The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1876-10-27
NEW NOR -WEsTERs.
New York has 20. 600 neysboys.

\ --CnlcaRO SELLS Po,ooo,Oou "oA sn y. ~
elry every year. 4s.aag5L q lBas2
Character is the diamond that scratches
every other stone. ..-'
s--General Braxton Bragg's life was'in-
sured for $40, 900. ''g,S .l-. -. a
More than fifty students at Harvard
last year owned pianos. bT5. $50, ,l
I'm the year 1874 there were SO, 9A il
Legitimate births in France.
Advice to parents-when your boy
cries for a stick of candy, take stick to
him. ssfg5a -stsa s5 =
Never try to pull humble bee up by
the roots, unless he is actually sitting ON
you. aas.F @- a5s, ,.easa 5s 4..
Charles Francis Adams is worth ST.
10000, which is mostly invested in Boston
real estate. 81 ua au
james Gordon's Benefits income is
estimated by New York journal at $780,
600 annually. a= ~ @a7
What we call conscience is in many in
stances only wholesome fear Of the con-
stable. e.-Bouee. 5atl-.s ..ast -as.
The Pool of Sloan is now an unat-
tractive hole of dirty water, surrounded by
modern masonry. # .atHgF3L
The managers Of the Indiana State
Fair are "out " on the present year. $ exhi-
bition about 5000. a,a ..E -fs.a
-Danbury Bailey, in his first lecture,
was successful in compelling the Boston
ians to moderate laughter ae
Clusters last chargN was an entry in
his memoranda book of $i1 loaned tv the
quartermaster "till next pay day." t
That Troy widower who slept on his
wifes grave during June is married again,
and the grave is all covered with weeds.
"A funny exchange. has the following:
Several advertisements have been crowded
ont this week to make room for important
jokes. <.a f .ata a*-
Nothing can occur beyond the strength
of faith to sustain or transcend the re-
sources of religion to relieve.-Reo. L..
Binasey. t1. o.
Ere "A tall man having rallied friend on
the shortness of his legs, the friend replied:
ssMy legs reach the ground-what more
can yours do?" f.sf.ts.~ ...f.F
Stokes will be released from prison the
last of this month, and it is his intention to
walk around very softly and make but few
remarks. 53H Ha@ ~
"A western editor gravely informs his
readers that "Dr. - removed an aboms-
na6Ee tumor weighing 5s pounds from a
patient last week" a.t
President MacMahon recentls s~impr.s-
oned his own son for wearing a non-regi-
mental costume, and q eolonel who did not
punish the offence.
The free lance policy of the San Fran
cisco Nesos Letter has precipitated upon it,
not libel suit, but suit with charges of
levying blackmail. @t"s st'ss
The September receipts at the Centen-
NAL were nearly one million dollars. As a
show and success the world has never
seen anything like it,
An army officer on the plains says the
Sioux have this new motto: "White man
big smart he furnishes brains. Red man
heap brave he knock 'em out"
A foot of water will offer as much re-
sistence to bullet as an inch of iron.
And if gun is discharged with its muzzle
under water it will burst the piece.
4 Cardinal Manning's solicitor has ab-
seconded with $4,000 belonging to various
Catholic charitable associations, and $40,-
600 of the Cardinals private funds.
We're I but free from sin, and the
world around me free of it, would crave
no better state and no finer heaven than
that into which was born.-W. Fl. H.
Murray.
If your congregation happens to be,
small remember what John Brown, of
Heddington, once said:-''' 1t is as large
congregation perhaps as you will want to
account for at the dag of judgment.
"A materialized spirit in Rochester got.
SO mad at fellow the other evening for
turning on light at the wrong moment
that it yelled: ssLet 60 of me until get
the AK and split that ours head open. He
shall never leave this room alive !! -
The famous Southern editor, Col. John
Forsyth, of the Mobile Register, is i'll in
that fashion which touches to sympathy
the most Indifferent. His mind, once SO
clear and efficient, shows fatal signs Of
weakness and at times he fails to recog ize
his oldest and best friends. e
"A firm in Boston have lately received
some remarkably large and heavy sides Of
sole leather. Two of them weighed sever.
ally 112 pounds and 105- pounds, and
measured nearly eleven feet in length. and
thickness Of them ranged from five -eights
to one inch. They were made from the
skins of Calcutta buffalos. a. s64
Amazon river is nayigable for
5000 miles by vessels oflarge size. il has
four tributaries, which are united by a.
network of natural canals. Il Two thousand
miles from its mouth Its channel has a
depth of three fathoms, and for z, 600 miles
there occurs no fall TO interfere with the.
smooth passage of shipping. sG qaa i
The Rail@ay Age thinks the Northern
Pacific railroad is certain to be built and
successfully operated but that the Texas
Pacific road win first reach the Pacific
ocean, and tile still grander project of the
Canadian Pacific may be completed before
1890. These win make four trans-conti-
mental lines, enough perhaps for this cen
tury. ltissf 9tsi sif14si aE9 i3s
-Englishmen have patented something
even more hdmane than the gyro or steel
pigeon tits an artificial hare for greyhound
racing, mounted on sort Of shuttle that
runs ID d deeply grooved rail four hundred