The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1875-06-04
EvE-ANaELIc.AL CORNER.

mourning.
General Adam Badeau's bride is grand
daughter of Eugene Sue.
A ribbon is made for hats with one side
gros grain and the other side satin.
An old woman put a white door knob
under setting hen to see it would hatch
out brick house.
A burglar in North Corolina was found,
upon being shot by a farmer into whose
house he had broken, to be a woman in
mans dress.
Duluth is fifteen years old and never had
but one breach-of- promise suit, and that
was settled by giving the plaintiffs fathers
pair of cowhide boots with red tops.
"Oh, John! Drunk againw sobbed his
wife, as he returned from midnight spell
ling school. "N-n-Ct SO, Elizabeth, he re-
piled. Its only the bird singing in my
heart. Tha's all.''
A Colorado man sold his wife for $500 the
other day, and when explaining the matter
to his children, he said he hated to let the
old woman 60, but "$300 wasn't laying
around Loose like it used to was.'
There has been this year a revival Of cal
icos. It is said that Madame Theirs, who
now sets the French fashions instead of the
Empress Eugene, is responsible for their
restored favor in the fashionable world.
MAY leave n few tracts?" asked a
medical missionary Of a lady who respond
ed to his knock. "Leave some tracks?
Certainly you may" said she, looking at
him benlgny over her spects. ''Leave
them with the heels toward the house, if
you please
Among the gay little forerunners of tie
forthcoming Centennial, says Jennie June,
are the Lady Washington caps, and the
furole for them has grown until they have
become the almost universal accompani-
ment of the breakfast wrapper or pretty
morning dress.
'stay," he said, his right arm around
her waist, and her face expectantly turned
to him, "shall it be the kiss pathetic, SYM
pathetic, graphic, oriental, intellectual,
paroxysmal, quick aud dismal, slow aud
unctious, long and tedious, devotional or
what?' She said perhaps that would be
tbs better way.
The "manly art" seems likely to recover
some hold on public opinion in England. 1t
was in the prize ring that the lower classes
were taught some notion of fair play and
generosity, and it is thought that the sup
preston of that source of instruction has
some relation to the indulgence of brutal
ferocity against women.
A girl out West ate seven pounds of
heavy wedding cake in order that she
might dream of her future husband. She
dreamed that man with teeth foot long,
dogs feet, and hair lip, sat on her all
night and, rather than marry him, she
contemplated suicide and an early tomb,
where the bobolinks sing.
A Western editor exclaims: "Bosten
needn't attempt to sell any of her shirt
bosoms, warranted not to rumple,' in this
locality. Not muchi The sigh, the ex-
clamation, the sweet, tremulous accent, the
delicious fragrance of her hair aud breath
all these may pass away in moment, ,but
the rumpled shirt-bosom remains ever
with you as a present reminder of past
joys
A sentimental young man of Chicago
went to see his girl the other day, and
found that his letters had been pasted over
the tops of preserve cans. Those begin
ming with sMy Darling Susan " went over
the peaches, and those commencing with
"My Own Darling" were put over the APP
pies. This was too flatteringly sweet 10
allow the engagement to remain substan-
tial.
The Philadelphia Press, very moral
and religious journal, suggests to its read
ers that the judicious infanticide, say about
fifty per cent. of all the babies born in the
country, would be good thing, and would
produce nation of men and women phys
ically strong. We suppose the Press means
to commence the work in Philadelphia.
Let there be no further complaints about
the unemployment of their rights by the
women of Nevada. The centract for fur
nishing the iron fencing for Capitol Square,
at Carson, has been awarded to the Misses
Clapp and Babcock, principals ofthe Sierra
Seminary. Their bid-$5, $50 in eoin-for
the delivery of the fencing upon the
grounds is the lowest by some hundreds OF
dollars of any submitted.
| AS they entered dry goods store yester-
+ day you would have said that love dwelt in
| both hearts, and that dove Of peace roost-
ed on every shingle on the roof OF their
abiding place. She saw lovely dress, and
she begged him to buy, but he replied: =
can't, darling, before next week" "Can'5
you, dear?'' she smile. "Well, I will
wait" They had hardly passed out the
door before lie said: I'D like to see myself
getting that dress y And she answered
EssYou couldn't buy one side of it. and if
you could you are TOO stingy and mean to
| do it ~
| The women of New Orleans are said to
be most superb-looking in America. They
are brunettes, the most and best of them,
with an elegance of carriage and figure. "a
contour of feature and a pose Of manner
that are matchless. They say that the
peasantry of certain districts of Spain cai
/ ry yet i'll their faces the grandeur OF the
faded Castilian no6lesse. These New o.
leans beauties, lifted tenderly down dozen
generations of close blood, are more que.r-
ly than the portraits Of their French mosh-
ers that have hing for centuries in ft.r,r
psrlors. Some of them are like the cliis-
elled, penciled figures. out of marble, With
the soft dash of Guido's brush OF of Pc
] frarch,s snrltr in their f.cas md tie rii...