The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1878-05-17
EvE-ANaE1IcAL CORNER.

Florida girls are going to picnics in thu
CATERS and fleecy dresses.
An Australian love letter must be written
in blue ink to be binding.
Grace Greenwood will do the Paris exhi-
bition and give her impressions in series
of letters.
Edward Everett Hale says the voice of
the average American woman is too loud.
Mr. Hale is a married man.
Mrs. DR.. Mary Walker, who is dying at
Washington, is forty-eight years old.
Worry and annoyance have worn her out.
| Scene in railway carriage-Fon d wife
"Let me see your paper moment, dear.n
Husband-"Y Yes, as soon as we get to the
tunnel"
1t is said the better looking of the pair
will be the first to make up in case of a
family row. Cut this out for fear your wife
will see it and want to be first.
Fashion decrees for the season that "the
newest styles of ladies' slippers shall have
no bows or buckles" and "stockings for
wearing with slippers are of solid colors,
richly embroidered up the 'front.'
A singular murder trial is going on in
Newark, Ohio. The accused is an old man
who murdered his own daughter for the
crime of adultery. He pleads as his iusti-
cation the ipjunctions of the Old Testa-
ment.
Miss Bessie Turner is dangerously ill
with diphtheria at Brockwell, Mass, where
she has been acting as Bertha Avery.
Mrs. Tilton has telegraphed to have good
nurse and other attendance provided for
her.
There is a rumor in New York to the ef.
feet that Mrs. A. T. Stewart propos es to
marry again, and that the prospective
bridegroom is aclergyman, who has been
in charge of the yet unfinished cathedral
at Garden City.
When Eugene Hale married Miss Chand-
ler, Papa Zach Chandler gave him 100000
for wedding present; and at the advent of
every grandchild a check for $4,000 is
Forthcoming, to be placed to the credit of
the child as nucleus of it's future fortune.
Babies are never unwelcome in that house.
hold.
General Fremont is in Washington.
He is shortly to become tho President of a
railway IN the North. Mrs. Fremont is
on Staten Island, and well known musi-
clan recently said of her that she is the
most enhancing and appreciative talker he
ever met. It is their daughter, Miss Fre-
mont, whose hand is said to be so beauti-
full.
uer srsUer, MISS uogarUu, WHO, aIJer Jne
separation of the novelist from his wife,
becam" his housekeeper, and of whom he
said that she was ''the best and truest
friend that man ever had" There was
some scandal at one time about this rela~
tionship, but it has been entirely dissipa-
ted. Mrs. Dickens and Mrs. Hogarth live
together.
There lives three miles from Richmond,
Va, Mrs. Martha T. Hopkins, who is only
thirty-nine years old, and has just been mar
ried to her sixth husband. She was first
married at twenty years OF age; took her
second husband when twenty four years
old; her third husband when twenty-seven
years old; her fourth husband when thirty
two years old, and her fifth husband when
thirty-seven years old.
When Mrs. Grant was presented to the
Pope recently in Rome, she asked him to
bless for her a silver cross which her hus-
band had given her when they celebrated
their silver wedding at Long Branch, in
August, 1878. She said ON account of it :
being her husbands gift on the twenty
fifth anniversary of their marriage, she
felt it to be particularly sacred, and desired
the Pope to bless it for her, which he cid.
They call the Duchess of Teck princess
Mary of Cambridge, first cousin to Her
Majesty, and tremendous Russia-hater)
"Queen of the 5ingoes, the Jingoes being
the newest name for the war party, in
honor of their propensity, on all possible
occasions for declaring in song that they
/" don't want to fight, but, by jingo, I'VE
do" etc. A few days since Lord Beacons-
ess. at her dinner table she lost little time
in beginning upon the Prime Minister apro-
pos Of the Eastern question. You have"
said she, "the Queen with you, the Parlia-
ment and three-fourths of the country;
what more do you want?'' Potatoes,
Madam" replied Beaconsfie,d, fxedly re-
garding his plate.
I" William" said Second street woman
the other morning as she laid aside the dali
ly paper, "what is this new metric system
proposed by Alexander Stephens?" at
is a very wise measure, indeed, my dear,".
he replied. Suppose you want new
dress costing 81 per yard?'' Yes"
under the metric system you write to
your father in Wisconsin for the money to
buy it with. The money comes; you take
half of il and buy me pair of trousers,
and then yon use the rest in purchasing 90
cent dress goods. 1t is very good meas.
ure, very good" And they propose to
make it law, DO they ?o "They dc"
Well, sirr' she exclaimed, showing red
spot on each cheek. "when the metric sys-:
tenn comes into practice in this family di-
vorce will follow, and Alexander Stephens,
is fool, sir, foolr'-Detrost Free Press.
NOTHING BUT A FRATD.-Mr. John T
Raymond is quoted as declaring that he
went on the stage when he was seventeen
years old. 81 was cast" he says, "as Lo-
peg, in the Honeymoon and all had to
say was, / am appointed to ask you to our
merry-making on the green hard By This
was to the duke and duchess. got my
mouth open and there it stuck. House
came down. Next day actors said it was
the hit of the season. Everybody thought