The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1876-02-25

NEW NOR'-WEsTERS.

far, and no father" . =...- ....,-.s ~
"A but once married Meriden, Conn.
man has 25 children. fyf f.'7 a fias
The twin piers of the Brooklyn bridg,
have already cost %, 600, 600. 7in@ 81
You cantravel /, ZOO, 600, 600 miles on :
Massachusetts railroad before it will bt
your turn to be killed. ''&,A.e !.
Mr.. Bonner's new mare don't break, SC
that Western papers need not waste wit bs
talking about Music Sin the air."
-Curiously enough, both jeff Davis and
U. s. Grant have recently ordered bill oi
shoes from the same firm at New Haven. 8
p, P. Wintermute, the murderer OF
General MeCook, is hopelessly i'll, and has
gone to Florida with the hope of prolong-
ing his life. il
Some one has announced that Roche
fort recently said "There win be revo-
luton and a republic in Belgium in less
than three months'.'
Here's man who knows how to keep
hotel. He lives in Cambridge City, Ind,
and takes twenty-eight weeklies besides
several daily papers.
=" During conuersdzione in MIC Karl's
saloon, sunday evening, a gentleman had
his nose broken" is the way the Troy
Press neatly puts it.
An English paper says that it is thought
in many quarters that the Jews are going
to purchase the Holy Land of Turkey, with
a view to going there in body.
AN accomplished book keeper says that
he will give any man $4,000 a year who
will procure for him the position of conf
dental clerk of Mr.. Alkai Babbit.
A Philadelphia man gained two and a
half pounds weight in one week by eating
oatmeal. But he is wearing out his Ulster
overcoat scratching his back against the
door.
-"They say" President Grant owns 100
shares of Consolidated Virginia, bought at
low figure. If so it's the richest mineral
land that ever had U. s. Grant on it.
The most magnificent coat ever known
to have been made is worn by the Mahara
jah of Puttala, and is valued at $675, 900.
1t is fringed with pearls and set with pre-
cious stones.
The publication of the Boston Daily
Nesos, the paper formerly owned by Wins
low, has been suspended. 1t is reported
that 100000 have been sunk in the effort
to establish it,
The international committee on the
under-ocean tunnel between France and
England has ended it's work, and the report
expresses the belief that the great enter
prise will be successfully completed.
AS the sheriff adjusted the rope around
his neck, he said: 81 have been had
but no man can say that was ever a men,
Der of Plymouth Church"
MARX Taylor, young negro at Seda-
liza, Mo-, has gone mad and believes himself
to be the Savior. In his paroxysms he re-
cites whole chapters and even books of the
Bible, feat all the more remarkable be-
cause he cannot read.
"A negro in South Carolina, who was
complaining of the hard times, declared
they were the hardest ever known. "Why,"
said he, ~ works all day and steals all night,
and yet I'm blest if | kin make an honest
living.n
-Macaulay could repeat all Demosthenes
by heart, and Milton, great part of the
Bible in English and the New Testament
in Greek. He took great delight in the
Bible, and there were few better biblical
scholars than he.
1T has long been known that AIR which
has been throughly freed from floating par
ticles by fire, the action of acids or other
wise, will not produce life, and it may now
be accepted as an axiom that air which
has lost its power of scattering light has
also lost it's power of producing life.
1T is striking fact that Mr.. Beecher
calls to his advisory council only two min
isterss of New York or Brooklyn. They
are the Rev. H. M. Storrs, D. D., of New
York, who is an avowed partizan of the
Plymouth pastor, and the Rev. Lyman Alb
bott, who has been a fertile writer in Mr..
Beecher's defense.
Some time ago two London thieves put
in practice plan of robbing a jeweler,
which had been described in q story in a
popular periodicals. piece of pure inven-
ton. The jeweler was furious Che lost
| SAC, 900, so it was inexcusable), and wrote
to the editor of the magazine, asking him
if it was his mission to instruct thieves in
new ways of plundering the public. My
dear sir, - replied the editor blandly, il
| you had taken my periodical (Which hope
in future you will do,) you would have
been upon your guard. This comes Of
| neglecting the claims of literature
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
| has already made extraordinary prepare
/ tions in rolling stock to accommodate the
Centennial traffic, and now it is abou
erecting an extensive passenger depot il
/ Philadelphia, on Elm avenue, near the in
| tersection with Belmont avenue, and soutl
/ of Machinery Hall. Tt is to be one stor.
| high, with four ornamental towers, and i
| to be of wood. The general waiting room
| is to be 100 by 13O feet, the ticket Office 4
by 80 feet, the ladies' waiting room VI b.
100 feet. There will be three platforms
built in semi-circle. 1850 feet in length
1 Most Of the worst typographical error
with which the newspapers are annoyed oc
cur in this way Whenever the father of
stupid and worthless boy finds that hi
child is too dull and too indolent to lear
| anything, and that no amount of coaxinl
or threatening serves to stir its sluggis
mind, he takes it to a printing Office an
worries the proprietor into accepting it q
| "a Sc