The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1875-04-23

! There are upon the continent of Europe
G,0O0, 900 soldiers.
| When ono has cmed the If
But is another cliff.
The California Democratic State Con-
vention meets June 80.
Grant and johnson don't speak when
they meet in the street.
| 1t is stated that the Dutch cremation
| society now numbers 1000 members.
An ex-drunkard makes thirty thousand
dollars year. His name is John B. Cough.
The population of indianapolis has
| increased twenty thousand within year,
MIR. s. L. Clemens pays taxes in Hart
ford on ss4, 46O, and there are many exemp-
/ tIUns.
| Why is the capital of Turkey like a
whimsical patient? Because it's constant
| to no pill
Seven years is the time counted for the
construction of the tunnel between England
and France.
III IAdA LIDS bCOh SOi1bOA'ASN
for libel which he wrote with sharp
stick on the skin of green pumpkin grow
ing in the fields.
The Washington administration organ
calls Harper's Weekly the mother-in-law of
the Republican party.
The next Congress will be the first in
a good many years without single member
Of the Washburn family.
-Marble-top tables are unhealthy ac-
cording to the Herald Of Health, but it does
not mention their disease.
There were 300, 100000 bushels more
wheat raised last year than in 1878. That's
what's the matter with prices.
The total value of the dairy productions
in the United States in 1874 was the re-
spectacle figure of $447, 100000.
1t will take Is, 200 yards of pillow-case
linen and 5, $50 yards of damask table-linen
to supply the wants of the Palace Hotel,
! San Francisco.
Efforts are being made in Tennessee,
to pass State law requiring all unmarried
men over thirty years old to pay an annual
| fine of ten dollars.
Alfonso of Spain, while at school at
Geneva, Switzerland, some years ago. was
well thrashed by some American boys.
War with Spain, therefore?
The Boston paper which alludes to the
Black Hills of Colorado as a darky family,
probably got its impression from the highly
| colored accounts of that region.
There are more than ten thousand
travelling, and twelve thousand local preach
ers, and fifteen thousand places of worship
in the Methodist church in this country.
"A Chicago man thinks that the worst
speller ought to get the dictionary, and the
winner should have ''wreath of-sorrel, or
some other garden sass, like them Greeks"
Since the passage of the Civil Rights
bill the Pennsylvania Colonization Society
has received applications from 8S negro
families of Alabama for transportation to
Liberia.
The spire of Strasbourg Cathedral is
no longer the highest in Europe. The
steeple of the Church of st. Nicholas, at
Hamburg, just completed, is 472 feet high,
and six feet higher than Strasbourg.
-Barnum has engaged Donaldson at
500, 900 year, to take charge of his balloon
department He will have six balloons,
and try to cross the ocean this year. The
largest one is to hold 10000 feet of gas.
The Louisville C0urier-.Journag reports
that the Democrats will run n straight
ticket in 1876, and that if the selections
were made Immediately Tilden and Hend-
ricks would probably be the candidates.
Sewing machine men and insurance
agents don't want to say word for six
months to the man who walked eighteen
miles to call for an advertised letter, and
found it was printed advertising circular.
The two companies formed to build
tunnel between New York and Jersey City
have respectively capital Of 100000
and $4,000 The tunnel will be twen-
ty-four feet high and twenty-six feet wide.
Sentiment is nothing but sentiment.
An ex-army captain in Colorado, when
dying, asked the boys to wrap the old flag
around him. They had no flag, so they
wrapped him in coffee sack, and he
exclaimed, "Ah! may you all die as proud
lY!"
General Sheridan still keeps in his
stables at Chicago, the famous black horse
which carried him to Winchester from
twenty miles away" but the animal has
rheumatism SO badly that it is feared he
will soon go off on long furlough.
Buchanan Reade and the chrome people,
however, have already given him immor-
tality.
The Leland family-Messrs. George,
Lewis, Warren, Charles, William and Hor-
ace-control seven hotels in this country,
and are negotiating for another! Their
houses are-the Ocean, Long Branch ;
Delavan, Albany Clarendon, Saratoga !;
Leland, Springfield, Illinois Eutaw, Balti-
more; Palace, San Francisco; and Sturde-
want, in New York.
The Gear of Russia has just sanctioned
a new ministerial plan for extending rail-
roads in his dominions, which provides for
the immediate construction of over 1000
miles of additional roads. This would not
be considered a very great number of miles
| to be added to the immense railroad system
of the United States, but for European
country, particularly SO frozen a one as
Russia, it is stupendous, and exhibits the
progressive character of the Gear.
-"oxen Bill" of Oregon, was driving
his team toward a Portland bridge, indnlg-
ing in the following mixture of song and
vexation: