The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1877-09-28
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oasis.
Ten United States Senators are printer
by trade.
The man who said he was +" out on ;
lark was really out on swallow.
Little expenses, like mice in barn
when they are many, make great waste.
"A lonely Keokuk bachelor wants tc
adopt girl baby, not less than eighteer
years old.
Opium smoking will be prohibited ir
China, by an edict of the Emperor at the
end of three years.
An eight-day clock whose machinery is
made from soup bones is among the novel
ties of New York jeweler.
Two thousand dollars of the Peabody
fund, awarded to San Antonio, Texas, lifts
that place out of a strait in school matters
The debt of Texas was increased $780,.
600 last year, and is now So, 116, O55, not in.
Guiding the bonds that have been called in.
"A gentleman counted three hundred
fields of buckwheat from the piazza of the
old Catskill Mountain House few days
ago.
Wade Hampton's son, Wade, Jr., is
running for the Mississippi Assembly. OF
flee holding seems to run in that family.
-Telegrams from Alexandria state that
Cleopatra's Needle is ready for launching,
and is awaiting calm weather and smooth
water.
A nine-inch telescope, which is to cost
$4, 900, is being made for the Princeton
College at the Cambridge astronomical in
strument factory.
An auctioneer selling books in Nash
vile last Tuesday, discovered some loose
leaves in one of them-two twenty dollar
| notes and two fives.
The death Of Davenport leaves John
Gilbert the oldest of the Boston actors, and
the death of Ben De Bar makes John T.
Ford the senior manager.
There we're fifty-three pail bearers at
the funeral of Raphael Semmes. Half-hour
guns were fred all day at Mobile, Ala, on
the day of the funeral.
Father to son just from college
''What have you learned at your college?"
We never learn anything: they don't let
you see the newspapers"
John Keely. the motor man. has ac-
quired an immense fortune, dresses we'll,
eats Spring chickens, and is said to own
$780, 600 worth of diamonds.
According to Hobart Pasha's report,
the new Notifications at Sebastopol are
strong enough to destroy the finest fleet
ahoat without the use of torpedoes
A Dutch treasure chest over two hun
dred years old, is exhibited in New York
shop. 1t is made of iron, three or four
inches in thickness, and attracts much at
tention.
The latest slang catchword, "as we re-
marked when last we met" is used to ex-
press assent and also to round out SEN
tence when the speaker is burdened with
lack of ideas.
Fifty thousand shirts. on which are
printed extracts from the Koran in blue
characters, and as many wooden waistcoats, |
whereon is emblazoned the Prophets seal,
are being manufactured in Paris for the |
Turkish soldiers.
The other day correspondent in os-
man Pasha's camp, thinking to catch him.
said, suddenly:-''How are you Crawford?'
Osman looked at him quietly, and said,
Doksan dogmak idum sevelmemek, NELL
can man sun gunpy. git!'
The fastest time ever made by team
was that yesterday by Mr.. William Fl. Van
derbuilt's at Fleetwood Park-two minutes
and twenty-three seconds. Mr.. Wander
bilt himself drove, and it is believed that |
he can even beat this unparalleled record
~. 7. Herald 18th.
There is now on exhibition, at 116 Du-
pont street, San Francisco, mammoth
bunch of grapes from the great grapevine
Of Santa Barbara "a cutting from the mon
ster sent to the CentenniaD. This cluster
weighs 1875 pounds, is six feet in circumfer-
ence and three feet long. The vine from
which this was cut is 16years old, and pro-
duces annually 10000 to IL, 900 pounds of
grapes. This is probably the largest bunch
of grapes ever known.
Rhetoric, in places, is big thing. A
writer the other day went into a newspaper
Office and said, ''I'ye got an article on Ma
homet for some paper that spells it that
way" He was Immediately kicked down
stairs, for he had gone into a Mohamet of
fee. Then be climbed the stairs into a Ma
hommed Office, and was let out on the fire
escape gently, but positively. Next he
struch magazine where the proof-readers
were partizans of the old school of Mu-
and he went sadly away. One
man whom he met on the stairs of re-
ligious hut practical journal informed him
that Mehemet was the style there. An
hour after he was seen to be let down the
coal hole of Mohammed establishment |
Parents should always teach their children
how to spell.
Woman'o Curiosity Allayed.