The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1878-11-29
WHAT THE WITS SAY.


When Jack Frost comes and slaps yor
i face you can slap7jacks. = Cincinnati sa
t Night
Marrying a man to save him has playe
out among the girls, unless he has lots G
money.-Elmira AdU.
A new book in press is called &c Merely
Shadow" 1t supposed to be biograph,
of Hon. A. Fl. Stephens. .-Norrtstoarn Her
ald
Amelia sends us some "Lines on al
Empty Cage" dedicated to "Willie.'
Willie has broken Jail, we suppose. Gin
Sat. Night.
Uneasy liess:the head that wears a
crown" Of course it does. And this is
the reason why Kings and Queens don't
sleep with their crowns on.-Noyrsstosen
Herald.
Herman Reeser, aged fifteen, hanged
himself near Blairston, Ia, because his
father made him saw wood, He dropped
his saw aside and took to suicide.-PAila.
Bulletin.
These cold mornings make a fellow fly
around and see what in thunder he did
with that pawn ticket can't go without an
overcoat much longer, you know.-Neu
Hauen Register.
The lily droops it's gentle head.-Ec
The mule stands sadly meath the she'd
Ohio Paper. This north wind makes a
feller shiver.-FTee Press. And B. F.
Butler is bound for Salt Riyer.-Bosto1,
Post
Change cars for the Garden of Eden
all aboard for Babylon ; this train stops 90
minutes for dinner at Niveheh, will be fa-
miliar cries on the completion of the Eu-
pirates River Valley Railroad. -Egmira
AdUertiser.
Mrs. Limbertongue, who was giving
Mary piece of her tongue, wound up with,
" And why didn't you get up and dust this
morning, as I've told you again and again
hundred tlmes?" Quoth Mary quietly: |
" Perhaps, Mrs. L., had better get up and |
dust now." And she dusted.-B0ston
Visitor from the country, at the door of
4 Southside residence, to German next
door: flames not at home, did you say ?"
'' Nein; Chances nod at home" "Where
IS she ?'' She's gone to dot cemeteIy
down. "When will she came back ?"
: OBJ, she won't come back already any
more she's gone to stay she's Diet. ."-Ln-
Annapolis Neaos.
onal:-Will the gentleman in a
blonde oYercoat and a liver-colored hat.
Who sang The Heart Bowed Down With
1rease and Care" out on West Hill. at l
" m., please repeat his concert this evening
t the same place, and stand little away
rom the lamp-post, so that the audience
aa get geea crack ct him with lump of
oal without endangering the property of
he gas company .-Hawkeye.
Extravaganza is the cause of hard
mes," said a Nevada capitalist. "We
lust be more economical. Ten years ago s
y .ss@I -
ank" "You are right" returned list {
ner with great earnestness. cit is posi- &
lie for man to lay up $4,000 or So 900 a
lonth on salary of S. per day, bnt he {
lust be very economical and have the ham {
ling of the amalgam."
Lo the poor Indian! When he goes
ONE to his cheerless wigwam in the even
10 he has no dime novel with which to
,hile away the weary hours ; no friend
ext door to come in and talk politics
o medical almanacs to read no New
vork paper with full proceedings of the
acy Vanderbilt will case ne money in a
afe for masked robbers to break in and
teal-no civilized pleasures of this kind.
Ie simply hangs up the bloody scalp he
las taken during the day, beats his squaw
With club, wraps buffalo robe about
i'm and lays down to pleasant dreams.
f a pale face comes within half mile OF
lis wigwam, the slumbering red man
nuffs him afar, awakes, and goes out and
hoots him full of arrows.-Norr. Her.
I'D.