The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1876-06-23
NETT NOR'-WESTERS.

Secretary Brlstow will be A years old
July II.
The population Of Denver, Col, is row
set down at Ii, 600.
DR.. J. c. Aver, the patent medicine
man, is an incurable invalid
Hon. A. Fl. Stephens is better again
and regaining his corpulency.
"A Paris, KY, man telegraphed to his
father in Germany and received reply
within four hours.
Men are born with two eyes, but one
tongue, in order that they should see twice
as much as they say.
-"Sitting Bull" the Indian chief, isn't
on the sit half as much us he was before the
soldiers took to following him.
Chang, the Chinese giant, has joined
the Baptist church. He is too big to dip,
but he doesn't mird wading in.
1t appears from the recent statistical
literature on the great Suez Canal that the
cost of construction has been over $50, 0OO,-
900.
king Victor Emmanuel has accepted
the Honorary Presidency Of the Philadel-
phia committee for the erection of statute
of Columbus.
A celebrated gourmand once said, "To
enjoy a stuffed turkey thoroughly, there
should be only two present-yourself and
the turkey"
1t has been figured out that the aver
age American is worth $3.50. 1t is some
thing, therefore, to be an average man in
this country.
Sarcastic Slash - Young swell: 81
should like to have my moustache dyed"
Polite barber" Certainly. Did you bring
it with you?"
On learning the number of revolutions
Of the great Corliss engine per minute, Dom
Pedro said "That beats our South Amer
lean republics p'
The Prince of Wales weighs only one
hundred and fifty-eight pounds, and yet
when he goes to bed with the headache all
England trembles.
The dress coat has been called the
swallow-tail, the steel pen, the clawham-
mer, the spiketail and the nib, and Low it
is called the tack-raiser. .E
Does Prof Tice still hang out at Saint
Louis? No man hit the weather as nice as
he did for four weeks, and no one missed il
slcker'n he did for the next year.
Baron de Palm wanted to be cremated,
but there were no arrangements in New
York for incineratiop, and the vulgar
worms will polish the baronial skeleton.
According to the Judgment Of New
Milford man, who had seven men to assist
him to his feet, the hind end of mule is
much more premature than the front
end"
When two Dyaks in Borneo have to
decide which is right, they have two equal
Jumps of salt given them to drop into wa
ter, and he whose lump dissolves first is
deemed to be in the wrong.
A man being tried for assault and bat
terry in Virginia City, New, when asked by
Judge Knox If he had anything to say by
way of defence, replied "Well, your
Honor, saw but little of the fight, as
was underneath most of the time.'
-Godefroy is the name Of the model
French prisoner. He has passed his life in
prison, with slight intermissions, since 1941.
While in prison his conduct is excellent,
but the moment he is liberated he spends
his money in drink and implores the police
to lead him home,
According to Dom Pedro the people OF
Brazil say "by-and-by, by-and-by," the
Americans say "to day, to-day" If the
Emperor could make brief tour with a
tax collector or life insurance agent he
would find that "by-and-by" is not en-
tirely obsolete in the American dialect.
The telegraph operators had tussle
with this g ROME, May "a, 1876.-Domi'
no Callaghan, archiepiscops Purcell sercta-
rio, Cincinnati: Summus pontifex gratula-
tiones ct benedictionem reverendissimc
archiepiscops peramanter mittil.
J. CARD, ANToNELLI."
Pope Plus *. was born the 18th ol
May, 1892, lie was ordained priest the
18th of April, 1919. He was consecrated
bishop the 21st of May. 1927. He was Gre
ated a cardinal December IA, 1910, and
elected sovereign pontitf June 16, 1916. He
is now in the thirtieth year Of his pontiffi
cate, and the R4th year of his age,
Somebody has imported from Paris very
novel and elegant rosewood beadstead with
head board twenty feet high, lnlaid will
mother father and all the other OF pearl
Tn the foot board is a musical box, and by
pressing knob with your foot you can be
nlaved sWeetly to sleep. "Rocked in the
mattress of the Deep" would be an appro
pirate tune.
Tho banking house of Sherman ano
Grant experienced a short lease OF life. The
young men failed to be bankers, but they
have been kindly provided with other fleld'
of usefulness. Col. Fred. has been sent tt
FIGHT the Indians in Gen. Sheridan's luxu
rious Chicago office, and young Sherman
has been appointed .. S, Marshal of New
Mexico,
On a tombstone at Shuttesbury, Mas
sachusetts, is the following epitaph, datet
| 1893: ...-..... es -,..-.......ss
| Hic Jacet Johannes Blaw,
Who forty years followed the law:
| When he died the devil cried,
| John. give us yeur pawl''
May Exports of Quicksilver.
The exports of quicksilver by sea for tht
| M s4 month raach nearly $500 TASKS das