The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1875-05-07
NEW NoR'-wEsTERs.
Single letter postage in Mexico is 50

can be said ON both sides.
A man with big nose isn't always
handsome, but he's nobby.
A nephew of Sir Walter Scott saws
wood in Montreal for living.
The last performance Samson gave,
fairly brought the house down.
On the way from Texas to Wichita,
Kansas, there are 100, 900 head of cattle.
More wheat was sown in Arkansas last
fall than was ever before sown ih one year.
A Spanish proverb says: GA kiss with
out moustache is like an egg without
salt"
About this time of the year spring
chickens begin to hang over the ragged
edge of the shell.
Not less than seventy tons Of nitro
glycerine are now consumed annually for
blasting purposes.
Photographs have been obtained in
Paris four feet three inches long by three
feet four inches in height.
-Foney writes to the Philadelphia Press
that the American Church is the handsom-
est piece of church architecture in Rome.
The ore shipments over the Virginia
and Truckee railroad to the mills on the
Carson, are estimated at about 4,200 tons
per week.
The towns along the line of the Central
Pacific railroad are full of thieves, whose
sole business is to beat " the emigrant
who pass through.
A mule lately died at Fredericksburg,
Virginia, at the remarkable age Of sixty
| Years. having been an excellent worker up
10 the day bof"re his death.
When IL Detroiter was asked the other
day lay traveller if hc had ever been in
Brooklyn lie FASTENED to reply: ." Do | look
like one of that sort Of men, sir?
Bancroft, the historian, says that the
Western Reserve of Ohio contains mores
intelligent population than any other terri
tory of the same extent anywhere in the
world
Orders have been received ut the shops
of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, in
Altoona, Pennsylvania, for several new
cars, to be denominated, "Centcnnial pas
senger ears
The New York Sun says that Donald
Mckay and the Warm Spring Indians, who
have been wandering in New England, are
now fed and lodged as paupers in Fitchburg,
Massachusetts,.
1t is stated, in an article by Mr.. John
C. Galton, on the song of fishes, that fifty
two out Of more than 5000 species of fishes
are known to produce sound and many Of
them emit musical sounds.
Garfield learns officially from the Treas
ury that the aggregate appropriations Of
the last session were only $147, GOO,
against $154, ,019, 600 at the session previous
"a reduction of over 81, 900, 900.
--Tilton and Whitelaw Reid were early
rivals for the hand of Elizabeth. Alas,
now things turn out in this life In the
long run, one cannot ALWAYS tell whether
he has gstInvu s-..HsU Uy Victory ur fs~"-
The deliberations of the bachelors
club were brought to a sudden and igno-
minious conclusion the other night, in con-
sequence of the discovery of hair-pin
| clinging contidngly to the coat collar of
| the President.
The Detroit Tribune has moved into
brand new stone office, and prints picture
Of it with man going up stairs two steps
at time to whip the editor, and u woman
coming down street with a piece Of poetry
for him to print.
Peter Mcnamara, of Rochester who
thought he could mesmerize bull by look
ing him in the eye changed his mind when
he found himself on the woodshed roof a
moment afterward, and saw his wife COM
ing with step-ladder and club to get
him down.
Tho other day postmaster, on enter
ing his office, had his olfactory nerves dis
agreeably .assaiIed. On questioning boy
in the office as to the cause, the facetieus
youth replied: 81 don't know, sir; but per-
haps the smell comes from some of the
dead letters.
This from the Chicago Eoeatng Journal,
"Behold how great an epidemic little
gold nugget kindleth! More than 1000
people have had the Black Hills fever bad
this year over six small nuggets of gold,
affirmed, but not proven, to have come from
that region
My very dear children, said travel
ing Sunday school gimlet, 81 love you so
much could talk to you all day, but time
forbids. But hope to meet you IN heaven,
and then" 81 hope he WON'T" said a
restless red-headed boy, he'll talk us to
death, won't he Jim?"
The folly Of inficting French phrases
on country postmaster, was demonstrated
the other day, when letter dropped into
the Logansport Qnd.) Office, directed to a
young man en- oille, was sent by the intelli-
gent officer in charge to Evansville, and
there detained till too late to accomplish
its intended purpose.
Plus the Ninth. during his occupation
of the papal chair, has created ninety-nine
cardinals, and of this number fifty-nine
were Italians, thirteen French, three Eng
lish, nine Spanish, three Portuguese, seven
German, three hungarian, one Polish
Belgium, one American. The total number
Of cardinals at present is fifty-seven.
!
Max Adeler says: "A Coroner Of ours
seized an Egyptian mummy that wal
brought into town, summoned jury, helt
an inquest on the mummy, brought in ;
verdict of Death from causes unknown,
and charged the county with the usual fee
f with compound interest from the time o
Moses"
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