The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1877-01-26
NEW NeR'-: LIB Rs.
-'77 ought to he . lucky year.

s Mot single comet made it's appearance
y Last year.
-Tennyson wears blue spectacles and i
shock ck-headsd.
: California shipped 5000, 600 pounds o
: wool East last year. 9
: 1T costs every tramp twenty days labo
' to enter Vicksburg, Miss.
t Sir Edward Thornton's salary in s30E
600 a year and house-rent at Washington
free.
two deep wrinkles mark Twain be
6 tween the eyebrows, and che rarely
!, laughs"
Utah hasSmore miles of narrow gauge
railroad in operation than any State or Ter
' ritory in America.
-Bierstadt is ransacking Colorado fo,
, scenery to paint. He ought to do the pont-
, ical situation in oil.
r -" Many happy returns s. and fai,
count" is the way the Baltimore Gazette
greets its subscribers.
: Sergeant Bates is said to be in abieet
poverty in Bloomington, illinois. Hooray
for Bloomington, illinois!
Poor Jim Nye used to say: "My peo-
pie liked me better than they do Jones, but
Lord, CAN'T run against silver mine.''
Oregon salmon are caught by millions
and canned. The meat is redder, coarser
and of higher flavor than that of Eastern
salmon. ass ~
| The artists, Mr.. Albert Bierstadt and
Earl Dunraven, are travelling together in
Colorado, making sketches of winter
scenery.
Weather items published by tue signal
service bureau under the head of "proba-
bilities /" will hereafter be known as "indi-
cations" H.
Correspondents can go with the Rus
sian amy when it marches, but the Cars
instructions are: "Stisk to the truth or 90
to Siberia"
Capt. Pollard, of the English navy, has
been dismissed from the service for not
seeing rock sixty feet high in the path of
his vessel. .
/ This is Gaelic proverb: eff the best
mans faults were written upon his fore&
head it would make him pull his hat. over
his eyes, SKI
--It is said that the Duke of Edinburg
wears bracelets, and that it is becoming
generally fashionable for English gentlemen
to don them.
More than half the mines in the State
Of Pennsylvania are stopped. The number
Of men thrown out of employment is esti-
mated at $4,000.
Evans thus defines the difference be-
V''s>-- - ->s,;ineoni.u. a Art in an ef-
fort to idealize the READ and philosophy an
effort to realize the Ideals
"A humane Kentuckian has invented q
patent bottle, shaped like coffin. with a
skull and cross bones on it, for the purpose
of keeping poison in it.
"A Wisconsin postmaster took $500
worth of stamps home for safe -keeking, and
his dog swallowed the bundle after one or
two trials and whined to be postmarked.
-" What did the Puritans como to this
country for?'' asked Massachusetts, teach |
er of his class. "To worship in their own
way and make other people do the same. !"
Discussion between q wise child and |
its tutor: That star you see up there is
bigger than the world" "N No it isn't" |
"Yes it is" "Then why doesn't it keep |
the rain off. |
A RECIPE FOR PUNCH.
Alittle sugar to. make 1t sweet
A little lemon to make 1t sour,
little water to make 1t weak,
And little brandy to give il power
Il can open my mouth for q nice beef
steak in the morning, but my enemies have
not the power to open my mouth with q
crowbar to compel me to say anything
against my friends. Boss Taceed. I
i'm our country the successful politi-
clan grows to power upon brilliant lap
robes and magnificent dinner sets, bat |
Jules Simon, the French Premier, lives
with his family in fifth story fat on mod
ei'''0 'n'o'''e.
Prince bismarck cats shof1 ili'ersle"T
ers BY saying rms Is wnas siia'l 90 now.
" nat : sA''a ~ so-oi.o"
va. so-1Ao. e - - .a..,l, a;g,,u.,.
ot'ns : ~ = ..-.Sao ..'
from 'nose sn''o' p"oe'
The buii-doze .eeektan mas just MADE
its appearance at the iashiohaols oars.
You must tilt about a teaspoon1ai OF wafer |
into the glass ana lmmedlately lnslmiaase
lt with as macn "h,sas as .the giass Nlli
noi''' nsA 'Asr r. ''s eo,''' : ...''>'s -
sie "a'eA oos'-'
correspondent says sAae she oioes.