The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1879-11-21
NEWSPAPER DECISIONS
EvE-ANGELICAL CORNER.

An Iowa woman has invented spanka-
phone. -....
Weddings are numerous. The early
frost is nipping the bachelors.
The widow of the late ex-senator Mitch
ell, of Arkansas, has died at Little Rock.
She was very popular in Washington.
The Archa1eaess Christine will be mar
ried in silver cloth, embroidered with spark
ling white jet. Included in her trousseaa
is a costnme of embossed velvet and opal
eolored satin, trimmed with fringe of small
pearls and silver lace.
4 singular coincTdeucs recently occurred
at Lafayette, Georgia. An elderly lady,
while out at her cow pen, by some mishap
fell over a rail and broke the cap of her
thigh bone. She sent for her sister, who
went out next morning to perform the same
work, and had the misfortune to fall over
the same rail, breaking bone just as her
sister had done. They both now lie in
beds in the same room, without much hope
of ever again being able to walk.
A woman in the Indiana State Prison,
serving out sentence for life, offers $780,
600 to any man who will marry her and re-
lease her from durance vile. One heroic
Individual with the name of Schwartzmiller
has come forward to sacrifice himself for
the sum of $50, 600, but the Governor of In
diana has been forced to disappoint his as
tha 1n nF hn T1nifo1 Gkafoo
contain no provision whereby person can
be released by any such romantic process.
A hunter with dog and gun was rowing
over the farm of Mary Jane Pratt, of Iro-
quis county, Ill. ,and she ordered him off the
premises. "Oh, you amt in any danger
amt hunting old maids" was the reply.
Returning to the house, she brought out
gun, aud, blazing away, killed the hunters
dog. He threw up his hands and yelled,
"Do you mean to murder me? ?" "Oh, you
amt in any danger; amt hunting for
fools." she replied, but she brought the
gun again to her shoulder. Her husband
appeared and prevented further blood
she'd.
"Ouida's" name is Rosa de la Rama,
and she is the daughter of a Frenchman.
More information than this the indefatiga-
Bile interviewer has not been able to get
from the author. She lives in lovely villa
about two miles from Florence, where she
is surrounded by books, pictures, and, what
she prizes more than both of these, dogs.
She has burying ground on her place for
her dogs, where they are laid away with a
tenderness that is not always bestowed upon
the human race. Oulda was an unknown
writer, glad to earn 81 a page for her maga-
zine stories, when her novel of "Granville "
de Vinge" made her reputation, and now
every novel she writes finds ready market
at $1,000.
The Richmond, Va, Enquirer says : In
formation reached here last night of the
death of one of the most notorious charac-
ters in the country. This was Mrs. d. E.
Smith, who lived near Leginier, Westmore-
land county. Her proportions were extra
ordinarily large. She measured 81 inches
across the shoulders, and weighed within
fraction of 610 pounds. The coffin was
necessarily OF immense size, and before it
was delivered two ordinary men lay in it
side by side on their backs without cr~wd-
ing each other in the least. When brought
to the house it could not be got through
the door. and it was necessary to- leave it
outside until the time set for the funeral,
when the corpse was carried out to the
coffin. ..