The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1877-04-13

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Men who have bank notes coming due
should feel glad to see that the days are
growing longer.
Wayne county, Indiana, has an impuls-
i've cannon which has blown off several
arms and killed three men.
The New Orleans Times sketches 'Kel-
logg as man with nervous legs who
seems crouched for spring.
Those who desire to fa,niiarize them
selves with the best authors should read
patent medicine advertisements.
Biblical scholars will be pleased to learn
that the Vanderbilt heirs have unanimously
resolved to stand by the old testament.
The New York gold exchange is dissolved.
The room will be use in future by the stock
exchange for the sale of gold bonds and
stocks.
1t is stated that Jacob Humble, of Mar
chand county, Indiana, IN order to escape
the payment of a large doctor bill, took his
own life,
An old restaurant keeper says that the
way to get up reputation for tender beef
steak is to have sharp knives for your Gus
toners use.
The druggist who hasn't invented new
cough medicine of his own, is an indolent
man who had rather white a shingle than
wait on customers.
1t has been reserved for German saloon
keeper to quote St. Paul in his window,
as follows: "Take some wine for your
stomach's-ache."
| There is report that Mr.. Tilden is
about to take trip to Europe. Mr.. Til
den himself says it is thirty-one years since
| he has taken rest.
Hundreds of little twenty dollar huts and
garden patches are being sold for taxes at
public auction by the tax-gatherers in the
poor provinces OF Italy.
Charles Francis Adams thawed sufic emit
ly to nod observation to the fact that "A1r.
Hayes had level head" and Immediately
froze up again in new attitude.
A poor man says that the only advice
he gets from capitalists, is ''to live within
your income" The difficulty he expert
enees is to live without an income,
Nearly fifteen thousand applications for
office have been received by the Postmaster
General during his brief incumbency, and
haye been filed away for possible future
reference.
Mr.. Wm. Howard Taft, son of Attor-
dey General Taft, is one of the ten speak
ers at the junior exhibition at Yale College,
He has taken as his subject: "The Vitali-
ty of the Democratic Party"
1t now transpires that Cassabianca who
wouldn't leave the burning ship, was twen-
ty years old, had warts on bis hands, and
had been shipped awav to sea to get rid Of
him. Never had any father, either,
Meissonier, the great French artist, is
not popular among small people. He has
that air of the true genius, the air of Bona
parte, Tennyson, Carlyle, which seem to
say "Life is short don't take much of
| my time"
| Now is the time when the enteIprising
bulb and nursery dealer proposeth to the
newspaper publisher by means of a crcu-
lar, to give him ten cents worth of flower
seeds for twenty dollars worth of adverti-
sing space.
"Cardigan. flake some clean cobweb,
roll it into a ball as large as the wart, press
it on the top so that it does not touch the
adjoining skin, light the cobweb, and bear
the excruciating pain Of burning for few
minutes. In day or two the wart will be
rubBad off.
Colonel Ingersoll has round, somewhat
bald head, a round and liberal figure, and a
somewhat round manner of his owe. His
gestures are very graceful, his enunciation
borrows sometimes too much of the twang,
his voice Is unpleasant But bis talk is full
of fun, fire and freshness.
/ The Missouri Legislature has passed
what it calls Sewing machine bill, =
which imposes penalties upon sewing ma
chine agents who leaves goods upon the in.
stallment plan with widows and poor peo-
pie, and then attach the machine for small
residues when the final BALANCES are not
promptly forthcoming.
William Hewitt says: It would startle
some people to discover in how many o
the royal palaces of Europe spiritnalism ID
firmly seated, and with vigor it is diffusine
itself through all ranks and professions o.
men, who do not care to make much noise
about it-men and women Of literary, re
1 liglons and scientific fame.''
| The great Chinese wall built twenty cen
turies ago, to resist the Mongolian incur
sionists, still serves as fortifcation, thir
ty three hundred miles long. It has beel
found hard TO garrison such long line
and sometimes it has been passed. Still
the belief in the Chinese intellect as TO bar
riers is immense, and now one against th,
Russian interlopers is considered intensel
desirable, although a somewhat expensive
item.
The big ship, Tdree BretAsrs, deParte'
last Saturday on her fourth voyage arount
! the Horn" She carries the largest ami
! eostliest cargo ever taken BY any sailin
ship from California, It's value anoHntia
: to $40. oo0 Captain Cummings, her CON
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mander, confidently belief to make this trI
to Liverpool within 100 days, Ittook T.
! two powerful tugs, AopareA and Nsptaa
10 tow her out of the harbor. .-6 + 4
ming Press. 24th.