The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1877-04-27
NEW NOR -WEsTERs.
Bennett will be back in June.

Five members Of the Cabinet are Iret
Masons.
The trouble with Pope Plus TX. is paral
ysis Of the legs.
It is not good for man to be alone III
should buy dog.
The Key-dive of the Postoffice Depart
raent is the latest.
Some poet describes getting old az
standing at life's west window"
The Gar is said never 10 have approved
an ordinary sentence of death during his
reign.
1t is folly to spend forty cents for sheet
of music when you can go to church and
get it by the choir for nothing.
If you would take life easily the follow
ing recipe is a good one /: Six grains oi
opium just before retiring to rest.
Tennyson has abandoned his Isle OF
Wight home, and, having moved to Lon
don, lives permanently in Upper Wimpole
street.
The Carson Tribune predicta that there
will be no fruit raised in Nevada this sea-
son-the frost will kill the too early
blooms.
Sunset Cox has way of smiling at an
audience that makes everybody wonder if
he doesn't have straw berries and cream the
year round.
81 was fairly elected now my biz, and
Pm going to be constable or bust the State
of Iowa." was what no said, and the other
man vacated.
1lolly's description Of a COED man is COM
plete F'Good? Why, stranger, if that man
owned a sawmill he would open it with
prayer every morning"
Jim Kecne, the California operator, is
said to have made 100000 in his few
months in Wall street, and is going to Eu-
rope to have some fun.
In some Of the Western towns they have
way Of making tramp feel what worm
he is by tin1ng him onei cent Or giving him
three months in the jug.
1t takes Is, COO, Coo trees to furnish lurn-
Der for this country, and 10000 acres of
land are annually cleared for railroad ties.
Let us all plant tree.
They are preparing for high water in New
England. Pig-pens are being braced up,
the women are drawing in their feet, and
the hand organ men are all coming out
West.
The son of Charles Dickens will not al
low monument TO be placed over his
fathers grave as proposed, because the will
requested that nothing of the kind should
be permitted.
That noble old Christ ian, DR.. Mullen
berg, who wrote the hymn beginning al
would not live always" and then outlived
all his associates, has at last one to his re-
ward
Victor Hugo although nearly seventy
years old, works incessantIy. lie rises at
SIX, takes cup OF black coffee aud Il boil
ed egg aud then begins his daily task. He
writes standing at high desk.
Mark Twain pays taxes in Hartford on
$66, $780, and this is but tithe of his wealth.
Twelve years ago he was editing the Daily
Dramatic Ee8ie,o III Sau Franeiseo-mcre
theater programme-at sabry of bs0 per
week.
1t makes a man weary to have to wind
up a cIothesline over his hand and elbow.
It keeps his arm in cramped position for
three minutes. Yet he viii go into a
gin mill and unweariedly bend his elbow
for hours.
The most original spelling we have ever
seen is the following, which is taken from
an old book: it beats modern phonetlcs
so you tub, tub-s0 oh pea, a top--Be so
bat-Pea so pat-Are so rat See oh
double you, cow-See you be, cub-See a
bee, cab-Bee You double tea, butt-See
double ell, call.
A Chinese medical work tells how to cure
a person troubled with night mare. It
says you should not rudely awaken him by
bringing in a light, but that you should
bite his toes, blow in his ears through small
tubes. pull fourteen hairs from his bead,
twist them together. aad tickle his nostrils
with the end. Paste this in your night
cap.
There are some little gems of poetry that
cling to our memories whether we will or
no. We find ourselves repeating them at
odd times and in odd places. These two
verses by Hood are like the signing of the
wind in the trees .ghen the sun is setting,
and are better than many sermon:
We watched her breathing through the night,
Her breathing soft and low,
As in her breast tho wave of live
Kept heavng to and fro
Our very hopes bclicd our fears,
Our fears our hopes belied;
We thought her dying when she slept,