The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1867-03-09
PEN AND SCISSORS.
General Items.

General Items. .....
America has 10000 miles of telegraph
and SO 900 miles of railway. =. One of
the engineers of the coast survey states
that the sea coast of Maine, following
all indentations, is longer than the At
lantic Cable Theodore Tilton calls
Kansas, "the young, heroic and illustr-
Gus Massachusetts of the West"
Coats of arms, or armorial bearings, came
into vogue in the reign of Richard /, of
England, and became hereditary in fam
lilies about the year 1892. They took
their rise from the knights painting
their banners with different figures to
distinguish them in the crusades 1t
costs $241 ,7T6 year to feed 5000 Nav
aloe Indians at Fort Sumner, New Mexi-
co. . The Legislature of Maine has
voted to continue the suspension of spe-
Gle payment until April 10, 1868. Il. Do
nati's great comet will be again visible
in the year 1858. Those who wish to
see it should cut out this paragraph for
reference. A Wisconsin court lately
decided that a man has right to chas
tise his wife to a reasonable extent"
=. Gold is the only idol that is wor-
shipped in all lands without a temple,
and by all sects without hypocrisy.
Seventy-tour millions of people speak
the English language. .Gen. Grants
pay is $1S,67S per year, and Lieut.-Gen.
Sherman's, $13,51S. Each is allowed
fifty horses. A Major General gets 3d.
500 per year and is allowed FIVE horses.
The pay of Brigadier General is $3,-
040. "A Richmond paper speaks of the
present Congress as "the Wreckers.
-. We require four things of women
that virtue dwell in her heart, that
modesty play on her brow, that sweet
ness flow on her lips, and industry oc-
cupy her hands. New York rejoices
in seven citizens whose collective wealth
is estimated at $3.50, 900. Three
fourths of the infants in Meriden, Conn.,,
are females. The Episcopal church in
the United States is said to be divided
into 2. .306 parishes, having 2,530 clergy
men and 161 ,225 lay members. During
1866 the members of this church contri-
buted S3,951 ,667 for charitable purposes
-. The iron steam ferry across the De-
| trOit river carries a train of 16 loaded
cars, and breaks ice two feet thick with
as much facility as one could crack an
egg shell with a trip hammer. We
have authority, says WEt5e'S SPIRIT, to
state in the next number of our paper
there will appear an offer from Leonard
Jerome to run Kentucky against any
|
distance of the race will be anything
| from two-mile dash to four mile heats.
Philadelphia is to have a theatre ex-
pressly for colored people. Only colored
actors will perform. Sidney Smith
once said, that in England it is regarded
as an impertinence for a man with less
| than two tnOuSaIId - 49,, have any
opinion of his own. >. An Imperial
ukase of the Emperor Of Russia reorgan-
iZes Poland into five, instead of ten pro-
vincial governments, and places the PO-
lish finances under Russian direction.
-. Iowa has As national banks; capital
paid in 50 ,696, 600 ; bonds deposited, 3d.
| 690,3 $50, and circulation issued, 81, ,2o4,
1893. A Cairo, Illinois, paper says that
if there was one person for every two
rats in the city, it would be as pOpulous
as New York. In England 145, ,343
widowers yearly wed spinsters, while
only 1925 widows marry bachelors.
A Chicago caterer has put cooking
ranges into the sleeping cars that run
out of that city, so that passengers may
have a warm breakfast without leaving
the cars. Corrugated iron houses are
being shipped to Texas. The popula-
ton of Kansas increased 100000 last
year. The oyster trade in Boston runs
sixty vessels. In 1880 it employed but
| two. Minnesota exported last year
! 9,109,711 bushels of wheat and flour.
Negroes in Kentucky demand from $3.50
] to 200 for a years services. Cheap
enough. Since the abolition of slavery
the assessed valuation of property in
Missouri has increased $65, 100000.
The central monument at the Gettys-
burg National Cemetery is to be white
marble shaft, AZ feet high, with statues,
the whole to cost nearly $4,000. 80.
Vermont sent 22,96S cattle, 117,013
sheep and 1880 swine to the Boston
markets last year, out of the total num-
ber received there of 11S,0S3 cattle,
400,546 sheep, and 12S, 498 swine. -.
The Lincoln Monument Association now
has $130,000 in funds, the Illinois Leg
islature having appropriated $4,000 to
the object. The sum of 100000 is,
however, still required to carry out the
designs of the association. The sweet
est word in our language is love. The
greatest word in our language is God.
The word expressing the shortest time
! is now. The three make the sweetest
duty that man can perform.
Facetiae.
When n fond maternal parent ask ed