The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1879-04-04
NEW NOR -wEsTERs.

| NEW NUH-W G0I GGSo.
The human foot is v-toed.
-Over-groan-A squalling infant.
Fish breakfasts are fashionable.
| A hand-to-mouth business-Dentistry
The man who has fellow feeling
blind man.
An anonymous article-A baby befor'
it's christened. @
| Dancing is forbidden during Lent, bu
/ fishballs are allowable.
We saw a very long PAIR of shoes the
other day. They were over two feet.
An American named Livingstone
drives fourteen horse team in Florence.
/ The man who tries to build a fire witt
wet wood acts in a damp-fuel-ish manner
Don't get in debt in debt TO shoe
maker if you would call your sole your
own. as
The sign over a wayside inn ON the
Jersey flats is " Mosquito Tavern" That's
where travellers stop and get bite.
John Connor is a Brooklyn person who
challenges the world to drink a thousand
| glasses Of beer in thousand hours.
When a man does us kindness we
call him brick, and when he docs us an
unkindness we want to hit him with one.
1t has been proved that after kindllne
his fire miser stuck cork in the muzzle
of the bellows to save the little wind that
was left in it.
The State tax of Nevada for the pres
ent fiscal year has been fixed at 55 cents
on each 800 valuation. The State tax last
year was 80 cents.
An admirer of Weston, O'Leary and
other tramps purchased copy of Walkers
Dictionary, under the impression that it
was work on pedestrianism. ri
The Wiconsin Legislature has received
a petition asking for constitutional
amendment establishing an educational
test for voters in the year 1880.
There are in France 81, 1913 lunatics, of
whom 80, 986 sre at the charge of their fam
lilies. and 1887 supported by the State.
The proportion is about two per thousand
of the population.
Acacia trees are the most lovely plants
ior drawing room plants at present. Their
exquisite lacy foliage and lemon color
blossom, which will last two months, mako
them very desirable.
Employees of the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad company have been notified that
drunkenness and frequent habiting of sa
looms will be considered sufficient cause for
immediate discharge.
"A Someryille Sunday school teacher
had some remarks the other day about the
g fire that shall never be quenched"
"What, never ?' asked the class in chor-
u.s." But he didn't tumble.
publication of the political speech
sos>ef N. Thiers has bssah in Paris, and is
likely to prove ahage undertaking. Three
volumes have been issued, and only include
the speeches from 1880 Oto 1886.
The Lieutenant-G Governor Of Colorado
is worth $5, O00, 600, owns two mines, Is
President of bank, and proprietor of
large Wholesale store. A few years ago be
was poor stonecutter in Augusta, Maine,
but he took Mr.. Grseley's advice.
Simon Cameron was so years old on
Saturday last Senator Cameron, with all
his faults, is personally one of the most
popular men in the State, largely owing to
his habit of standing by his friends.
The Empress Eugene spends her
mornings, it is said, in prayer, diving and
embroidery. In the evening she plays
whist. Her locks are still golden, and in
charming contrast with her robes of black.
The educational part of the California
Constitution has been SO amended that
while it does not prohibit the teaching of
ancient and modern languages in the pub
lie schools, it denies all support for cosmo-
politan and high schools.
There are men who would rather be
doorkeepsrs in the house of the Lord--when
there is a church festival going on and the
receipts are large-than to dwell in the
tents of the wicked, where there is no OPP
portunity to handle the cash.
The fund raised in Germany as me-
mortal of the Emperor's escape amounts to
$400, ,000. 1t is to form the basis of a ma
tional insurance institution for the laboring
classes and poor, for which the Prince I'm
perial is named High Protector.
The Boston Adosrtiser remarks that
the gift Of exasperating those whom he
dlslikes was developed in Senator Conkling
when young, and he has cultivated it to
very high degree. He can convey more
intense animosity by slur or sneer than
most men by flood of rhetorical invectives.
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