The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1875-04-16
NEW NoR.wEsTERs.

So, 500 year.
The constitution just adopted in France
is the 10Th since 1893.
He was Warm Spring Indian the
moment he sat down on a hot stove.
-"Josh Billings Shaw was originally
an auctioneer at Poughkeepsie. N. Y.
If Tilton really wanted a soft bed he
should have stood on his head, you know.
Charles Summers late residence in
Washington was sold to banker for $40,-
900.
The skin Of a shark recently caught On
the English coast weighed one ton and
quarter. ri
The Macomber gun in England is said
to have the enormous range of nine and a
quarter miles.
Great Britain has but 150,526 acres
planted in orchards. Illinois alone has
twice as many.
A Springfield, Massachusetts,, store
keeper has lamp chimlies - for sale. We
don't believe it.
You can buy horse-meat at fifty shops
in Paris, and the more you eat of it the
better you like it.
Five million one hundred and sixty
eight thousand cigars are smoked hourly
in the United States.
London has cremation society, which
is constructing furnaces and chapel for
funeral ceremonies.
The New York Tribune suggests that
ex Presidents be retired as United States
Senators at large, for life.
Two thousand brass coins of Vespa-
SLAMS era have been found in an antique
jug dug out of street of Naples.
Brigham Young says he is impressed
with the idea that contempt of court and
divorce suits are not prophetable business.
"A monumental arch to Oakes Ames,
over the highest point Of the Union Pacific
Railroad in the Rocky Mountains, is talked
of.
-" 1t isn't loud praying which counts
with the Lord SO much as giving four full
quarts for every gallon" says an Arkansas
circuit rider.
in fox-chase in England lately, the
Rev. C. w. Wilkinson broke his neck Lady
Florence Douglas smashed her collar bone;
but the fox was caught.
Gone fortunate thing in being king, -
says the Detroit Free Press, "is that Kings
EeTer have te get get ZIP ZIP nights and Ing the
potatoes in beside the coal stove"
An English Duke, it is said, is driving
a hack in Philadelphia. He is to be con-
graduated, for it is seldom that an English
duke finds such useful employment.
The Governor of Missouri has vetoed
! the bill authorizing the lessees of the State
Penitentiary to work the conv1cts in any
| part of the State A very sensible veto.
Flora Temple is now thirty years old,
| and facetious paragraphist cruelty remarks
that her owner is doing all that he can to
| smooth her pathway to the glue factory.
i than Palestine, more Scotchmen than Edin-
| burgh, more Irish than Dublin, more
Catholics than Rome, and more thieves
than Chicago.
| Gould there be finer bit of uncon-
scious satire than this? A picture of the
| boy that never told lie" looks down upon
| the witness stand in the Brooklyn court
! room.-Boston Globe.
The following puzzle is again on its
rounds: g To five and five and fifty-five the
| first of letters add twill make a thing that
| killed the king and drove wise man mad
! It was published first about twenty years
ago and has never been correctly answered.
! But they say there is an answer.
/ There are critical points in law. An
| act recently passed in Illinois provides that
| he who steals any sum under $15 shall go
| to the county Jail. If he $ conveys" more
than that amount he will he sent to the
State Prison. But if he appropriates the
exact sum of $15 there is no penalty named.
| The following is one of the sweet little
ditties of the Western spelling school
o. lead my infant feet to walk
Into the spelling school;
| Let other children sneer and laugh
| At photographic rule.
| But me that better way still lead
Till perfectly spell; -e9 @
| So may shun the path that leads s
To where Josh Billings fell
| I'm Switzerland there was a marriage
by proxy. A woman there was married to
a man in America, the proxy being a
neighbor and man already married. The
authorities are discussing whether this
mueh-married man has not committed
bigamy.
-Pereire got little tired cf returning
the bows of an uncomfortably polite man
in his establishment, and finally gave the
polite man this conundrum at point blank
range: Sir, what would become of the
hours if the minute hand stopped to bow
to the second hand every time they met. !"
| 1t takes Pittsburg paper to grasp a
problem and wiring the juice out of it..
Says the Leader: IF an ice bridge thirty
five miles in diameter were built from the
earth to the moon and protected from dis
solving till everything was ready, the heat
Of the sun turned on suddenly would melt