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The new North-west., 1886-02-19
Babies in a Photograph Gallery.

Mothers are the same, whether they
dress in silks and satins or are con-
strained to wear calico and perform
mental duties. They are impressed with
the fact that baby has reached that stage
in life's journey from the cradle to the
grave when his or her backbone is suffi-
GENTLY pronounced to hold the little
hairless head up, and when such; be-
comes a fact baby is carried to photo.
graph gallery and a negative is secured.
1t is quite an event in baby's life, as for
several months after such picture is
taken it furnishes the fond mother with
day from which she can date little at
tacks of the collie, Group or other unen-
joyable features of infantile existence.
It is also something of an event in a pho
tograph gallery.
Baby visitors do not take kinkly to the
camera. They entertain some kind of an
idea that it must go off, and hence they
are afraid of it. Others delight in the :
novelty Of the sight and want to play
with it. No matter what the feel
ing, the result is the same-they cry.
Babies yells may be the proper thing in
the well regulated family circle, but they
are not so regarded in a modern gallery
where likenesses alone are perpetuated.
st, Paul PiOneer-Press.
The new North-west., 1886-02-19
A LITTLE LECTURE ON FACES.
What Noses Mesn and What Chins In

What Noses Mesn and What Chins In
dicate-Eyes and Lips.
'tIf Gleopatra's nose had been quarter
of an inch shorter it would have changed
the face of the whole globe" said Edmund
Russell the other night, quoting a French
writer. Then he drew the outlines of three
chins on the blacktoard-the normal; the
projecting, which accomplishes som, ling in
the world; the reteating, which belongs to
people who may be good thinkers and good
critics, but who never amount to much be-
cause they lack physical energy. He also
drew mouths that expressed the meaningless
society smile, that is often accompanied by
tired expression of the eyebrows, thus pre-
senting facial contradiction
A long upper lip often goes with energy,
unless the individual be coarse and lacking
in other characteristics, when it expresses
mere doggedness The normal mouth, that
would be found in boy, may tighten
into line, indicating mentality in
the course of ten years, or it may droop and
soften and project, indicating sensuality.
As man differentiates from low to higher
types the features develop their special ex-
preston. In low types the nose is fat, like
that of an animal, and the face is broad In
high types the face reaches up into the
spiritual and elongates
All expression starts from the normal and
that is most capable of expression. A man
who habitually diverges from the normal
becomes one-sided. The mouth emphasizes
the expression of the eye, as in surprise
Great poets, great artists and great lovers
never lose their childlike expression of won
der: Mental expression is eoncentric; physi-
cal expression eccentric Ruskin says that
"the thinking man turns himself into a two
edged sword, to cut while the receptive
man turns himself into a four-cornered
sheet, to catch brooklyn Eagle
The new North-west., 1886-02-19

appointed to prepare the memorial to the
president and congress, setting forth Dakota's
claim to sisterhood in the family of the
United State.
Alonzo j. lgeron was born in Rome,
N. Y, and is 81 years Of age. He was gradu-
a'ed from Wesleyan university at Middle.
town, Conn, in 1851. When still young
man he removed to Minnesota and has been
mt mately and prominently identified with
the history of thaj state. He was a member
o. its legislature in 1858 50 and in 1S77-78,
ami in 1876 was chosen presidential cleo
Tor. From 1871 to 1874 he occupied the
p'sition of railroad commissioner, and in
1851 was appointed as United States senator,
succeeding Mr.. Window when the latter be-
came secretary of the treasury in President
Garfield's cabinet Dec. 26, 1881, he was
made chief justice of the supreme court of
Dakota. Both men have been in Washing ton
some time, and attract considerab ble atten-
ton PERRY BARTON.
The new North-west., 1886-02-19
The Mahogany Desks of the Senate.

