The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1879-09-19
NEW NOR -WEsTERs.

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27,706 men. .t,... +.
How to draw teeth without pain--On
paper with pencil. ~ ea53sa
i During August 2, 787, ,059 standard sill,
yer dollars wers coined, .ssl ~ I.ssas
The excess of exports over imports
during 1879 is s28s, 572, ,os9.
Moses never had the gout. This was
one of the missed aches of Moses.
Dogs ought to succeed as novelists;
they have such wonderful narrative pow
ers. ~ :
The Sergeant-at-Arms of the Brisish
| House Of Commons has held his Office for
43 years.
-Ninety-nine folks in . hundred make a
mistake when they cut off dogs tail.
They preserve the wrong end. .sf .a5L
-Facetious dispatch from musical New
York man to wife at Consy Island-"Hold
your tongue for am coming"
1t is proposed to convert Manchester,
England, into y seaport for the largest
steamers, at cost of $40, ,000,0 ,000.
-" Forget notthine own importance" :"
is an old proverb. It's about the only
thing that some men don't forget.
Every man at some time or other is en-
dowed with train of thought: but alas !
how few of these trains are heavily freight
ed.
The New York World alleges that the
remains Of A. T. Stewart were recovered a
month ago, and that $50, 900 were paid for
| them. e
There is man in this city who has
been angry for 80 years on stretch. It is
the worst case of standing choler that we
ever knew.
Alexander Fl. Stephens was somewhat
overcome by the heat the other day, but he
stuck his cane in the ground, sat down In
the shade Of it, and soon quite recovered.
If man undertakes to travel on the
line between truth and dishonesty, says
Josh Billings, he is sure to stumble, and we
all kno on which side of the line he will
fall. ..--... .....4...s. -....5
Thomas Carlyle has expressed wish
to be buried as quietly as possible in the
choir of the old Cathedral at Haddington,
where he laid his wife 10 years ago. He 10
believed to be ct death door.
The receipt used By the government
for making mucilsge used on postage
stamps is as follows: Dextrine, 8 ozs; acetic
acid or; alcohol, i OF; water, ozs. A
very good mucilege, however, is made by
simply dissolvinQ dextrine in water. 4.
A Union soldier, writing to the Coun-
Gil Rufus Nonparsa concerning the horrors
Of the Andersonvi'le prison pen, says
when entered the place was Demo-
crat, but when came out was Repub-
lcan, and will be as long as live." a8
A person looking over q catalogue of
professional gentlemen OF the bar, with his
pencil wrote against the names of one who
was of the bustling order: "Has been &C.
cused of possessing talents" Another see-
ing it, Immediately wrote under: "Has
been tried and acquitted"
= The best paid military postin the world
is that of the British commander-in-chief
in India, the salary being s60,O0o per year
besides servants ane various other per
quisites. Sir Garnet Wolseley is to have
the place in the spring of 1880, when Sir
Frederick Haines will have completed five
years Of service in that position.
lin 1876 Georgia farmer planted a
single grain of wheat and harvested |, TIT
grains; in 1877 the yield from these was 12
pounds !; this year the crop is g So dozen
bundles. not yet threshed." but which he
thinks will give 25 bushels--the product Of
one grain in the third generation.
+, A Massachusetts man, having secured
the contract for the marble TO complete
the Washington monument, the Buffalo |
Espress, with justified sarcasm, says that
next year some time we shall hear of the |
man who ID to supply the mortar. Thus |
the structure is being hurried toward com.
pletion. IS
. "A visitor TO the hop districts OF New |
York writes to the Utica Herald that the |
growers sswould sooner allow their chick |
ems to be killed than skunk" since this
useful creature, usually in such bad odor
With most people, proves very great help |
in the struggle against the grub which does |
20 much injury to the vine.
Cleo. P. Rowell s. Co-,in the American
Newspaper Directory for July, show that
the whole number of newspapers in the |
United States has increased since January |
of the current year from 9, ,703 TO 9, 1853.
New papers abound in the Territories. Sus-
pensions have been fewer than in any COR
period for several years.
AN old gardner writes as follows "Af-
5er trying for number of years, almost in
vain, to raise good celery on ordinary dry |
garden soil, finally borrowed the use OF |
b little batch Of reclaimed swamp land
deep black muck, we'll drained but moist,
snd for the two past seasons have grown
On it very fine celery with but very little |
abor.o
@, whose death Is just announc-.
ID, was one of the most secret, dark and
men imaginable. He did not |
wish the fact that he was i'll TO be made |
public; and so, when his faithful friend <. |
was asked how the old gentleman was, he |
took the inquirer by. the button-hole and |
in his ear: /" He's dead, but he |
doesn't want it known
"A gentleman who had been dining out /
the night before. went into BARRIERS shop
next morning to be shaved. He saw that /
Lhe barber had been taking more than was
good for him, for his hand shook very much /
and. naturally indignant, he began TO give |
him q little moral advice By saying Y Bad /
things, drink r ss Yeas said the barber.
q it makes the skin tender
"A little fellow rushed into the street,
to . look at monkey that accom-