The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1878-02-15
NEW NOR '-wEsTERs.
Chaplain Beecher sounds well.


: The Duke of Montpensier drive
: mules.
! New Orleans is considering the feast
bility of licensing gambling.
Young men should pattern after piano
-be square, upright, grand.
, What is it that walks with its heae
downward? A nail in SHOE
San Francisco divorces were more thar
10 per cent. of its marriages last year.
Make yourself necessary, young man
and then your success is Billings
Liverpool has now decided apon get
ting water from Wales at cost of sc, $50.
600.
The total yield of the vintage for cham.
payne this year is said not to exceed 2, 2OO,.
600 gallons. @
| -Ninely years ago Madeira shipped up
ward of 10000 pipes of wine; now she ships
but 7,0Oo I
Switzerland has one cow to every three
persons, and yet only one person in twenty
takes horn.
Maj. Gen. Pearson, the brave commsn-
der of the Pennsylvania troops at Pitts
burg, has resigned.
-Ex-Doorkeeper Fitzhugh, ''biger man
than old Grant," is keeping boarding
house IN Washington.
Eagle Plume, an Indian chief, is starting
out on lecture tour. He speaks very lit
tie English, and will have an interpreter.
The difference between a model wo.
man and woman model is, one is bare
possibility, and the other is naked fact.
The Atlanta Constitution thinks the
gold yield of Georgia, which is now half
million year, may be raised to the same
amount monthly.
A man who attended nitro-glycerne
explosion said, afterwards, that his first
impression was that his mother-in-law was
arguing with him.
MIR. John Haran who is known to have
saved at least 80 lives in the course of his
life, has just died at Paisley, Scotland.
He received a watch and fifty sovereigns in
recognition of his public services in the
year 1866.
-"I call you darling" she said as she
leaned her head on his collar. 'sShow
your hand" he replied mechanically. The
young miss, not understanding his answer,
continued to poker head against his chin,
and he hove ace high of relief at her uncon-
scsousness of his mistake.
What is called the "enchanted noun
taiu," in Texas, is an immense oval rock,
tire hundred feet high, and about so miles
from Bastrop. Its surface is highly |
polished, and those who ascend it have to |
wear moccasins or go in their stocking
feet.
During the recent civil war there were
two volunteers lying under their blankets,
looking up at the stars in Virginia sky.
Says Jack: What made you go into the
army, Toni? "Well," replied Tom, 81
had no wife, and / loved war. What made
you join the army, Jack?" "Well," he
replied, II had wife and loved peace, SO /
went to war;" /
Fred Honck, stenographe1, born in
Baltimore, committed suicide at his hotel
II New York because he could not obtain
permanent employment these hard times,
and he did not wish to take risk of becom-
ng a burden to anyone. He was only 90
years old. His course was unaccountable
Is he was in 90 immediate danger of want,
md his end was sad one.
The expression :" o-long," used some
lines in the sense of goodbye, in the South
,rn States, was borrowed from the negroes,
t is a corruption of the Turkish word
salaam !" which, with the spread of Mo-
travelled the west coast of
Africa, whence slave cargoes were procured.
The expression became almost common IN
glasgow and Bristol during the last century
yhither it was carried by sailors of slave
hips.
The Shah is going to travel in Europe
gain-this time incognitio. He declares
hat his resolve has been prompted by de-
ire still further to promote the Helf..re of
lis kingdom, by the Introduction into 1t of
nore European customs. He was lately
card to say that of all the royal and impe-
ial personages whose acquaintance he
made during his former tour, no one more
urprised him than the Prince of Wales,
ecause, he put it, " be seemed like one OF
he people, and dressed the same.''
DR. Fordyce Baker, says: Dancing {
) a, good thing. 1t distracts women's |
minds from the contemplation of their own
ymptoms, and thereby ciIcumvents an
vii. AS for Mrs. Sherman, suppose !
hings are matters of education. People, Is
on know, who are not used to seeing nude {
cures in statuary or paintings, experience
ldecent feelings and then again, you ]
now, people who are used to seeing such I I
hings don't. Habit, familiarity, and re- c
nement make most of lis agreed in these {
,atters.' t
An Innocent Young Man II
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