The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1876-03-17
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NEWSPAPER DECISIONS.
EVANGELICAL CORNER.

The only female sovereign in India wears
breeches.
Lace-bordered lawns will be again worn
next season.
Two sets Of ribs and double joints make
a newly-arrived Michigan baby quite
novelty.
We suppose men have the right to play
the coquette during leap year. Letno jilty
woman escape.
An English judge says that the legal
theory of husband and wife being one
person is figure of speech.
Black silks are now made without
"dressing" or stiffening, and those which
are softest are most preferred.
Felt hats are by far the most fashionable
Of all styles seen at present, and the new
brush and beaver brims are most in favor.
General Sheridan has had an addition to
his home staff. The important event took
place at Chicago on the night of the Goth
ult.
Mr.. A. I. Stewart is said to be the mer-
chant who first thought of putting seats in
front of the counter for the comfort of his
customers.
Grace Greenwood writes from the Alps
that she had rather have her feet among
the flowers than her head among the stars.
Afraid, evidently, she'll show her alpen-
stockings. ....z .....
A Chicago photographer has invented
way of making a large mouth dimple up
and look strawberryfed, and he's had to
order three new cameras and buy twenty
four more chairs. ...-..
An aristocratic lady at Westminster,
Massachusetts, claims that her clothing for
the last eleven years has cost her but eleven
dollars per year. She must have worn
next to nothing.
Jane Grey Swisshelm is credited with
saying the man who assumes to exhibit her
as centennial relic will be pretty apt to
look, himself, as if he had gone through
nineteen wars and an Irish dance.
Spring cambria dresses are made of
checked, striped and plaid Scotch ginghams
or else percales or cambrics in gingham
plaids, of old time pink and white, or blue,
with gray, Or perhaps shaded brown.
White lace of all kinds is frequently
dipped in coffee to give it the fashionable
hue, and the effect is much admired,
though the lace, if handsome, never looks
SO well after as before It's coloring.
The owner of pair of black eyes assures
us that the prettiest compliment she ever
received came from a child of four years,
TIE little fellow, after looking at her for o
moment, inquired naively, "Am your eyes
new ones?"
The first importation of spring bonnets
shows an endless varity, as scarcely any
two shapes seem exactly alike-=.honnets,.
larDe and sr.ua,s7 lnsK1rs hI0nts ana clOseo
ears, square crowns and large crowns, and
bonnets with curtains.
A. L. O. E. % lady of England), the
author of multitudinous books for children,
has now gone to India on mission. Her
real name is Miss Tucker, and she is
grand-niece Of Boswell, the famous biog-
rapher of DR.. johnson.
In Paris the ladies have way of DRESS
ing the hair which they call ''AmerScaine."
a small portion of the hair in the back is
crimped and left loose, and the rest is
twisted on top of the head. A flower is
worn just above the forehead on the right
side, another on the left side just above
the ear, and still another low on the right
side.
A funny story is told of two Vermont
farmers who are not grangers. They in
duced their wives tojoin and report before
they would commit themselves. Now,
when they will, they cannot. Two black
balls greet every application. Meanwhile
the wives 60 regularly and triumphantly
to every meeting of the grange, and the
men stay at home and mind the babies.