The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1880-05-07
NEW NOR. .,wEsTERs.
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/ Beaconsfield spells Gladstone with
big, big D. ses-7s s.aHnana
The Mississippi river at many points is
SO miles wide. 7 ssaf .- Haaaa
Don Piatt has disposed of his interest
in the Capital
-Blanton Duncan is said to havs desert
ed the Greenback party. .......- q
Cheyenne is imprisoning tramps as fast
as they strike that place. ......s
Victor Hugo is said to know more than
10, 900 people by sight and name. a.a P
Hart, the winner of the latest walking
match. proposes to study law in Boston.
Vice President Wheeler is known as
the lone fisherman of American politics.
-"Look out for the locomotive" is paint.
ed in large letters so that he who reads may
run.
Pail Boyton is devoting the proceeds
Of his lectures in the Southern cities to the
Irish relief fund.
-Cochinat, one of the wittiest of The
French journalists, is as black as the black
est of colored men.
-Sugar-cane is tasselng In Louisiana for
the first time since 1888. This is said to
indicate an enormous yield.
General Hancock weighs 2S7 pounds,
but is SO tall that he gives one the impress
sion of weighing much less.
Douglas Jerrold complained OF a ser
want girl so awkward she would break the
Bank of England if she touched it.
A patriotic French immigrant walked
through Castle Garden recently wearing a
vest that bad been made from an American
flag.
-Governor-G General Lorne's ink bottle
was made from the hoof of the charger that
carried Lord Give through the Crimean
war. .r.
An Irishman tells Of fight in which
there was ouly one whole nose left in the
whole crowd "and that belonged to the
tea.kettle."
"A Western critic describes the kissing
between Paul Castle and Virginia Abbott
as "a communion of the intangible by tan
gible means"
During the session of the California
Legislature, Governor Perkins did not veto
single bill-a thing almost unprecedented
on the Coast. . ..
AN exchange remarks that when Col
orado man can bnck at faro game and win
three times out of five he is considered
smart enough TO 60 to Congress.
"A middle-aged German couple who ar
rived at Baltimore from Bremen the other
day had with them sixteen children, ranging
in age from thee months to over eighteen
years. .......
s AN irreverent young man at commu.
nion service handed back the wine goblet
TO the old deacon, and astonished him by |
whispering in his ear : "That's about the |
worst port ever tasted" u
RUBY Lake, Nevada, has entirely dis
appeared. Not d drop of water remains of |
what was, seven years ago,a sheet Of water
20 mil 8 in length, and varying in breadth
from bali II mile to three miles. and very
deep. r a.r-,.. a.. l.rar... VI .-..oT |
1t is expected the price of beer will soon
be advanced dollar barrel in most of the
largo cities of the Union. The result will
be that the more beer goes up the less OF it
will 60 down. -
The fat men of Baltimore gave ball
recently, but did not dance. They left that
to the more agile. The heaviest man pres
emit weighed 430 pounds, and the weigbtiest
maiden 3i5 pounds. .. .N..s .a.u s-. a..sa
-Col. Coonap, one of the Commissioners
Of Emigration, says that the Irish imlni-
grants will begin to pour liz in May, and
continue to arrive in larger numbers than
aver before during June, July and part of
August. ......
"The wrongs Of the negro are of the
past. "If votes de Ra-
publican ticket wakes up de next morning
n graveyard. Testimony of colored
refugee TO Kansas. Try again, Mr.. Arm
strong. "". 1
-Of the immigrants who landed at Castle
Garden in 1878, so, 7s6 gave New York city
IS their point Of destination. or the 81, 900
Who have arrived this year only 1000 stop.
bed 10 New York, even temporarily. This
hows that Intelligent plans are being laid
q Europe. Nosaa a@a.a
What this country il yearning for is an
,ourly bulletin giving the bottom facts
bout the health Of Mr.. Samuel j. Tilden.
rhe present system of letting folks know
bout this eminent old man is very imper-
ect and has led to great deal of misun- {
lerstanding.
jay Gould continues to tight like mad ,
n the effort to keep the wolf from che
loor. A New York financial journal has ,
,sn trying to find how bis bank account
tands about this time. and, although net
wholly successful, presents some interest
ng details. A year ago he sold 100, 900
bsres Of Union Pacific for about $780,
100; then he bought lot OF Kansas Pacific
i ls for about 5000, 900, and kept it until ,
rose to 92. netting $4,0O0.0O0. Again be
'ought Wabash at Is and sold it at various
igures between 10 and SO. He also boaght
;t. Louis Northern, and on that and Wa
lash made $4,s5O. 900. Thus in one way
md another his profits on an investment
4 $3.S50,0 900 he IL about 1000, 600
head.
Fire by Friction.