The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1875-04-02
NEW NoR.WEsTERs

| -GOSGllG luFultuIG-dIHlcu CudlES.
An executive ofice-The hangman's.
Common pleas-Please shut the door.
-Furrin' parts-Alaska and Hudson's
bay. -*lr z. --7-E--r
Motto for the new Congress Al
XIV" 5....-. .5-.
They pay Hungarian Count only $16
month for washing dishes in Omaha.
On a recent Wednesday, 1877 frozen
ears were found attached to the people in
Sandy Greek, N. Y.
Blue Earth, Mimi, is a growing town.
Last year there were 657 births and 257
deaths, clear live gain of 400.
Because the new postal cards are to be
printed in violet is no reason that the secrets
written on them will be safe.
in 1873, France produced %, 3s1, 1888
bottles Of champagne, which is four times
more than it produced thirty years ago.
.-uleas namDurs OF people are now leav
| ing the Mexican State Sonora, and pushing
their vay to Arizona and Southern Cali
fornia.
The Journal Of Commerce says that
"there are only five persons now i'll business
in Wall Street who have been thus continu-
ously occupied since 1885"
The Crown Prince of Germany is dec
grated with fifty-eight stars and crosses {;
Bismarck has forty, and Counts Moltke
and Room wear thirty-nine each. -..-
The New Haven Register relates that an
actor at one of the theatres was called out
three times in one evening, not long ago
twice by sheriff and once by tailor.
The merchants and business men of
Lewiston, w. T., are seriously agitating
the project of building steamboat to run
between their town and Walla Walla.
The California trotting gelding Occident
will 90 East about the first Of April, in
charge of Bud Doble. to take his chances
with other flyers during the trotting cam
paign.
There is said to be but one divorce in
England to every ten in America. Com
paratively few English people marry for
fun, it would seem.-LomispiJLe Courier
Journal.
General Longstreet has gone into the
sheep business down in Georgia. He is
bound to make living by hook or crook
In the war he lifted hair; peace has come
and he raises wool.
The total yield of the Consolidated
Virginia mine for the month Of February
was 81 ,205, 800. This and the payment by
the company of dividend of $40 per share
speak well for the bonanza mines.
The weather poet of the Yamhill Re
porter gets off the following effusiGn: The
sky is dark and murky. The ground is soft
and sauirty. The wind is harsh and jirky
And it's March OH general principles.
fare them all Bibles?' asked a green
horn the other day of a clerk in the Sur
rogates office, pointing to the large vol
umes of wills upon the shelves. No"
said the clerk ''they are testaments.'
A Cincinnati family, whose two-year old
child, ii much beloved little girl, died over
year ago, managed to preserve the child
| almost perfectly by an embalming process,
| and have kept IL IA ,----~.-a--a.. ,i,,nn
| The Americans are the geatest paper
consumers in the world, using seventeen
pounds per head per annum, while the En-
! glish consume only seven and half pounds,
and the French seven pounds to each in
habitant. -. .-...
The Act passed by the Legislature ot
the State OF Nevada at their last session,
concerning the taxing OF the mines on the
same basis as other property will have the
effect of increasing the valuation OF taxable
property in Storey county from $15, ,0oO, ,00t
to SIS, 100000. .".....'.
The Raigwey Gazette, in stating tha
only 1900 miles of track were laid in 1877
against $500 miles the previous year, ane
1000 in 1872, says that $40 miles, over one
| sixth, of that 1900 were of the three fee
gauge. Another authority estimates tina
the decrease in railroad building has thrown
of employment over 100, 900 men. I'd s
| Gen. Schenck will never hear the las
of his poker tract. Mr.. Smalley writes t
the New York Tribune, that in lunch
room recently the General desiring the pee
pie to adjourn to the drawing-room and tn
American game, shouldered poker an
marched the party off to the card tables
waving the implement and crying "in 10
ssqno psncet" This is too good to be true
but it's very good. 70
They have an iconoc1astic clergyma
in the Glasgow Presbytery, Scotland. a
a recent session he objected to the openin
statement in Bishop Heber's well-know
hymn ~ q
- BY cool Siloarn's shady rill #
How sweet the lily grows.
Z He said that there is no shady nl ther'
} and no lilies grow in the neighborhoot
Therefore he thought the statement tol
ographical and botanical falsehood whie
it is improper to sing. g4 s-.5
The Omaha smelling and refining worl
have been in operation four years. III
/. works turned ont 81, ,ooo, 900 in 1873, al
the operations during 1874 may be brief
Y stated thus: Amount of base bullion sepa
!, ated and refined, 1000 tons; ore smelte
r 1000 tons; value of gold and silver produce
t 81, a56 060; lead shipments, Z, 500 tons value
: at $500, 900; wages paid, 800, 900; paid !
|, freight, $3.50, 900; for expressage, $40, 900
: The Burlington Hoax Eye man sfdoe
d his Police Court items in rhymes, of whi
the following is specimen
B t.'Tis seldom the earth ever yields ##4 .
druEkener man than Thomas Fields 9fs58
He hollered and whooped, and ahrieked, and howl
And beloved, and roared. and ragged. and yowled
; Till gentle policeman heard his din,
And kindly hut firmly. gathered him In, 81
y And hushed the noise Of his boieterons mug
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