The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1881-02-11
NEW oR,-wEsTERS.
Denver has contracted for electric light
paying $4,000 year.


Denver has contracted for electric light,
paying $4,000 year. q
Darwin rises at Q and goes to bed at 10y
That's the kind of babboon he is.
1881 does not resemble a pair of lovers
on sofa, because there is one at each end.
M. Gambetta is persistent entertainer !;
he is now keeping open table to his friends
atluncheon, daily.
Senator Hamlin Of Maine makes 1t .
rule to answer every letter from constitu7
ent before he goes to bed.
-DaIrymple. the great wheat farmer OF
Dakota, cleared S250,000 on his 1850 CROP
He marketed 5O0,O 900 bushels.
-Ex-Secretary of the Treasury Boutwell,
has ioined law firm in Boston, and will
again enter into active law practice.
Lieutenant Julius Payer ofthe Austrian
Polar expedition of 1s72-74 has settled g
Munich and devoted himself to painting.
The Cardiff giant Is slowed away In an
old stone warehouse at Cheyenne, Wy, and
a local paper wants it exhibited as curiosi-
ty.
The people of Pittsburg, recognizing the
growing Importance Of the silver and gold In
terests of the United States, have formed
mining exchange.
Within radius of fifty miles of Laramie
City there are more mines than can be found
in the same scope Of country anywhere with
in the limits of Wyoming.
No Masonic body has ever appeared in
an Inauguration procession but General Gar
field is the first active knight Templar who
has ever been elected President. "~
We fear that Bob Ingersoll has been
tampering with the church clocks. They are
beginning to express disbelief In both time
and eternity.-Nycm Adrerttser. ...
Father Ryan, the poet-priest, Is not only
swarthy, but he wears long locks. In Balti-
more the other day newsboy stopped him
and said: "Say mister, amt you an Injun?"
The practice Of dueliug, so common IN
France, cannot be too severely condemned.
One of the participants in a recent affair
caught such a cold that his life is despaired
of.
Abraham l.. Dickestein, Of Heringen,
Limberg, Germany, is pedagogue who 10
still teaching school at 104 years Of age, at
salary of $50 per annum, and he has received
no more than that sum for over 90 years.
The Sweet Singer of Michigan has writ
ten poem eulogizing Gen. Garfield, and
sent the elect-President copy. Ii there Is
any silver lining in the cloud we should be
pleased to have somebody point 1t out.
Found in Adams scrap-book: "What /
want" said apompous debater, "is grain OF
common sense In this matter" "Well," re-
torted his opponent, quickly, ait will require
the efforts of special Providence to give Il
to YOU"
The New York Sun offers for Its employ
Is q prize Of 81 for the best story Of fiction,
not over three columns in length, TO be sent
In by the 3oth of January. The prize authors
name will be published with the story in the
Sunday Sun. go,
-Senator-elect Phfletus Sawter Is said 70
be the richest man In Wisconsin; Fair Is the
richest man In Nevada; Brown, elected this
winter, the richest man in Georgia, and Mil
Ter, of California, is another rich man, repre-
senting a corporation constantly interested
in legislation.
To gentleman in Plattsburg who had
named his child for him Gen. Garfield re-
Gently wrote: "Accept my thanks for the
compliment you have paid me in making my
name household word in your family.
trust your boy may live to honor his parents
and his country"
All! lips of woman!-rosy, ripe
The amber mouthpiece of my pipe
To me is twice az charming.
When one arrives at fifty odd,
The arrows of the archer god
Have lost the power OF harming.
A wounded heart will ache, no doubt,
But then one finds a twinge Of gout
A trife more alarming:
| Chicago Tribune.
| Pope Leo was i'll q few weeks ago, but Il
now recovered. He is pale, and the whit
| robes which he wears make him look paler
| In March next he will be seventy-one year
old. He is now fatter than he was whel
created Pope, and on the whole enjoys bette
health and has better appetite than whel
lie resided in Perugia.
General Garfield's elder sons will no
return to the preparatory school in whicl
they have been pupils. They are going Il
Washington, where they will be inmates 0
| the home of Colonel Rockwell, their father
classmate. There they will prepare withth
| Colonel's son for Williams College, unde
the direction of private tutor.
George Pankey, a nephew Of Fred Dou
glass, recently put in days work on tn
rock pile at st. Louis where criminals wer
kept busy. Pankey was charged with steal
ing Babbitt metal from Ramsey & Co., hi
employers, but the case was not clear agains
him, and his sentence being commuted to $
and costs, his wife begged the whole amour
in five-cent pieces. .a
Replying to nomination by Missouri
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