The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1878-01-04
NEW NOR -WEsTERs.
"A rat is a Ghinaman's turkey.


The Russians took Kars in 1923, 1884,
1855, and now again 1877.
Who's Osman's successorp Chakir Pa
sha. Do you happen Tirnova person of
that name.
AT his own request the late General
N. B. Forrest was buried in his Confeder-
ate uniform.
The death of Herr Driesbaeh, the lion
tanner, who used to be famous some forty
years ago, is announced.
1t isn't exactly dime novel, but the
Lowell Courier thinks the old-fashioneG ten
| cent piece novel dime.
MIR. Tilden, of San francisco fed his
baby on farina and strychnine that his wife
had mixed for the rats.
| Eight clergymen in Chattanooga have
denounced the method of obtaining money
for churches by means of lotteries.
The phrase, "No removals except for
cause, and no appointments except for
Merritt, " appears to apply to New York.
The sweatsbox, Hiring, loaded club,
revolver, pump, handouts and raw-hide
are actively used in the Ohio State Prison.
-Habberton accounts for the foolishness
of the small boy. 'tThe small boy had
father, and this father was once a small
boy himself"
The East river bridge at New York is
.nf o% ~ ,,;n
of 100000 has been spent on it with
more to follow.
DR. John Hall says that the box made
by order of King Joash to keep the money
in which the Jews contributed to the Tenn
pie was great chest with hole in the
lid.
MIR. Edwin Booth celebrated the recent
anniversary of his birth by visiting, with
his wife, the Mammoth Cave, and laying
there the corner-stoneEof a monument to
SHAKESPEARE.
The Springfield Republican, in publish
ing births, used to mention only the faith
ers name, out now it has grown liberal
enough to give the mother half the credit
for all such items.-Boston Post.
The friends of Gen. McCook, of Colo
rado, are working hard to secure him the
position of Consul General at Paris, and to
prevent the appointment of ex-senator
Hitchcock. McCook is confident.
The old Catholic priesthood in Ger
many is eagerly awaiting the expected sy-
modal decision next year as to the celibacy
of the clergy, and some of them, by marry
ing now, are anticipating its being favor
able to matrimony.
Munich doesn't seem to care much for
the whitening scorn of the world. A sta
tute has just been unveiled in that city to
the memory of Lenefelder. Who was Le-
nefelder? Why he was the man who in
vented chromos. -.4...
Davenport, the snow-shoe pedestrian
of Colorado, has begun carrying the mail
between Hamilton and Breckenridge.
Over a hazardous canon in Swan River Pass
he has stretched cable $50 long, to catch
hold of in case of snow-slide.
The Ute Indians were over year
finding out that signing their name to a
piece of paper was anything more than an |
act of courtesy to the agent After he had |
laid them out of about $40, 900 they began
to think the pen was mightier than the
tomahawk.
IL os,,t5 hos aaaI i'm
role. He introduced w. d. Howells to the
lecture platform in Hartford by remarking |
that it was quite unnecessary to speak of
his literary reputation; he was there merely /
to back up the moral character of Mr. How
ells."
Professor Brimidi, now eighty years of
Capitol during the past twenty-five years |
that he has been employed IN painting its |
walls and ceilings in fresco, is now encir- |
cling the rotunda with a historical piece, |
in shades Of marble color, which makes a |
bas relief.
"A mans life is saved in France if he
can only get foeman who can't spell on
the jury that is trying him for murder.
AT least so it seems from a recent case. A !
notorious French criminal named Haas,
who had been sentenced to death for mur-
der, has escaped the gaillotine through a
clerical blunder. In making up verdict
the foreman wrote that "margorite" of
the jurors found him guilty.
"A new telegraph company, with the
title of Continental, and with q capital of
$40, O00 900. divided into shares of $25 each
and having for It's avowed object the reduc-
tion of telegraph rates, in opposition to the
Western Union monopoly, has filed articles
of Incorporation with the Clerk of New
York city A number of prominent Phil
adelphia capitalists are moving actively in
the organization of the new concern.
The conference between the Postofice
Department. and the Canadian Office has re-
suited in mutual agreement by which
request letters" so called, that is, those
bearing on their face a request to be re-
turned to the writer, If not called for in
given time. passing between two countries,
viii be at once returned TO the place from
which they are mailed without being held,
as formerly, for return through the dead
Letter office.
The Arizona lnsner tells a laughable
story of Two friends who were recently at
tackled by Indians in that State. They
were both on mnles and the arrows were
whistling by them in clouds. The mules
were of unequal powers of speed. and the
foremost man sang out, Joe, why don't
you come along p Joe, whose arms and
legs were flying in the air like runaway
windmill, replied, as III. arrow grazed his
ear, :. Do act like man who is throwing