The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1875-01-08
NEW NoR'-WEsTERs.


The click of the telegraph is heard in
Jerusalem.
The Gear of Russia is not so aged after
all-only 56.
Both legs of the Mayor of Springfield
Mass, are wooden.
Blasted hopes are nothing compared
with "blasted y headaches.
The present Indebtedness of the city of
Paris is over $3.50, 100000.
"A lawsuit about a hog wortE So has
just ended at Terre Haute. Cost of court,
$500.
EXP Postmaster general Cresswell will
sail for Europe with his wife in April
next.
Senator elect Sharon, Of Nevada, is
reported to have an income of $5, 00O, GOO,
/ gold,
The origin of man in Connecticut is
quite remarkable, from the fact that every
one is born in nutmeg state.
Oxford University is 1000 years old, and
exuits in an annual income Of 81 1000, 900
and a library of 5000 volumes.
"A new tri-weekly paper, called the Epen-
ing Journal has made its appearance at Pho
che published by Wyatt 6 Wescoalt.
VIM. Ogle Key, cousin Of the author
of the Star-Spangled Banner" !" committed
suicide in Baltimore the other day.
The present selling rate is about S90,-
900 per foot for the California - mine,
and ST., 900 for the Consolidated Vir-
ginia."
-"Open War on the High C's of the
senate-Conkling, Cameron, Carpenter,
Chicago papers.
An apple weighing twenty-nine and a
| half ounces, said to be the largest ever
ripened in the United States, has been
picked in Nebraska.
An Ohio sheriff felt good deal OF en-
barrassment ON having to take to the peni-
tentiary man who had been convicted of
voting for him three times.
Benjamin Franklin used to spell soap
"s-o-p-e," and yet there isn't day but
that some one holds him up as a great
philosopher and good man.
1t is sign of progress now that the
preachers have quit talking SO much about
Z" How to die" and are saying much more
than formerly about How to live"
Mr. Clark, of St. Peter, Mimi, upon
breaking an egg, found therein serpent
five inches long. The hen that laid that
egg must have had the dehrium tremens.
"A St. Louis preacher wanted his ser
mons reported, but ever since he saw III the
Gsobe that he prayed "just as L am, without
one f1ea,' he don't banker after typograpil-
cal glory SO much
A physician at Green Bay has sign
bearing the words: Cdr. Jackson, IL. D.,
n.lyrician, doctor z11d nurgeutr, D. 4
NJ, M D., LII D., Prof. And yet his
bills are very reasonable.
Yale College has now 1,031 students.
OF these 1903 are in the theological depart
ment, SO in the law department, so i'll the
medical department, and S0S in the depart
ment of philosophy.
1t is reported that the debts Of the in
dividual members will absorb the principal
portion of the estate of Jay Cooke q Co.,
leaving almost nothing for the firm cred
itors. Bismarck Tribune.
At the close Of one of his mastery efforts
LYMAN Beecher was met at the foot of the
pulpit with the inquiry, ''How long did it
take you to prepare that discourse - 'sFor-
tn gears" was the laconic reply.
Judge Swayne, of the United States SUI
preme Court, reached his seventieth year
recently, and is therefore entitled under the
law to retire from the bench on full salary.
He intends to do so, but has not yet fixed
the time.
-Chas. Jones, !. desperate man, who
escaped from the Carson state prison in
1872, when he is reported to have killed
Matt Pixley, and subsequently killed and
partially burned the mail driver Poor, has
been captured in Iowa.
"A Boston journal innocently remarks
that there is an air of improbability about
the Chicago Posts story Of "a woman who
was eaten up by grasshoppers." Some OF
these Boston papers would doubt the yerac-
ity of Mr.. Gulliver himself.
-"H Have you Goldsmith's Greece % was
asked of the clerk in q store III which books
and various miscellaneous articles were
sold. ssNo," said the clerk reheetively,
eswe haven't Goldsmith's Greece, but we
have some splendid hair OIL
-Atthe explosion in Paris priest showed
great heroism, going into the fire to help
wounded persons out, He was badly
burned, and when the surgeons We're at
tending to his hurts reporter asked for
his name. Hesaid, Write only-a priest. y
Bible albums are the latest freside di-
version Pictures clipped from the illus
trated publications are pasted in a scrap
book, and the collectors scriptural knowl-
edge is exercised in choosing an appropri-
ate verse to write below each cut. Rare
and expensive pictures are sometimes used.
The Idaho Legislature met on the sth
ult. Fl. E. Pickett was elected President
pro tenn; W. G. Beachy, Chief Clerk; B
NJ. Anderson Sergeant-at-Arms, and \. j.
Boyakin Doorl1eeper Of the Council. Y. S.
Anderson was chosen Speaker Of the House,
j Cahalin Chief Clerk, and Mattox Sergeant
alarms in the temporary organization Of
the House.
There is no danger Of the house OF
Harper & Brothers ceasing for lack Of rep
resentatives, says a New York letter.
There are seven Harpers of the second gen
Grafton, and nine or ten of the third. By
a covenant of the original quartette, none
of the sons were to be taken into the firm