The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1877-03-09
NEW NoR'-wEsTERs.
There are fourteen hundred daily papers

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United States last year. e
-"Look leetle oudt'' for life insur
ance companies these days.
e If you want to be in style you mus
: write to your girl with white ink.
Two hundred and thirteen American
: horses have trotted faster than 2:26.
1t is estimated that z, 0Oe persons have
left the Comstock during the past thirty
> days.
:, There is a determined war upon the
hltualists of England, but they stand up
for their rites.
-Cerebro-spinal-msni msningitls-spotted fe-
ver-is carrying off victims at various points
on Puget Sound.
Cheyenne has man who has been y
juryman once year for nine years and
never lost case.
An Irishman who fled from his native
land in 184S is now in the Turkish army
under the title Of Hassan Bey.
1t looks rather extravagant, but the es-
Inmates are that the population of the Black
Hills will reach 40, by next fall.
The Courter-Journaz announces that
one Of its editors (Will S. Hays will fur
nish original obituary poetry at ten cents
line.
| The Graphic calls upon all lawyers to
cut down their fees one-half. The be t
way is for one-half the public to cease going
to law.
Prince Humbert of Italy recently ini-
tiated the Prince Imperial of France into
the rites and mysteries of Free and Accept
ed Masonry.
"A. j. Dam & Son are proprietors of
New York hotel, and they don't like it a
bit when their letters come addressed to
Dam A. J. & Son. -....e5
There is $50, 900 tomb in Greenwood.
A stone mason made it. In the outskirts
| pauper lies under rose bush. God made
it.-Danbury NeWs.
The famous war artist Of the London
| Illustrated Ne@s, Robert Landello, who re-
is dead, at the age of 45.
There are lots of men in this country
who don't care for money, but they feel just
like using postage stamp over again if
the ink has only touched one corner.
A Welshman just getting into the mys-
teries of the language this side the Atlantic |
spells luIatic "llwwnaatiic. This is what |
made Josh Billings give up lecturing.
-Mr. Moody said he had no time to |
study grammar This we learn from the |
Commercial Adoertiscr, because he saw so |
many of his fellow-creatures parsinp
-zal1 ucIv Is su olu uerruau pruyerb 10 the
effect, that great war leaves the country
with three armies-an army Of cripples,
and an army OF mourners, and an army Of
thieves.
Toledo people are proverbially econom-
ical. A man who died in that city the |
other day left word that the door plate |
should be taken off and screwed on the top |
cf his coffin.
This is the way Watterson announced
it week ago last Sunday morning " The |
first Of my 10000 Kentuckians has already
arrived at the capital He is in arms, too |
and he weighs l. pounds"
While waiting to be serYed Boston
boartiers chant
Hold the forks the knives are coming,
The plates are on the way.
Shout the chorus to your neighbor,
Sling the hash this way,
Western newspapers are boasting that
Nevada man read a newspaper while
tumor was taken out Of his side. That is
| nothing. A man in Rhode Island whistied
the other day while Massachusetts, dog
was taken off his legs.
| A New York correspondent says that
professional gambler, if traced for ten
wears, will be found to have made less
money than mechanic. It is better to
buy ha,fa pound of tea, and get five dol
| lar chrome. s3al
! -"Smoky JONES'" known throughout
/ the Black Hills as vagabond, has become
suddenly wealthy by discovering and SELL
ing gold veins. He gained his nickname by
long diguse of soap, and wealth makes no
change in his habits.
4 1t is an established Gu tom on the Vir-
ginia and Truckee railroad that any man
who carries dinner-bucket is permitted to
ride TO or from his work. Hundreds of men
i daily take advantage of this privilege,
and to very many it is great accommoda-
4 tion.
| -Ex-Gov. John W. Geary's grave is un-
marked, and there is well-received move
ment through Pennsylvania to put over it
plain but substantial monument. A plain
spoken Philadelphia paper says the Gov
J e,nor's family is wealthy and can do it
| if they choose.
The Massachusetts, papa has been glad
dened by the discovery OF an old statute in
that State which prohibits inn-keepers and
Others from giving credit TO students, under
a nenalty of twice the amount of the debt.
The inn-keepers and the boys don't enjoy
the discovery at all.
Over two miles of corn cribs, filled to
the top with ears of corn of the best quail
!. ty. are now 10 be seen, it is said, at the
] stations on the line of the Chicago q Alton
! railroad, in the great corn growing district
! of Illinois. This means money for the
J farmers, feed for the stock, business for the
railroads, food for thousands of people on
n both sides Of the water, and employment
!. and profit to many people. Raituay Age'
/ They tell of q little boy in Connecticut
o who watched with envious eyes his com
It rades slide down hill, while he, having nc
. sled, was compelled to take up with an ole
It chair or barrel stave. His foster mothel
It finally told him to pray for one. He tool