The mahogany desks used by the men.
bers of the United States senate are, will
few exc eot.ons, seventy five years old The,
were built away back in 1910 l2 Like old
wine they have improved with age and are
apparently as strong and durable as when
first placed in position. Capt Bassett, who
has been a sort of factotuln about the senate
for half century is the only person living
who can point out the desks used by the
great men of the past, and he, it is unneces-
sarY to say, guards his secret well. If he
did not the relic-hunters would chop them
to pieces within month.
When Mr.. Tabor, of Colorado, was a
member of the senate he endeavored to
learn the history of his desk, but Capt
Bassett declined to crafty his curiosity
Tabor is said to have replied: "Never
mind; I'll at least leave my mark upon it,
so that posterity may remember me by that,
is nothing else" He wore at that time q
pair Of gold sleeve-buttons with large
solitaire diamond setting in the center.
With these he gradually made two indenta-
tions in each corner of the desk, and doubt
less flattered himself that he had outwitt
the captain. But the latter as soon as Mr..
Tabor retired from the senate, plugged up
the holes SO deftly that no trace of their ex-
istence remains Washington Cor Chicago
The new North-west., 1886-02-19
A wooden-Legged Mans Joke.

Speaking Of wooden legs, there is an
old soldier employed in the government
office in this city who has had some ex-
perience with an artificial limb, his meat
one having been taken off at the knee.
Among the most amusing was one with
sleeping-cai porter. This pampered rail
way tyrant rarely earns his quarter all
round by his pretense of oblacking shoes
and Tipping dust from his victims back,
but it is the habit of this wooden-legged
man to utilize the darky in taking off
that leg and making him earn his hire.
On one train he struck an uppish sort of
9 porter-a brother to the insufferable
swell who sings out "last call for dinnah
in the dinning cah?" That darky stood
around with languid dignity that
would that would make street-corner
dude sick at heart.
The man with the wooden leg made up
his mind he would wake that niger
up before he ehipped in his quarter.
He told couple of men in the car his
purpose, and they joined in with him.
He wears his shoe firmly fastened to the
wooden leg, having no need to remove it,
and having fallen once from loose shoe.
After his berth had been made up he
went to the dressing room and unstrap-
ped his leg, keeping hold of the strap,
and then got to his berth. Then he
called the porter. "I've got rheumatism
and can't bend over" he said, "and
wish you'd pull off that shoe" The por-
ter united the shoe and tried to pull it
off, but it wouldn't come. Pull hard"
said the passenger. The darky gave it
another pull, "Oh, brace against the
berth and pull" said the passenger, The
porter had blood in his eye. He put his
foot against the berth md pulled like
dentist. The passenger let go the strap
and the darky fell back with the shoe
and the leg. my God! You've pulled
Off my leg!" shrieked the passenger. The
porter dropped it, and with his eyes bulg-
ing and his teeth chattering, he broke
from the car. He concealed himself in
corner of the baggage car, and pretty
soon the two other conspirators came in,
pretended they didn't know where he
was, sat down on trunk and talked over
the awful condition of the man whose
leg had been pulled off, and about the
penalty the darky would have to suffer
if he should be caught The porter was
ofno service to anybody that night, even
after they explained the joke to him
Milwaukee Sentinel.
The new North-west., 1886-02-19

The married negro farm laborer is
much better fellow than his single broth
er. The latter is more of O nuisance than
help. When you hire him he will
cheerfully attach his valuable autograph
middle name X-to any ironelad con-
tract you may draw up, and as cheerfully
break said contract the next day, if it
suits him so to do He is surly, insolent
and disobedient. He demands holiday
every Saturday. Nearly every night,
when he should be wrapped in sleep,
dreaming of unlimited 'possum and roast
Eaters, he is prowling over the country,
on amorous thoughts intent. In conse-
quenee thereof he appears the next
morning half asleep, and fultils his daily
task in slipshod manner. Should he be
blowing in the field and a strange negro
be seen passing along the road, he will
arrange it so that they meet at the fence,
and an hour or more will be given up to
intellectual conversation. Doubtful
points in political economy and theology
are settled, and after a brilliant inter-
change of ideas Sambo will resume his
reluctant work.
Never cross him if you can avoid it.
He wiz submit to no dictation. You
must always be polite, even obsequious
to him. He is strick stickler for eti-
quette, and will leave You in moment
II you infringe on his self esteem. Insult
him and he has covert revenge. He is
too shrewd to resent openly. To get even
with you he will put pounded glass or
poison in the feed-box, and the soul of
some valuable horse or mule will wing
its way to the land of somewhere, re
gardless of your weeping and wailing.
Or some dark night he will put FIRE in
your sunburnt fields. At times he may
pen your pet COW in corner, and upon
the poor dumb beast vent his in-nature
through the persuasive influence of
broken fence-rail. can imagine nothing
crueler than the ordinary negro. All
this is probably the result of teaching of
years of slavery.
Where large number work together
they get along better. They love to work
side by side and keep up constant noisy
chatter. Best of it all is where families
are employed. There is then some at
tachment to the soil they cultivate The
female portion do the washing for the
planter, and by liberal use of potash
to save labor-a renewal Of linen is made
necessary about four times year.-Live
Oak (Fla.) Cor. New York Sun
The new North-west., 1886-02-19
A Ioke That rickles All Russia.

