The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1876-09-01
NEW NOR HEST ERS.

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There are 2, 300 men on the New YorL
police force.
There are now upward Of thirty-six he
aters in London.
-Disraeli has lived better romance
than he has written.
lightning has destroyed a million gal
Ions of coal Oil this year.
The diamonds of the late Sultan have
been pawned in Paris for IL, 44s, 600 francs.
The firm of A. T. Stewart s. Co makes
million dollars by the recent rise in silks.
The leading editorial in every English
daily must be just column and a half in
length. n
The cost of putting down an oil well has
decreased from an average of $4,000, few
years ago, to 5000.
| The emptiness of all things, from pali-.
tics to pastimes, ID never SO striking to as
as when we fail in them.
| If Victoria Woodruff ever wrote an
editorial for her paper, then Joseph Treat,
of New York, is a perjurer.
Little Thomas Thumbus will go yacht
ing no more. Ii was little yacht, and
he sold it for a little diamond pin.
-Quesada, who committed such atroci-
ties in Cuba, has just been honored with
the Cross of the Legion Of Honor. 4.
The lid of the scandal chest is to be
raised again in October, this time, it is
supposed, in New York and not in Brook
lyn. 5
The st. Louis Repa5liea. hits the
weather-beaten atmosphere good rap by
remarking that the prodigal sun has re-
turned.
A Boston waiter the other day on
being reprimanded for his inattentiyeness
! replied:-"T "They also serve who only stand
| and wait" ioiss;
A Pittsburg editor is in India hunting
wild elephants. That's better than swell
tering around home and being hunted by
wild tailor.
An Eton boy, sixteen years old, swan
from Bray Lock to Windsor Bridge, five
and quarter miles, in an hour and twenty
five minutes.
-e Tildsn and Hendricks " proved
dose for the Chicago papers. Of the four
that swallowed it two-the Telegraph and
Unioa-have since died.
1t is charged that traders have been for
some time furnishing arms and ammnni-
ton to the Sioux Indians. It is said that
13s, 900 weapons have been sold to them.
Gen. Sherman says he would rather
march six times from Atlanta 10 the sea
than to encounter the difficulties and hor-
rors of the campaign conducted by Terry
or Crook.
Subtract from great man all that he
owes to opportunity, and all that he owes to
chance and that he has gained by the wis
dom of his friends and by the folly sof his
enemies, and the giant will often be left a
pigmy.
President Porter, of Yale College, says
billiard tablee should be provided for the
studenJs, whereupon the FfesUyso, sssts ga
claims: Shades of the Puritan founders
Billiard tables for Yale College! Men Of
God, think Of it!'
AN English advertisement "a situa-
ton wanted by a Nottingham man age |
twenty-six height FIVE feet ten inches.
Objects to cleaning lady's maids boots.
High Church family preferred. First foot
man five years. Address," etc.
The contented man has been discovered |
in Nashua, N. FL. He is one-armed
switchman named Thomas Brown. His |
brother died in Massachusetts, and left him
money, but he sent back word, 81 don't
want the money. I've got all need" !"
The Gold Hill Ne9s has remarked |
that since the Custer affair, the Black Hill |
fever has greatly abated among the sage
brush youth. Many brave boy, who, six
or eight weeks ago, was saving up dimes
to buy railroad ticket and revolver, now
repairs to the back yard and splits kind
ling wood without q Inurmur.
During the recent session there were
introduced in the House of Representatives
4, 1O5 bills and 164 joint resolutions and in |
the Senate 1,045 bills and Is joint resolu- |
tions, making a total Of 5, 150 bills and 189
joint resolutions. OF this number about1 40 |
public acts, 130 private acts and Is public
joint resolutions and 5 private resolutions
have become laws.
Considerable so-called slang is classic.
Escaped with the skin of my teeth, = is
from Job. HE is brickn is from Plu-
tarch. That historian tells Of the king of
Sparta who boasted that hia army was the
only wall of the city land every man Is a
brick.n We call q fair and honest man "a
square man" but the Greeks described the
same person as Tstra0oses--ssa four-cor-
nered man.
isn't tile World rather hard on the
goblin business when it breaks out in the
following severe tones: !. Az rule the
ghost season iii the provinces does not set
in until after the fall rains, when the crops
are harvested and the elections over, and
the rustic intelligence, clouded with dough
nuts and stupefled with autnmnal leisure,
is in flt condition to welcome the wander
ing spook with proper emotion and atten-
tion.' This tends to douse the glim Of
faith.
-Ex-Gov. Henry A. Wise has no hope Of
his own recovery. Ia reply TO IN invitation
to attend q reunion OF Confederate soldiers,
he send word that sickness viii prevent him
| from being present. and adds: - never
expect 10 leave my room again until ] am
carried to my grave. The weather is SO
excessively hot here that I would glsdiy
leave this griadls Of town, If for no other
object, to get on the great Shenandoah
mountains, where could get purs air and
meet my old friends. Z
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| No Pardon for the Whisky Thieves.