The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1877-01-19
WHAT THE WITS SAY

The present situation in tine Electoral
college is UNDERSTANDABLE Commercial
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George Eliot grows hornely as she grows
older. She never had much beauty to
Lewes Boston Post. A7A
Cronin would be just the man for starting
new world. He could meet himself and
fill allcvacancies -Neso Orleans Republican.
Raw. chester Democrat:-"It is netSin-
spring to hear the man against the lamp
post remark Z Peace 'nearth will to men
-whoop.'" ;poy ifsa I rsf waE Va
The only diferencebetweenC Chamberlain
and Hampton is that one is trying to make
troops Of friends and the other friends Of
troops. s.-Natioa. .9sses .,a.t4
We call men loose when they are tight.
PSI And gone when4hey are staying, {'i+
And some get sawed" that go to sea, sosT
ii: And slowed that go a-sleighing. H3
al ..q :, yfst.4sa s7 ,st. Graphic.
OF the millions of men I'm. Mexico there
is not one who doesn't expect to be Presi.
dent, next year-and with pretty good
reason, too. oo.-hochester Democrat. q
Whitehall Tsmes:-"T The season of the
year has arrived when man can take
ten-cent skein of yarn to his minister s
donation and exchange it for two-dollar
supper.
No almanac for 1877 will be complete
without frequent Interpolation of some
thing like this: "About this time look
out for reports of James Gordon Benefits
marriage. ."-Boston Post.
A st. Louis man who declared he would
rather be right than be President has beeu
arrested for pawning his wife's earrings
and betting the proceeds on dog-fght.-
Brooklyn Argus. d.
There are forty-three thousand clergymen
in the United States, but even this number
have not succeeded in working the morals
OF the community up to tia that IL point where
all will pay on crowded horse car
Bridgeport Standard.
Longfellow says" Some feelings are
untranslatable no language has been found
fer them.' A man who slips on the ice
and goes to the pavement with momentum
that makes his sudden stop interesting has
these feelings.-N. Y. Herald.
Science has it's triumphs, but we believe
it has never yet satisfactorily accounted
for the existence of the middle-aged woman
who attends all the donation parties with a
present of a flannel pen-wiper and eats 81
worth of food at supper, and subsequently
leans up against the wall with her eyes
shut and sings, "Nearer, my God, to
Thee" ."-Noraoich Bulletin.
1t is said that the number of expressions
used by good writer is very small, and
we have seen paragraph to the effect that
Shakespeare had vocabulary of something
less than 300 English words. Yet when a
man slips up on an iron coal-hole cover and
feels 100 pounds of protoplasm on the side
walk, Webster's Dictionary doesn't contain
half the words he rolls around in his imag-
ination.-N. z. Herald. ....-.
A Burlington woman, who was sure she
was going into decline, teased her hus-
band for six mortal weeks to buy her a
S130 health-lift and he had just about
made up his mind to get it when one
eha saw. her rush out and pull a
six-year-old shade Jreu ur-.-..-..,,+s ,,,a
chase book-agent clear across Peasley's
pasture. Then he changed his mind and
invested the money in a ladder, so that he
could get up on the roof at seconds
warning without squeezing. through the
scuttle. Haaokeye.