Gloomy Siberia has furnished joke OF
her own that has made all the Russias
laugh. Ivan Petrof, merchant and mayor
of the city of Cork, of the Tonlsk province
died a while ago The citizens raised 200
roubles the procure painting of the dead
mayor. They sent the money to Mr.. Skotti,
the well-known painter of Moscow, asking
him to make portrait of the mayor. They
did not inclose any photograph, but gave
this description: "Age, 50 years and
months; stature, 5 feet inches; hair and
eyebrows, auburn; eyes, gray; nose, mouth,
and chin, ordinary; face, clean. He had no
special traits except stammering." The
artist laughed, and gave the curious order
to one of his young pupils. Astrakhoif, who
in a few days painted the portrait of the
stammering mayor and sent it to Siberia
In few weeks Skoth received a letter from
the Gorkians, saying: :'fhe relatives Of
the late MI. Petrof and the rest of the citi-
zens believe that no better likeness could
have been made. Chicago Tribune
The new North-west., 1886-02-19
A Mexican Volcano i'm LitieatioD.

o.
The ancient volcano Popocatapeti has
got into the courts. Not that it has been
boldly transported into the halls of liti-
cation, but it is the subject of novel
suit at law. For many years Gen. Ochoa
has been the owner of the volcano, the
highest point of land in North America,
together with all its appurtenances. The
crater contains a fine quality of sulphur,
which the general has been extracting,
giving employment to Indians who cared
to stay down in the vaporous old crater.
The property was at one time fairly
profitable, but now it appears that the
volcano was, some time ago, mortgaged
to Mr. Carlos Recamier, who brings suit
of foreclosure. The papers have been
joking about the matter, some asking
what Mr. Recamier intends to do with
his volcano when he gets legal possession.
He has been solemnly warned that the
law forbids the carrying out of the coun-
try of ancient monuments and objects Of
historical interest Probably there are
prccedents in law for the forecIosing OF
volcanic property, but you nor / have
never heard Of them before. Mexico
Letter.
The new North-west., 1886-02-19
VOL. II, NO. 34.
THE PHILOSOPHERS STONE.

The Seers are dead and gone, my dear,
VINO Vainly sought that mystic stone
Which turned to gold this mundane
sphere,
performing wonders now unknown.
Fates read in stars were never true:
Astrologers told naught of life,
No good could from their laws accrue.
Their edicts brought US simply strife.
Yet Stella, is thy neart that stone
On which my bane or bliss depends,
And should gain it for my own,
'Twould gid life's path where e'er it
wends.
also study stars, more bright
Than Venus-e'en when Mars doth rise
My fate, read by pale moonlight.
My Stella, in thy deep blue eyes
&c. E. T." in Town Topics.
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sisters in giving
her the proper in
trodu ctions and
guiding her Alright
in the usages es-
tablished on such
occasions by prece-
d n t, but $ b Q
swoops down on us
like the hlizzad
for which she is
Sfanous. aud at
tempts to capti-
vate us by her dash
or nerve" At
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was brought in. He had

active member of dis club Doan let dis sol
smn warnin' 60 unheeded From dis time
out want to see you a changed man. You
kin now take your accustomed seat behind
de stove, an I'd advise you to let dat belt
out about two inches afors it cuts you in
two
Samuel Shin will now sound de triangle
to bring dis meetin' to a stop, an befo' lock-
in de alley doah he will see dat de bar
traps am properly sot to embrace any vile
pusson who may seek to enter de hall by
The new North-west., 1886-02-19

Joaquin Miller's daughter Her father saw
her act in it at Baltimore and seemed to
appear proud of her.
The next we hear of her was that ''The
Danites" company had collapsed at Louis
vile, and Maud was stranded and in poverty
in Chicago. She arrived last week In New
York with Loudon Mccormick, her late
manager, whom she recently married in
Chicago
A conversation with Miss Maud Miller
Mackaye Mccormick, the lady of the five
either slightly deniented or that all the un.
tanned eccentricity CT her father and
mother has been intensified in her nature.
s. a e.
The new North-west., 1886-02-19
NEWSPAPER DECISIONS.

