The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1876-02-11
NEW NORs- JgyESTERS.

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Tight boots show . narrow understand
ing. 9 aae.hst. ~: e@ 8 +.
3-Humpty Dumpty Fox has lucid inter
walls.
From pole to pole The telegraph
wires.
| "A good soldier would as soon eat az
fight.
| Picking, China, covers twenty-five
square miles.
The Mayor of Cairo says he shall rec
ngnize Cuba.
- ssOld-man-afraid-of- Wives is what
the Indians cali Brigham Young. r
The Cinnamon In Massachusetts, are
nut-growing their snperstitions, and now
allow their folks TO be buried in American
| cemeteries. .t.-.-...... ...
The mail service is q grand thing. A
letter addressed to Clevelander with ''Ki-
hoggy County, on the corner is sent right
along with the others. rs
| --Sixty-one thousand emigrants have
gone from Great Britain to New Zealand in
| four years. and Macaulay's vision is likely
| to be Transformation.
The Cincinnati papers are congratula-
ting themselves that Cincinnati distillers
IRE honest. Hold up bit; the govern
nent can't be everywhere at once.
How about the repeal of the swindling
Eamlin postage law? Don't rush the
hing. gentlemen, but the masses want
,heaper postage, and are watching for re-
| zeal,
Condensed beer is the latest wrinkle.
It is boiled down, put up in sealed cans.
md can be eat in chunks or made into beer
gam according to the pleasure of the OPP
rator.
The celebrated racer, "Wildidle,' ~ ha'
,roken the back tendon of his right for
g, and will never be able to go on the tur'
Eain. lie was valued at fifteen thousand
tallars. --fr -e&
If it wasn't for the general misund' T.
anding as TO what a s'call to preach is. :;
aod many clergyInen in the West'r'
tates would be doing good work at som,
ade or orther.
1t wasn't a good year to pardon on'
'hio State Prison convicts. and only fort,
,e were turned loose on society. The G"v
NOR felt sure Of getti, g at least thirty-fiv
,f these back. ..,
Charles D. Warner has been lookin
yer the implements ,f torture used by Nh
Il Spanish Equisitars. and he conclud'.
rat he would have advocated any kind
ligion to escape them.
The man who got up the vignette 4"
the special licenses by the Internal Revenn'
Department to rectifiers designed bette
than he knew. The vignette represents
Mercury, the god of thieves.
One OF the bitterest memories that
haunts the mind of the Boston Puritan is
the recollection that the cap-stone of the
Bunker Hill Monument was purchased with
money procured through the genius Of Fam
ny Elsler's legs.
-s'I've thrown mp everything for relig-
ion and gone in to convert sinners, is The
way New York song and dance nam talks.
The song and dance business doesn't pay
Just now, but this may not have influenced
this man.
The House Committee on Revision of
the Laws has it's hands full of business. It
has already notes Of over two thousand er-
rors in the Revised Statutes and expects a
large batch more from the Treasury Depart
ment in a few days.
"A philosopher says: sTnever yet heard
man or woman much abused that was
not inclined to think the better of them,
and transfer any suspicion or dislike to the
person who appeared to take delight in
pointing out the defects of fellow crea-
ture."
"A man in small town down in Maine
recently wrote to the Handel and Haydn
Society in Boston asking how much they
would charge to come down there and give
concert. The reply was that it would be
sheaper to bring the town to Boston.
When North Carolina negro COM
lained that he had never seen any one COM
nit suicide his brother Jim replied; s'Sam,
ou hez ever been kind to me--look heah,
sam''-and he went into the river and re-
aained there until the coroner dragged IT,.
pody out.
Senator Oglesby, of Illinois, is thought
'ul far-seeing man. Twenty wears ago,bt
ng in the Holy Land, he secured enougr
vater from the Jordan to baptize his sob
vhen he should be blessed with one. He
l,ad an opportunity to use 1t ON Saturday
last.
One may insert a thousand excellent
things in a newspaper and never hear a
word of them from its readers. But let a
line or two not suited to their tastes creep
in by accident or otherwise, and one hears
it from every quarter.
St. Valentines Day comes on Monday this
year. And it's Leap Year too. AL Fools
Day, May Day, and Christmas Day also oc-
cur on Monday this year, The 4th of July
occurs on Tuesday as also does the anniver-
sary of the birth Of Washington.
The fredericksburg Herald has found
lottery ticket signed by General Wash
ington. The lottery was for the purpose of
building a road from Alexandra to the
Blue Ridge. The ticket read as follows
176s. This ticket No. 2571 shall entitle
the possessor to whatever prize may happen
to be drawn against the number in the
Mountain Road Lottery.
G. WASHINGTON.
The Spanish government has made .