The Montana post., 1868-12-04


Ex-Confederate Bradley Johnson is
the most successful lawyer in Virginia
His income is $4,000 year.
1t is said that the Pope intends to re-
vive the ancient Order of the Knights
of St. John of Jerusalem.
Fashionable ladies are like aristo>
cratic houses-they both have high
stoops.
The United States produce about one
fourth as much coal and iron as Great
Britain.
Rev. r J. Breckenridge. ID. D., of
Kentucky, last week married Mrs. NJ.
Y. White, of Danville, in that State.
Gossip says that Patti is already tired
of her marriage-or rather of her hus~
band.
A western millionaire astonishes New
Workers by driving a span OF blacks
tandem, with white leather harness
Switzerland has 10000 watch-makers
and turns out over a million of watches
yearly.
Cyrus w Field came home from Swift
Zerland to vote for Grant and Colfax.
and the same steamer carried hlm back.
In Chataque connty. New York. there
are published eleven weekly papers and
two monthlies.
Twelve of the New York city clergy
men get over $4,000 year for preach-
ing.
The Louisville Courier says drunken.
ness among women seems to be in
creasing in that city.
The square in which Yale College
stands is estimated 20 be worth $780,
COO
Horace Greedy declines to be cam
didate for United States Senator from
New York.
Philadelphia is TO import FIVE hundred
dollars worth of sparrows TO fight the
measuring worm.
Why is baby like wheat? Because
il is first cradled, then thrashed, and
finally becomes the flower of the family.
The Central p. II. r. has seventy-fve
locomotives IN use, and fifty more ready
to set up.
1t will require 800. 600 feet of lumber
to the mile tor the snow-sheds on the
Pacific railway.
The following epitaph was proposed
by Douglas Jerrold tor Charles Knight,
the Shsksperean critic: Good Knight.
n
odist, but he evidently believes in the
doctrine of election"
Andy Johnson. the tailor. wanted to
put one se,tW mOre in the Presidential
breecles.
1t is stated that Gen. Geo. Il Thomas
voted this year for the first time in his
life
Paris has now thirty places for the
sale of horse flesh tor the table, which
consume $500 horses annually.
Chicago is 10 have two more daily
newspapers-a penny morning Demo-
cratic paper and an evening religious
sheet.
4 genius out west. who wished To
mark halt dozen new shirts. marked
the first Johnny Jones, and the rest
Ditto
Wha. is the difference between
young lady and her night-cap. One is
born To wed. and the other is worn TO
bed.
Rich gold fields have been discovered
on the northern frontiers of Norway and
Russia, stated TO surpass those OF Cali
ioinia.
An unsuccessful politician SAYS that
the most difficult vacancies for him
TO fill are the vacancies in his own and
his family's stomachs.
The bridge over the Mississippi at
Quincy, is 3,23S from butment to but
ment. and il is said 10 be the largest
iron bridge in the United States.
New England, it is said. will pre- sent
Hon. James q. Blaine, of Maine, as her
candidate for the Speaker of the next
House.
From 1892 to 1S4S the worlds yield
was g, ,261 COO, 900 gold and $5.67S, 600
600 silver. from 1854 TO 1868, 50, ,379. 900
600 gold and 81, 1914 100000 silver.
4 A statistician has calculated that dur
/ ing the nineteenth century there have
been 123 instructions. great. small and
diminutive in Spain.
Prof. Gould shows that in the Union
army there were l .523 900 native Amer
I leans to 494, 800 foreigners-not quite %
per cent. of foreign element.
Hon. Henry w Williams, of Pitts
I burgh, accepts the appointment of Su-
preme Judge of Pennsylvauia, in place
/ of Judge William II. Strong, resigned.
In England there are / ,910 co>opera-
i tive societies carrying on the business
of grocers or provision dealers, with an
aggregate capital of S2O.OOO,000.
A German philosopher predicts that
Europe and America will be submerged
in 100000 900 years. and no one dares
/ contradict him.
Ii takes 100 officials az salaries vary
I ing from $1,000 TO $4,000 a year, To
carry on the New iork city govern
ment.
A divorce court was established at
I Brooklyn in 1853. Since that time down
< TO the end of 1867 it has granted 1873
DEGREES for the dissolution of marriages.
! A letter from Spain says that the por~
F trait of Washington has been placed in
I front of the town hall of Barcelona, in
I place of the picture of Isabella, torn
down.
/ A twenty>inch Rodman, weighing 50
| tons Vas snccessflalLr .rast liz Pitts=