]. Any one who takes paper regularly from III
tnhice-Whether directed to his name or anothers
or whether he has subscribed or notis responsible
for the payment.
, If person orders his paper discontinued, he
must pay all arrearages, or the publisher will con-
inne to sed until payment If made and collect the
"bn'c amount, whei her the paper IT, taken from th
office or not.
J. The courts have decided that relusr" 20 take
the newspapers or periodicals from the Post office or
removing and leaving them ancalled for, ie pffsno
fdete evidence OF intentiona fraud
Papers ordered to any address can be changed to
ailo'her address at the optieD of the Subscriber
Remitanccs by draft, check, money order or regis
tered letter may re sent at our risk All Postmaeterp
are required to register letters on application
The new North-west., 1886-02-19

The Hon. Strawder, for instance, insisted
on walking in the middle of the road and
in using lard and lampblack on his boots
The Hon. Henderson lost his wallet, con-
tanning So while buying peanuts on the
market, and had to raise his fare home by
spouting his silver watch Deacon Fletcher
mailed two letters in fire alarm boxes, fol-
lowed a brass band a mile and half in the
mud, and was foolish enough to mix up in
dog fight, and get knocked down by the
man who owned the second best canine
The delegates went away happy, however,
and chock full of information for the benefit
Of their band. They were granted charter
to work to the thirty-second degree, and
start out with sixty-seven members, every
one of whom has a ball spot on top of his
head. and knows the difference between a
spring chicken and motherly hen.
Pickles Smith offered resolution to the
effect that committee he appointed to in
vestigate and pronounce on the skull of
Demosthenes, now hanging on a nail in the
museum, and labeled: "After Using.n He
had heard serious doubts expressed as to
whether the skull was genuine, or one made
to order in New York, and would like the
fact settled.
"Brudder Smith, sot right down." ex-
claimed the president as he brought his gavel
down with a bang when we label and
lang up a SIX ull in dis museum we have gone
too fur to back water. Dat am not only
supposed to be de skull of Demosthenes, but
it am spected dat ebery individual member
of dis club am read to take off his coat to
support de supposi shun! When you start
out to make museum de first great step am
nebber to doubt your own labels"
The case of Whalebone Howker was then
called up by Sir Isaac Walpole. Several
weeks since Brother Howker signed paper
recommending a certain and Of stove
backing, and sold the maker the right to
use his picture on the package. This is in
violation of by law, No. Il, and Howlzer was
suspended for six months and fined 5000
Sir Isaac desired to appeal in his behalf.
The suspended brother lived next door to
him, and the way he took on O nights kept
his neighbors awake. He had lost flesh at
the rate of a pound day, and his amily
were greatly concerned for his health. The
fine hung over him like ten ton grindstone,
and his suspension seemed more than he
could bear.
''Whar am Brudder Howker jist nowf'
asked the president.
"In de aunty-room sab"
sYou kin bring him in"
The new North-west., 1886-02-19

talk of the town here, as young ladies pos
:essing her boldness are likely to be.
Whether she will be able to win the heart
Of congress remains to be SEEN
On Dec. 18 last was the first notice received
by the country that a legislature was in ses-
sion at Huron, where Judges Edgerton AMI
Moody were elected United States senator's.
Judge Gideon L. Moody, of Deadwool |, was
born in Cortland, N. Y, in 1892 He entered
the Union army at the outbreak of the war.
snlisting as a private from Jasper county,
Indiana, and gradually rising in the service
until hs was made a colonel Removing to
The new North-west., 1886-02-19
~NWS-s<.e-
Rays of Sunshine.
THE SECRET OF SUCCESS.

