The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1878-12-06
NEW NOR -WEsTERs.

Oregon.
France has 5000 manufacturers OF arti
fetal flowers.
The Boston Bulletin calls the silver dol
lar white lie.
Woven glass slippers are made ant
Worn in Vienna.
England proposes 10 import dried oys
ters from China.
A dromedary is camel that has ego
his back up" twice.
Inspector eneral Marcy has entirel,
recovered his health.
When is a man thiner than a shingle
When he's shaving.
Bishop Simpson has been made Presi
dent of the Drew Theological Seminary.
General Fremont thinks the Arizons
Indians should be controlled by the mill
tary.
Depression in the iron trade is throw.
ing many English laborers out of employ
ment
-1enniel, the great cartoon artist oi
Punch, is taking his first vacation in 2(
years.
-"pm yard wide and all WOOL" is a
Kentucky way of describing high state Of
hilarity.
Ben Butler IS still in favor of paper
money. He thinks the wad in the gun
kills the bird.
The London Truth says that public
opinion Is formed by people between 40 and
so years Of age.
-Hoyle was 70 years old when he wrote
his :" Treaties on Whist" He INDUCED in
the game until he was 81.
Senator Blaine, Fernando W BOD, Gov.
ernor Swami and General Van Vliet live in
| a block of four houses in Washington.
MIR. Bancroft recently presented the
lady who reads the proof Of his work witch
$50 for discovering an error in Latin
quotation.
Japan has Is Protestant missions and
161 missionaries, including wives. Of mis-
sion stations there are 81, and Of organized
churches A.
in some English coalpits it is found
necessary to force down $50, 900 cubic feet
of fresh air every minute to supply the
needs of the workmen.
We lealn from reliable source that Gov
ernor Hoyt, who has been in San Francisco
for the past few weeks, has decided not to
come to Idaho.-Agalanche.
The unkindest cut of all thrust at
Kearney by the eastern press is the propo-
sition that he be appointed "Professor of
Profane History" at Harvard.
"A Chinauan and white man had
stand up fight at Walla Walla, last week,
and the Chinaman came out ahead, to the
great amusement of the crowd.
"A reporter Of California free fight
says: Colonel - was shot once in the
left side, once in the right shoulder and
nking saloon adiacenS
On certain ridge OF nearsot 81 rioun-
tain, in California, there is place where, e,at
about midday, the rumble of trains on the
Southern Pacific railroad, 14O miles distant,
may be heard.
Owing to ill health. John A. Campbell,
formerly Governor of Wyoming and subse-
quently Third Assistant Secretary of State,
has returned from Basle, Switzerland.
where he has been U. s. Consul.
W. Fl. Rulofson, the well-known pho
tographer of San Francisco, fell from the
roof of three-story building last week and
was killed. Mr.. Rulofson was the author
of the Dance of Death.''
-"Will the boy who threw that pepper
on the stove please come up here and get
present of a nice book ?' said Sunday
school superintendent in Iowa; but the boy
never moved. He was far-seeing boy.
A medical professor says of tobacco -
"It is killing more people than whisky.
Particularly the smoking of cigarettes is
baneful. The arteries become excited and
ruptured by it, and they often snap in the
BRAIN"
There was time when the validity of
an Englishman's will was disputed, and
the will was set aside because he believed
that the time would come when a certain
square in London would be lighted with
gas.
Senator Howe holds his own in Wis
consin against Matt. Fl. Carpenters sena-
torial aspiration. The name of the future
Senator may, however, be Keyes. Keyes
is a "Boss," with all that the name i'm
plies.
-"Do you say your prayers regularly
every night and morning ?" asked sympa-
thetic lady of little shoe black to whom
she had just given triie. "I allus sez
'um at night, mum but any smart boy can
take care Of hisself in the daytime" was
the little rogue's reply.
Capt. Ed. Mcbride, of Edinburgh,
Scotland, has returned from his buffalo
hunt at Wolf Point and Milk River and has
gone to the West Indies via California and
thence home. Capt. Mcbride will return
next M " and go into the stock business in
Montana.--Bismarck Tribune.
A splendid new throne of carved oak
has lately been erected for the Bishop in
Salisbury Cathedral, England. It cost $2,-
800. Salisbury has the highest spire in
England. The ancient grandeur Of the
prelacy is seen in their seats being still
called thrones and their homes palaces.
The immense horns of South African
cattle are made to twist spirally, and in
fanciful curves, by being scraped on one
side or the other while they are growing.
Each owner can tell the oxen which belong
to his "span" in this way BY the acquired
shape of their naturally regular horns.
Cole Younger has been interviewed in
the Minnesota Penitentiary about the story