The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1875-01-22
NEW NoR'-WEsTERs.


Stokes begs pardon. He's too polite
California is about 750 miles long by al
average of of $40 miles wide
Forty Kentuckians rode two days t
kill a fox worth sixty cents.
The first duel fought in the Unitee
States was at Plymouth in 1921.
| The number Of railroad stations within
the city limits of Boston is SO. Ti4s
Kansas is now the twelfth State witt
a compulsory education law upon It's books
The financial pressure is loosening
Even the days are not so "short'' as they
were.
In 1926 General Lafayette assisted in
laying the corner stone of Bunker Hill mon
ument.
Rev. Dr, Chaplin says of the Lincoln
statue, none needed it less, none deserved
it more.
Trade is now better in Richmond, Va,
than it has been since the beginning of the
war, nearly Is years ago.
-Blondin is going to stretch a rope from
the top of the pyramid of Cheops to that of
Kephron, and walk it. a
Statistics show that the men who fought
in the late war are dying much faster than
their cotemporaries in civil life.
T,I,o ,x,oroo,, ,o.+ ce 40 roo Jc nor milo
in the United States is about $12, 900; Willie
in England it is about $4,000
The agents Of eighty thousand English
1aborers have arrived in Mobile, Ala, on a
prospecting tour through the South.
The annual net receipts Of the st. Jo-
seph railroad bridge are SIS, 900, or one and
four-fitth per cent. on the investment.
1t is with q word as with all arrow; the
arrow once loosed does not return to the
bow-nor word to the lips.
en-. a ,s5. -@.
He who goeth it blind sitteth down
upon the bent up pin, while the observing
man scanneth the chair seat before he squat
teth. 9#
A Colorado bar-lzeeper who shot man
dead over the counter, pleads i'll extenuation
that an order for drinks was counterman-
dead.
1t is estimated that the people of San
Francisco consume $4,000 worth of oysters
per day, or at the rate of $1,000, 900 worth
a year. r a
1t is curious to note that Alfonzo XII.
is only the ninth in lineal descent from and
;ncluding Louis XIII. of France, period
of 273 years.
Tom Hood, at Il Lord Mayors dinner,
once leaned back at about the middle of
the feast and requested the waiter to bring
him the rest in money.
And now that New Zealand has decid-
ed to send Commission to the Centennial,
we trust that the work will go on with a
zealand energy.
The prevalent suspicion that to. spill
salt is unlucky, arises from the well-known
legend that Judas, the betrayer, spilled the
salt at the Last Supper"
"A Michigan man with large family
has been an emigrant fifty-four times, and
las just sent to Texas for a pamphlet
about the resources of that State.
Tons of postal cards without addresses
ire destroyed in the Dead Letter Office, be-
cause people write their messages first, and
hen forget to address the card,
Tho Brainerd Tribune received new
,ffice building, and almost an entire new
,utfit of type, presses and material as a
Christmas present from the good citizens of
3rainerd. .s5 z.. war
Matt Carpenter, William Pitt Kellogg,
he de ficto Governor of Louisiana, and
Zoe Smith and Brigham Young are natives
# the Green Mountain State. Wretched
7 IerInont.-Boston Globe.
A New Hampshire paper declares that
It the recent fire in Wilton the amateur fire
brigade took the town hearse to the confla
grafton, mistalsing it for the engine. They
lid not discover the mistake until they tried
o find the hose. .....41.=f
king Kalakaua has, it is said, an in
ONE of Sa2, 800 per annun. This is deriy
ID from tax of five cents on every 800
worth of property, 81 on every horse, and
IS for every carriage owned and run in his
lominions.
At recent English fair an instance of
prolf1eacy was afforded by
Ir. George Wise, who exhibited the pro-
luce OF one eye ofa variety Of potato known
S the hundrcdfold fiuke, viz: fifty-one
ubers, weighing thirty-one pounds ten
unces.
According to the Cincinnati Price Cur
snt, the hog crop Of 1874 is the largest |
ver gathered in this country. 1t gives the
otal packing up to December e5, at {. 5.466,~
90, against 5.41o,314 in 1878. and ,s31,-
So in 1872.
"A letter passed through the Detroit |
,ost-Offiee the other day bearing the fol-
owing superscription ITO the Fat Kuss
vhat eddits the Pontyac weekly Gazette
nd sent me a dunnin letter in a envelope |
Re stoll; Poutyac, Michigan
I'm Oregon the canning Of salmon has
cen overdone SO that prices have deterior
ted 10 such AN extent that the Gamers
ave gone to canning beef instead. As
hey can buy cattle in Oregon for two and |
alf cents q pound, there is q, margin to
york on in the business.
Charles Joseph Bonaparte. q grandson
t Mrs. Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte, Of
Baltimore, and grand nephew of the First |
5onsul of France, was admitted to practice
t the bar of the Maryland Court of Appeals |
III the 9th inst He is said to resemble Ma |
'oleon Bonaparte more than any other
member of his family.
The Zezidi, q curious sect who. to the /
lumber of thirty thousand, maintain them-
elves i,s n mart of Eurflis4a,, ssbal;pt,e fi,af