The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1876-12-15
NEW NOR -WEsTERs.
Australians are very Incorporate.

like hermit.
In six counties of Georgia Hayes did
not poll a single vote.
Emperor William, of Germany, con-
tinues to be in ill health.
The c. o. D. policy is to draw on the
banks of New Foundiand at sight.
A son of General Robert E. Lee has
been elected State Senator in Virginia.
About s, 13O newspapers are published
in the United States at the present time.
-Cazenove, negro member of the Louis
lana Returning Board, is an undertaken.
Railways generally burn candles in
place of kerosene, from motives of safety.
The Laramie Iron Works, Wyoming,
are turning out sixty tons of rails every
day.
-senator-elect, Teller, of Colorado, is
great railroad lawyer, and warm Metho-
dist
-Shelley's poetry came from an empty
stomach. He starved himself to bloodless
ethereality of mind.
DIR. LIE Moyne, the cremation leader,
was once candidate for Vice President on
the Abolition ticket.
--Beecher and Tilton rode in the same
car from Boston to Portland last week. 1t
wasn't a sleeping car.
1t is proposed to arm the Missouri
sherlffs with Gatling guns to protect them
from the James robbers.
There is nothing now, the Chicago
Journal says, to prevent Sitting Bulls
lying abed till noon every day.
The St. Lawrence is the only river in
the world which enjoys the symmetry of
having its head larger than it's mouth.
The Brooklyn ArQus suggests that
this Presidential question be settled by a
pedestrian match between the rival candi-
dates.
1t took a man-of war, 519 men and 800
tons of coal to bring Tweed and his two
pieces of baggage home from a foreign
shore.
An Eastern publishing house advertise
for sale family Bible of General Wash
ington, which teas presented to him By the
author!
The revival season is having it's effect
NJ. Quad, of Detroit, wants the Ten Com
mandments printed on the ends of postal
cards.
-" Centennial year" is a Pathological
phrase, but it has got into the English
language and it is not likely that it will be
driven out.
Gain may be temporary and uncertain,
but expense is constant and certain: it is
easier to build two chimneys than to keep
one in fuel.
Cardinal Manning is about to take up
his residence in Rome, and negotiations
are going On for the appointment of his
successor in England.
An unusually intelligent justice of the
peace in Baltimore swore a Chinaman on a
tea chest the other day in default of the
writings of Confucus.
Showers of flesh are getting to be SO
common that scientific men no longer
wrangle over them. A fall OF pigs feet
would hardly breed discussion.
One may talk about his religion SO
much that he has no time to practice 1T.
One good act however, proves more than
the longest sentence ever uttered.
-Sollace, the Vermont postmaster, who
is also an elector, is brother-in-law of
John G.. SAKE, the poet, who ran for
Governor of that State once by way of a
joke.
General Mcclellan is said to be writing
history of the war for his personal vindi-
| cation. IF he had made little more his
tory with his sword he would not need to
mend history with his pen.
-Alexandre, the famous French glove
MAKER made fortune Of 100000 francs
solely from his glove contracts with the
late A. T. Stewart, who furnished the kid
SKINS while Alexandra did the work.
The New York Tribune, speaking Of a
recent marriage at Cam bridge, says the
| venerable Dr. Peabody "knit the knot
there's no untying." Does the Tribune
mean to intimate that the killing of House
has put an end to the divorce business?
I'm Turkestan. Asia, the food of the
| higher classes consists of stewed kidneys
and mutton chops, liver fried in the fat of
long tailed sheep, peaches and plums,
excellent grapes of two kinds and delicious
purple figs.
Many Stockholders are surrendering
bets on "draws" or compromises. "The
| agony'' has proved too much for the
betters. It is likely to be prolonged in
definitely, and they need the money for
other purposes.
An eminent engineer, Trautwine, by
name, who was connected with the building
of the Panama Railroad, has expressed the
opinion that the proposed canal across the
Isthmus cannot be satisfactorily constructed
at less cost than $500, 900, 600.
The Corliss engine fywheel made g.
355, 800 revolutions during the Exhibition.
The wheel is thirty feet in diameter, and
any one point on it's periphery travelled
during the period stated 40, lat miles, or
little over 260 miles each day.
An Ogden man bet $40 to 81 that Til
den will be elected, and then, desiring to
hedge, he bet $40 to 81 with the same
person that Hayes will be elected. On
first glance this looks as if he would come
out even, but an examination shows that
he will in either event be out so.
India. under English rule, is rapidly
becoming gridironed with railways. There
are now completed 6,497 miles of railway,
and several new roads are in course of
construction. India, even before it had
these valuable assistants to production, was
regarded as the storehouse Of the East;
but when it has a complete and compre-
hensiye railway system it will be the richest
country of the earth, not excepting our
own.
| On April 3, 1870, Tweed was presented