The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1879-09-05
WHAT THE WITS SAY.

/ There are 10000 unmarried women il
Massachusetts -4o,O01 If you count th'
widow.-As6aBy Journal. s ho#
| ANY man who can swap horses or ketcl
fish and not he about it is just about Al
Plus az men ever git to be IN this world
Josh Billings. saso
| lie was Disguised boy. He had exer
cised great caution and finally succeeded ID
crawling, unobserved, under the canvas
into the tent. And he found 1t was not q
circus, hnt a revival meeting in progress
Boston Post. i. a. saa CO.'S
The Henderson, Texas, Times comes te
the Norristown Herald with this inscrip
tion written on the margin: Exchange
or go to H--l.'' A brief inspection of the
paper, says,the Herald, induces us to prefer
the latter alternative.
A young man seems to be nearer fulfill
ing the law and the prophets when be walks
along the street helping his wife trundle
their baby-wagon than when he strolls out
IN bachelor freedom, grinning at the girls
and carrying dog headed cane under his
arm. -SteNbenoSlIe Herald. rs. sa s at f.
j. ''The greatest burd to foight, !" says Pat,
"Barring the agile, is the duck;F s:c
| He has foine large bill to peck, .-...-s Il.
And plenty of rale Irish pluck.
"And thin, dye mind, the fut he has9
Full as broad ever as a cup;
Show me the fowl upon two ligs
That's able fer to thrip him upr pE.ali. q
aga sga Boston Journal Of Commerce.
A young lady graduate in nsighbor-
ing college read an essay eatitled EN-
ployment of Time" Her composition
was based On the text, "Time wasted is
existence used, is life.n The next day
she purchased eight ounces of zephyr of
different shades, and commenced working
o sky-blue dog with ssa-green ears and a
pink tail on piece of yellow canvas. She
expects to have it done next Christmas
Norrfst0son Herald. ..s}ssga.s .8rsagg assa.
The boy stood on the backyard fence,
which all but him had fled, the flames that
lit his fathers barn shone just above the
two others in his hat, with piteous accent
loud he cried, 81 never thought of that ~
A bunch Of crackers to the tail of one small
dog he tied {; the dog in anguish sought the
barn, and mid its ruins died. The sparks
flew wide and red and hot they lit upon
that brat they fired the. crackers in his
hand, and exc those in his hat. Then came
burst OF frattling sound the boy Where
was he gone? Ask Of the winds that far
around strewed bits of meat and bone, and
scraps of clothes, and balls, and tops, and
nails, and hooks and yarn, the relics of the
dreadful boy that burnt his fathers barn.
ga good name is rather to be chosen
than great riches.' It is, 1t is. And
when we reflect that Solomon wrote that
when he was the richest man in the world,
and carried enough money loose in his
pockets to pay the national debt, and "sil-
YER was accounted as nothing in the days
of Solomon" and he wouldn't sit upon,
ride in, or eat or drink from anything bat
pure gold, and was raising family Of the
worst boys that ever troubled Israel we
but this is not the sermon department of
the paper what we were thinking about
was that-perhaps we don't make it very
clear, but Solomon's head was level, after
all. That may not be what we started out
to say, but it's great deal better.-Bur-
lington Hawkeys. @