The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1875-12-24
EVE-ANGELICAL CORyER

ohakspeare says " a lion among ladies is
dreadful thing" So is a mouse.
Lucy Stone wants it known that she
dosn't approve of the Centennial. Ring the
funeral bell. -l9i
All the Greenland girls wear pantaioons
and ever-coats, and the one with the most
whale-oil on her hair is called the best look
ing. .at s.r.s.
| BIND Tom, the pianist, wants to marry
colored woman in Baltimore, but she is
also blind At least, She can't see it.
There are 100, 600 women teachers en-
ployed in the country, and it would be bet,
ter for the country if there were more.
Bessie Turner's new book, "a Woman
in the Case" although out less than fen
days, has already reached it's fifth edition.
A Detroit marriage notice ends with the
singular expression, probably added by q
waggish friend :" May their future troub-
les be little ones.''
A little two-year-old Clyde girl, Witness
ing the snow storm on Sunday, ran to her
mother saying, "Mamma, look out of the
window, and see the popcorn falling"
A girl in Berks county, Pennsylvania.
only twelve years old, who rises mt four
a. M, milks thirteen cows and pre- oares a:
breakfast fer the family. Her hair isn't
banged, and she doesn't wear a one-lep-
ged Dress
A woman was buried in Bath, New york.
the other day, who weighed before her
death three hundred and eighty pounds.
Her coffin was six feet long. three feet wide
and two and one-half feet deep.
After an Indiana baby had swallowed a
button and been stomach-pumped out it
was observed that he would sadly turn
from a floor strewn with buttons to play
with the nose of hot tea-kettle He
couldn't be pumped but once.
The first piano ever taken west of the
Alleghenes was one owned by Miss Sarah
Sproat, the daughter of Colonel Ebenezer
Sproat, an officer Of the Revolution, who
emlgrated to the Northwestern Territory in
1898, and located at Marietta, Ohio.
A little girlnam Summerhizer. in Iowa
City, swallowed a tin whistle one day last
week. Her parents are dreadfully annoyed,
because with every breath she takes the
poor child wakens the baby, and whenever
she has coughing spell she whistles all the
dogs in the neighborhood into the house,
oftentimes have seen tall ship glide
by against the tide, as if drawn by some
invisible toW-lille. -with -hnndnAd- -atpnn4..-.
moved on stately, in serene triumph, as If
with her own life. But knew that on the
other side of the ship hidden beneath the
great hulk that swan SO majestically, there
was little, toiling steam tug, with heart
of fire and arms Of iron, that was hugging
it close and dragging it bravely on and
knew that if the little steam tug untwined
her arms and left the tall ship,it could wal
low and roll abent, and drift hither and
thither, and go off with the refuent tide,
no man knows whittier. And SO / have
known more than one genius, high-decked,
fullfreighted, wide-sailed, -pennoned,
that, but for the bare, toiling arms, and
brave, warm, beating heart of The faithful
little wife that nestled close in his shadow
and clung to him, so that no wind Or wave
could part them, would soon have gone
down the stream and been heard ofno more.
%. w. Holmes. ..s..s -.-