The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1867-03-09
Territory
WHOLE NO. 1873

removal. Unlike the modern building
in New York, where a man sneezed
violently and the whole of one end drop
ed out. The one end of which, the
house or the mani. .Piron, the French
author, having been taken up by the
watchman of the night, in the streets of
Paris, was carried the following morn
ing before the Lieutenant of Police, who
naughty interrogated him concerning
his business or profession. 81 am poet
sir" said Piron. "Oh oh a poet, are
you ?" said the magistrate. have a
brother who is a poet" "Then we are
even" said Piron, "for have a brother
who is a fool" a young lady, while
promenading the streets of GAINESVILLE,
Ohio, lately, suddenly tainted, was pick
ed up and carried 30 a dwelling house
near at hand, when a physician was
summoned, who, removing only eleUeB
pairs of stocking legs and one pair of
hose before he succeeded in restoring
circulation through her cd5UeS and
bringing them back to state of sensi-
bility. .. "A volatile young gentleman,
whose conquests in the female line
were numberless, at last married. Now
my dear" said the wife, " hope you'll
mend" Madam said he, "You may
depend upon it, this is my last folly"
Macmillan is said, between the
Mexicans and the French, to have been
placed between two horns of a dilemma.
He does not seem to have had much sue
cess in his efforts to play the French horn
Mrs. Partington says that because
dancing girls are stars, it is no reason
that they should be regarded as heaven
ly bodies. Dick told Tom the number
of his Chicago lottery ticket was 100,-
752. "Bah!' said Tom, why didn't you
get an odd number if you wanted to
draw the "house2" And Dick replied
that it would be odd if he should draw
" the house.. :" say, Pat, what are
you writing there in such large hand?"
" Arrah, honey, an isn't it to my poor
mother, who is very deaf, that I'm writ
ting a loud letter p. "A mathematical
contemporary exclaims: Forty-five wed
dings Nearly four solid years of honey
moon Oh! beRutitudinous Brighaml' ....-
An illiteIate parsonage, who always
volunteered to go round with the hat,
but was suspected of spa-ing his own
pocket, overhearing one day hint to
that effect, made the following speech
"Other gentlemen puts down what they
thinks proper, and so do l. Charity's a
private concern, and what l gives is
nothing to nobody" An Irish gen
tleman hearing of a friend having stone
coffin made for himself, exclaimed: by
me sowl, an that's a good idee Shure,
an a stone coffin 'ud last a man his life
time r' The Louisville Democrat
thinks it is sweet to recline on the lapse
of ages, when aged about eighteen.
The Springfield (Mo.) Patriot, gives an
account of "a jack colt folded on the 10Th
of May last, which is four feet one and a
half inches highw How high would he
be if he was UIt-IUlaeaq..o- 1..Ay ..*
sea, full of delicate apprehensions in
gale of wind, cried out among other
pretty exclamations I'VE shall all go to
the bottomI Mercy, how my head
swimsr' Madam, never fear" said
one of the sailors, you can never go to
the bottom while your head swims."
MY dear Ellen" said a young man, 81
have long wished for this sweet oppor-
tunity, but L hardly dare trust myself to
speak, the deep emotions of my heart
but declare to you, my dear Ellen, that
] love you most tenderly your smiles
would shed-would shed''-''Neverm mind
the wood shed" said Ellen, Ego on with
your pretty talk. The Empress of
Germany asked French officer if the
Princess Royal of France was, as the
world reported her, the most beautiful
woman in Europe. 81 thought so yes
terday," replied the polite Frenchman.
The officer, at the time of this speech.
was in the presence of the Empress for
the first time. Somebody says it is
mistake to suppose that everybody in
Kentucky is running for Governor.
There are thirteen men who are not.
They are the candidates for Lieutenant
Governor. AT a recent examination of
girls in Cheshire, England, for the right
of confirmation, in answer to the ques-
ton, what is the outward and visible
sign of baptism2" the reply was, "the
baby, sir. "A Wisconsin editor. in ac-
knowledging the receipt ofan exchange
paper printed on new type, says it looks
as clean as a school marin in bathing
tub"