THE SECRET OF SUCCESS.
Small Boy-A cents worth of peanuts,
aunty.
Aunty-Arrah! be off wild ye. Dye think
t's meself that would be afther sellin' a
cents worth of peanuts?
Small Boy (around the corner)-Gimme q
cents worth Of peanuts, Garibaldi
Garibaldi-Si, signor, vera gooda peanut,
fresha roasta.
A LITTLE MISUNDERSTANDING.
Angry Purchaser-You told me the horse
wasn't balky.
Seller-No, didn't.
Angry Purchaser-You certainly did.
You said that when it came to pulling that
horse was there every time
Seller Yes, that's what I said. He's
there, but the trouble is he stays. used to
build bonfire under him.
AN UNFORESEEN ACCIDENT.
''Yes" sighed recent widow, ''we are
very unfortunate Poor John was out of
work for long time, and when he obtained
q cool job he died"
"Wh hat job did he geta" she was asked
she Joined circus and got $50 a week for
pu ting his head in the lions mouth twice
day. That's ell he had to do Itseems hard
he should have died"
What did he die Off
'tThe lion bit his head off.
THINKS WELL OF THE COUNTRY.
s'Shine 'ein uppap said an italian boot
black to Pat, just landed.
''Phat's the charger asked Pat.
Five centa.n
'.Begorra," said Pataas he seated himself
in the chair, 1T is foiae country, Amer
ky, where poor Oirishman can get his
boots BACKED by a gintlemon wild goold
rings in his ears.
The new North-west., 1886-02-19
A specimen of Ruskin,s vanity,

Labouchere thinks the following pas
sage from Ruskin's "Pr8teritB" is about
as good specimen of egregious vanity
as any eminent man has ever favored the
world with Little Johnny had found
his first piece of copper pyrites, and thus
moralizes on the event: "If only then
my father. and mother had seen the real
strength and weakness of their little
John, if they had given me but a shaggy
Welsh pony, and left me in charge of
good Welsh guide, they would
have made a man of me there and then,
and afterward the comfort of their own
hearts, and probably the first geologist OF
my time in Europe. Chicago Tribune.
The new North-west., 1886-02-19

at his faith err $
home, and went to
Perth Amboy on
: Saturdays. Mrs.
Mackaye was not
content to live iii
idIeness, and with
out consulting her
relatives, went on
the g t a ge. y h Q
played at a small
salary with poor
travelling compan-
les. among Others
one that set out ON
the road with " The
Danites. " Here she
wac advertised as
The new North-west., 1886-02-19
Picture BLOCKS for Yornp cbi,drep

No more satisfactory plaything has been III
vented for young children than pictu.
blocks. The plain, old-fashioned cubes al,
better for building houses, fences and railws.
trains than the dissected edifices the little on,
can not put together unaided. Every tin,
he piles one block upon another without hcl.
he learns lesson in self-reliance and perse-
verance that counts for one step in the dis
ciphne of life. Philadelphia Call
The new North-west., 1886-02-19
"You kin bring him in

brolner uoWkef
tightened up his
belt to the last
notch, SO as to ap-
pear fearfully
elnaciated, and
walked with a step
which seemed to
prove that this
vain world had no
further charms for
him: He also man
aged / to get off
three or four
groans which SEEM
ed to come from
down among the
shoe pegs.
"Brudder How
kerr said the presi-
dent, friends have
interceded in your
behalf. and l hev =:
decided to remit
your fine and REIN
The new North-west., 1886-02-19

Otlc that 1t was
suppressed by the
government. He
then opened a law
office at Canon
City, and for four
years prior to 1870
was a coun try
judge. 1t was here
he published his
first collection of
charming poems,
which brought him
thu title of ''Poet
of the Sierras." In
1868 he married
Minnie Tharasa
The new North-west., 1886-02-19


Dakota he was
made speaker of the
assembly in 1868,
ar | was re-elec;ed
to the same posi-
tion in 1874. In
the years interven-
ing he served as a
member of the
house. He was sent
as a delegate to the !:
constitutional CON-
vention of 1888 AMI
served as chairman
Nf A.
The new North-west., 1886-02-19
The Young Idea.

Mamma-Do you kaow the ten command
1aents, my deari
Iit lie Bess-4 4e;, mamma
"Well, repe It them
lI can't, mamma. doa't know them bv
seart only know them when see tlean.'
The new North-west., 1886-02-19
Hope the Blizzard Strengthened II Out,

tDetroit rree Press
Spinner, the maa With ths lightning
struck autograph Ah.,h We used to wel-
come on do la. b / i, camIing out in
tent IN Florida lew h. liked tn cold snap
Is not known, but tller, are grave fsars thai
MS signature his peen nretrieyahly FROST
often