The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1876-10-13
WHAT THE WITS SAY.
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The Prince of Wales is going to Gias
gov. It would please his friends better te
hear that he was going to let the glass
CO. But he will never let up on that
| Hatokeye. 4' ESQ 's-"
The Brooklyn Argus says that Blue
Jeans Williams is a yeritable son OF the
sell, who knows how to. reach the hearts Of
the Indiana people by wearing his panta'
looms inside the legs Of his stockings.
When troubles o'erpress, and the future
appears vague and dark, how painfully does
a man realize that short night shirt is in
sufficient to keep ont The chilly evening
zephyrs. RocklandI Courier. n %. .or..a
"T'his evening called on two queens,''
said an American in Paris, to another, a
new conner. "Aw, pleasant interview ?'
"Not very. The other fellow had three
king, you knowr'-N. 7. Herald. s.'l .n
f'Homeward Bound F" is theheading over
obituary notices in Pomeroy's Chicago pa
per. Births should be headed, e Afloat ON
the Ocean Wave" and marriages I" Wreck
ed on the Shoals. .''-Norristoson Herald.
There is plenty of history, but no her.
story--Ee. There isn't eh? How about
George Eliot's Daniel Deronda ?'' Her
story is more talked and written about just
now than all history.-Brooklgn Argus. 4
There has been fall in hippopotamuses,
and a very fair reliable hippopotamus can
now be bought for $4,000. There are indi-
cations of rise, however, and people of
small means should lay in their supply at
once. .-NorwicA .Bullstiaa.
Mans inhumanity to man is too familiar
to require any explanation. but mans in
humanity to woman IS perhaps best illus
trated by the care he exercises in forming a
circle around dog fight SO that a passing
female must climb a lamp post to get view
of the proceedings. Brooklyn Argus. s-,.a
"Speaking of bathing" says Mrs. Par
tington, from behind the steam that rose
from her tea as a veil to her bushes when
touching upon SO delicate a subject, 'ssotne
can bathe with perfect innpurity in water as
cold as Greenland's icy mountains or IN
dia's coral strands, but for my pant prefer
to have the water little torpid" '' S'- '-
a poet recently complained that the mo-
blest of animals below man, the horse, was
the dumbest, and had only hoof but
Prof. Huxley says the horse and its kind
once had fingers. This fact is distinctly
remembered by the editor of the Chicago
Times, who once tried to put an engage
ment ring ON the hind finger of a mule that,
talked baek.--N. Y. Herald. s9g5, 5Ifs -46,
MFR. Beecher did not say word when he
read about Theodore's latest crookedness,
but q few moments after he had laid down
the paper, some one went around into the
back yard and saw the elder, with dead
grass clinging all over his back trying to
pull up his hat, which was jamned over
his head and eyes clear down to his shout
ders, and heard Mrs. Beecher calling from
an up stair window, "Henry Beecher, the
next time you try to stand on your head,
you take off your Sunday hat before you
turn ."-Haokeye. s"-s.' 10 1