The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1875-10-22
NEW NoR-wEsTERs.


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Anger begins in folly and ends in re
pentance. a
The dentists epitaph-" He is filling
his last cavity"
What men going down hin will want
Checks. &it8ss
in the hundred years since 1775 there
have been only six Popes.
The corrected census of New York City
shows population of 1,058, 734.
-Modesty seldom resides in breast that
is not enriched by noble virtues. 81.
The good little bootblack's epitaph
Gone to shine among the angels.
If a grizzly bear attacks yous remain
perfectly still and he won't eat yea.
The Massachusetts boy always insists
that the first mans name was Adams.
The proudest people are invariahle
those who have the least to be proud of.
The value of the estate of ex-President
johnson proves to be about $175, ,000-
"A Mason's congress, with delegates
from all parts of the world, will be held in
London in 1877.
Germany has decided to abandon silver
as the standard of value in her financial
system aud substitute gold.
"A Troy firm makes as good " Bass ale"
as Bass can make. Troy has just as dirty
water as the Thames.
Every third man in st. Louis is named
Jones, Brown, johnson Or Smith, while the
balance answer to the name of "hello,
there -
Franklin used to urge business men to
advertise, but if merchant prefers playing
checkers and sitting with his feet on the
counter it's his own business.
1t is shame to think that the Pres
ident's horse, ridden by him at Vicksburg,
brought only $56 at the sale. Itwas worth
more than that for relic, if for no other
purpose.
Tennessee farmers look meek and peace
full, and will stand a good deal of sass,"
but kick one of their dogs and the owner
towers like giraffe and strikes out like a
grizzly.
When the Indians heard that Columbus
Delano had retired to his farm they gather
ed in council and softly whispered ' Blast
his eyes, we're glad on't!'
-Tilton says Washington is so corrupt
that the Man in the Moon holds his nose
when he goes over that city. What does
he do when he goes over Brooklyn
"A barber who was in the habit of stun
ming his customers ears by the rapidity of
his tongue, asked an individual one day
how he wished his heard to be cut. "With-
out saying single word" replied he.
An Omaha Indian swallowed some bed
bug poison, believing he had sure thing
on good whisky, but it didn't hurt him
much. He remarked to the doctor: " Him
make feller feel like big belly-ache."
Rhode Island would have had whirl-
wind the other day, but lust as it got to
going it crossed the state line to find room
to spread itself, and the little State lost its
chance to get puff in the newspapers.
Emperor William of Germany is liv-
ing vigorous old age. He was in the sad
die during the whole of both days of the
recent Sedan anniversary. and galloped up
and down the field at the head of his staff as
briskly as ever.
The immigration to California has been
the greatest this year of all years since the
discovery of gold in that State. The i'm
migration from all quarters for the last
eight months exceeds than to New York
duriug the same period by more than twelve
"A shoal of red fish lately appeared to
King Kalakaua of the Sandwich Islands
while taking bath. This sign has preced-
ed the deaths of his three predecessors, and
he has accepted the omen as warning Of
the inevitable, and has taken to his bed,
quite i'll.
The frogs are going down into nine
feet of water this fall, and are lining their
nests with cotton batting and laying in
twice the usual amount of coal You can
look ont for winter which will bend shade
trees double and freeze the life out of hitch
ing posts.
Mrs. Dr. New has received from her
son, Mr.. Frank New, who is now in the
Treasury Department at Washington,
clinker, which is all that is left of nearly
81, 600, 900. 1t is about the size of ones
fist, and was formed by the chemicals in
which have been burned.
1t may be hard times, as the croakers
say, but the number of weddings appears
to be about as usual for the season. The
corn crop may be good or bad and hard
money or initiation theories prevail az it
chances, but the desire in mans bosom to
dig around and support a family and wear
Did clothes is still the same.
There is possibility which verges
almost upon a probability that a fast mail
train will be run all the way across the |
continent. Not one of these meteoric fast |
trains, but one that will save day in going
the entire distance making five days from
New York to San Francisco, instead of
seven, as at present. Arrangements are
now perfected to reduce the regular time
TO SIX days at any rate.
lex periments on the height and weight
Of boys fourteen years of age in two groups
Of English schools showed that the boys in
the country group were about Il inches
taller and seven pounds heavier than those
in the town schools. The difference in
height was due in about equal degrees TO
mere retardation and to total suppression
Of growth.