The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1876-03-17
NEW NOR WESTERS.

The Turkish troops in Herzegovina
have only bread and onions to eat.
Gold, Indians, silver, potash and hard
times in the Black Hills.
The Richmond Enquirer thinks that
Beecher's defence is really insanity.
-Ex-Congressman Voorhees, intends tc
remain in st. Louis in the practice of law
Seven thousand of Moody and San
keys Glasgow converts have not backslid-
den.
A man hits the right grade of conduct
when he can show firmness without rude
ness.
1t took West Virginia poet to sing
"But the scent of the whisky hangs round
its STILL"
Richard Grant White is urged for the
position of librarian to the Asror Library,
New York.
1t has been decided in Illinois that Sum
day is a day Of rest, and that going fish
ing is resting.
What is that which Adam never saw,
never possessed, and yet gave to each OF
his children? Parents.
An American Colonel, who prints On
his visiting cards that he is inspecting
the world" is making quite figure in In
dia.
1t was Archbishop Whately who an
nounced that Noah's ark was made of 60
pher wood, while Joan of Arc was maid of
Orleans.
An advertisement in rural newspaper
in England announces that "a grand piano
forte will be exchanged for three or fou1
small pigs"
The johnson mine, III Mohave county,
Arizona, has been sold to Boston CON-
pany for $50, 900, one half of which has al
ready been paid.
Elk River, Minnesota, has musical
prodigy in the person of a baby twenty-five
months old, who sings with all the accuracy
OF cnOlf leaQeF.
They tell of New Jersey man who got
billiard ball in his mouth and couldn't get
it out. Do they play billiards with foot
balls in New Jersey?
Forty thousand pounds Of nitro o-glycer-
inc is the firecracker which New York will
soon explode under He'll Gate. It looks as
if the Gate would catch-a lift.
The bodies of six savages, with pipes
that would hold pint of tobacco, were re-
Gently unearthed near Gosport, Indiana.
One of the skeletons was seven feet long.
The New York Mail spunks up and
and says "For hard-headed, reason-proof,
any mber-of-donkey-power bigotry we
will show you six infidels to your one Chris
tian.''
-" WE'LL" says Mr.. Phelan to his cred
itors, "if you'll discount me at thirty cents
on the dollar, gentlemen, / think it will
bridge over my troubles and carom me
through
1t has been demonstrated that for tele-
graphic purposes the English language is
twenty-five to thirty-three per cent. cheap
er than the French, German, or any other
language.
The old custom has been revived of re-
questing gentlemen to write their names in
a book instead of to leave their cards when
the ladies upon whom they call are said to
be "out."
Guess how many beans there are in a
barrel. They tried it at Lowell the other
day. One man said 100000, another man
10000. 1t turned out there were about
566, 900.
"A chime of twelve bells is now being
cast at Baltimore for the Centennial. The
bells will be in charge of Professor Wild
dows, of Washington, and will play the ma
tional airs of the world.
DR.. Salisbury says that men are two.
thirds animal and one-third vegetable in
constitution. Yet our food is the Other
way we eat about seven-eighths of vegeta,
BILE food and one-eighth animal.
A petrifed human skull of peculiar
shape, filed with crystals of a beautiful
green color, was picked up in a gully al
Oreana, Arizona, few days ago, and it ii
to be sent to the Smithsonion Institute fol
examination.
"A Nevada sheep man, who had triet
and succeeded with sheep, said: "SheeI
are better than government bond; you
can tear off coupon every six months hall
as big as the bond, and the bond is left al
big as it-was."
The American Bible revisers have beer
laboring necessarily for four years, ant
have completed only one-third Of thei
work. The English committee have fin
ished only two-thirds. 1t will take full,
three or four years to revise the whole.
The average Milwaukee reporter hav
ing found the skull of an Aztec with glas
eye, now finds in Lake Michigan sea ser
pent with fins striped like the America
nag. Two uEl1kS mOT0 WUulu AAf0 pu
spectacles on that skull and made the re
porter see stars as well as stripes.
"A recent Spanish medical journa
thinks (and we will not venture to disput
it) that the tallest living specimen of th
human race is a young man from AlcoceI
twenty-six years of age, and $50 metres
feet 80 inches) in height, named Angus
tin Luengo Capilla, who has lately bee
presented to his Majesty the King of Spain
w. D. Howells, editor of the AtlGnt,
Monthly, says: sour own Walt Whitma
is poet who has carried neglect of th
form to its logical conclusions, and has a
rived at sort of literary resemblance to a
outdoors, and is much such a poet as
summer morning is, or an alarm of fire, c
some unpleasant smell which he would pei
sonally prefer to prayer"
/ The total cost of the Centennial bull