The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1881-09-02
Notes OF the Day.

About 1000 carpenters are now employed
in Salt Lake.
Fashionable ladies refuse to give up high
French heels. .#
Pink gugham has ragged in London this
summer TO dangerous extent.
Hundreds of tons Of fruit are said to be
rotting in the orchards of Utah for the want
Of care.
Chicago has advanced the price of restaur-
ant pie twenty-five per cent, to follow the
rise in scrap iron.
1t is curious how thousand dollar trotter
shrinks away into the hide of seventy five
dollar plug when the Assessor comes along.
The young girl Of the period, Of both high
and low degree, appears, with few exceptions
at present, in a white straw hat with ostrich
feathers. .... ...r ..= ...
Captain J. T. Stump, one of the Oldest pi-
lots on the Columbia, died suddenly in the
pilot house of the steamer Spokane few
days since.
The Salt Lake Tribune says so many men
have left their farms to work on the railroads
that not enough remain to gather the bounti-
full harvest.
1t is said that the Presidents physicians
day each for their services during the time Of
the Presidents illness. ..s ..
The Attorney General has given a decision
in favor of General Hazen as against Sher-
man, and comedies to officers of the Signal
Corps army status under the law.
General Hancock is quoted as saying that
his observation of gunshot wounds during
the war of the rebellion strengthens him in
. halt f hat hat be- ha
dent will be able to attend to his official
duties.
Art decorators have discovered a new
source of extravaganza by using for window
curtains costly Canton shawls, lined with a
silk of contrasting color, and having the
fringe cut off and sewed across the top OF
the curtain.
A young man in Litchfield, who has been
in the habit of earring his smoking tobacco
and pistol cartridges loose in one pocke.
has reformed, and in time to save the larger
part of what was once as handsome nose rs
could be found in J.itchfield.
A pretty girl out West told her beau that
she was a mind reader. You don't say
so |" he exclaimed. EYES," said she, you
have IL in mind to ask me to he your wife,
but you are just little scared at the idea
Their wedding cards are out.
Krupp, the great German gunmaker, has
been obliged, by the press of orders for rifled
guns, to employ an additional force of 5000
workmen, bringing the total number of men
employed by him up to $1,000. This does
not augur we'll for European peace.
ain all towns where newspaper Is pub
lished," says an exchange, every business
man should advertise in 1t, even IL nothing
more than card stating his name and the
business he Is engaged In. 1t pays the
advertiser, and lets the people at distance
know that the town Is full OF business men,
An Illinois paper asserts that there is one
jackass In our State Legislature, and before
noon on the day OF which the item was pub
lished the editor received note from every
member of the House, including the Speaker
telling him to retract or look out for a libel
suit, each member regarding 1t as personal
hit. The man alluded TO was In the Senate.
The little butter plate for each person,
which has become an " institution among
us, Is quite unknown to our English cousins,
and letter in an English fashion periodical,
by an English woman recently arrived on
tins side Of the ocean, mentions "a small
round plate for hutter which might have
come out Of a dolls house," which she saw
at New York dinner, as something quite
novel and happy invention.
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