The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1877-02-16
WHAT THE WITS SAT-.
All quiet on the Potomac. It's frozen
up.-Boston Post.

All quiet on the Potomac. It's frozel
up.-Boston Post.
Said Logan &c I thought they'd deal 1
Jack, bat they gave nae tho deuoe.-N. 7
Herald.
Evans says that " the differentiation ant
subordination Of parts is the measure o
progress" Ever think of that?-N 7
Grephie.
ITO Greece we give oar shining blades,
said the fellow at the boarding house, plum
ging his knife into the butter dish.-IgEus
tratsd Weekly.
The Winona Republican wants to call tn.
Parrgraphers' Association "The Jolls
Blades" Is that because they are razorl
of fun ?-Grsphic.
A young man on the Hill came near crea
ting riot last Thursday by asking q red
headed woman if she carried thermome
ter in her bonnet.--Argas.
Jersey City has goat that chews tobac'
co for living; and not one of the Odd
Fellows lodges offers to take the poor old
thing in.-K. 7. Herald.
There is no position in this life more un-
healthy than that of being the "oldest
Freemason." He is dying pretty much all
the time, of late.--Nor. Herald.
"Tha Water We Drink is denounced
at some length in the Baltimore Gazette. In
many cases it's the Water We Don't Drink
that hurts us the most.-Nsao York Com
naercial
1t is affecting beyond measure to hear
the newly elected Congressman, as they
come in sight of the Capitol, break out and
sing ''Sweet, sweet dome."-BmrIington
HDwkeye.
We regret to hear that the gentle Tup-
per is the victim of another catastrophe. A
Boston newsboy has called him ''stem-
winder," and the good poet can't find it in
the dictionary.-Argus.
Fifty million pins are made every day in
England, and yet in all that country there
is not man who can pin stiff collar on a
stiff neckbank without spelling heaven in
four letters.-N. Y. Herald.
Some of the scientific papers are again
agitating the question, I" How far off is the
sun % AS long as it is SO far away that it
calls for five hods of coal day to run fire,
the question has no particular charm for
most men.-Kockland Courier.
Surprise is the essence of wit, but some
how when man is climbing down ladder
in an awful hurry and never finds out that
one of the rounds is gone until he tries to
step on it with both feet, it new er seem
very funny to him.--Haaokeye.
At a party ON West Hill the other even
ing number of young men presented one
of the party who was very obnoxious to
them with large tin jaekass, with an ap-
propriate presentation address. But the
mean man got the drop on them by accept
ing it gracefully, saying that he would al
ways keep it, and never part with it, and
az often as he looked at it, it could not fail
to remind him of the donors. And then
somehow or oJner, It seemed to the young
men that the presentation had gone off
kind of tame, after all.-Hawkeyc.
Thursday afternoon stranger stepped
into Doninick street saloon and remark
ed, "It is showing again )" when man
by the stove sp, ang to his feet and ex-
81 am glad of it. l can whip
any man who says am not glad Of it.
The snow was three feet deep last week
and more came then nobody knew how
deep it was. l broke my snowshovel,
Sunday, and I've looked all over town and
can't buy another and my mother-in- law
is visiting at my house, and the snow is so
deep she can't get home, and ! am glad it
is showing. I wish the snow was ten
feet deep on my grave.-Roae
Sentinel.
"What is "a cold deck and a bob tail
flush p" a young lady, the light Of South
bill home, asked the other evening, looking
up from a newspaper she was reading.
" Why" said her elder brother, ga cold
dec" and it was worth fifteen cents for
student of human nature to note how sud-
denly he checked himself, and what
variety Of conflicting emotions played over
his face as be bent oyer his book and pre-
tended not to perceive the sharp glance of
-, /. r., -
him over his spectacles, while the silence
was SO profound and awful that the other
Of the family looked up and gazed
around in dumb amazement, An excess
Of knowledge is oftentimes a burden.
What does man want to make himself