The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1877-12-14
NEW NOR -WEsTERs.
-''Domestic" infelicity was the cause OF
Coolbaupb's suicide.

| DoLhSsIic lAieiClty WAS JIG causo va
Coolbaugh's suicide.
Single breasted sack coats are all the
style for gentlemen's business suits.
AT Harvard 1s9 young men are study
ing law and 212 are studying medicine.
Expensive rascal-that Sitting Bull.
The Com MISSIONS expenses foot up $780,
| 900.
The soft air of Florida is said to agree
with the hard constitution of John Nor
rissey.
Stripes are SO big on the fall styles Of
pantaloons that it takes two pairs of trow-
sers to accommodate a single stripe.
Gum camphor placed around the
haunts of mice will drive them away; be-
fore going they sing in chorus-':O, gum,
gum away"
A Detroit man jumped into the river
the other day to cure tho toothache. He
must have had what they call dumping
toothache. -
AS frightened darkey, chased by an
infuriated bull, neared the boundaries of a
field, he enthusiastically exclaimed, emil
lions for de fence, but not cent for de
brute.'
Field, Letter & Co. will probably oc-
cupy the temporarily the Chicago Exposi-
tion Building.
Hon. Henry L. Pierce consents to ae-
ccpt the nomination of the Republicans for
the Mayoralty of Boston.
Sir Samuel Baker calls attention to the
singular fact that negro has never been
known TO tame an elephant OF any wild
animal.
But for the steam engines in America
there would be work for 1900, Goo more
men. 1t makes Lucy Stones hair stand
right up to think Of it.
Another good man gone wrong! Mr.
Stillson Hutchins, formerly of the st. Louis
Times, is making an effort to start Dem
cratic daily at Washington.
A Mississippi granger is opposed to
railroads He says when he goes to town
they bring him home so quick he hasn't
time to get sober before he arrives.
There is good sense in the complaint
of the Educational Heekly, that pupils of
the public schools are nnt taught enough
and are compelled to learn too much.
The Baldwin Locomotive Works since
1910 has exported locomotives valued at
Sc, 900, 600, and the entire manufacture up
to June 80, 1877, was 4, $50 engines, valued
at $52, 405, 106.
A correspondent writes: "Do you
think it is wicked to smoke ?" Oh. dread
fully, awfully, sinfully wicked. Send your
cigars to this Office and let us burn them
for you, while you swear off and reform be- |
fore it is too late.
"A gentleman was talking about pop
ular statesman, HE is a very good fellow,
for lie never says a word against any one,
he observed. sit would be surprising il he
did," was the reply, .gor he never talks of |
my one bat himself.''
years SecreTary yo~-sea,, r-l
ordered 10 San Francisco ON the fsS OIL De-
cember to report, and then he will be Or
dered to his permanent station, probably
either San Francisco OK some post in AFi- |
zona.
A book agent, soliciting subscriptions
for book, showed the prospectus to man
who after reading, ''s1 in boards and Sl.2o
in sheep" declined subscribing, as he
might not have boards or sheep ON hand
when called on for payment.
-Denton, Texas, has desperate of AT
rican descent named Joe Faust, whose tao
tics are rather peculiar. Cooking hisspistol
on divine, he made him get down on his
hands and knees, bIeat Ike a sheep, and
compelled him to but an oak tree until he
made the acorns fall.
JOAQUIN Miller says that Billy Piper in
"The Danites' is true picture Of him
self and his life when a boy. This is very
interesting, and considering that Billy Pi-
per in the play is girl in disguise, We are
absolutely overcome with awe, when we
contemplate the golden beard of the poet
Of the Shutdown Seas.
~sPa, sswiii you Get me a pair of skates If
[ prove to you that dog has ten tails :
eyes my son." '.Well, to begin, one dog
has one more tail than no dog, hasn't be p
yes "Well. no dog has nine tails; and
if one dog has one more tail than no dog
then one dog must have ten tails" lie
got the skates.
A case has just been decided in Cali
fornia district court that in the event OF
package being lost by an express company
the owner can only recover the value OF the
same placed by him on it at the office from
which it was shipped. This will save much
litigation, as all parties will fully under
stand their own rights.
"A Dos Moiues telegram says that the
State of Iowa lactically has no debt. 1t
has outstanding $500, 600 in war bonds,
due i'm 1888, which tie holders refuse to
surrender. There is also due the pernaa-
nent school fund a little over S1o0, GU,
which was borrowed; but the State is able
| to pay her debts at any time.
| The Germans are using cork as a stun.
/ ing for bed covertets, instead of down. AND
| now when the Teutonic husband reels iate
bed after returning from lodge meeting
and his wife sits up ON her elbow ane
| snuffs the night air conspiciously, the e'f
gentleman merely puts his head into th'
pillow and remarks: ssDem ehampagnecofs
cefferlets vas sehnsell awfool sehrong, ain.
it,
| Eighteen thousand men are Row en
gagged ia the express business ExpFes
companies cover eO,oooo miles Of rail
road, and it is estimated that its nes
sengers daily travel 100000 miles. Ihre
| thausand five hundred horses are employ