The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1875-03-26
NEW NoR'-WEsTERs.


Pile drivers-Snow storms.
Utah currency-Ali-money.
The throne of China is a cradle.
Old time rocks-rocking the cradle.
How to signal bark-pull a dogs
{ tail.
Domestic s'sauce'' is kept in family
Jars.
Tracy's opening brief consisted of 600
pages.
An elephant is 1927, 1856 times larger
than flea.
| Colorado has appropriated $5o,Ooo for
the Centennial.
i The sun rises in the East because it
wants to go West .a .s -.
Bismarck is described as having
small, hoarse voice.
-'tAs hot-headed as pepper box" is
the latest way of putting it. r.
A statistician estimates that courtships
average three tons of coal each.
/ -"Borrasca' is the word which means
exactly what s'bonanza" don't mean.
Congressman Cox has prepared for
publication series of papers on American
humor.
AT recent lottery in Mississippi only
one man drew prize; all the rest drew
pistols.
] -Bergh and Bonner have fallen out and
it's enough to make horse laugh to think
about it. t
The dull times affects the prices of
some articles. A very good rhinoceros can
now be bought for 5000.
Samuel W. Allen, of Nevada, is be-
lieved to be the greatest herdsman in the
world. His ranch is eighty miles long and
he owns 225, 900 head of cattle.
The hard times are said to have pro-
noted matrimony by ''moderating the re-
quirements of engaged couples"
A Chicago banker, just before the
panic had eighteen fast horses, and now
you can buy kindling wood of him.
According to an experienced Boston
medium, the spirits reside about thirty
miles above the surface of the earth.
Byron said that Sheridan wrote the
best comedy, the best opera, the beet farce,
and delivered the best speech known.
Ninety million people speak the English |
language, 45, 600, 900 speak German, 90, GOO
900, Spanish, and AZ, ,00O, 900 French.
An Irishman who tasted ice-cream for
the first time said: "Faix it's nice, but
isn't it trif1e touched with the frost?"
Rev John P. Newman has returned to |
the pastorate Of the Metropolitan Metho-
dist Episcopal Church of Washington city. |
Pneumonia is the prevailing disease in
all the Eastern States, and the death list |
exceeds that Of previous years in many /
places.
I'm signing himself "Vestibuli Rex"
Sam Ward claims formally the title of king |
of the lobby, and now there will be disputes |
about it.
/
als nf the italian ,,ssars ars H~s>;.~-.4 G;n +
vanni Fornez, and he is in danger of being
mistaken for a bandit.
They propose to run Ben Wade against |
ancient William Allen for Governor of |
Ohio this Spring. That's right, give the |
old man another chance.
The net earnings Of a Florida Railroad
last year was nineteen cents. No dividend
will be declared and the amount will be
added to the sinking fund.
"A man at Ell Paso, Mexico, has put in
a claim against the United States Govern
ment for nine chickens destroyed by cay
otes from the American side.
After travelling up and down Europe,
Col. Forney says tho working people of
America are the llappiest and best paid on
earth. They eat the white bread of the
world.
Sensible newspaper men have about
come to the conclusion that time and ener-
gies spent in quarrelling with one another
are worse than wasted. while every effort
in the pubIics behalf pays an abundant
profit.
"A good mali up in Hawley, Mass.
CHATS great town for good people), once
prayed SO Lord, we wouldn't presume to
dictate; but, o Lord, we want rain. Not
lickety tearirl' shower, but gentle sizzle-
sozzle'
The Erie Railway, one Of the longest
lines OF Iailro ad in the world, employs 49,
600 persons i'll various occupations. 1t is
estimated t,aat there is scarcely an hour of
the day or night when there are not 100
trains in &C tual running along the line.
Charlie Francis Adams Jr., prophesies
that all tn railway systems of the country
will be Co nsolidated into one powerful mo-
nopoly, q, Id that ultimately they will be-
come a. di apartment of the Government,just
as the po stoffice now is. He thinks that
Scott, V anderbilt and Garrett are bringing
this abo ut.
NO understanding the effort made to
stop tb flow of water in the Sutro Tunnel,
small stream is still running. In order to
allow the men to continue their work, the
track has been raised and ditch cut below
it. Men are now engaged at the header,
and hopes are entertained that the water
will soon cease TO flow.
- After Walt Whitman emerged from
the last Polar wave, and had thawed the
icicles from his frozen BRAIN, he is said to
haE exclaimed:
howl whoop;
And with the howlment of the " hoop yep yawp.
And with million chill-betlngRd veins bow to
the winters sovereignty:
biiesome breeze. o 9nakeso ms waves! and al
corn;:pmerate lements OF se i'd things!