The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1877-12-28
NEW NOR -WEsTERs.

al meetings in Indiana.
More lawsuits than love suits are
brought on by attachments.
The Utah Northern has distributed
$4,000 among its employees.
OF 60 words which make up the Lord 5
prayer, only five are not Saxon.
1t gives parlor stove a unique APP
pearance to paint the legs red.
Sooner seek to blend oil and water ior
fire and water, than love and wisdom a
The modern form of Herodism is about
the proper title for the baby show mania.
-Thirty-f We hundred men are at work
on the extension of the Kansas Central
railroad.
Chicago sells a set of false teeth, war
ranted to bite off an ear at one nip, for
only IS.
| Very few brass bands in military
parade can play as many airs as the drum
major puts on.
-" What a scalawag that man was"
exclaimed Boss Tweed, as he read the Van
derbilt will case.
The Philadelphia Press say that Grant
has gained forty y-eight pounds since he
started on his European tour.
The estate of the late William F. Cool
baugh, of Chicago, amounts to $1,000, 900
nutciGa IF hse bopIy r+ool~
If Mr.. Bowles should survive, win ch
now seems possible, he will have the salts
+ action Of knowing that his brethren admit
he is the greatest journalist in America.
Never go where go where you are not
wanted. If man desires you to visit his
store he will invite you through an adver-
tisement. It is wrong to intrude on pri-
vacy.
"A while ago, party of lynchers, down
South, postponed the hanging five minutes
to allow the victim time to finish smokinga
cigar. This proves that the use of tobacco
prolongs life.
Here is problem for scientists. Why
is it thai in winter overshoes are called
Arctic, while they keep us warm; and is
summer soda water is called Arctic and
keeps us cool.
1t cast a gloom over an entire church
fair the other night when the minister's
son walked up to the grab-bag and prize
cake table and demanded that the game
be explained to him before he bought his
chips.
MIR. James Key, of Baltimore, a son of
Philip Barton Key, who will be remember
ed in connection with the Sickles tragedy,
has abandoned the law for the stage, and
M. Pomeroy on the Southern circuit.
A minister says that while visiting
colored school in the Southern States, he
asked tiny darkey what he studied for,
and what was object in atte nding school.
Hesitating for moment or two, the little
fellow replied, s'To git offs.
The longest bridge in the world is over
TUE hlFGI 1dys Ch OllO AlAS VA SIiG Wa oAA
British Railway, It is 1919 feet long,
and has just been completed at an expense
of So, $50, 600. There are IS spans. The
celebrated bridge at Montreal is 6,9S4, or,
with approaches, 9,194 feet.
ALI the German fortresses now building
upon the Russian frontier will be finished,
it is asserted, by 1880. OF the nine forts
of the Notifications near Posen, three will
be completed in 1878, three in 1879, and
the rest in the following year. The twelve
forts near Konigsberg are equally well
under way.
The O'Hara Glass Works at Pittsburg
are now filing an order for fifteen hundred
dozen goblets to go to Spain. They are to
| be delivered in New York at forty-two cents
| a dozen. The proprietors have secured a
| profitable trade with Spain and Brazil,
mainly through the influence of the Gen.
tennial exposition.
"A Pendleton (Ky.) lawyer is said 20
have presented to the courts the following
affidavit: 81 do here by say and do here
bv swar that do not believe that have a
faer and imparcell trile in the case now be-
fore-said charge is against me for caring
concealed weppons to wit a pistol. Given
under my hand this 10 day of November,
1871"
An Oakland (Cal.) man bought mule
for $40, and after trying for two days to
| put on his harness, using the second story
window as a base of operations, he finally
sold him to the city authorities for S14.
The city will use him to suppress riots
it being estimated that to put him right end
foremost at riot he will equal two Gatling
guns.
The timber used in the Comstock
mines costs $4,000 day; the firewood,
mostly consumed by the steam engines,
sc. 600: candles burned in the mines, $780,
600. the quicksilver lost, $4,000; and the
ice needed to cool the water for drinking in
the hot lower levels, $1,000 day. The
Consolidated Virginia alone uses ice daily
worth $3.50. Over two tons of bullion con-
tanning forty per cent of gold is produced,
worth from $3.50, 900 to $50, 600.
james Todd, one of General Lees "a
vorite scouts in the West Virginia cam
pagn, was killed last week in dispute
with hunter near Staunton, Va. He was
reputed the most skillful hunter in the
| ~ e 4La Cbanaudoah having killed
more than twenty ty-seven hundred deer uI
to 1860 with one old muzzle-loading rifle.
He could perform the feat of putting
bullet through hat on the opposite side
Of tree, by placing an axe blade for the
| ball TO glance upon.
Warrington, CIV. s. Robinsoa, re-
Gently deadl, who made a national reI'asa,
/ ton as a correspondent, received for ms
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