The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1877-06-22
NEW NOR -WESTERS.

The base burner is busy in Texas. Ht
is branding cattle.
-Bismarck's retirement is said to be tlu'
to petticoat influence.
The late Mr.. Motley's brother Charle
lives in Maine and is ninety-two.
The Marquis of Lorne is setting th'
psalms of David to verse and metre.
Georgia can raise better sheep to the
square inch than any State in the Union.
-Cassius NJ. Clay is vigorously pushing
his way into the front ranks of the Hayes
party.
The Grand Duke Nicholas says ht
shortly hopes to have b'czar in CONSTANT
nople.
The man who rides high horse in hi
youth is very apt to have to foot it when he
grows old.
1t is stated that there are at presen
10000 spindles idle in Belfast, Ireland, lin
en- trade district.
Why is chloroform like Mendelssohn
Because it is one of the great compos ers O
modern times.
Oliver Optic has written fifty-five books
for boys, each containing one moral apd
great swarms of lies.
Let our motto be GO Hundreds for mu.
sic and iced drinks but not one cent for fire
works. .''-Bostoe Post. Ez
The King of Siam signs himself
" Chu Long Korn." It is better, however
in the shape of succotash.
Onions are good for bad breath. Two
fresh onions eaten just before going to al
evening social are sufficient.
If you lived in Georgia you could hoist
a half a water melon to your head and look
like man falling out of canoe.
-Ex-Congressman Henry B. Payne is
most prominently. talked as the Democrat
ic nominee for Governor of Ohio.
Lucky Baldwin, the California ranch.
ero, drives $50, 900 team to the plow for
the sake ofexercising the horses. .
-" Friends of the diseased are requested
to attend the funeral without further no
tice," is the way "a Vermont paper puts it.
The man who invented the process OF
vulcanizing rubber died the other day He
was VIM. Ell. Towers, of Boston, and ma
tive of Piqua, Ohio. " r
A life-boat has been invented which
balls itself, rights itself, can't upset, rides
like duck, can't sink, and can be used as
a refrigerator when required.
-Barreda, formerly Peruvian Minister,
now lives in New York tenement house.
His mansion at Newport that cost S225, 900
has been sold to Jessup, the steel man, for
500, 200.
Mr.. George Jones, of the New York
Times, makes his twenty sixth trip across
the Atlantic in June. lie finds that there
is nothing like thu Atlantic for asthm. if
one only takes enough of it.
George III. Pinney is reported to be at
work on new book, the title of which is
" How to Pay Mining Assessments" Ida
no ought to come in for liberal share Of
attention in such work.
The furniture of the House of Repre-
very much like the color Of pulled tatfy,
while that of the Senate is in dark mahog-
ony and black horse hair, like burnt cara
mels.
Henry D. Barron, of Wisconsin, who
was once thirteenth or fourteenth Auditor
of the Treasury, has thrown the admins
tration into state of CONSERVATION by an
that he is unalterably opposed to
HAYES policy.
-"sWhat's the use of making SO much fuss
about little water2'' said Judge before
whom motion after motion had co ne where
a small spring was the subject of conten-
tion. "The parties are both milkmen, !"
quietly SAID one of the lawyers. ooh, l
see,n said the Judge.
"A Wisconsin paper reports that the
Mayor of GAINESVILLE is about to issue proc
for day of thanksgiving and
praise on account of the recent victori es of
their base ball club. Such thing would
have been deemed incredible but for the
virulence of the disease in other places.
1t is said that celebrated American
surgeon has recently successfully perform
an operation which several European eur
geons had declined to a. tempt--that of re-
moving an unsightly birthmark from the
face of wealth Gothamite, and transplant
ing skin from the arm OF another person
to take it's placet
If old Noah from the summit of Mount
Aarat could have looked out upon the fu-
ture and seen his remote descendants now
ing each other down with grape and sabre
on the plains below, he might have been
tempted to throw away the olive banch the
dove brought him, lock the doors of the
ark on the inside, sling away the key, and
tell his family that they might better stay
in there and starye to death together. :
Commercial Aduertiser.
= --Kars is fortified city Of Turkish Ar
menia, situated on bleak plain or table
land, 5000 or 1000 feet above the sea, OF
an elevation as great as that of Mount
w ashington in the White Mountains, and
the climate is therefore pretty severe there.
1t has been strongly fortified under the di,
rection of English engineers, and under the
lead of Genera Williams and Ismail Pasha
made most brilliant defense to the Rus
sian attack during the Crimean war. The
siege began on the 10th of June, 1856, and
the place held out until the beginning Of
December. An attempt to capture it By
assault, September Goth, failed after 9
bloody struggle, but the place finally sur
rendered from famine. The population o.
Kars is about 13, 900, mostly Armenians.
General Beauregard says OF the offel
that he received from the Prince OF Rou
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