The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1876-03-31
NEW NOR'-WESTERS.

-Belknap's middle name is Worth.
London drinks $50, 600 gallons of beel
every day.
AS he gets older, John A. Logan gets
darker. He has been quite sick.
-Belknap made in the neighborhood Of
S20O, 900 ont Of the post traders.
Robert Bonner says he would as soon
think of buying the City Hall as the New
York Tribune.
The son and daughter of ex-senator
Nye are seeking employment IN the depart.
ments at Washington.
The american Grocer thinks that what
il saved on coal through the winter is lost
on ice through the summer.
Baltimore exults because the flag ol
nearly every civilized nation floats from the
shipping in Baltimore harbor.
THE profit ON every yard Of bunting
sold to make a free American flag is sixty
per cent. No wonder she waves.
Colonel Robert Tyler has resigned his
position as editor of the New Orleans
Democrat on account of impaired health.
A Tilted Chicago lover threatened to
shoot his rival, but amended his resolution
by going on spree and shooting himself.
The saying, "the race is not always to
the swift" has been translated by the
Chinese to read: "Blg long-legged man
don't always sometime get ahead of little
boy" r ~
The total area covered by the Centen-
nial buildings proper will be about seventy
five acres, which is nearly double the space
covered by the buildings at the Vienna
Exposition.
IF you have been solicited to purchase
less than thirty-two pictures of the Centen-
nial buildings since the year opened, you
have not had your share of the vexations
of this life.
Two young rascals in Michigan town
chloroformed whole donation party by
scattering the drug about the loom and
upon the clothing of the guests. Twelve
persons were stupefied in this way.
-"An oyster weighing seven and half
pounds in it's jacket" is the weigh New
burg paper describes monster bivalve
which sold for thirty-fye cents, and made
q meal for the man who bought it.
SO demoralizing has been the effect of
civilization upon the Sandwich Islands that
400, 900 population have dwindled to so, 900;
and on some of the islands the proportion
of men to women is as seven to one.
There is again some urgent talk in
Washington about the Washington monu-
ment. A proposition has been made to
tear down the uncompleted shaft and use
the materials to construct a triumphal
arch.
Philadelphia telegraphs one hundred
and twenty-eight words to London and
gets reply of one hundred and eight
words in forty-fve minutes. How did our
old dads get along with stage coaches and
packet-ships?
A man in New Bedford is fitting up a
steamer for the purpose of towing ieebergs
to India, where they sell for six cents a
pound. Another proposes to do still bet
ter-to fit screw in the iceberg itself, and
thus avoid the expense of shipbuilding.
The witness Lyon was formerly part
ner of Palace-car Pullman. A Chicago
Tribune man interviewed him. "But, Mr..
Pullman, what is your impression of Mr..
Lyons honesty and integritY?' "1t's
cold tonight, isn't it ?" asked Mr.. Pullman
as he bowed the reporter out.
After two Arkansas farmers had squan-
dered $1,120 on the lawyers in trying to
find who owned an old cart, they CON-
menced shooting, and five cents worth of
ammunition brought satisfactory decision.
"Its your cart" were the last words of
the plaintiff.
Frank Beard, the artist, while at din
ner recently, was told Of man in Nassau
street with three hands. elbow is that "
asked Beard. He's got little behind
hand" was the reply, "You are an ex-
traordinary man, for you have two heads;
you have head of your own, and you've
got ahead of me-"
Sharon, the silver mine Senator, is de-
scribed as very small in stature, slim Of
build, and what little hair he has on the
sides of his almost bald head is in color a
mixture between dun and gray. His
eye is bright, and he speaks nervously and
quick. His wealth is yariously estimated
at from s., ,Ooo, 600 to $40, 10000 s.
Our forefathers sometimes minded
their p's and q's, but they jumbled their rs
and SIS in a manner quite shocking to the
readers of to-day. The following adyer-
tisement appeared in Pennsylvania paper
in 1776: "The sale of the fhip Juno's
Cargo, conffting of Jamaica fpirits, fugar,
fuftick's &c., is postponed until Wednesday
next, at Ten o'clock, in the forenoon.
N. B.-The fugar and fpirits will be fold