The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1878-01-25
NEW NOR -'WEsTERs.

Eat licorice to sweeten the breath.
Apply common baking soda to burns.
There is no dignity In work half done.
The Emperor William is lover OF
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Sitting Bull has an old maid sister fifty
years old.
The body of Victor Emanuel has been
enbalmed.
Gen. John o. Neill, the noted Fenian
leader, is dead.
New York street cars carry 165, 900, 900
passengers year.
The first use of locomotive in this
country was in 1899.
A Washington tobacconist bea,s the
appro pirate name of Plugg.
A life-size bust of Tilton is being cut
ia marble for his daughters.
1T is estimated that 1858 houses we're
erected in San Francisco last year.
Wade Hampton can call over 5000
citizens of South Carolina by name.
The friends of silver held mass meet
ing in Springfield, Ills., on the 10Th.
The number of deaths in Chicago DUR
ing 1877 vas s,0ss, or 54e less than ia
1875.
Most English special correspondents at
the seat of war receive from $50 to $40 a
week.
An unfavorable report will be made in
regard to the new Territory in the Black
Hills.
Jennie June speaks of harmony in a
miuee-pie. There is discord after it is
eaten.
AN agricultural frm in Germany has
just ordered 600 horse rakes from house
at Winehendon, Mass.
"A steamer which sailed from Boston a
few days ago took out q shipment of robins
for acclimatization in England.
MIR. Henry w. Longfellow has been
elected a corresponding member of the
Royal Spanish Academy of Madrid.
la Pennsylvania tramps are called
turnpike sailors" A whisky gale some
times renders them unable to navigate.
"A single tree out ON the Pacific coast
recently furnished seven logs twenty-four
feet in length, and scaled q, $40 feet
After yea have said mean thing you
think about it and regret it; but Why
didn't you think about it before you said
it?
There is an opening for star actress
in Deadwood, Miss Lillian Leroy, the last
popular one, is in Jail for shooting her hus-
hand.
The most poetical-looking man at the
Whittier dinner was Mr.. Cranch, and the
most venerable were Mr.. Emerson and Mr..
Longfellow.
-Ex-M Minister WashburHe is about to
lecture ON "The siege of Paris and the
Commune. He knows all about his sub
ject he has been there.
During this year zoo, 600 trees win be
set out on the line of the Central Pacific
Railroad. This is by order of the compa-
ny, and will add much to the value of their
land
Mr.. Dion Boucicault is said to have
fitted up new apa stment in New York at
an expense of $13 900. The bathroom, all
marble and precious Stones is described as
a wonder of luxury and maguidcenee.
Temple Bar. though torn down, is not
to be destroyed utterly. The stones will
all be numbered and stored away till the
Court of Common Council has fxed upon
new site for the erection of the .old moau-
ment.
Mr.. Whittier's friends in Haverhill,
Amesbury, Salisbury, Mass, and other
towns in the vicinity, propose literary
club to bear his name, celebrating his
birthday yearly with dinner and literary
exercises.
"A man from an eastern State, who re-
Gently went to the Black Hills, wrote back
to his friends as follows: "Offer premi-
nm at your next fair for the biggest fool
in the country and I'll try and get there
in time.n
james C. Flood, of the Nevada bank of
San Francisco, distributed on Christmas
day $4,000 among the charitable institu-
tions of that place. Thus many homeless
waif and suffering beng will be cared for
for another year.
The late General Forrest bequeathed
TO his SON the sword and pistol which he
had used in the Confederate Army, with
the injunction to "use them whenever
called upon to do so in the honorable serv-
ice of his country
Mr.. Parker of the Parker House, Bos-
ton, is said to be worth over two millions. /
For a long tims he and his partner consid-
cred it a poor year when they could not
divide over 800, 900 between them .ss the
net profits of the establishment.
Senator Conkling, when at school is
said to have had manners so reserved that
they provoked his fellow students to tease
and torment him. He was then tall,
slender youth, and not strong, and feeling
his inability to protect himself properly, he
quietly procured a teacher in the art of
and soon became an expert
boxer.
The bewitching, accomplished and di-
vinely beautiful young lady, whose name
was not mentioned in the society columns
Of any portion of the Sunday press, is Mt
terly disconsolate, and is going to have her
mamma give her a party, to which she win
positively neglect to invite those who write
for the papers. The odiously partial crea-
lures
The canning business of Burlington,
N. j., has attained considerable magnitude.
Last year the Eve factories in the town put
up 1, 500, 600 cans of vegetables, $500 bar