The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1877-02-23
: WHAT THE WITS SAY,
Is Historian George Bancroft looks like !:
drifted snow-bank struck by an idea. -.

, WHAT TILE WITS SAY.
!, Historian George Bancroft looks like
drifted snow bank struck by an idea. 2.
r. Isn't this. the era Of good feeling /?
: Graph'c. Feel of a buzz-saw and see. 2
Il The popular song ON Change is "a
We Go Margin On. Chicago Tribune.
An Iowa boy sued his father. and, he q
damages-vith a skate-strap.-Bur rgsngto
Ha'o6eye. 4..ls q, .s.a&s1osE-. g.y z.y.es
I Perhaps you may have noticed that it
the fellows who don't bet who always kne,
beforehand which horse would win th
race. ce.-Norrsstoaon Herald. Es..-Esa.l go.
Fifty tons of fine lake trout went owe
Niagara Falls on the Goth inst. becaus
I their tails froze and the fishes steering ar
paratus became unmanageable. -Dambur
NeWs. Vi ---s-lsE-- -5&s-. -'.2sJa -..5-a htGg5 !
The "splrit'' Of David Coplpeertield an
peared at a Boston seance the other eve even d
ing, loading Dora BY one hand and Agnre
by the other. Z" "Jip'' was distinctly Wis
ible under a chair.-GrapAic. '~' ,-l'-
"Lord hacaulay," we are told, "mad,
it rule to pay all bills within twenty-fou,
hours.s And this is the first intimatior
we have had that Macaulay was a news
paper editor. Norristoson Herald. ~
At Hyde Park, down near Scranton, they
have Wezsh Punch. It is not liquid no1
muscular in its nature, but humorous a and
a newspaper. One OF It's jokes looks like
this: ~"siht repap 81 emo rallod a raey. ~
-1Ezinird Adoertiser. '',.--'',,.7' ''-.'. 80,
m The Rev. DR.. Cook says that ssexistence
after after death is but postulate of the psy-
Geological analysis Of the SOUL, The wild.
natural yearning for an unending exist
ence is intensified three thousand times,
now that we know it's going to. take3a
whole dictionary to tell our friends what
shape we're in after the faneral.-Fuzen
Times. . ..o.a..J.:..., ~. -"
Z Glrl of the rehabilitation Bat-Er.z
We thought her name was Louisa Anna. =
Norrsstoaoz Herald. No, it is Flora Day.
-Hisakt1 Standard. 1t appears to be s.
Carolina.-To Tonkers Gaseth. Or it might
be Missis sippi.--Fagtoa Times. Or what
would you say to May Ne; or Rhody Land:
Or Della Ware; Or Mary Land; or India
Anna or Dry Con ?--R0ckland Courier.
Smoking cabbage laauas. nj .an 1oc,o,,,4 1c,,a4 {
roiI may be costly but is hardly Tvs ) a. !. 2
gerous amusement in America Z. -
seem to be otherwise in England. The
customs officers, Of London seized the other
lay a harmless looking fluid, which on
analysis proved to be nicotine. There was
'nly about twenty three gills of it, but its
5errible potency may be imagined when
We learn that it was the product of 1850
pounds of tobacco sveepings mixed with
Alcohol. This virulent fluid was to be used
N Transforming cabbage leaves into the
inest Havana cigars. London leads the
world in the adulteration of food and of
,very sort Of substance that can be sold.
Well might Michelet say" the cigar has
killed the kiss" at least in England. :
Co0rant. ''' 4
clay Charlton" the entertaining New
York correspondent Of the Dan6gry Meas,
has aroused much interest in the subject
Of etiquette by an elaborate .disquisition
thereon in recent issue of that paper.
Here are some suggestions from Our. Dan
hn IN
teeth with fork. it is apt to scratch off
the enamel. Ifyeur bread and butter falls
On the floor, don't pick it up and swear
over it, but kick it under the table and
talk about roses. Just because you feel
don't pass your chewing tobacco
to the ladies' some Montana people do it, d
but it's not considered to be in good taste
in Danbury. Don't use your knife in eat
ing SOUP you might cut your tongue.
DON'T clean your finger-nails at table, for
then all the company will know they were
dirty ;if you keep quiet they may not be
."-Bostoa Globe. s,.a c4.s.Fagi ! II
A printer, whom his friends cali Dick,
was the other night in beer saloon, i'm
bibing Rochester, when party of half
inebriated fellows entered, seated them.
selves at table near by and began "sing-
ing" Dick made a good deal of fan.of
their horrible discord, but they said moth
ing till they had finished their beer. Then
one OF them walked over to Dick and mild
" inquired. "Can you sing2'' "You just
bet I can !" was Dicks reply. Instantly a
revolver was stuck into, his ear, and the
fellow yelled at him: sssNow you splay-
footed, gamble-shanked, pigeon-tosd, ewez
necked, cook-eyed pizen-hister, sing, -ye!os
Dick sang sang for half an hour under
the persuasion oil. that pistol, and he sang
/" One more river TO CROSS = in q style to
draw tears from a gwheelbarrow.-BostoD
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