The Montana post., 1868-10-02
BNRLENGs.


The last new color in Paris is called
"the indescribable."
New York snobdom uses three-cor-
uered visiting cards.
Advice is like castor lie, eazy enuff
tew give, but uneazy to take.
Cry of the urchin in a sugar hogshead
-"Oh tor n thousand tongues"
Elliott, the portrait painter, was born
in saw-mill.
Idols are said to have been abolished
in Madagascar.
Five hundred different perfumes are
made and sold in this country.
Silence iz venerable: if thare iz emmy
thing older than the Creator, it must
have been silence.
1t is crime in France for a newspa-
per to give any report whatever of a
libel suit.
Life iz a punktuated paragraph, dis
eases are the commas, sickness the sem
icolons, and death the tull stop.
The man who wrote, al would not liv
always, l ask not to sta" probably never
had been urged sufficiently.
Edwin Booth declines $4,000 for six
nights performances at Buffalo. He
prefers to play where his genius is ap-
precioted.
George Francis Train is in an Irish
prison for debt. and his daughter drives
stylish team at New Jersey.
Can the rectified liqors of a response
BILE concern be called spirits of just
men made pertectg"
1t is said that very refined young la
dies never use the word blackguard, but
substitute African sentinel.
A novelist describes his hero as max
ing love like two bonded warehouses
in hames on dark, windy night, and
the tire-alarm out of repair.
A marrying man in Brook yn has now
his fifth wife and five mothers-in-law in
his house. His motto is, Let us have
peace"
American intercourse with China
commenced in the year 1856. A vessel
of $50 tons made voyage to that coun-
Try during the year mentioned.
Thare iz few. if emmy, more suggestive
sights tew philosopher, than tew lean
agin the side ov the wall and peruse a
clean, phat, and well disciplined baby,
spread out on the floor trying tew smash
a hammer awl tew pieces with a look
ing glass.
1t is estimated that one thousand
lives have been lost and three million
dollars worth of property destroyed by
this season.
On some railroads it is customary to
have a lock on the stove to prevent the
passengers from meddling with the fire.
A conductor, being asked why they
locked the stove, said that "it was to
prevent the fire from going out"
Grapes are said to do best when plant-
ed among the rocks, because the heat
of the sun is retained and radiated in
the light, giving an equal temperature.
Rufus Choate used to say that the
three most troublesome clients he ever
had were young lady that wanted to
get married, a married woman who
wanted a divorce, and an old maid who
didn't know what she wanted.
The manufacture of Madeira wine is
about 1000 casks annually, while some
100000 casks of what purports to be
Madeira wine, are sold every year
Algeria has better harvest than was
feared, and yet food will have TO be inn
ported or the people will starye. The
scarcity is greater than last year.
Quite new plan is proposed in Phila~
delphia TO rid horse railroad companies
of the peculations of conductors. IL is
TO f1x certain amount which each con.
ductor must take and pay every day TO
the company, with the right TO keep all
that remains. Practically, il is selling
to each conductor the right to run car
tor a fixed sum,