The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1875-02-19
NEW NoR,WEsTERs.
"A decade tooth is ten years old.
The Harp of Judah was a jewsharp.
The smallpox is raging fearfully in

The smallpox is raging fearfully in
Cuba.
Bullock, who once governed Georgia,
is an obscure citizen of New York. Boston
| Post.
| All games of chance, except running
for Office, will be suppressed by law in Vir-
| ginia.
Paris annually consumes on an average
about 1875 pounds of meat for each of its in
habitants.
-" Max Adeler" is the organist Of st.
Mathews Protestant Episcopal Church in
Philadelphia.
1t is not much of feat to shoot bird
on the wing. There is much more difficult
ty in hitting the head
Louis " and Alfonso XII are warm
friends, and both used to court the same
girl. This is AIN interesting fact. -
Bret Hartc Indignantly denies that he
has obtained a position in the Custom
House at New York, because of pecuniary
embarrassment.
"A good way to restore man apparent
ly drowned is to first dry him thoroughly
inside and out, and then clap speaking
trumpet to his ear and inform him that his
mother-in-law's dead.
The champions of cremation point ex-
ultantly to Detroit, where the tombstones
are stolen from the cemeteries to make beer
counters and door-steps.
A lock of William Penn's hair is to be
exhibited at the Centennial celebration, but
the woman who yanked said lock out has
been dust these many years.
Nothing can oil the wheels of Time
And make it easy going,
Like a little fun--'tis like the wind
That blows the way you're rowing
The Humboldt Register accuses the pro-
prietors of rival journal in that place of
having the stove in their Office painted red,
as matter of economy and for the purpose
of deceiying the printers.
Jones, of Vermont, said on his dying
bed that he had never written line which
he cared to erase. The whole State was
proud of him, but it was found out that he
could not even write his name.
Washington Irving once alluded to a
man of superior pomposity, Gas great
man, and in his own estimation, man of
great weight. When he goes to the West
he thinks the East tips up.''
-Beecher is being tried by "mixed
jury" consisting of two Episcopalians, one
Methodist, one Lutheran, two Roman Cath
olics, three Presbyterians, and two ungod.
ly men who are not church members.
AN Indiana Sunday School Superinten-
dent recently wrote to New York Bible
firm: "Send some Sunday School books
and papers let the books be about pirates
and Indians as far as posi- BILE, and if the
life of Bill Tweed has come out, send along
that
A Landon gentleman has is---,,-a --ro-r~
sails for the formation of a fund in order to
carry the Gospel into the houses by means
of patch work quilts, the quilts to be FROM
ed of patches, each containing q text of
Scripture printed in indelible ink.
The entire alphabet is found in these
four lines
God Civ IS the grazing OK bis meat.
He quickly hears the Sleeps low cry,
But man, who tastes his finest wheat,
Should joy to lift his praises high.
"A pious colored clergyman explains
the Beecher scandal to his flock in the fol-
lowing concise remark: g Breddern /
k,sosos dat Brudder Beecller am innocent,
and you must belebe him innocent like
wise. Buf--it am gis possibul he's done
been among saunks."
An Irish comedian having appeared
before Dublin audience in an extremely
dirty pair of white duck trowsers, a person
in the gallery, who had heard the observa-
tions of those, around him, at length bawled
out, g / say, Mr.. , would not your
ducks be the better for swim ~
When Col. Sellers appeared in Hart
ford, Mark Twain said have written
that no good citizen would live ON his own
people, but. should go forth and make it
sultry for other communities and fetch
home the result and now at this late day
find myself in the, crushed and bleeding
position Of fattening myself upon my town.
The London Times is about to work
another great newspaper reform. Com
posing machines are to take the place ol
compositors, and each daily issue is to be
printed from new type. Instead of distrib
uting the type used, say, to-day, SO thai
the composing machine may set them III
for to-morrow's paper, they are thrown in
to the melting pot, recast, and transferred
to the composing machine. Thus there j
no loss of time compared with the ole
method of hand distribution.
Most Americans imagine that we have
the greatest country and the largest facto
RES in the world The national finger il
pointed to the rolling mills OF Pennsylvania
as though there equal were never seen
Perhaps it would enlighten the the patriot
to know that the steel works Of Alfre,
Krupp, in Germany, cover 900 acres, an
contain $50 steam engines and 10 stear
hammers, $50 melting and cement ovens
200, 900 crucibles 600 tool machines. An
! only eleven honsand men employed.
Lent began this year on the lot
d 4 i
| of Febvuars, much sarlier than il has don
since 1868. This will bring. tho high fe'
tiyal uf East tlisgear Oh the 2s Of 1larcl
which is within SIX days Of the earlisl
period upon which it can ever possibl
occur. On s,.Ine years Easter falls as LAT
..s the 2Gtl.of April. Some years there Al
IS man as line Sundays between Epipl
any and ash Wu.ne seI,.y, but this ye:
! sslere vii My i,e five sundays inteiveniH
] bctH Ell ite jubilee Of Epiphany and Il