The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1878-01-11
NEW NOR -wzsTERs.
"A crying evil-the baby show.

Freezing ciyility--An ice cream party.
A ring suit-one for breach of prom
ise. sa
When is mother a father? When
she's sigher.
Daniel Drew has come to be care on
his relatives. @
The apple crop of Chatauqua county,
N. Y, is estimated at $500, 900.
We find self-made men very often, but
self unmade ones good deal oftener.
One of the recently registered voters of
Boston is colored voter named Yale Col
lege. = h&G .e@
There were 238 miners killed and 462
wounded in the anthracite coal region last
year.
A pair ol vases valued at $40, 600 have
just been received at Tiffany's New York
City.
M. Theirs entire fortune is estimated
at $3,200,000; ne made $4o0, 900 by his
history. =
Chief Engineer Granger at last pro-
nounces the Hoosac Tunnel and approaches
complete.
"A man IN Louisiana had four wives
leave him. That's the kind of a returning
board he is.
Boston people eat each year about 12O,-
900 beeves, of which the West provides
3s, 900 to 10000.
A Kentuckian has sued mature In
diana maiden of forty years or more for
breach of promise. ..5-
"A Virginia lad ate pint of uncooked
chestnuts, and after suffering great agony
for eighty hours, died.
Deceit is the false road to happiness,
and all the joys we travel through to vice,
like fairy banquets, vanish when we touch
them.
| "A great secret Of education is to make
the exercises of the body and those of
the mind act always as recreation for each
other.
There are ], IRE pupils in the colored
schools of Mobile, and these schools are
said to be in excellent condition and very
serviceable.
The sexton of the Plttsburg Cathedral
is reported to have fallen heir to fortune
of 800. coo, bequeathed to him by a rela-
tive in Ireland.
A stranger stopping at hotel asked
the proprietor what the people lived on.
"We," said the proprietor, "why we live
on oysters and strangers"
Shade is making money out of his splr
itual seances in Boston. A Catholic paper
informs its readers that he is Sin leegue
| with the devil and his angels
Detroit is about licensing her newsboys
| and boot-blacks, and compelling these street
urchins to wear badges of a form approved
! by the Mayor and City Council.
| "A number of influential colored men Of
Augusta, Ca, have organized a corpora-
| ton for the establishment of a cotton fac-
| tory with capital stock Of $too, 900.
DIR. Edward Fl. Clarke's will gives his
daughter bequest of $4,000, which, if
| she dies without heirs, is to go to Harvard
for the benefit of the Medical Depa rtment.
| Perhaps the longest letter on record
was one recently mailed at Hornellsville, N.
Y. 1t was three feet eleven inches long
and eighteen inches wide, and required
| sixty cents pos tage.
1t is when a drygoods clerk of 81 pounds
] weight attempts to help from farm wagon
i farmers wife of 203 pounds weight, that
I the reporter seats himself contentedly on
1 the curb stone and waits for the catastro
phe.-Rome Sentinel
! "A gentleman wrote a letter for his
! black servant, who was uaable to read or
write himself. Having finished the letter
| the gentleman asked, sis that all, Tom?"
| ayes" said Tom, ''only just say, please
excuse bad spelling and writing"
Two men met on the piazza of tile Rail-
| road Hotel at Lincoln, Neb. One claimed
| that Nebraska was a good country, or
| shoald be. 'tAll it lacks" said he, sis
good society and water" my good
Lord said the other, THAT is all hi
lacks.
"A Philadelphia paper is moved to in
quire why, if druggists who, by mistake,
sell poisons to persons, causing death, are
prosecuted, those who sell explosive burn
| ing fluids, and cause the death of people
almost daily, should be allowed to go scot
free.
Samuel Stickney, of Iowa, clasped his
| best love girl in an embrace SO close that
his revolver was discharged and boy
standing near was seriously injured. The
| lesson of this sad occurrance is that boys
shouldn't stand around at such supreme
| moments.
A young Green Bay (Wis) couple re-
| turning home from a dance late at night,
fell asleep in their buggy, and after the
| lapse of an unknown period of time, awoke
to find themselves together with the horse
and carriage splashing round in the chilly
waters of creek.
An old gentleman walked into a wheel
wright shop in Fitchburg, Mass, the other
| day, and calle for the sharpesr chisel in
the shop and block of wood, when he as
| tonished the workmen by putting his bare
foot upon the bench and cutting Oft the
| big toe at one blow.
A New York jeweler, from whom a
stranger ordered $500 worth of watches in
the name Of well known Stamford man,
| took the goods to Stamford instead of send
| ing them, because he feared a sWindle. lie
found his suspicious verified, and felt so
good to think he had not been cheated that
| he got drunk. when a thief robbed him of.
his $500 package.
Here is Baltimore tramp's tale: AT