The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1875-12-24
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blunt men are generally sharp.
-bristow is rough on awry whisky.
--Good TOR cold-A handkerchief.
"A better half-A silver fifty cent piece
Sankey's voice is getting husky, the,
say.
lion. c. M. Kerr was born at Titus.
ville, Pa.
Stanley, explorer, was born in sedalia.
Missouri.
The Vicksburg Herald man is Jas. H.
Sullivan, of Memphis.
Jacob Abbott has written $50 books,
and St. Mark wrote only one.
Santa Anna has purct ased his own
monument. Who said he had lost his rea-
son?
-Pere Hyacinthe gives authority to the
statement that he will visit America in the
spring.
The newsboy's rendering of the old
Scotch proverb is "Many nickle makes a
muckle."
Whoever it was that called sausage ga
ground hog" has made the best pun of the
current month,
Joe Jefferson's boy Harry, who recent
ly died in London, was born in Chicago ON
the night of the great fire.
-" Flipping toes " is the fragrant flower
OF speech applied to dancing by the first So
ciety of Osborne City, Kan.
-Plnkerton, the detective, has been to
Europe to investigate the Nelse Boothe
story regarding Charlie Ross, and finds it a
humbug.
-" kinder like poetry" said Wiscon-
SIN farmer as he waited for his mail, "but
there's nothing like corn-beef to touch the
exact spot"
-" Entire nous,' remarked a knowing
one at the st. Louis Rink. "That's the
right way to spell news, but they've left an
"i' out of the entire.''
"A meteorite, weighing seventy hum
dred weight, recently found in Greenland
by Nordenskield, the renowned geologist,
is now on its wa 70 Philadelphia.
The revolurlonists, who spent five dol
lars and lost one man in overturning the
State Government of Panama, last month,
were disgusted to find only $11 in the treas
ury
The other evening, while Professor
Proctor was lecturing in Boston on "Other |
Suns than Ours" he received cable des- |
patch announcing the birth of boy twins in
his family.
That marvellous joke about NJ. C. Kerr,
in which he is referred to as "Mr. Speak
nsrr has ssr gat 81 far as Washington Terri
There is story of an amateur hunter
in the Rocky Mountains who followed
grizzly bear for four days and then aban-
doned the pursuit, alleging as reason that |
% the trail was getting too fresh"
AT a religious revival of the colored
people now in progress at Palestine, Texas
a song was sung, of which these two lines
are specimens:
What kind o. shoes is dem you wear
Dat makes YOU walk 20 light and square
st. Louis is going to rename some OF
her streets, and it has been fixed to name
an alley after a man who donates $l,OOo
and street after him who gives a toun-
tain. An inch and half of alley will on
ly cost you ten cents.
One wouldn't suspect it from his con-
vivialty, but Sam Bard is devout belieVer
in the doctrine of foreordinatlon. lie says
that "the Washington correspondent OF the
1ntsr- Ocean was foreordained liar from
the foundation of the earth"
The Rev Henry Morgan's sermon ON
"Seyenteen Reasons Why Men Don't TO
to Church" " is likened by wise people to
that famous song with 499 verses. Inc
first reason why men don't go to church is
because they don't want to, and the seven
teenth reason is the same.
The silver mine excitement is running
high in Mason County, Texas. Two shafts
have been sunk in one place to the depth
Of rs feet. where the yield is $18 per ton OF
ore. The ore is sulphide and chloride.
Over 100. 600 acres Of land have been To-
Gated in the county within the present
month.
A contract has been closed between
narties in Chicago and in Liverpool, Eng
land, to build number of sailing vessels
to ply between those two ports in the graiu
trade. each vessel to have carrying ca
pacity OF 80, 600 bushels, ana to De con-
stru.ted in time for the opening OF naViga-
i tion next year.
A middle-aged compostor at the Gazette
office. Trenton, N. j., named Peter r
Packer, also served an apprenticeship at
the printing business at Princeton and the
following is an ALTERATION composed b5
himself: Peter Preston Packer, practlca
printer, PREVIOUSLY pig-pen painter; poor
proud, particular person; present publisher
(part proprietor) Princeton Penny Post.
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