The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1876-01-14
NEW NOR U-ESTER.o.

cate poverty.
1t is impolite to say man has
scheek;" say s'facial area"
There have been 1900 lives lost on the
Pacific Coast within few years.
General Custer will commence u new
series of papers on army life in the GaE1zy
for 1876.
Envelopes are selling for five cents
bunch at Wakeman, Ohio. That town is
write end up.
Punctuation was first used in literature
in 1920. Before that time wordswereput
togetherlikethis.
Mark Twain says If he ever meets
Bayard Taylor he will tell him how much
he thinks of him.
The original Cardiff giant is no more.
He fell the other day and broke his back,
and now there are two of him.
The Chicago Times which taps the
"suburbs with wires, pays 100000 a
year for special local kilograms.
The Philadelphia papers announce that
Mr.. Longtellow has declined the honor OF
appearing as the Centennial poet this year.
In some parts Of Austria the snow is
nine feet deep; and i'll Vienna many acci-
dents, caused by the presence of SHOW, are
occurring.
=" We publish red-hot paper this
morning ~ as an entarnrising Wasrarn ed
tor remarked the day after having been
burned out,
There are still two Or three small week
lies in the West which have not nominated
any one for President. Why this delay,
gentleman?
-Ninety-nine years i'll the penitentiary
is what Missouri murderer got One year
more would have made his case hopeless
one.
French judges have decided that no
corpse can be cremated unless the deceased,
when living, expressed distinct wish to
be ashed up.
Some papers speak of Babcock as Bab-
rooster, but it is a solemn thing to make
fun Of "a man who may be in prison before
the January thaw.
-Two ex-members of the House have
lately sought work in the document folding
| room at Washington-work which includes
the wheeling of mail matter in barrow to
the Postoffice.
The Chicago man who would deliber-
ately express Detroit man fifty-pound
| stone as Christmas gift deserves to have
his nose sharpened on cold lamp-post.
-Four Yale professors-Baldwin, Sum-
ner, Northrop and Wayland-are among
the candidates spoken of for the Republican
| nomination for Governor of Connecticut.
The Marquis of Lorne, who married
the fourth daughter of Queen Victoria, is a
| lay preacher. He often breaches in public
halls and school-houses, and the poor peo-
pie hear him gladly.
"A pig of iron bears no resemblance to
pig, but you must always remember that
| June berries never make their appearance
until July. There are good many singu-
| lar things in this country.
-"Sir you are political thing-a per-
ambulating monument ~f meanness-a
bankrupt in everything but cheek !"
:. Boss don't understand German, but
| I'll drink with you - The difficulty was
settled on that basis.
Talk about the crooked streets of Bos-
ton! The TrageIer publishes list Of 178
names of streets which are duplicated in
that city, forty EIGHT of which are tripli-
Gated, fifteen which occur in four localities,
and five which occur IN six.
| A certain married Maine man is allow
ed only $50 month for the support of him
self and wife, all the rest of his income be-
ing demanded by Court to pay damages
to the young woman whom he had first
thought of marrying.
During the twelve years Mr.. McPher-
son was Clerk of the House OF Representa-
tives, he disbursed over $4,000, 900. The
| other day, when he had a fil.al settlement
with the Treasury Department, it was
| found that there was balance of 81 6G to
his credit.
| --s'Away down in Maine" cursing on
Sunday is taxed two dollars per oath; on
week days the luxury can be indulged in at
half price. The law is rigid, and the pro-
ceeds, when collected, are to go towards
founding lunatic asylum.
On the ED of November the 1900. 900
people Of London lived twenty-foul hours
without there being single arrest for any
offense whatever. Such thing was never
heard of before, and the Londoners begin
to think the millennium is about approach
ing.
George L. Fox, the comedian, is con-
fined in the Mclean Insane Asylum, near
Boston. He is pronounced incurably insane
| by the examing physician of that institu-
ton. He has wife and one child, a
daughter seven years old, who are left al
most entirely destitute.
/ The statistics of the Protestant Episco-
pal Church in the United States, in 1875,
I show that it has fifty bishops elect,
3,122 priests and deacons, 222 095 commu-
nicants, 23s, ,943 Sunday school pupils, and
contributions to the amount of $6, 500. 305.
The New York Times says that Utah
has become what Kansas used TO be, g the
graveyard of Governors" If the Admin
istration has a plque against a man it ap-
points him Governor Of Utah, and that is
the end of him. Yonr Usah Governor lasts
on an average six months, and then he is
politically dead.
--Ghock Wong, one Of the editors of a
Chinese paper at San Francisco, has de-
clared his intention of taking out natural
ization papers in the United States District
Court which win test the question Of the
right of Mongolians to become citizens.