The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1878-09-13
NEW NOR wEsTERs.
The Graphic calls him Marble Mantle.
--Kearney works hard-with his mouth,
--Edison's non de plume is "Old Light

-Kearney works hard-with his mouth.
--Edison's non de plume is "Old Light
ming"
-Chas. OConor, aged so, retires from
law business.
Chicago has rs Greeks, who are me-
chanics, sailors, and fruit peddlers.
A firm at Belleville, ILL.,, turns out 15o,-
600 gallons of castor oil every year.
The great need at Cyprus is a jail,
hand organ and a bob-tailed street car.
Bismarck will soon have to try an anti
fat preparation. He weighs 240 pounds.
Five million barrels of petroleum are
unsold and await shipment in the oil re-
gion.
The two piers of the Brooklyn bridge
stand looking at each other like Conkling
and Curtis.
Dom Pedro sent congratulatory letter
to Capt. Jetty Eads, and invited him to
visit Brazil.
General Grant will bend his steps to-
wards Siam and do the grand Indian tour
before coming home.
All the theology in the world has never
succeeded in answering the child's question,
"Why doesn't God kill the devil ?''-
Wash. Post.
The Rev. Jasper still insists: Ode sun
do move for in de mornin' it shines ON dis
side OBJ de house. Now, eff he don't move,
how COM he dar?"
Up to the present time there have been
about 279 Congressional candidates nomi-
mated, and all but 81 of there are new men.
NJ Y. Herald, 25th.
The St. Louis G1obe-Democrat advises
that military titles be dropped when ap-
piled to man who is not in the military
service of his country.
"A man at Fredonia. N. Y. can clear
IA feet at standing jump. He will be
heard of ten times as often as any Sena-
tor in the next Congress.
General Belknap is at Burlington, and
though the country is nervous-like to hear
what he thinks about Grant for third term
not a single Iowa paper will tackle him.
Senator Blaine has been sunstruck, car
ried over mild am, thrown from car
riage, blown mp with fireworks and taken
tumble down stairs, but he still sighs to be
President.
One of Krupp's new guns is 90 feet
long and weighs 114,0 900 pounds. The shells
for this monster weigh 1855 pounds, and
253 pounds of powder are required for
charge. To manage the gun easily, eigh-
teen men are required.
"A Pittsburg firm is now constructing a
sternwheel iron and steel steamer to ply
on the Magdalena River in Columbia, South
America. It is to be shipped in sections to
New York by rail, thence by sea to Ban
anquila at the mouth of the Magdalena.
Every now and then some chap writes to
a newspaper for receipt to prevent hair
from coming out. If fmen would go home
from the lodge before midnight, with their
legs SOuei. tHGli NOuluu Eubic uub So
rapidly. We always 60 home early, and
we have more hair now than the day we
were eborn.-NorristoWB Herald.
Robert Lincoln, son of Abraham Lin
coin, has no idea of accepting nomination
for Congress in Chicago or anywhere else.
When yonng man in Washington he
formed the opinion that it was unwise for a
young man to enter politics as profession.
He has consistently followed this course
and has repeatedly declined to accept office,
whether State or National.
Judge Carpenter, of California, tells
good story of President Polk. While in
the White House two matters were neces-
sary for Mr.. Polk's happiness-one morn
ing cocktail, the other the presence of his
nephew, Marshal Polk. Every day before
breakfast the President drank one-half of
very large cocktail in tall glass, and,
accompanied by Marshal, started out for
walk. Regularly every morning Marshal
would forget something, run back and
drink off the rest of the cocktail. The
President never suspected his nephew.
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