The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1878-01-18
NEW NoR'-wEsrERs.
"A ninth Chicago child is name Quit.

John T. Raymond makes $500 night.
Hang pictures with copper or silver
wire. y n1 fH
Big brick houses rent in Toronto for $s
| month. 2
The New York elevated railroad is to
have smoking cars. .s...s. re
The Philadelphia police are paid at
the rate of $3.50 per day.
Decorated candles cost from so cents
to $50 pair, according to size, length and
decoration. ..aa
America makes the best brushes in the
world, but has to go to Germany and Rus
sia for the bristles. % -
Dress suits are now let out by New
YORK establishment. Coat, $3.50 per
night vest, 81, and pants 81.
That Minneapolis doctor offers to fast
another forty 1.-TWO days for 81 900 and Sd
go leE plsaritahle ssnHepe pessse es-@s
Bret Harte has dissolved his connec-
ton with the Washington Capital and re-
turned to New Jersey.
Portable eorrugate iron huts, capable
of accommodating each from 25 to 500 men
are used instead of tents by the Russian
army. reg
A printer in Springfield, Mass, has
drawn $500 in Kentucky lottery. 1t
will only cost him 5000 in lawyers fees to
get it.
Mr.. Longfellow received from the Old
South Fair postoflce, the other day, a let
ter of admiration Of his work, written in
Japanese.
IA farm hand for harvesting is paid
seven cents day in central Italy, and con-
siders himself lucky to find employment at
that rate.
What is the difference between Jew
and lawyer? The one gets his law from
the prophets, and the other gets his profits
from the law.
They say that one swallow doesn't
make summer; but one swallow (of a
marble) made a summary end of Berlin,
Ont, baby the other day.
"A Texas dog which was taken to Mis-
souri, travelled all the way back. and through
his wonderful sagacty found his masters
home, having travelled 800 miles.
Disorder in drawing room is vulgar:
in an antiquary's study, not; the black bat.
tie stain on a soldiers face is not vulgur,
but the dirty face of housemaid is.
1t is said that San Francisco has debt
less than that of any other city of its size
in this country or great Britain, Her debt
is about So, SOC, 600 and her population $780,
600.
American horses are appearing in Lon
don in front of English carriages A Ken
lucky horse worth S125 can be transported
to Liverpool for $50 and then sold for
$500. sas
Tax Was paid last year on 13S, O69, ,257
cigarettes of which only 1896, 900 were inn
ported. on cigars tax was paid on 1,80O,-
o09, 256, and of these IS, 200, 900 only were
imported.
Fanny Kemble, once bewitching
beauty, is now sixty-five years old and
weighs nearly two hundred pounds. She
reads now only for the amusement of her
friends.
The thoughtful young lover is now
troubled in his mind as to whether he
ought to ''chip in" and help buy the wood
% be used in the parlor s'ove where his
girl lives. &s...-..
"A new organ is to be built for the
Church du Sacre Cgur,ln Paris, the cost of
which is estimated at 200, 900 francs. Tt is
aid it will be the most costly instrument
IN Europe.
The double postal card is becoming
popular in Europe. Ifa man IS too dis
'ourteous' too poor or too mean to answer
7ou, he has only to write his answer on the
,luck page and send it back.
Moody has church in Chicago of
which he is nominally pastor, and to which
'e says he may few years hence, en-.
irely devote himself The house and
round cost $S4. 900 and are entirely paid
or. sa
A New Haven postmaster recently read
vith horror the following advertisement in :
local newspaper: ''Any person having .
i've or fifty loads of manure to dispose of !
vill please send word or drop it through
he postofice.
y - .s@.azHt+ |
"A Mr.. Rowland, of San Francisco, '
fter an expenditure of $4,000 and several l
ears of labor, has discovered an infal-.
ble indicator of the presence of gold, with
7hich he has been able to tell, within ]
mall amount, how much coin person
a1ried about him and the proportion of {
old and silver, 50 sensitive does it appear
0 be. G
"A lawyer went into barber shop to J
rocure wig, In taking dimensions of
is head the barber exclaimed: Why,
ow long your head is, SIR" 'sYes," re-
lied the legal gentleman, "we lawyers
aust have long heads" The barber pro- :
eeded about his vocation, but at length ex- g
laimed, "Why, sir, your head is as thick
5 it is long /" Blackstone WINGED.
"A Belfast (Me.) teacher and scholar T
ad tussle, in which the latter got the c
est of it. Then the teacher sned him, and 4
le court decided that a teacher has the | A
ame right over his pupils in school that a a
aren't has over his children at home, and h
IN use ordinary means to enforce his Il
gitimate authority. The pupil was fined /
and costs, amounting to SIC, which he y
aid.
Mark Twain lectured recently at a
Massachusetts, town, it was arranged that s.
B. Aldrich, the poet, shonId introduce .
m. As Mr.. Aldr;ch was about to sep 9,
rward to perform his duty, Mark checked a
IN. Then advancing slowly to the edge d
the platform, while the amazed poet re- O.