The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1875-05-07
EVE-ANGELICAL CORNER.

man.
How to keep your wife in check-Dress
her in gingham.
Punch calls matrimony the common
chord of two fats"
If there is anything on earth that beats
four aces it is kind and amiable wife.
When Calmuck has manageable
daughter he flies flag from the top of his
house.
Most of the spring hats have three or
four colors in the trimming, and these in
great contrast.
The fellow who asked for a lock of his
girls hair was informed that it ''costs mon
ey, hair does"
An ambitious Milwaukee wife has named
her first babe Zero becauseat is nothing to
the number she expects to have.
"Why do you use paint ? asked a violin
ist of his daughter. fFor the same reason
that you use rosin, papa. F" tsHow is that?''
"Why, to help me draw my beau"
"No, sir,'' said weary-looking man on
a street-car to an individual by his side,
II wouldn't marry the best woman alive.
I've been dry goods clerk too long for
that"
| Seven female compositors in the Office of
Boston weekly paper weigh 1929 pounds.
This is more ''fat" than is usually to be
found in an Office devoted to a weekly pub
lication.
| Mrs. Senator Jones' maid is about to
marry General Buffers head cook. The
match is well made. She combs hair like a
mermaid, and his horse-radish dumplings
are the pride Of Washington.
81 see very little of you," said an old
gentleman at a Louisville ball to young
lady whom he had not met in a long time
before. 81 know it," was the artless reply,
''but mother wouldn't allow me to wear
| very low necked dress tonight, the weather
is so cold"
The women of Boston paid more taxes
last year than all the men who voted for
and elected Governor CASTOR. So says
William l. Bowditch in his pamphlet on
the Taxation of Women in Massachu-
setts."
A couple of Des Moines girls have played
a game of ''seven-up'' every night for three
years to determine which should sleep on
the front side of the bed. Practice has
made them SO perfect in the game that no
\ MAN lM tlat region can NoeaS MEM.
A paragraph is going the rounds of the
newspapers to this effect ''There is one
good wife in the country and every man
thinks he has her." Old Brown, who,lves
| on Olive street, who is bald, and whose
wife has red hair and q wicked eye read
this and mur1nured, as he meditatiyely
passed his hand over his head, Il dunno!
dunno n,''-7St. Louis Republican.
| There's revolution coming, sure, the
fashion critics say. The mems trowsers
are swelling, and the women's skirts are
shrinking. It's just like having both legs
Ior IiIetror,s- tho -,rasant fo sb;on
men viii be wearing the breeches in good
earnest, and the despised petticoat will
adorn the neither limbs of man. The new
spring trowsers are big and wide and petit
coaty; the new spring skirt is q yards at
the bottom only, and tied back at that till
one can just walk. Verify, there are break
ers ahead.-Boston Post.
1t is estimated that Of the 100000
women in America, at least II 900, 600 wear
calico dresses. 1t is not an unreasonable
/ 41,o44 41,o ne hnc
during the past year, induced them to fore
go one dress apiece, Or an average of eleven
yards each, making, in all, a loss to the
trade of 1al, ,000,0 900 yards. This is nearly
the entire product of all the Massachusetts
mills for a year. From the above it will be
seen how easy, from a slight inducement CT
necessity for economy, an overburdened
market may be produced in the article of
cotton goods.
On Sunday last, in one of the Chicago
churches, stood a couple apparently singing
from the bottom of their souls out Of the
hymn book. Being religiously disposed,
and not having hymn book, gentleman
who sat Immediately behind them attempt
ed to read from the same book. IN doing
SO, at the end of the verse, he heard the
gentleman whispering: ooh, say yes."
The next verse commenced and when it
ended the fair one replied ''Go ask pa;
it's all right so far as I'm concerned
Yesterday was indeed an eventful day in
the life of lady on west Jackson street.
During trip on the street cars to State
street and back, she saw the loveliest polo
naise pattern she ever saw in her life, the
handsomest fellow she ever saw in her life,
the homeliest woman she ever saw in her
life, got the worst fright she ever had in
her life from the drunkest man she ever
saw. in her life, never was SO insulted in her
life as she was by young man who spoke
to her on the car, and finally got home feel
ing more tired than she ever felt in her ife
Chicago Tribune.
THE HEALTH OF PoPE PIus AND CARDI-
NAL ANToNELLI.-The n. Y. Herald Of
April 22d publishes a seven column letter
from a Rome correspondent, who states
that the Pope is rapidly declining in health
and strength. The Pope refuses to leave
the Vatican, feeling he would violate the
dignity of his position in going beyond the
limits of the palace and grounds, over which
the Italian Government does not assert ju-
risdiction. The weight of years presses
upon him with greater force in consequence
ef this seclusion and the anxiety which at
tends his contest with what he regards as
the usurping Italian Government. Cardi-
nal Antonelli also suffers in health from the
same cause. He is suffering from an incu-
rable malady, which is exaggerated by an
| enforced change of habits