The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1875-12-10
WHAT THE WIIS SAY,
lew Jersey is out of debt as well as out
ha ,,p;or noa6,,u,. N.,.,

New Jersey is out of debt as well as on
of the union.-Danbury Neacs.
Nellie Munroe of the Virginia 's fancy ,
shot off piece of Mike Gilmore's cheek il
a dispute yesterday. But then he dom
care-lot's more left.-Lyon County Times
An exchange asks: g Does stovepipe
shrink?" Our opinion is that it probably
does. We think stovepipes win do any
thing mean, unless it is to vote the Repnb
lican ticket. Rome Sentinel
Detroit Free Press.-" A wife will hardly
ever notice whether her husband has had
his hair cut Or not, but let him go home
| with strange hairpin sticking in his over
coat and she'll see it before he reaches the
| gate.''
A man who heard that Eugene Sue wrote
in white kid gloves, obtained pair once
worn by that distinguished novelist at
great expense, and was much disappointed
to find nothing written in them.-.Dan5ury
Neaos.
If parents would tallow their children IS
noses after dark and put them to bed in
stead of allowing them to roam the streets,
there wouldn't be nearly so much music on
the sweet catarrh as there now Wheel
ing Leader.
It doesn't lock very well to see school
master hoofng it along ths highway with a
revolver under his coat-tails, but then the
foundation stones of education must be pro-
tected if all the powder mills of the country
have to WORK overtime. Detroit Free
Press.
Sam Bard sometimes gets sublime. Last
week he said that nothing but the omnip-
otent hand of the Almighty can prevent
General Grants reelection And after
such efforts as these he still eats and drinks
just as much as the proprietors of the At
lanta free-lunch counters will let him.
argus.
A solemn agent for the patent automatic
baby jumper called last week at the house
OF Roman couple who have been married
about month. The husband was not at
home. and the agent, Immediately came out
again to look for him. He was accompanied
by fat-iron, a Bible, roliing-pin, and
two breakfast p!ates.-Rome Sentinel.
The Lebanon (Tenn) Herald says "More
than cnce during period of four years. not
now necessary to particularize we paid 800
or $3.50 for a pair of boots" In this the
editor of the Herald no doubt tells the
truth. Indeed, nobody can look at those
feet of his, even at the distance of half a
mile, and believe that the boots could have
been made for less money. Courier-Jour-
ndi
Prof. Proctor rejects the cosmogony of
Moses and accepts the cosmogony of Tyn-
dali. He doesn't believe the world was
created in six days nor "nuthin' like it."
and as to Adam and Eve-why, the author
of the Pentateuch was mistaken, and he is
to say with Topsy, 8" I spec they
growed." we are glad now that Moses is
dead. 1t would be very uncomfortable for
him to encounter two such antagonists as
Proctor and Tyndall, who have gone
through the universe with rake in one
hand and spy-glass in the other, multi
plying knowledge enough to drive the He
brew law-giver crazy.-BrooElyn argus.
"My son." said bland old gentleman to
a little hoy, "would you not like to come
to the Sabbath-schoolt to sing, and pray. and
hear all about Moses, and Aaron, and the
whale, and the fiery furnace, and Joseph's
coat of many colors, and put your pennies |
in the box? ~ "Be you going to have
Christmas tree?" asked the child. "No.n
the old man +" but we are going |
to spend the money that would be spent
for candles, and oranges, and candy, in
sending tracts to the little heather children
-" "That'll do,' answered the
'ude young boy, as he took sight at the
Did man; 6 | don't train with no such Sun
iay-school as that, Gully" and he departed
% stone lost dog.-Chicago Tribune.