rerr1d.
A contemporary asks, "What are street
lamps for?" The man who doesn't know
what a street lamp is for is hardly fit to sit
in an editorial chair and mould public opin-
ion. Street lamps are for weary young men
to recline against at midnight when they
-ss~p 'urUy 1rUrIIo.--IY0TT1st0Dn Herald.
We are told that the late Mayor Have
meyer used to take exercise by saving
wood in his cellar every morning. And
Mr.. Havemeyer it will be remembered, died
very suddenly. There are very few sudden
deaths among married men of Norristown
from this cause. That sort of exercise is
taken by their wives.-Norr5stoao Herald.
The Whitehall Times says that as Dwy-
er, of the Sandy Hill Herald, was standing
ON the railroad depot platform at Fort Ed
ward lately, conversing with friend, he
felt something jerking at the loop of his
Congress gaiter. He turned quickly and
discovered the baggage man trying to get
check strap through his gaiter loop. which
he had mistaken for the handle of a Sarato-,
ga trunk. 2G4a.@ $si
= We have been shown a design for an up
holstered front gate, which seems destined.
to become very popular. The footboardis
cushioned, and there is a warm soap stone
on each side; the inside step being adjusta-
allie SO that a short girl can bring her lips to
the line Of any given nliistache without
trouble. Ffthe gate is occupied atf10:3O
p, M, an iron hand extends from one gate
post, takes the young mainly the left ear,
and he is at once Started for home by steel
foot. The girl can, If she fixes, set this
apart 1T a later hour than 10:30.- Rome
Sentinel t''asa
< They DIED WITH THEIR Doors On
The uioi isct,,dac oe liHo I, n vff laa,,
ly exenaplided in the death of Mr. Clayton,
who was recently found murdered on Coal
creek, about twenty-five miles from Greeley.
Mr. Clayton, as welearn from the Central
Register, is the last ofsix men who came to ]
Colorado several years ago, to seek their
fortunes. Every one Of the.s six met yio-
lent death. Mr.. Flemming, the fifth man
to be suddenly launched into eternity, was
killed in the Clayton lminellast year. When
he was killed, Clayton, feeling as if the
fates had doomed all the companions to- a
sudden death, remarked to those around
him. It viii be my turn next Sure
enough, his turn came, and, as it would
seem. not sooner than he expected; for,s
s9EsS 54gNss1s5c- ,5EE41sfsla
previous to starting on the fatal prospecting
tour, he said, q haze presentment that
shah not come back alive We do not in
cline to the belief that he foresaw his death,
but the untinaely departure of his five com
panions seems to have weighed heavily on
his mind, and doubtless he looked for death
TO come at any moment. and especially when
about to depart long distance from friends.
The chapter is closed by the death Of the
six, and we doubt if a more sad one is on
,e ,ord-Deneer Tribune. 4Fs "a
4 .s Photographs ON Railroad Passes.
4 sa y N. X. IIerald Dec. 3. ss &
The practice OF transferring passes on the
railroad has become 50 prev
alerlt that a device has at last been resorted
to to prevent it. Every member Of both
houses of the Legislature in Pennsylvania
and New Jersey has been furnished with a
yearly pass Many of these passes are