The Montana post., 1868-12-25
WASH GRAVEL.

He lives long that lives well.
Bismarck's estate covers 1900 acres.
Behind time-the back of the clock.
Men of Ietters-mail carriers.
A little shaver-a BARRIERS boy.
harmless crash-A coarse towel.
There are. in Ohio. 1,52S voting
places
Stanton Cva.) ladies have au archery
club.
Chicago churches have oyster socia-
bles.
Waves at sen sometimes make 900
miles an hour.
Madams Parepa Rosa was born in Ed
inburg, Scotland.
A hotel to cost three quarters ot
million is to be built in Chicago
There are 100000 "school-marms in
the country.
There are 96.9OO, 900 Protestants in
the world.
/ Horses sell for ten cents apiece In
some parts of Australia.
There is an American omnibus driver
cracking his whip in Jerusalem
+ A. 7. Stewards new store is the larg-
est in theiworld.
I During October. 12l firms in Chicago
made sales exceeding 100000
I The French army's field artillery con-
sists of IL 200 cannon.
! Napoleon is a good horseman, poor
marksman, and q worse swordsman.
The Atlantic seaboard of the United
States extends $500 miles.
/ Hot soda is the latest Yankee inven-
tion in the way of tipple.
| Secretary Seward, it is said, will make
New York his future residence.
New York merchants are employing
! little girls in the place of cash boys
! Isabella was sculpturally busted"
$4,000 times; politically, once.
Walking sticks of Russian leather are
the novelty,
John Broughman, the actor, is writing
a Christmas story.
/ The Suez Canal will be open next Oc-
tober.
! Cool Bedclothes-Three sheets in the
wind.
| Syracuse has made 100000 bushels
of salt in ten minutes.
! a Mexican child lately born, has the
i face OF an old man of sixty.
! The slaves in Cuba have a war cry
"Avenza Lincoln! ayenza.'
Mrs. Bloomer Is now blooming in
Onahs.
The New York bank messengers have
their wallets chained to their wrists.
: Canada has been under British laws 76
years
Chastity-A chrystal palace with a
queen in it.
Mexico, in three centuries has pro-
duced $3. 500 900, 900 in silver bullion.
Eight high>life weddings are to come
off on in New York. December 23.
Mrs. Senator Lane was one of the la
dies who voted in Lawrence, Kansas.
: Charles XIV, of Norway and Sweden
is the handsomest sovereign in Europe
| 1t is estimated Missouri has gained
$780, 900 in population since the war.
! Central Park. New York, has cost
nearly twelve millions dollars.
\ Sea water contains about four ounces
OF salt in every gallon.
Pollard carried two reyolvers, two
DeriDgers, two DO vie knives and a club.
Isabella has ordered $4,000 worth of
| furniture for her Paris residence.
Three hundred regular physicianesses
are now in practice in the United
! States
Governor Todd left wife, six sons
and two daughters. A daughter, Mrs.
General Kau;z, died last summer.
Reverdy johnson was seventy-two
years old last May. He has been in
public life fifty>one years.
| Greeley is writing book which will
appear serially in the Independent-sub-
ject a secret.
The Earl of Dudley works ten square
miles of iron mines, and is called the
Iron Earl"
Lowell wants DR.. Aver to be it's Mayor
which, being the main pill-or of the city
is the doctors right place.
l In the newest style of boot the toes
are pointed and curve upward. elongat-
ed like Chinese slippers.
New York has a clock that runs by
electricity from the earth, without
works.
London eats four and a half ounces
of meat per head per day, and Paris
seven.
Isabella, poor woman, is fast expia-
ting her sins and irdiscretions. Parton
has written her life
Mankind should learn temperance from
the moon-the fuller she gets the small
er her horns become.
Captain Tharbush of New York city.
103 years old, WAS q guard over Napo-
leon at St. Helena.
In Paris photographs are now taken
on silk for medallions on sofas, arm
chairs and cushions.
Why is postage stamp like a bad
scholarr Because il gets licked and
stuck in a corner.
The English Mint issued about nine
teen million pieces o. money during the
year 1867.