The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1876-05-05
NEW NOR WEST,ERS.

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Secretary Taft has been twice married.
The seal of the city of Trenton bears
date 1899.
The debt of the city of Cleveland is
$9,0O0,0 900.
Mexico is in her element again-an-
other revolution.
The new church at Worcester, Massa-
chusetts, is to be called Not-er-dam.
Texas is improving her stock by heavy
1mportations of Kentucky short horns.
The extreme height of misery is a
small boy with new pair of boots and no
mud puddle.
1t is not Louis Kossuth, the patriot,
who is eencerned in London divorce suit,
but a son.
-R, Kennedy, of Dry Creek, Waila
Walla county, Oregon, has 10000 acres
sown in wheat.
The Ames Company, of Chicopee, ex-
pect to "cut dash " at the Centennial by
exhibiting two hundred swords.
Don't swap with yer relashuns advises
Josh Billings) unless yu ken afford to Civ
them the big end of the traid.
Arthur Orton, the Tichborne claimant,
has been removed from his cell in Dart
moor Prison to the infrmary, on account
of illness.
Prescott, Arizona, is to have a new
school house costing about $4,000, and
contracts have already been let for it's con-
struction.
The paroxysm of coughing may often
be prevented or cured by using little dry
salt as gargle. 1t will stop the tickling
in the throat.
Professor to Freshman" What is a
circle?" Freshman, after much rehec-
ton" A round, straight line, with hole
in the middle"
-"Lawyers, as a general thing" says
an exchange, "are good livers." Yes, and
there's one in St. Louis who considers him
self a good Dyer, as we'll.
1t severely tries the gallantry of a
Frenchman to have Chicago woman bor-
row his pocket handkerchief to wipe her
poodle's nose with. h.-Bro0klyn Argus.
They say that "Mr. Ray, of West
Virginia, claims to have discovered better
motor than Keeley's." That he may have
done, and have merely discovered a blind
mule.
The rush for the Black Hills increases.
The Utica Herald tells of man who went
through there flying, the other day, with
one shirt and hundred and fifty rounds of
cartridges.
Since the construction of the first IRON
clad in the British Navy-the Warrior
eighteen years ago, q sum equivalent to
81 600, 600, 600 has been expended in Eng
land on the Navy.
The Montreal Herald believes that the
heart of the American people is sound,
while the tactics of the politicians are cor
rupt. That is, the American people are
not well represented.
There are ten Eidowers in the United
States Senate. When they pass the Treas
ury building they hear murmurs of " SO
noble looking "Such boyish walk. -
Cincinnati Commercidl
An editor speaks Of a dispatch 'delay
ed by a break in the wire" He is under
the impression that the message came to
the place where the break occurred. and
could not cross to the next pole.
The Rochester, Democrat says: " When
Canada becomes a part of the United
States, where Bill all the scoundrels go to?
We feel that this is one of the most serious
questions of the Centennial year."
Daniel Pratt pops in upon the editors
with the information that he is the great
American traveller; and the editors who
know him invariably hold the door ajar
and remark, "Let US see you travel"
Never before in the history of this
nation, it is stated, has there been such
wild espread religious awakening as now.
Nor ever before, it may be added, was
such an awakening more greatly needed.
An old tombstone in the burying ground
at West Lynn, Massachusetts,, bears the
inscription: "God took the good, too good
to stay, and left the bad, too bad to take
away Rather rough, that, on the mourn
ers.
-"My poem is rather lengthy" she
said, "and may be you wont have room
for it this week" The editor yawned and
replied, "Oh, yes, we could find room for
it if it was twelve times as long--our stove
is large one, you see."
En- Passant. nt.-Ratherr remarkable, amt
it sir? But ave you hever noticed as
mostly all the places on this line begins
with FL ?-Aw, beg your pardon ?-Look
at 'em, 'Ampstead, 'Ighgate, 'Ackney,
'Omerton, 'Endon, Arrow, 'olloway and
'Ornsey.-P@nch,
Mr.. Crooks calculated that the force
exerted by the SUMS light is equal to 80
grams on the square foot, or 81 tons on the
square mile, or s,ooO,oo0,OOO tons ON the
whole earth, repellant force which, but
for the far more powerful attractive force
of grayitation, would drive the earth off
into space.
The remarkable scientific fact is an
nounced that an iron ball at white heat
refuses to receive a charge of electricity;
when cooled down to red heat it will receive
a negative charge; at a dull red heat it will
receive positive charge; and when farther
cooled down it will accept both kinds.
William Atchinson, of Douglas county
Colorado. in speaking of his Newfound-
land dog, the other night, gave the word
pronunciation from which JohnP. Davis
dissented. Atchinson refused to conform
to Davis views, and the latter very prop
erly shot him, inficting a fatal wound.