The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1875-11-19
NEW NoR'-wEsrERs

The Chinese washermen avoid Pitts
burg. To big smokee.'
f-Guibold ought to sleep well in his
tomb. There will be seven tons of mason
rY over him.
-0niawgarah is said to have been the or
iginal name Of Niagara.
They call NJ. Thiers the Washington
of France" and he's a little, bald-headed
midget in spectacles.
Edwin Booth still carries his arm in a
sling. He will carry his head in one aftel
VOORHEES, tackles Hamlet.
An Indiana man recently hanged him
self for fear that he might become prey
to suicidal mania if he lived.
The Old and New Testaments COM
bined contain G6 books, 1,1s9 chapters, 81
143 verses, 773, 397 words, 466. 4S0 letters.
The deadliest conversationalist in all
St. Joseph is named Hiram A. Hall-which
he never does Thus do the gods satirize
the baptsmal acts of men.
Next year will be bullion year. DIR.
Linderman, the Mint Director, estimates
the product of gold and silver at $780, 000,-
600.
-Californians say they can tell an East
ern man as soon as he makes purchase. If
there's two cents change coming to him he
wants it.
The air-ship which Mr.. Schroeder is
building at Baltimore and in which he ex-
poets to cross the Atlantic in 40 hours. is
nearly completed.
The Western Reserve OF Ohio can't bring
out person older than seventy-six. They
become SO good at about fifty that they
pine away and die.
The Rev. Robert Laird Collyer has de-
clined call to Boston church with $G. 600
salary, and has accepted the pastorate of a
church at Leicester, England
-Dakota lightning goes for live stock
with great zeal. A recent bolt killed four
teen horses and five steers when it might
as well have struck cheap dog.
Texas will hold the final State election
of the current year on Tuesday, December
| 7th. The Democrats carried the State by
47,631 majority for Governor in 1878.
| -Straws show which way the wind
blows. 1t was easy to trace the Maryland
whirlwind which blew away fotty straw
stacks in one county.
Josh Billings will have $4,000 worth
Of comic amanacs to answer for in the
next world. He will probably try to throw
the blame on his publishers.
Ex-senator Carl Schurz began lectur-
ing tour i'll New England on the 1st of No
yembcr. The subject of his new lecture is
"Centennial Thoughts. z
There is a man in Indiana who takes
tnirty-two newspapers, and yon might as
well try to ride whirlwind on a side-sad-
die as to attempt to impose upon that man.
An Iowa editor has been shot for
speaking of a man IS "viol wretch"
Served him right. The dictionary must be
upheld if all the editors in the country are
laid out.
Alabama has Incorporated into its new
Constitution this clause: "The people of
this State accept as final the fact that from
federal Union there can be no secession of
any State"
AT restaurant the other day man
inquired reading from a bill of fare,
"What, is this siFloin OF beef a la finan-
ciere" 81 suppose that is a cut from the
stock exchange bull, = replied his friend.
The death of Carruth, of Vineland, is
said to have been brought on by over men-
tai exertion, worrying over the question
whether he ought to accept no more than
$4,000 as compensation for his injuries
from Lands.
Just to relieve the monotony of the
Prince of Wales e750.0oO trip to Indl. he
has on the vessel that carries him a
band of negro miustrels, and several boon
companions.
The original "star spanged Banner
the once that waved over Fort MeHenry and
inspired Key to compose that song, is on
board the United States steamer Talla-
poosa, at Portsmouth, New Hampshire,
and viii be exhibited at Philadelphia next
year.
Edwin Booth has discovered something
new during his confinement with his broken
arm which he will introduce into his next
impersonation of sHamlet." It is that in
Hamlet's time no such thing as velvet was
known, and Hamlet's dress on Booth here
after will be stripped Of velvet.
An old Ohio Democrat writes to
friend in New York telling him he need
never more believe in spiritualisln and
| spirit-knockings. for If spirits could come
back to earth and knock, old Andrew Jack.
son would have come and knocked Allen
down for his bad Democracy
IT'S remarkable what effect wooden
toothpicks have on some people. We no.
ticed one young man, who went out be-
tween each act at the Opera House few
evenings since. His fair partner. towards
the close Of the entertainment, asked him
what his tongue SO thick q Mus be ze
toothpicks. Pint sharper'n sewin' 'chine
needle. - WttfeAaH Times.
SEEING Six GENERATIONS. DIR. Blot, in
his natural history of staffordsl1ire, men,
tons old Mary Cooper, of Kings Bromley,
who lived to see the sixth generation, and
could have said: & Rise up, daughter, and
so 10 thy daughter, for her daughters
daughter hath a daughter This was
either an imitation o., or suggested BY, a
statement made BY Zuingerus to the effect