The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1877-12-21
NEW MOB -WEsTERs.
Paris has over 700 omnibusses.

On Sunday Heavens gate stands open.
The mothers heart is the child IS school
room. a....s
"A popular bar maid in Virginia--Bell
Punch.
Its one thing to be tempted, another
to fall.
The most difficult thing in life is to
know thyself
-"The City of Shoes" is the last name
for Lynn, Mass.
Illinois has 5000 square miles of coal
twelve feet thick.
Bay windows are safe harbors at night
for little smacks. #a
Religion is the best armor in the world
but the poorest cloak. ~
All philosophy lies in two words: 'sus.
tain'' and s'abstain."
Sincerity is the face of the soul, as. dis
stimulation is the mask.
Our own heart, not other mems opin-
ion, forms our true honor. 5.. 5
War is nothing less than temporary
repeal of all the principles of virtue.
Pleasures are like poppies spread; you
seize the flower, it's bloom is dead.
"A little alum added to saffron in soft
hot water makes beautiful yellow ink.
The Boston Traveller recommends
prayer-ie chicken as the proper Thanks
giving bird. .a..
A Louisiana man married five times in
eleven months, and snapped his last wife for
shotgun. SIMS
jefferson county, Ohio, boasts turnip
that weighs 81 pounds, and is 5Oa inches in
circumference. as.ss s. =-.es
The man who hit the Republican ma
jority has been found. His name isn't
Billy, but John ]. Patterson. f..
ALL the honorable pursuits of life are
salutary, provided they are not sought with
too great avidity and happiness.
Minister Comfy writes from Honolulu
that wood costs $40 and $40 cord, "and
you have to split it yourself. at that"
The other day train on the Canada
Southern railroad ran iii miles in 100 min
utes. One mile was run in 55 seconds.
Ex-senator Stewart has rented his
Washington mansion for $4,000 per an
mum. Last year he received $4,000 for
it. .z..s4 z. H
If a friend points gun at you, knock
him down. 1t will be time enough after
wards to find ont whether tits loaded or
not.
Character is very much like cloth in
one respect. If white it can be dyed black;
but once blackened it cannot be dyed
white.
Lover Tin French) Angelina, je t
ADORE" New England girl (who hasn't
studied parley voo)-"shut it yourself; you
left it open." @ H
The apparatus for telegraphing with
the SUMS rays, known as the Nance hello
graph, has been successfully used in send
ing messages.
I'm Howell county, Mo-, cows are the
principal circulating medium. A thin cow
passes current for So, good one for $40,
and fat one for $13.
A child, its father, its two grandfathers
and three of its great-grandfathers were
photographed in one group in New Hamp-
shire the other day.
Mr.. G. W. Couldock is playing "Silas
Audjo," in "Marriage," throughout New
England, in one of Boucicault's Wallack's
Theater travelling companies.
-"History repeats ITSELF" Twenty or
thirty years ago the man who possessed
from ten to twelve thousand dollars worth
of property was considered wealthy. The
same is rapidly getting to be the case
again.
The following "answer to CORES
pondent," cut from an English paper, is
like quotation from Neutrality-suspicious.
nected but full of information: Letters in
the bible, 1866, 480; acres IN Yorkshire, g.
s01,4
We have done some awful mean things
in our life, but we never were mean enough
to hurt the feelings of three women walking
abreast on the crossing, by stepping off in
the mud. There's something human about
us If we are in the newspaper business
Reokask Constitution.
j. B. Ford & Co. IS creditors have elect
ed VIM. H. Ritter assignee. The total in
debtedness of the firm is 5 1871, 731.04. The
appointment of receiver became neces-
sary in consequence of the firms inability
to pay the thirty cents on the dollar, &C
carding to the former agreement. 5
Mr.. Evart's latest witticism: He pass
ed the White House with friend. sIt is
fit and substantial home for the President, "
said the latter, ''Oh, yes," said the Secre-
tary, sit is plenty large enough for the
President to live in, unless the Senate tries
to live there too.
"A poor tailor, sdunning for an old
debt, wrote as follows s'Dear jim This
little account has been standing for seven
years, and think 1T is high time it was
paid" To which Jim replied on the same
piece of paper, while the boy was waiting:
fDear Sam-I don't. And may q differ
ence Of opinion never alter friendship"
Benjamin Franklin, printer, was the
first Postmaster General of the United
American Colonies, and he drove over
every post route that existed in his time
with a.horse and buggy. George s. Bangs,
printer, was the father of the fast railroad
mail service in the United States. His life
was useful and transformations one; as far
as possible he kept aloof from Politics; dill
igently he did the great, good work that he
found pleasure in. He died in Washington
on the night of November 10th, and his re-
mains were inferred at Chicago November