The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1878-11-29
NEW NOR -WEsTERs.

No : Mr.. Weston is poor walker He
~ $1,000 poorer than nothing.
ras A child IN Dubuque looks SO muc
raj like its father that it's mother pounds it.
ng -Thaekeray describes the kiss of ct
us quette as /" a kiss which is like the contat
Of oysters"
es, 1t is said that mosquitoes are bred upo
ne the waters. In that case they will retur
re again before many days.
u, Ben Buffers larceny ofthe Democrati
w party of Massachusetts, did not pay an,
'n better than Tilden's cipher dispatch bust
ness.
Col. Burbank, of the New Orleans Pic
doUne, is writing book called 's Jack ant
"a |, or Thirty-Five Nights with the yellow
~ Fever"
d Men of genius make the best husbands
10 fool has too good an opinion of himself
+. and too poor one Of women, to be easily
y governed.
is Andrews, who owns the dory Nautilus
:. which has crossed the ocean, has netted
i $50, coo by the exhibition of the little boat
g at Paris.
n Counsel to witness: "You're a nice
:, sort of fellow, you arer' Witness:
: SID say the same of you, sir, only I'm on
0 my OATH"
-Whalley, M. P, the fanatcal defender
of the Tichborne claimant, is dead. He
was conspicuous agitator, pro- Tichborne,
anti-Papist, etc.
-" What shall be done with our children
when they leave school ?' asks contempo-
rary. Why, give them their dinners and
send them back again.
The youth who can eat fifty cent din
ner every day on two dollar per week sal
ary, is the fellow who succeeds in life and
sends his son to college.
William B. Astor's country place on
the Hudson, near Rhinebeck, contains 800
acres and gives regular employment to forty
men. He has 110 horses.
-Sambo, who had recently been out to
sea during hard gale, said "All de pas
sengers was heaving ann de captain gave
orders for de ship to heaveto.'
-" Yes" said lawyer who was defend |
ing murderer, 1.-THE prisoner at the bar
will prove an alibi. Gentlemen, we shall
! prove to you that the murdered man wasn't
| there"
In the make up of the modern small
boy there is altogether too much whistle for
the amount Of boy. 1t is most too much
like using two quart funnel in a three
ounce vial.
Japan is the only country in the world
in which gentlemen are not farmers The
farms there are very small, and are worked
entirely by hand. On most Of them no an
imals are kept.
The inhabitants of Madagascar are dy-
ing to sos i'~ld or an American ship captain
oId dG bnnderbusses lu woadnFt dfFt geaRa to Of tema
Retail llquor-dealers call their places OF
business "sample rooms" "liquor stores,
usaIoons.'' and sometimes "barrOoms,"
but uncommon, indeed, is such sign as
swings il, Three Rivers Mich. "Si Struth-
er's Gin Mill"
-Barnum, the Senator has been ordered
to the rear in Connecticut, but the original
P. T., has been elected to the Legislature of
that State Thus the owner of the trick
mule is honored, and the Wholesale donkey
dealer is turned loose upon the commons.
While on his way to Jackson, Mississ-
ippi, recently, during the yellow fever scare,
Gov. Stone, of that State was arrested at
Meridian, and made to show clean bill OF
health before was permitted to enter no.
tel or proceed on his journey.
The editor of backwoods newspaper
is reported to have discovered New Tes-
lament on his desk the other day. He at
once wrote an elaborate review of it, and
was very much disappointed when the fore
man brought the copy back and told him it
was not new book.
Sir Moses Montefiore, who was thirty
years old when the battle of Waterloo was
fought, and who still lives at Ramsgate,
has college wherein ten aged Jews, pious
and learned in Jewish law, live at pleasure.
Sir Moses believes in the reoccupation of
Jerusalem.
A full-bearded grandfather recently
had his beard shaved off, showing a clean |
face for the first time for number Of years
At the dinner table his three year old grand |
daughter noticed it, gazed long with won
dering eye, and finally calculated. Whose
head have yon got on. grandfather 9'
Cheese is to be added to the army ra-
tions. The allowance is to be four ounces
| per diem, and 2, 100, 900 pounds will be re-
ouired. This we regard as the most eco
nomical move the government has ever
made. Cheese always carries it's own
transportation.
in 1870, James Miller, of Ohio, set out
with his family for the Far West, in an
emigrant wagon drawn by two horses
While in Missouri one of the horses died,
and he stole another to replace it. He was
arrested, convicted, and sentenced to eight
years. imprisonment. His term has just
expired, and with his family, who had
| waited all the time for him in the same
town, he has resumed his interrupted jour-
ney.
/ An investigator says that the custom
of kissing the Pope's toe began in this
wise: Formerly it was the custom to kiss
his hand, but certain woman, whose bio
graphical record did not please his holiness,
not only kissed his hand, but squeezed it,
which proceeding was SO offensive to the
good Leo that he cut off his hand. After
that the Toe was kissed instead of the hand.
The hand, which was cut off, centuries ago,