The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1876-09-15
NEW NOR'-WES7E ERS

ington.
Berkeley Springs, w. Va. has jus
lynched quack doctor.
"A Connecticut three year-old chewi
tobacco. Quite squirt,
-Cornhill says that the best men ART
bachelors, and the best women wives.
The Cheyenne Leader says that Wild
Bill was a tame loafer and great hummer
1t is proposed to send an amateur brass
band to Montana and make the Indians &C
West.
| An Indiana carriage dealer has "gold
basis and rock bottom wagons at hard-pan
prices"
Gen. Crook has no fear Of death, but
breads an ode by Walt Whitman and a
Herald monument fund.
| America ships fourteen railroad loco
motives to Brazil, and "tenders that
country her compliments.
One hundred refrigerator cars are being
built at the East for transportation of Cali
fornia fruits to the Eastern States.
On the first morning after his arrival
in England, Dom Pedro stepped out a few
minutes before breakfast and made tour
Of the country. ..-.F
The fellow who couldn't get .ju'ip on
the Centennial grounds, has made up his
mind that Philadelphia is not the proper
place for the mint. ....
This is, perhaps, the only country in
the world where farmer will wear WOOL
en- shirt all summer to buy his daughter a
silk dress for winter.
Tom Ewing, who threw the st. Louis
Convention into paroxysms by advocating
initiation, has been nominated for Congress
by the Ohio Democrats.
Lightning struck the horn of COW in
South Burlington, VT, the other day,
shivering it to the roots, but otherwise
leaving the animal unhurt.
Who has better right than to be
called the discoverer of the source of tho
Nile?" says Stanley Afsicanus. "Ifany,
Speke, for him have offended"
SO 1t is easier for camel to 60 through
the knee of an idol than for rich man to
enter heaven,:'' is the Interpretation which
colored preacher gave to the Scriptures.
The judge the other morning asked
prisoner charged with drunkenness what
I,a into +n 1o Ho
that he "wasn't his own boss this MORN
ing
The Sioux ought to be moro sentiment
al with such localities as Goose Creek,
Rosebud, Crazy Woman's Fork, Lame Dog
Bluffs, Tulip Bend and Big Mans Hat
around them.
Tho situation in Rhode Island is get
ting more embarrassing every day. One
can't move aside few feet to avoid ming
ling in crowd at a dog fight without
having somebody in Massachusetts, or Con-
necticut yell at hin to keep in his own
State.
The Shah of Persia has in his palace a
terrestrial globe said to be solid gold. 1t
is surrounded by circles of the same metal,
adorned with all sorts of gems. All the
Gq2HgRtHiss are G ipdjfatedh by negotiations Of
colors.
Mr.. Bowles has got the patent for his
new tin hen. He fills the thing with oyster
shells, boiled starch and extract Of carrot,
winds her up, puts her on nest, and she
will lay an egg every day for week. He
has way of keeping her from working ON
Sundays.
Mark Twain has announced himself a
Hayes man, and says he was won by the
Governors letter Of acceptance. He was
requested recently to attend Tilden flag
raising and "give counsel" He wrote
declining to attend, but gave them counsel
in the kindest manner-not to raise the
flag.
Two little girls were lately prattling
together, and one of them said: "We
keep four servants, have got six horses,
and lot of carriages now, what have You
gotP'' With quite as much pride the
other answered, "We've got skunk under
our barn."
And still they come. The Columbia,
Missouri, Statesman says that Sitting Bull
is none other than Thomas Freeman Nc
Kinney Mclean, who, in 1843 and 1914,
was student of the Missouri University
from Randolph county. Now let's hear
from Rhode Island.
"A lady as birthday present gave her
little son a fishing line, hook and pole. A
few hours later she heard a scream, and
rushing out discovered that one of her
chickens had swallowed the hook. Don't
be uneasy, mamma" said the urchin
"she'll stop chewing when she reaches the
pole."
"A Chicago firm, dealing in gambler
implements for cheating, advertises to send
! free a complete list of country fairs to be
| held this fall. Thus swindlers may lay out
a business tour satisfactorily. Gambling
seems, by the following extract from the
firms's circular, to have suffered by the
general depression in business: We take
pleasure in handing you our revised prict
lat, in which you will find that we have
reduced prices to conform with the times.
The other morning careless masor
dropped a half brick from the second stor.
on which he was at work. Leaning Owe
the wall and glancing downward. he dis
covered respectable citizen, with his sill
hat iammed over his eyes and ears, RISING
from a recumbent posture. The mason il
i tones of some apprehension, asked, " Di'
that brick hit any one down there?" Th
citizen, with great difficulty extricatinl
himself from the glove-titting extingnishe
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