The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1877-01-19
NEW NOR -WEsTERS.
Kissing is becoming popular in Lon-

There are 1000 convicts in the Illinol'
Penitentiary. ....sT
Lean men for skates and fat men for q
laugh at euehre. . 5'.'
mo conflict is so severe as his who la
bors to subdue himself. r
"A 81, 900 counterfeit greenback. is in
circulation. Look out for 1t.
The Laramie rolling mills will start ur
again on or before February 1st.
The Cossacks scalp..t the Turks. Sc
spread American Institutions over the
world.
The latest slang is: /" He'sa coed fel.
low, but he's bit off more than he car
chew"
The first book ever published in Jeru.
salem has been dedicated to the Rothschild
family.y1 s.3sl 5.a'1i'fs ess ..
"A fat-iron is very popular Ded-feI-
low. A fiat-iron contains in equal parts
blisters and chilblains.
Bret Harte and Mark Twain are said
to be engaged together in the preparation
of a new play. ..
The Court cut down Tommy Shear
mans fee in the last Moutton- Becker suit
from $4,000 to $3.50.
Scoop the core out of baked apple,
fiji the hole with milk and sugar, and set
out doors to freeze.
The average age of sheep is 10 years;
cows, Is; hogs, Is; and horses, not used as
beasts of burden, 90
General James Shields, the hero of two
wars, will be appointed Adjutant General
of Missouri by Governor Phelps.
--Ex-Confederate General Joe Shelby an
nounces that he is ON the side of General
Grant is on, whether it is Tilden or Hayes.
The seat of Banning, the blusterer,
will be contested by Judge Stanley Math-
ews. Banning was returned as elected by
65 majority.
The Atlanta Times says an unbroken
stream of emigrants to Texas and Arkansas
has been, for some time, flowing through
that city. #*5
They talk of calling that new Terrific
ry by the fiat English name Of "Huron," !"
instead of the euphonious Sioux name of
"Pembina."
The electoral vote is to be counted on
st. Valentines day, and the Globe Demo-
crat is concerned to know "Who will get
the valentine ?'
There is preacher in Arkansas who
argues that Noah's ark rested in that State
and that Arkansas got its name from that
The Worcester Press puts the number
of religious denominations in the United
States at one hundred and sixty, not count
ing Bob Ingersoll.
Every place in Vermont where liquog
is sold as beverage is BY law declared o
common nuisance, and the keeper is SUBJ
ject to a fine of 5000.
"A Nevada man died few days ago
from tbs ~ffanss nf nnnshot wound re-
ceived in 1851, the bullet remaining in his
lungs 25 years.
Illinois has fifty-two railways with
Z, 357 miles of track. Nineteen of these
roads are in the hands of receivers or have
recently passed under control of the bond
holders.
The deposit of rock salt is found to be
enormous in Nevada. In recently opened
quarries it is sawed out like marble, is al.
most pure, and is just the kind tho cattle
like.
Most men call fretting a minor fault, q
foible and not vice. There is no vice ex-
cept drunkenness which can so utterly de-
stroy the peace, the happiness of home.
Helen Hunt
The st. Louis Globe Democrat offers as
a premium to the Governor who writes the
shortest message at the coming assemblage
of State Legislatures copy of that paper
for the term of one year.
Carl Rosa is considered the wealthiest
operatic manager living. Parepa left him
a large fortune, and his own efforts have
been remarkable financial success. Re-
port says that he is about to marry again.
No matter what the weather is, Sir
Edward Thornton, the English Minister at
Washington, and his two daughters walk
nearly every day the whole length of Penn
sylyania avenue, which is about four miles
in length. @
A member of club objected to the
publication of the list of meeting nights of
the club, because" he said, " if it's pub
lished, we married men. will have to ac-
count for the off-nights.' The motion to
publish was lost. .8
General John Palmer and Lyman
Trumbull look longingly for Senator Lo-
gan's place, and each would rather. the
other wouldn't get it. It is said that Min
lister Washburne would like to engage in
the Senatorial business just for a change.
Sam. w. Small has left the Atlanta
Constitution and embarked in new enter
prise, the Atlanta Sunday Herald. Mr..
Small is the author of the ''Old Sis sketch
es, which are among the most humorous
writings in the Southern press.
George B. Hamilton, of Dubuque,
Iowa, is sure of. enough flour to last his
family through the winter, however the
rest of us may be situated. He holds, at
present, 75O, 900 bushels of wheat, or one
thirteenth of the visibls supply in the Uni
ted States and Canada.
-"There Is lesson of immense signifi-
cance," says Bayard Taylor in his letter to
the Cincinnati Commercial, g in the fact
that while there were nearly ten million sd
missions to the international Exhibition at
Philadelphia, there was not single arrest
for intoxication ON the grounds.
The Paragraphers' Association not