The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1878-12-20
NEW R'-WEsTERs.
Won Moltke will be so next birthday.
Francis Murphy has permanently set
tied in Troy.

GiCu LII AlOy.
Gan quarrel between TWO paragraph
ers be called witty schism ?
-"Doing the Talmage" is what the
swell boys in New York call it.
-Lorne is the only man who ever swore
allegiance to his mother-in-law.
-"Naow," said a revival minister, let
us all .jine in rock of edges cliff fur me-"
Gen. Hooker scored GA years last week.
He is bound to be an old man by Hooker by
crook.
The test of greatness is to leave dis
puted will and set of bones liable to be
stolen.
1t is strange, but when lawyer has
bad case in court he always wants it con-
tinued.
-Hartranft will enter the manufactu-
ring business as soon as he quits being
Governor.
The only unfavorable report about
Grandfathers Clock is that it went ninety
years on tick.
The best biography is the life which
writes charity in the largest letters.-Par-
son Mackenzie.
Henry the VIII. hung 72,0O0 robbers
during his reign. and died believing that his
reign was failure.
The men who are always trying to bor-
row chew of tobacco are Ihe only men
who have bank accounts.
The man who repeated his vote thought
the't Police Commissioners did not under
stand him the first time.
Oregon has population Of 100, 600, and
cast in 1876 26,S60 votes vo' '. This year
$4,000 was the Dumber polled.
John George Edward Henry Douglass
Sutherland Campbell is the APPALLING name
of Canada's Governol-General.
Commodore Erricson, who invented
the Monitor, is said to have constructed
v essel that will make them useless.
Thomas Edison says he will leave the
county if he cannot get his inventions
patented. Oh, don't you go, Tommy, don't
so.
"A Texas paper advertises a ploW
which has furnace for the heating of the
iron. 1t is claimed that it will plow the
stickiest land.
-Four or five families are living in dug
outs in Council Bluffs, claiming to be too
poor to pay rent. Their homes are dark,
damp and dismal.
I'm breach of promise case IN Kentucky
the defendant swore that he could write
four-page love letter in seven minutes. He
was fast young man.
-"Satan died here reads Pittsburg
sign. but it was not until an astute Allie
eheny Dutchman inquired when he died
there that the people understood they could
get satin dyed. ~e.---~
1t is said that bag of hops as large as
the two fists, placed in grain bin, will
kill Or drive away every grub or weeVil in
the blu. The dead can be removed by
tanning.
The Southern Pacific railroad Is now
working 1000 men. It will reach Gila
CITY, Arizona, next week, and establish a
station. The track is now laid five miles
from Yuma.
in 1866 1t is said that A. T. Stewart,
of New York, alone paid more tax on his
income than was paid by ten States and
four Territories. New York and Brooklyn
paid nearly seventy per cent. of the entire
tax.
A certain English breeder confidently
asserts that in all species of domestic ami.
mals, the seventh generation from the
first cross will be of the pure breed, pro-
vided the male be always the same, Or of
the same genuine breed.
California farmers are cultivating fig
trees for the sole purpose Of raising and
fattening hogs. This fruit contains large
quantities of saccharine matter hence, it
is fatteniug. The fig tree, once we'll start
ed, requires little attention, bears several
crops year and is very prolific.
Gen. T. l.. Rosser will probably be
promoted to Chief Engineer Of the North
Elm Pacific, vice W. Minor Roberts, who
has accepted position in Brazil on a
three years contract at $4,000 year.
Gen, Rosser has heretofore had immediate
charge Of the work.
The inventor of the luminous clock dials
of which so much has been itemized in the
newspapers, appears to be w. H. Balnain,
and ais secret consists in mixing a phos-
phorescent salt with paints and varnishes,
which will store up light during daylight
and give it out at night. He uses a mix
ture of lime and sulphur.
Sheep bred on rich pastures are more
likely to produce twin lambs than those
gaining a scanty subsistence in less fa-
barren hills of the west of Scotland, two
lambs will be born by about one eve in
twenty, while in England something like
one eve in three will bear two lambs.
-Lockyer once took the trouble in ex
amining an exhibition of landscapes te
calculate the height of the mountains as
measured by the dimensions of the sun OF
moon painted in some of the pictures. II
work by "a famous artist the sun filled
half an arc of the heavens. and the noun
tain by this comparison was over 100 mile
high. In other pictures there were hill
ranging from thirty to forty miles in alti
| tude.
-"You know" said Rice, "how tn
| negro likes 'possum." Two darkles wer
riding from a field after a hard day
ploughing. They began to talk abou
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