The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1879-02-07
NEW NoR'-WEsTERS.

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Ode to oney-lender-ss Meet me ;
loan."
Nothing was made in vein, excep
blood.
-Logarithms-The clinking of bee
glasses.
lis the fellow who tends an oyster-sa
loon an oyster-supe?
Out West they call the boxes used e
bury tramps in bum shells.
Cincinnati boatmen say the ice in the
river is perfectly george U.S.
lis man counterfeiter if he makes .
silver quarter-selling peanuts?
-Despise not small things; the largest
corn is always found on the smallest toe.
The man who had an unbiased opin.
ion !" should have it cut gored the next
time.
know all men by these peanuts, y says
the man who tends the street stand on the
corner.
The force of habit made Scranton bar
Der ask while shaving corpse, "Does the
razor hurt ?"
ELI Perkins has discovered sure cure
for drunkenness, and now hundreds of pa
pers are abusing Eli.
-" Hug Ne to Death. Darling" is one
Of the latest songs published. 1t is intend
ed for duet and no audience.
-Geologists have reported that there is
in Japan en- ough workable coal to prod1ee
a yield equal to that of Great Britain for
1000 years.
The only difference between an els-
| plant with broken ivory and town in
Alabama is. one has loose tusk, sir, and
the other Tuscaloosa,
The upstart that rose to point of
order after sitting down upon the aggressive
end Of pin, was assured by the Chair that
the point was we'll taken.
Carl Schurz is trying to teach The In
dians agriculture. If he could only satisfy
them that coIn produce whisky his efforts
| would be more successful.
Foreign merchants ship eggs to Lon
don il cheap coffiDs, there being more
| profit in selling the cheap coffins than in
disposipg Of other wooden packages.
-'' Rather than touch another drop of
liquor" said jealous convert at a temper
ance meeting at Alton ILL.,, the other night,
81 would take a razor and blow out my
bralns."
"A sewing machine agent, who was very
i'll, being told that he must prepare to pay
the debt OF nature, wanted to know If it
couldn't be paid for on the monthly INSTALL
ment plan.
There are 372 telephone stations under
the direction of the German postoffice au-
stherities. The sinstruments work perfsetly
over lines of fifty kilometres-say thirty
two miles.
1T is stated as peculiar fact that my
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an attendant of civilization, never being
found among savages, and rarely among
the peasants Of any country.
I'm Siberia you can buy beef for two
cents pound, goose for twelve cents,
chicken for four cents, horse for $5, and
361 pounds Of corn for six cents, and you
aov, pho ha,rc n,,f of r7o,,r ~y;ulorvx
Texas has 1,70O conyicts, of whom
some 500 are kept in prison, and the rest
farms. One, undergoing life sentsnce, is
hired by his wife and lives comfortably at
home.
Just while we think of it, why didn't
the individual who invented buttonholes
get up something equally durable co ct
into them? We have yet to run across the
button that would hold out with the same
persistency the hole would.
Mr.. Webster Gillett, of Ann Arbor, has
inventedsa "shunt," by the use Of which
conversation by means of the telephone can
be carried en- over the same line that is
used for ordinary telegraphy, neither in
strument interfering with the other.
The iron and steel rail product of this
country for the past year netted $50, 900
tons, an amount never exceeded before, ex-
cept in 1872, when the aggregate reached
round million. 1t is thought that the pro-
duct for 1879 will be still greater than this.
From the port of New York the aver
age weekly shipment of American oysters in
the shell is about 1900 barrels. The ship
ment for December 7th, for Christmas, was
2,5ss barrels. Large shipments of poultry
and game are also regularly made to Lon
don and Pa lis.
There is remarkable Jewish syna-
gogue in the ancient city of Prague, with
walls SO thick with dirt IS to be absolutely
DiacK. a iuUssi ii eytisioaz says sisas ssssaa-
where on it's walls the name Jehovah is
inscribed. and it is believed that if the
walls are cleaned the name will be effaeed.
One of the most remarkable facts in
the worlds commerce, is that the United
States during the past year, is the only ma
tion, if we except India, whose exports ex-
ceed its imports. The immense crops of
the United States and the large demand in
Europe win make the returns of next year
even better than the past.
80 Please draw upon the blackboard an
Interrogation point, " said teacher to one
Of her pupils. "Can't make good one"
replied the boy. "Draw boot buttonsr,"
said the teacher, q that will answer The
boy took the crayon and drew hairpin.
Sharp rebuke By the teacher. Other schol- |
ars smile.
-" Mandeyille, = one Of the most famed |
ancestral mansions OF the South, was
bsrned to the ground the other night. Is |
was built in 1906, and became the social
and Political centsr u the Pee. Dee country,
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