The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1877-08-24
NEW NOR -WEsTERs,
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d London.
u Virginia, New, boasts of an e-foot loa
g of bread.
In Iowa a good dancer is said to throw
: ga hefty sock"
a "A sea turtle weighing LOO pounds i.
, on exhibition at Newport.
=, Some people read the Eleventh Com
| mandment, "Do riot and fear not'
s The Roman Catholic church, on Fifth
Avenue, New York, will have no seats.
American shoes are now being largely
sold in Switzerland, Germany and France.
Walter F. c. Raleigh, descendant OF
Sir Walter Raleigh, is heir to an estate in
England valued at $541, $50.
The Bnlgarans wear a white band
with a cross around their head to distin-
guish them from the Turks.
"A youth of seventeen, at Utica, New
York, fatally injured himself a few
days ago, while trying to turn back hand
spring.
Asa Fish, an eccentric Albany miser
who died few days ago, left will giving
his widow 81 day during her life, to be
paid monthly.
j. G. Ma1shman, the man who found
ed the only political paper in India
which he made great authority-has just
died in England.
Oakley Hall is Ieputed to be engaged
as war correspondent in the East. This
may account for the famous victories
| that are gained by both sides every week.
| "A Newark reformed d.unkar,I. who
lately broke lis pledge, declared it was
was owing to tho bay rum the barber put
on his face when he got shaved that tempt
ed him.
Jonas e. Maine, a wealthy and ecce,i.
trio physician, formerly Of Boston, where
lie usually wrote his tax list in verse,
died suddenly while plowing his field In
Connecticut last week.
"A pearl-white lobster was recently ta-
ken with others in a trap at Salem, Mass,
Such Holsters are very rare. When boiled
it is said to remain clear white.
"A new Chinese theater is to be erect |
on Washington street, San Francisco, at |
cost of thirty thousand dollars, which
means another bonfire, and probably Ce- |
les'ia! holocaust for the editication of the |
hOndlum>
Rev. Joseph Cook now ranks among
Tie best paid preachers. His manner is
informal. He will sit quietly with his
knees crossed and talk in the same con-
versational tone he would use in the draw
ing room.
of twenty-three persons who left New
Haven, Connecticut, for the Black Hills,
all but three have returned, and these
three have gone to Texas. Some of the
adventurers had to tramp it home and spent
all the capital they started with.
-Hippopotamuseses are down as low as
s5, 600, and a menagerie man says this is
lirt cheap. But until they come down to
$3.50 they will be classed among the luxu-
worry along with two or three dogs.
"A New York farmer goes wild over
Guinea hens. He declares that each one '
will keep an acre clear of potato bugs. and {
will answer every purpose of a barometer
n predicting storms. He says also they :
will not strateb, and lay more and better j
eggs than the common hen. ,
Disguised with suit for yoke Of OK
IN which had had five trials, Kentucky
Jury has rendered the following verdict: {
g We, Of the jury; find for the plaintiff, one +;
If the steers in controversy, or its value, {
$50, the cost to be equally divided between {
he parties and the yoke to 60 the law s
7ers."
The old silver cup which Washington
frank wine from at Portsmouth, N. H.,
md the arm chair that he sat in are all
preserved as relics by his grandson. Still
he wine cup and chair do not form as good
material from which to draw moral for
;he young as the story of the "lttle hatcl
It,"
They had retired for the night and
we're talking over the events of the day,in
the few moments intervening between go
ing to bed ard going to sleep. "Oh that
dreadful war in Europer' she said in a
voice of deep concern "what place is that
my dear, where correspondent writes from
about the dreadful massacre p :" Tirnoya,
my DEAR
The Lebanon, Penna- Times, has
found the champion mean man. He is
farmer, VINO, finding some girls in his field
picking berries, permission having been
given them by the hired hand, deliberately
tore the baskets from them, emptied the
to get basket to carry them away. In
the me antime the girls returned and tramp
led the berries into the ground.
Hamlet philosophical OF seeing dead
mans skull thrown from the earth. What
would the melancholy Dane have seen If
be had seen, as we did, the other day, a
human skull doing duty as a water cup in
a wood shanry, occupied by a man who
ootdiItu UuO o0t'on . io"o yoAiS 'so t'ohiA
a stripped grave, and had used it ever
since as household utensil
"A tramp called at farm house near
Kennebec, Maine, the other day and asked
for some money with which he could pur-
chase something to eat. The man of the
house gave him a fifty cent scrip, pretty
well worn. but genuine, which he examin-
ed very critically. The tramp returned it,
that he didn't think it would
pass, and he shouldn't care to run the risk
of taking it.
"A correspondent of scientific journal
SAYS: "Thcre is method which | have
adopted in my own honse to cool the tenn
n.,xr ,,oor,, duriIa the hot th.