The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1879-07-11
NEW NoR..wEsTEas.
1T is bestto look ON the bright side OF
things. especially on mirrors. s c5

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D 1T is bestto look on the bright aide
things, especially on mirrors. as r
Why is the practice of praising chi
. dren like opium? Because it's laudanurn
when boy reaches the age of to
years he conqescendingly begins TO tai
about the children.
i, Some one observes that Charley Fol
ter seems TO be running for governor
Ohio ali over the United states 4t
The Oldest printer in. the United State
w llliam e. Dean, aged 81 yeats--diedl il
New York. Monday,eJunes 17th. Isl ri
} John Pbpuix thrashed his man b
holding him down firmly and inserbingl hu
j own nose batween his ensmy's teeth. n
"A cynical old bachelor says: ts cd
lock isllke bird cage; those without peel
TO get in, and those within peck TO go
out"
"A gold brick, valued at $37, 600, was
brought down from the Homestake mill,
the Deadwood Times says, last week, the
yield Of tho Homestake for one week.
/ Two California sharpe were playing a
game of cards. a 1t is very Singular OBJ
served one, "that | haven't seen king
yet" mot at all, replied the ether ;
"you have one IN your sleeve aud have
the other three in my boot"
I'm the middle ages, on the death of .
monk, his plate was placed ON the table at
every meal for month. The usual amount
of meats was placed ON it, and this was
distributed to the poor, who were exhorted
to pray for the repose Of the departed
brother. s-, s-p
-.s Blaine is tile beat fellow in the
world, +" said Demucratic Senator two or
three days ago, and il hs was o Democrat
we should almost idolize him. But" he
added, t'he does titxesh around 30 in our
cornfield sometimes that no makes me itch
TO knock HIM down"
Fish ii brain food; II you eat sardines
you are capable OF getting of small jokes.
The man that eat chnbs. is inclined to be
good-satured and chubby. People that eat
whales are inclined to blubber. Don't eat
more than one day asa general thing or
you will get to bluoberiRg.., es#s#
Some ill-feeling has been excited among
the French Canadians By the published re-
port that Lord Lorne, in welcoming the
Brooklyn regiment, said "We are al
brothers in biaod and reiigion.n And the
explanation is made that what he really
said was "lu blood and great traditions. -
William Sloane, marchapt, who died
in New York a. few days since, has left
$33, 500 III sums of 81, 900 and $500 to en-
ployees. and $40, 600 TO religious organ'-
zations, among which the Presby terian
Board of Foreign Missions receive $40, 900;
Domestic Board, $4,000. and Bible soci-
ETY., $4,000.
AN absent-minded man in Monroe, Ct,
went to church the other morning with bis
the laughing OF peopIs-rh cuaTcu aIreutsd
his attention to the fact that he had taken
his every day pantaloons, and that the sus-
peneiers attached to them were dangling
about his legs. @
Jefferson Davis, at the age of thirty
seven, and mcmber of Congress, is pic-
turesquely described by Colonel Forney az
having handsome face, graceful manners,
an erect figure, flashing eyes, and q broad
white collar folded over his neck. He was
one of the few Southern politicians who
scientific tastes.
"A man bought some of the $40 gov
ernment certificates at the Cincinnati of
tice and missed one after retiring from the
window. He could find it nowhere. "Give
me dollar an III get it for you." The
offer was accepted. The boy yanked an
other urchin out of the line and choked him
until he opened his mouth, from which the
hidden certificate dropped. ......-s4.
"A meteor as big as q water pail flashed
across Northwestern Iowa three weeks ago
and broke to pieces with o report like the
discharge Of cannon. above the town OF
Estherville. Fragments of the meteor
have been found scattered all about, but
one piece as large az bushel basket aud
weighing $50 pounds has been dug from
the hole it bored 10 feet below the surface
of the gfound, The fragments are of o
metallic substance and resist the strongest
acids. n, ras 81 assa
" A few years ago the panorama of Par
adise Lost was going the rounds of the
country. On one of the large posters the
line rebellion in Heaven" was displayed
in flaming letters foot long. A gaping
crowd was one day admiring the bill, whom
rough looking countryman who formed
one of the group. remarked. Z" Rebellion in
Heaven, hey Well, if Old Abe ever gets
there he'll make damned short work of
that"
An old darkey caught two-pound
,suckero one day and was SO well satisfied with
his work that he lay down for nap with
the fish beside him on the grass. Another
dark came along presently, picked up the
sucker, and left a half-pound one in its
place. When the first man and brother
woke up, the frat thing his eyes sought
was the fab, and It took him some seconds
to realize that something had happened.
Then turning his prize over and examining
| it all round, he simply said, "Golly, how
dat fish am shrunkeui"
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eonklng and Lamar.
JR Young's Wash. Letter to the star
Conkling has the look of man born &c
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