The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1876-03-10
NEW NOR WESTERS.
Blaine is getting fat.
BARRIERS love bald-headed men.

-Milkmen are partial to rainy weather.
Minister Thornton enjoys Fish din
ner twice week. Is
| Somehow the smaller man is the
larger Ulster he wears.
| The United States consumed 2,00O,00O
bushels of peanuts last year.
Owing to the fog London street lamps
are kept lighted day and night.
| Manner is of Importance. A kind no
is often more Agreeable than a rough yes.
The wool clip Of Califorr;a will proba-
bly, reach over 50, 600, 600 pounds this year.
A hail-storm blocked railway train
in Northern New Hampshire last week.
When you see ring around the moon
your may know that some of the office
holders are trying to fix things.
The safes holding city funds have in
most cities been lately fitted with time
| locks, and the burglar who is after cash
must bide his time.
Boots which turn up at the toes and
resemble bit of old eavetrough are to be
fashionable this summer, and the more the
legs bow out the more fashionable will the
gait be.
1t has been discovered that New Eng
land school teachers don't make but two
cents on the sale of dozen slate pencils
to the scholars, and "Song of the Short
will be in order.
Old King Dahomy, who was licked by
aches for another row. He's invented a
new sort of war-club, and wants to prac-
tice with it.
The Sultan of Turkey is as mad as
Bob Toombs in fy-time. He has heard
about that eighty-one ton English gun, and
he fears that he will no longer be consider
ed the biggest gun in the world.
There are 1891 Oneida Indians in Wis
consin, and last year they cultivated 1882
acres, raised %, 28s bushels of grain, 5,s36
bushels of potatoes, and cut $40, 900 worth
of timber. They have repudiated Lo! the
poor Indian.
- There were literally more persons
killed and injured each year in Massachu-
setts fifty years ago through accidents to
stage coaches than there are now through
accidents to railroad trains. Such is the
conclusion of Mr.. Charles Francis Adams
in the February Atlantic.
If anything will cause a person to be
down on professional men, lit is after lay
ing awake four or five nights with the
toothache, to suddenly get up at midnight
and not discover, till after you have got
back and nicely tucked up in bed, that t'e
dentist has pulled the wrong tooth.
| A country editor received the follow
ing: "Dear Sir-I have looked carefully
and patiently over your paper for six
months for the death of some individual
was acquainted with, but as yet rot a sim
gle soul cared anything about has dropped
off; you will please have my name erased" "
A seedy chap without a nickel in his
pocket, ate forty cent dinner in an Oma-
ha restaurant. When he had to confront
the cashier he lost his presence of mind.
Instead of saying, I'm an Indiana editor
and gracefully waiting for cigar, he feebly
calculated, "Don't kick" Result, as sta
ted in the Bee: "The cashier did kick,
sending him from the door into the gutter
on the first round"
ish Republic civil marriages were permit
ted. Since Alfonso has assembled the
throne, the Catholic church has gradually
regained it's supremacy in the State, and
now such marriages are forbidden and the
church intends to inflict penalties upon
those who have contracted them. Not only
this, but the dead also who were married
outside of the church are to be disir teri ed
from consecrated ground and buried else
where.
The following is the recipe, according
to the patent of Formals (Which has ex-
pired) for coating for blackboards: AL
cohol, 95 per cent, IS parts, or alcohol, 80
per cent, 81 parts; bleached shellac, s
parts; Paris black, pats, leV.gated pum-
ice stone, parts; Paris blue part; burnt
umber, parts. dryer, s parts. The pig
ments and pumice stone are carefully
mixed with alcohol, the shellac in solution
being added last.
1t is better to yield a little than to
quarrel great deal. The habit OF stand
ing up, as people call it, for their Cittle)
rights, is one of the most disagreeable and
undignified in the world. Life is too short
for the perpetual chickering's which attend
such disposition; and unless vely mo-
mentous affair indeed, where other peoples s
claims and interests are involved, it is a
question if it is not wiser, happier and
more prudent to yield somewhat of precious
rights than squabble TO maintain them.
True wisdom is first pure, then peaceable
and gentle.
An Investigating economist" gives to
Philadelphia paper the result of his effort
to feed his confding family ON an expendi-
ture of about dollar a week. He tried
coinmeal and found it insipid. Buckwheai
soon followed, and potatoes failed to sus
tain bodily strength. Then oatmeal was
tried, and at the expiration of two weeks
says the experimenter, 81 found myself
four and half pounds heavier. My wife
had gained three pounds, while the lad had
increased over five pounds. Our food out
lay for fourteen days was exactly two
dollars and eighty cents, or less than seven
cents per day for each person. We are
now pursuing the same course with an oc
casicnal mixed meal. !"
DIR. Linderman, Director of the Mint
! is of opinion that there will be no difficulty
in replacing the fractional currency will
silver coin. He says that the gold value o
this coin to export or melt up is two pc
| cent. less than the gold value of green