The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1875-08-06
NEW NoR-wEsTERs.

3--Lawyer's maxin--where there's viii
there's a way-to break it.
Abraham was the first sick man. HI
had Hagar in the wilderness.
"A two-legged calf is lafayette wonde
mot connected with any paper. h
Oneida, N. T., has shipped Il, 1,O0'
bushels of Strawberries this season.
-The Portland (Me.) argus makes th,
number of United States office-holders s6,
600. g.
There is one thing about constantly
idle man to his advantage-he never labor
under mistake.
The children In Florida say they live
ON sweet potatoes in summer, and on stran
gers in winter.
7 -4fs. Humphrey Jones Of Toiedohas pur
chased the famous PAGER Billy Boyce, whit
has record of 2:14s under saddle.
A Washington dispatch says over 80,
600 patents to land have been laid away
in the General Land Office since its organi
zatlon.
The Chicago doctors are still digging
grave stones and bullets out of the Fourth
Of July ceiebrationists, and have week,
work head. @
General Sherman's book is to be fol
lowed up by another from Confederate
General Hood, which 10 now in course oi
preparation.
The famous Cunard steamer, Scotia
the only side wheel vessel in the trans-at
lantic trade, has been withdrawn and will
probably be sold.
JEFF Davis has been offered and viii ac-
cept the Presidency of the Texas Agricult.
ural and Mechanical College, at salary oi
$1,000 per annum. aass
Senator Sharon, of Nevada, owns real
estate in San Francisco to the amount OF
$1,000, 600. Of this sum $3.50, 600 is in.
vested in the Palace Hotel.
1t would not be proper to call young
person, lady or gentleman, while away
from his or her parents, "grass orphan. :"
The widow principle does not apply. =
The baby at Long Branch was observed
ON yesterday to almost smile at its grand.
papa, and the old gentleman, in his joy,
SAID that Appomrnattox was nowhere.
Strangers visiting the Philadelphia
cemetery, lately, are generally edited by
skeleton poems traced with lead pencils
ON the tomb-stones by George W. Childs.
"A vagrant Cheyenne Indian tried tine
role Of Lochinvar at wedding In southern
Kansas, recently, butwas pursued and shot.
The bride was rescued, but in deiirious
condition. 1850 a
Gen. Manson's famous old war horse
Zollicoffer killed himself recently by jump.
ing on stake. He was wounded twice
and captured once. He was twenty-one
years old.
Robert Dale Ovens daughter in a let
ter to the New York Post says her father 8
,nalady is an overtasked brain. He was
warned of the consequences, but would mot
stop writing. .,5,
The worst feature in this whole Charley
Ross affair is that brand Of execrable +!
mean !! sticky !! ! chewing =! !
gum !!!!! has been named after the poor
little abducted.
1t is wrong to discourage marble play
ing among boys. The steadiness of nerve.
and accuracy Of aim they acquire there
will be invaluable to them in after years
when playing billiards. .MesseB-
ger.
"A medical journal has found that there
are from 100, 600 to 200, 600 hairs in wo-
mans head. The number. Of hairs in a
mans head depends considerably ON the
length of time he has been nnarried.-Ai,
soaakee Sentinel. ~ ss$. .t..5
Sometimes people write postal card
full, and then turn over and finish what
they have to say ON the face. They ought
to know that in such cases the party to
whom the card is addressed has to pay six
cents postage. Cheaper to use three cent
stamp in the first place.
The new postal cards will be ont in a
few days. The color win be light gray,
and the heavy border and lines of the old
kind will be omitted. The stamp will be
square instead of oval, the printing will be
in black ink, the size Of the card unchang-
ed, and the quality of the paper improved.
"A Western farmer communicates to the
American Chsnaist method of preserving
wooden posts, so that they will last longer
than iron in the ground, while the cost
does not exceed two cents per post. This is
the recipe Take boiled linseed oil and stir
into it pulvarized charcoal to the consist
ency of paint, and put coat Of this over
the timber. a
The Chicago Times man says that no
newspaper that spells its name with a hy-
phen viii go 20 heaven. Six months from
now, when the Times is consolidated with
the Isster- Ocean becoming the Chicago
Lnter-O- Times. and the writer, OF the
above assertion is fugitive and ON his way
to St. Louis, he will remember how rashly
be expressed himself.
--Senator, Sharon, Of Nevada, having
been assessed in San Francisco on CSC, GOO
of personal property, requested o reduction
on the ground that he paid taxes In Nevada