The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1877-05-04
NEW NOR -WEsTERs.

Oysters breathe bivalves in the
shells.
There are 80 convicts in the Nebrask
penitentiary.
The N. Y. Times claims to have mad
$135, 900 last year.
The English are disposed to relinquis
the use of scarlet for the field.
| -Diaz, the President of Mexico, pre-
nounces his name " Deeath."
i 1t is believed by some that De sot
visited the Hot Springs of Arkansas.
The whale is the sulkiest of all fishes
He is the worst pouter in the business.
The latest heir to 1914, 100000 British
estate is an Iowa family named McGraw.
The sheriff of New York makes $50, ,0Ot
a year, and no one bores him for Office O
about his policy.
The number of churcl. members among
the Indians is estimated at 70, 900, of whom
about 81, 600 are Protestants.
Ex-senator Matt Carpenter says that
no lawyer can be disgraced by bad cause,
but only by his management of it.
The caving in of the Mt. Gems tunnel
has induced great many people to believe
that the tunnel has Cenis best days.
| Japan sends to this country over 5, ,000,-
600 fans per year. Other countries send
100000 Home industry makes 80, 600,
900.
1t was a German editor who said that
in the United States thieves we're SO scarce
that they often have to offer reward for
them.
A little fellow who wore striped stock
ings was asked why he made barber poles
of his legs. His pert reply was, "Well, ain t
little shaver" ~
notwithstanding the fact that James
G. Bennett was in Algeria, nothing Tan
gier-ble to that effect has been received by
his friends.
Locomotives in this country consume
yearly as much wood as would grow on
three hundred and fifty thousand acres of
land in 25 years.
San Francisco has thirty millionaires
who talk Of forming an association for the
purpose of devising form of will that can
not be contested.
Mr.. Blaine would like to have US believe
he is going to make it so hot as to force the
administration into summer quarters right
in the middle of spring.
The king of Holland has offered to send
10000 tulips to the Paris Exposition of '?8.
He has also promised to have them taken
care Of at his own expense.
In one of the Southern cities barbe,
has the following sign over his door: Gus
toners must commence the conversation"
All the other BARRIERS are trying to sell
out.
While the Berlin Government studi-
ously announces that Bismarck is merely
going off his fnrlough, there are some
wiseacres who strongly suspect that he is
"going off on his ear"
1t is said that the remains of Samuel
Meredith, the first Treasurer of the United
States, with those Of his wife, lie in neg
lected graves on the Western slope of the
historic Mosaic range of mountains in
Wayne County, Pa.
The history of the Second Zouaves, one
of the most distinguished regiments in the
French Army. has been published. It
states that during the 10 years of it's cx-
istence no less than 200 of its officers and
5000 privates have fallen in battle.
The people who live in Massachusetts,
valleys are getting so that then when man
comes into the neighborhood and builds a
dam, they sell out and moYe to the top of
the hill, and nail cleats up along the trunks
of the highest trees.
1t was feared at first that Puck, the
bright humorous journal of New York, was
going to take on the heaviness of London
Punch, as well as its idea, but as it speaks
in it's last issue of general eussedness,"
this fear is seen to be groundless, and pro-
gressiye America breathes freer
Alas, the broom and mop season comes
on apace Spilkins is looking forward with
horror to his annual week Of penance to
the moloch of house cleaning, when he has
to dress himself on the stairs, eat his break
on the back piazz !, and say his prayers on
the grass plat.
DIR. Schliemann says that the people
living within mile of Agamemnon's tomb
are as big brutes as the sayages on the
American plains. Tombs ought to exer-
else refining influence, but they seldom
do, except upon the person in it.
The Turks do not make good dragons
but in light cavalry they are well equipped;
and Col. Valentine Baker, aho was dis
graced from the English army for brutally
fooling with girl in a railway Car, is or
ganizing corps of cavalry in the Turkish
army which may make some of the Rus
SLAMS sick.
When San Franciscan gets to be in,-
mensely wealthy he builds palace of a
stable, with marble halls, brussels carpets,
and hot and cold water in every stall a
Chicago millionaire builds hotel nine sto-
ries high New Yorker builds a hospital;
Bostonian builds college, and Bur-
lington man builds another bay window to
his house and paints his front fence.
Anybody who has been in Tennessee
knows what peculiar State it is, and will
therefore readily believe the Jonesboro
Journal when it says that son Monday
last, near this place, while the sun was
shining brightly, single chunk of snow
fell to the earth weighing $50 pounds, and
still remains intact and unmelted, and can
be seen by any who are disposed to doubt
this statement What was Shows first
name p
The Russian regular standing army is
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