The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1879-05-30
NEW NOR W wEsTERss.

The Ohio canals cleared 900 last
year.
! The entire valuation of Cheyenne is
81, ,so2, 1000.
The late Bishop Ames left an estate
worth $3.50, 900.
Imagination goes long distance with
five cent cigar.
The weather has been rather rough on
spring Chickens and they show it.
There are about $4,000 sheep in
Colorado, worth about $2.25 apiece, or in
all Sd, 5000
Senator Matt Carpenter, of Wisconsin,
/ is 55 years old and his great mass of sturdy
hair is iron gray.
A patent for steel skeins on the Mitch
ell wagons was granted to Leonard Cottrell
of Salt Lake City, on. May 6ths
-"Great heavens p' he murmured. as
dealer named the price ~ don't want
whole strawberry; only want small slice
off the round"
-" Don't you mean to marry again, Dea-
con Jones ?'' asked widow Simpkins.
ssNo," growled he, "I'd rather lose what
ribs I've got than take any more"
-aHow nicely the corn pops" said
young man who was sitting with his sweet
heart before the fire. EYES," she respond
ed, demurely, :" it's got over being gr en-"
Literary curiosities Horn Tooke never
took horn. Charles Lamb never had his
hair sheared. Tom Hood was never hood
winked. Leigh Hunt went fishing and
Theodore Hook went a hunting.
The Dutch word for insurance compa-
ny is Levensverzekeringmaatschappy.
There are many people who would call the
insurance companies by worse names than
this if they could only invent them.
Professor Tyndall says that very great
improvements in the electric light must be
regarded as inevitable, but he does not be
lieve gas will be beaten out of the field by
it; there is too much use for gas.
"A Denver paper is authority for the
statement that at Leadville graves are in
such demand that grave-digging compa-
nv has been organized there, which digs
graves in advance and keeps them for sale.
A Kentucky paper remarks that the
LOOK of intelligence assumed by the young
LAWYER as he sits in court should be put
stop to. It is calculated to cause the pre-
siding Judge to lose confidence in himself
to make him believe he doesn't know any
thing.
-" am not" wrote Ralph Waldo EN-
erson the other day, "In condition to
make visits or take any part IN conversa-
ton. Old age has rushed upon me in the
last year and tied my tongue, and hid my
memory, thus made it a daty to stay at
home.'
There is bill before the Missouri Leg
islature which provides that a qualified vo-
ter who fails or refuses to vote for three
consecutive State elections shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor, and forfeit his
right to hold any Office of honor or profit
InQer the SLabe.
Charles Ellery, an Albany inventor, has
patented an automatic press feeder in this
country and Europe, which will feed the
fastest presses. The feeder consists of
three fingers which lift the sheets by sue
ton. The suction is supplied by pump
run by the press and works to the satisfac-
tion of experts under exacting tests.
"A citizen went home from the caucus
one night and asked his wife, Did you
commit an error or do anything out of
character before we were married?''
"Why, no What makes you ask such
question: "Oh, didn't think you had,
but was nominated for town Office to-
night, and / knew if you had it would all be
out tomorrow"