The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1879-02-14
NEW NOR -WEsTERs.
"A moose boy--Cupid.

T "A moose boY-Cqpid.
Firm friends Partners.
wisdom teeth.
-of small interest-Four psn cents.
Bad weather is q fog-horn conelnsion.
When mule weeps does it shed mplet
GERS?
Uneasy sits the youth astride the FIRST
saddle.
| Fine day-Monday morning at the po-
| lice court.
"A Minnesota State Senator has refused
a railroad pass.
"A paste made Of lard and gunposdeF
will cure frost-bites.
Denver calls itself the Queen city 81
claims. AL right, haacys s.aa
"A German prefers lager. Il
makes him think of foam. so
Major Reno's name was once spelled
Reneaux, his parents being French.
"A mans character is like fence you
cannot strengthen it by whitewash.
AT Deadwood, Black Hills, the wedding
feast consisted of fried liver AID ice cream
b The Rev. Thomas <. Beecher, i broth
er of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, Is the
President of a cremation society al Elmiga,
N. 7.
If man does not lift MS hat when
meeting a lady it is because lii aldhss
ed and carries q red silk hang aisS 81
his crown.
Texas proposes a law from
taxation the dogs owned ny widows and
orphans. Texas never goes back on ths
grief-stricken and fatheriess.
If bank officer would lcos at a bur-
glar with bag of tools as severely as he
does at an honest man with small note,
many robberies might be prevented.
Skating is very healthfui exercise. Il
not only puts in play all the muscles of the
legs and arms, but it creates bumps ON the
head for future phrenologists to feel and re-
port on.
old Uncle Benny West, of Baltimore,
was buried at Bonnie Brae yesterday.
Benny was darkey, and his age it was 100.
He professed to remember many events of
the revolution.
"A man intruded into an Irishman's
shanty the other day. "What do you
wants" asked Pat. Nothing" was the
VISITORS reply. "Then you'll find it in the
jug where the whisky was? ?"
The correspondent of the N. Y. Herald
at Ft. Robinson thinks that an Indian war
is most probable in the spring on the Me-
braska frontier, and that the field of opera
tions viii be in that vicinity. If Nebraska
wants to prosper in the spring. it don't
want any Indian war.
What is needed now in every large city
is q tread mill for professional walkers. The
machine could be attached to mill which
would grind corn for the poor, and every
gUuta tauss1ssu anDitf0As TO attEact aitentiou
to his powers of endurance should be SEN
fenced to six days tramp.
"A teaspoonful or more Of powdered
borax thrown into the bath-tub while bath
ing will communicate a velyety softness to
the water, and at the same time invigorate
and rest the bather. Persons troubled with
nervousness or wakeful nights will find this
kind of bath great benefit.
Spanish smokers seem to want Ameri-
can tobacco as well as Americans want
Spanish. The Minister of Spain has tele-
graphed to Captain General Campos that
the Madrid Government will, in March
next, contract for $500, 600 kllogrammes
Of Virginia and Kentucky tobacco.
The steel product of the whole world
20 years ago amounted to little moro than
300, 900 tons, at an average cost Of about
$50 ton. Last year the product went
beyond 1900, 900 tons, and it's cost only
showed an average Of $50 a ton, q falling
offin cost of production of 80 per cent.
-Boyhood is candid, and middle age,
though it may think the same things, Is
reticent. What part" asked sunday
school teacher, ''of the Burial of Sir John
Moore do you like best ?" He was thought
full for moment and then replied "sFew
and short were the prayers we said.'"
Never retract lie {; never acknowledge
. mistake never do justice for wrong !;
never apo.ogize-apologies are weak inven-
tions. Print lie and stick to it until
something freezes over. These are the
rules OF all sensational newspapers. No
wonder somebody occasionally goes after
them with a pistol or shotgun.
-" Every man should provide literally
for his family" says Smith. Ever since
my marriage / have kept my wife provided
with a sewing machine, surmounted by a
fine mirror "What is the mirror for ?"
inquired party present. Well," said
the oracle, g. l tell her that when she gets
SO lazy that she can't run the machine, she
can sit still and then see herself starve to
DEATH
AT the close of 1877 the aggregate
length Of railroads in tine United States vsas
N, 470 miles. To these was added, in 1873
z, ,24S miles, making total Of 70, 713. With
the opening of 1879 there is in round num-
bers $1,000 miles of railroad in good run
ming order. Four and half times more
than any other nation, and 10 per cent, of
all the railroads on the globe.
II would keep sbetter hours if were a
boy again that is, would go to bed earIi-
er than most boys do. Nothing gives more
mental and bodily yigOr than sound rest
when properly applied. Sleep is our great
replenisher, and If we neglect to sake it reg
ularly in childhood, all the worse for us
when we grow up. If we 60 to bed early
we ripen il we.sit up late, We decay; and
sooner Or later we contract disease called
insomnia, allowing 1t to be permanently
fixed upon us, and then we begin TO decay,
even In yoath. Late hours are shadows
from the grave. -J z. Fsesds.
--Whilea q nnmber OF workmen were tear
Ing up the 6oor In q freight house in Au-