The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1876-04-21
NEW NOR'- WEsTERs.

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street railway.
Frank P. Blail's estate is valued at five
hundred dollars.
Some nasty person alleges that the ma
tional tune of America is spittoon.
The Philadelphia Times prints in large
letters "Dam Disasters" That's SO;
darn 'em.
Think of 2, 200 books published ofa tie
game of chess alone So says the latest
history of that subject.
Hundreds of bags of pulverized grass
hoppers are being imported into France
from America for fish-bait. .a a
On Saturday morning the roof OF Nc
Daniels theatre, at Cheyenne, tumbled in
under it's load of snow.
Tho truth about Don Carlos is out.
He is going TO be worth $s, 600, 900 just as
soon as he draws in in the Royal Havana
lottery. 9g t5G
"A Persian proverb says: "There are
only two days for which to feel anxious.
One is the day that is past, the other the
day to come"
The peculiar bent of the German mind
is shown by the fact that out OF 1855
books published in Germany in the year
1875, only nine hundred were devoted to
fiction.
An exchange says: "Here's health
and peace to the man that owned the land
that raised the corn that fed the goose that
bore the quill that wrote the Declaration OF
Independence.
-"What's usee play poker?' remarked
an aimond-eyed denizen of Tucson, Ne
vada, the other day. "Me hold four kings
and lac; Mclean man hold all same time
four laces and king; whole week washee
gone likee woodbine."
An English draughtsman has been
committed for trial for forging railway tick
cts, with which he daily travelled between
Dudley and Birmingham. They were
made with pen and ink, and the imitation
was SO perfect that the difference could
be detected only by the aid of a micro
scope.
The chief charm about Sankey is that
he really sings in English. Some people,
when they sing, say, "Ro kov a gest Gle
furm e. But Mr.. Sankey translates as he
goes on, and sings, "Rock of ages, cleft
for me-" and the people seem to be pleased
with his renderings from an unknown
tongue.
Rev. DR.. Payne, of Cincinnati, in il
lustl ating the probable end of the third
term project. told story of an old darkey
in Iowa who was ON trial for some crime.
When the case was announced in court,
"The State of Iowa VS.. Samson Cesar"
the aged African exclaimed "What Ge
whole State of Iowa agin dis chile den |
surrenders.''
"A boy of Cass county, Indiana, said he
guessed he would scatter them darned old
hens" meaning some women who were as
sembled at quilting party in his mothers
parlor. He fired upon them through a
window with heavily-loaded shotgun,
and only slightly wounded two but the re-
coil of the weapon threw him down bank,
breaking an arm and two ribs.
A singular decision has been rendered
by the Missouri Supreme Court ordering a
new trial in the case of condemned mur-
derer, not from any doubt of his guilt, but
simply because he was manacled in court
while on trial. The shackles were put on
him on account Of murderous assault he
made in the courtroom upon the husband
of the woman, for Staying whom he was
condemned.
"A curiosity in the book line has just
been imported by one of the leading pub.
fishing houses in New York. It has neith-
er letter-press nor illustrations, neither a
word of print nor picture; but it costs
several hundred dollars a copy. 1t is lace
scrap-book containing specimens of rare,
beautiful and costly laces of all sorts. Il
is royal folio, bound in Morocco, and pro
vided with lock clasps.
The Oneida Community, with its Wal
lingford sub-community, has issued the
first number of the american Socialist
The idea promulgated is that God made al
things equal that men and women should
possess all things in common. Though
these communists have many human quail
ties and many doctrines of life that awak
en- admiration, their theory of the sexes
however conservative in practice, is shock
ing and worse than beastly.
We have always heard great dea
about "blue blood" and have looked upol
the happy possessor of this cerulean fiui'
of life with considerable envy. But like
great many other idols this also is destine'
to fall. Some wise M. D. makes us salts
fed with our own ruby current by decfar
ing that red blood alone feeds the tissues
nourishes the brain and makes man of us
while the blue blood is loaded with cal
bonic acid gas and the effete matter of th
system. So, goodby to another hobb
horse upon which we have been prancin
these many years.
One of the most interesting chapters j
M. Tissandier's recently published "Hand
Book on Photography" is the applicatio
of the art to the transmission of dispatehe
during the siege of Paris. The dispatche
were printed and then much reduced, an
transferred by photography to a collodio
film. This was rolled into a quill and tie
to the tail Of carrier pigeon. When n
ceived the collodion film was unrolled b
immersion in weak ammonia water, dries
placed between two glass plates, and
,nagnifed image projected upon scree
by means Of a powerful Photographic m
croscope.
The headlof gang Of thieves went ii
to the inquiry meeting after one Of M
Moody's sermons, and was SO trouble