The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1875-11-26
NEW NoR.WEsTERs.



| A capital skylight--Tha moon. s
"A fisirhswk's motto--"I fights mit
sea-gull."d'i* iIji eaia ss eib5 sfssb's9sa
-soHloquy on painters bill-sOwe fol
the touch Of a vanished hand"
/ I'm Texas young camels bring $45(
each. After their bristles grow they bring
more.
I The Great Eastern is being refurnish-
ed at an expense of 800, 600 for Centennial
trips. s-r.e e.. .5 as
"A western paper announces that the
Prince of Wales has started on bis visit to
Indiana. a
IF. A. Buck has assumed the editorial
management and control of Wilkes Spirit
1 Of the Times
No boy has fulfilled his earthly mission
till he has given some one a cayenne loz-
enge in church.
The Detroit Free Press says that the
Davenport brothers have retired from their
business of being exposed.
Royalty in disguise. The King and
Queen of Denmark are travelling in Europe
as Count and Countess Falster.
The New York Tribune remarks with
great candor that " the Democratic road to
the Presidency is not SO royal as it might
be-"
I'm one of the recent terrible thunder
storms in France 500 sheep were killed out
of flock of 1900, by one flash of light
ming.
1t is probable that the project of con-
structing a ship canal across the Isthmus
of Darien will ere long assume tangible
shape.
The New York Times has struck an
other libel suit. They make good over
coats to keep paper warm through the
cold weather.
| Hair dye is no respector Of persons.
| The use of it killed Baltimore millionaire
the other day while he was trying to catch
a second wife.
-"Let's retire twenty cents of the re-
deemable is the way they put it now in
Calhoun, KY, when they want to ''inaate"
couple of drinks.
Nothing is more noteworthy than that
the Southern newspapers, edited by old
West than to the East.
Seth Green thinks that whales could be
raised in small country lakes as well as any
where else, and we have great confidence IN
what Mr.. Green says.
There is man in New York whose
memory is so short that it only reaches to
his knees. Per consequence, he has not
paid for his last pair of boots.
-Bannister Bond is the aIliterative name
of tho oldest inhabitant Of Iowa. He is
102 years old, and voted at West Grove, in
Davis County, at the late election
Sergeant Bates is alone and penniless
in Canadian city, and Canadians never
give ss,s.dy s,r.,,s aiEo@ wiiirifgfg Is
about to get in its work.
1t has been demonstrated that for all
telegraphic purposes the English language
is from 25 to SO per cent cheaper than the
French, German, or any other language.
The Rochester Democrat defies Chris
tian to pick by a hot poker and put it down
again without referring to some person,
place or thing in uncomplimentary terms.
Secretary Bristow is preparing for the
Centennial statement of what each Gov
ernment Department has cost in the one
hundred years. The Navy statement alone,
the OILY one thus far completed, foots up
an aggregate of one thousand million dol
lars.
A statute of Edward Bates, Attorney
General under President Lincoln's admins
tration, is soon to be erected in Forest
Park, St. Louis. The structure cost SILL
900, and is erected by the city of ST. Loais
and the Bates Monument Association of
that place. a,- ...... ..t. .=...-s
"A large number of tooth carpenters
will at once emigrate for Japan, as il tran
spired in the Buffalo convention last week
that in that country dentists receive ten
dollars for extracting an acher and $3.50 for
set of artificial teeth. Hrt aa
1t is not generally known that the
Treasury Department employs two learned
and skiilful chemists, one Of whom is con-
stantly engaged in fabricating indelible
| inks. while the other devotes his talents to
washing out the inks, and, thus far, chem
istry has devised no ink which chemistry
| cannot efface.
The explosion and destruction of the
iron-cad Magenta makes the second vessel
or this kind lost by the French Govern
| nent within two months. The sinking of
the English vessel Vanguard, within the
same period, by the tap of the spur of a
neighboring vessel, is beginning to weaken
confidence in the durability of iron-clad
| vessels.
| -Bryant's History of the United States,
| the first volume Of which is nearly ready, is
expected to be a great success. His liter
ary fame and his reputation. tor honesty
| warrant the hope that this work will sup
ply a greatly needed want, for we, have no
good popular history Of our own country.
The complete work will comprise four oc-
tavo volumes of more than 600 pages each,
and viii cost over $400, 600. s.. s..a s.5ie
A rich and.eccentric Belgiau,l residing
at Vermond (Aisne), lately wrote to his rel
atives to come and see coat he had order
ed. They, imaging the invitation meant .
breakfast went, and were astonished to see
a series of cofins, which the original was
trying, one after the other! He had caused
them to be made byea nuTnbersof different
sioiners. At last he found one whichsuited
him. laid down in it, took some poison, and
expired instantly. Faoa 7ts'f1f9~ t, Il