The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1877-11-30
NEW NOR -WEsTERs.
Silver men sing in bars.

General Butler has stopped proposing.
There are 2, 800 varieties Of American
apples.
| -Ex-Marshal Bazaine is still living Al
Madrid.
Gen. Babcock's wealth is estimated Al
halfa million.
Spring openings-rat traps. Fall open
ings--chestnut burs. .'
Flies have gone and the mirror is GOV
cred with an early frost.
There IS no law against opening pos
tai card.-CGnldea Post.
--Meissonier never paints women. He
thinks they don't need it.
This may be hard winter for four
year-old spring chickens.
No man goes home at two in the morn.
| ing through behring's straights.
The largest crop oforanges ever known
is expected in Florida this season.
Morton had very small eyes, but very
bright ones, and women loved him.
| AT Harvard 1S9 yonng men are study
mig law and 212 are studying medicine.
"A new idea at fairs-Filling bottle
tie with beans and guessing at the number.
Joseph Jefferson has contributed $500
to the fund for the benefit of Edwin Ad-
ans.
The young men Of Washington have
dropped their dancing clubs. Too expen-
sive.
1t will be noticed that this column is
printed good deal in the shape of an
obelisk. ---.. s..
Ia Sandwich, England. the curfew is
t"lled every evening, as has been the prac-
tice for f00, years.
Utah is said TO have produced three
fonrths of the supply OF refined lead in this
country last year. u
"A COW deliberately committed suicide
the other day near. Lake City, MINI by
jumping from high bluff. +
Gen. Franz Siegel intends that two of
his three sons shall be farmers, and has
bought for them farm in Maryland.
"A quack has been sentenced in Rich
mond, Va, to five days Imprisonment and
ten lashes well laid on, for swindling.
Edwin ADMINISTRATION cracks a
noble heart; good night, sweet prince; and
flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.
Sweden and Switzerland contribute
the largest number of members to the
Mormon Church. England is third on the
list.
1t has been discovered in France that
wine may be injured by the glass of the bot
ties in which it is contained being too aka
line.
John Hay, author of siLittle Breecbes,''
ETC., lives in sumptuous style in Cleveland,
Ohio, where he married the daughter of
very wealthy citizen.
The Danbury man has been informed
and he believes that hugging a girl in a
perfect-fttiug corset is like putting your
arms round cold parlor stove.
To Sir Samuel Bakers suggestion that
a negro never tames a wild animal, the reply
has been made that in the Southern States
the negro has really domesticated the
coon.
The "Camp Kettle'' is the newest
straw design for holding flowers. A wicker
pot is swung between three sticks, which |
are wound with flowers. The pot is heaped |
with roses.
Learned professors know about $4,000 |
words; children of two, from 200 to 7o5; or |
dinary people, 8, 900; book agents, 8, $50, 99S. |
When they learn the word ''quit" their ed |
ucation will be complete.
1T is now proposed in Congress to make |
the Presidential election come off one month |
sooner than is now provided by law; that is |
on the Tuesday next after the first Monday |
in October instead of November.
Sidney Lanier has written an "Ode to
Wagner" of which the appreciatiye st.
Louis Republican remarks: This makes
Wagner's visit to America {. certainty. He
will come If for no other purpose than to
kill Lanier.
Charley Ross father. in his vain search
for his stolen boy, has spent 100000, his
entire fortune, and is now travelling sales
man for an Eastern house. He has made |
300 journeys in search of his lost child, and
says he shall persevere until he is found or
be dies himself.
Col. Blood, of Woodruff notoriety, has
lately come unpleasantly to the surface
again. He swinled a St. Louis female
out of So, 500 by inducing her to start a sur
yieal institute, and he got the money and
eft. The woman is free lover and spir-
tualist, and gets no sympathy, although
Blood is despised.
The largest opera house inIthe world is
La Scala Milan. which is by no means a
Scala affair. 1t viii seat 4, 900 persons has
200 boxes in five tiers. each setting eight
persons, and every seat commanding per-
'ect view of the stage, which will accommo-
date 400 performers, and is forty-six yards
lcross its front, while the orchestra holds
10 musicians, and the main chandelier has
LOO lights.
Minister Kasson writes from Austria
o friend IN Iowa: ssMy official reception
vas very cordial and satisfactory, and I
rave yet seen NO cause to complain Of the
with which business is trans
lcted, and I am glad to find more of it to
10 than Iexpected to find here. The Em-
,eror sets the example of industry. arising
It 5 o'clock in the morning and immedi-
.tely beginning his work. He generally re-
Tres about 10 O'clock" M
The last Harpsr,s Weakly has map of
he world, by Ptolemy. that is nearly sew
.nteen hundred years old. IL is remarka-
5lo for its correctness as far an If p,,as and