The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1878-10-04
EVE-ANGELICAL CORNER.

Horseback riding is now ne favorite rec
reation.
Mrs Braddon acknowledges the author
ship of 33 novels.
Mrs, Myra Clark Gaines is little more
than 73 years old.
Ex-Empress Engenie weighs one hun
dred and forty pounds.
Some New York bellies pass their leisure
knitting socks for gentleman friends.
Young men and green corn always
"pop" better when they get over being
green.
When a woman joins gymnasium it is a
sure sign that she is going to be married.
Reading Times.
"The fashionable lady is already think
ing about her Fall SACK" says an ex-
change. This may be fall-sack-usation.
The girls of San Antonio, Texas, wear
broad brimmed felt hats, hang parasols like =.
swords at their belts, and look like bandits
in skirts.
An old bachelor probably wrote the fol-
lowing "Twixt woman and wine. mans
lot is to smart tbs wine makes his head
ache, and woman his heart
Among the students at Vassar College
are two Japanese girls. They are very IN
telligent, and it keeps the other students
studying hard to prevent their winning all
the honors of the class.
When rosy-cheeked girl backs up to a
stranger at a country dance and asks him
to take whack at that musquito which is
gnawing her between the shoulders, it Is
no time to read up on Chesterfield.
A young man of Bloomfield, Pa, who
ambushed a ghost, which had created quite
sensation in the vicinity, observed that it
did not fade away in his stalwart embrace.
The captive threw off the white robe with
shrek, and proved to be well known mar
ried lady, who said she "was not ghost,
but just played it for fun"
The ex-Empress Eugene is described by
a correspondent at Ems as ''sick and sad
der than ever" She travels under the
name of Countess of Pierrefond, and has
for her suite the Duchess of Mouchy and
the Marquis of Piennes. She has some
trouble with legs (wicked tongues say it is
the gout) and cannot walk easily without
leaning on a heavy cane.
Mrs. Van Cott the preacher, was born in
New York city, and she is nearly fifty years
of age. Her father was Major Newton;
manager of John Jacob Astor's estate He
became insane. Marrying and soon beconl-
ing widow, she attended TO her husbands
business of drug broker. She was con-
verted On a Fulton ferryboat while think
ing about religion. Becoming preacher
she travelled through the country, and she
counts more than twenty thousand
conversions as the result of her labors.
She weighs 225 pounds, and is now in Cali
fornia.
A correspondent of the Court Journal
describing Viennese life, writes that at ten
or eleven o'clock supper is announced, and
a supper 1t is in good earnest. People do
little else in Vienna except to eat and
drink old wine and beer. The ladies in
general dress very richly, wearing soft silk
and exquisite lace at dinner parties. Jew
els, too, are never lacking, and are always
worn with good taste. The young ladies
from fifteen to twenty have the most per-
feet forms imaginable. Their waists are
round and slender, the shoulders slope with
Venus-like accuracy, but the bust is the
crowning beauty. 1t is the form and de-
velopment of woman with the face of a
young girl. Ususually they wear white
and fieecy folds of soft tulle adorning every
corsage. The arms are always bare from
the elbows, and sometimes entirely so from
the shoulders. At present all the ladies
wear black shoes, like those known by the
name of Oxford ties.