The Montana post., 1868-02-22

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The local government of the city of
New York costs over twenty millions of
of dollars.
Habit is q cable. We weave n thread
every day, and at last we cannot break
il.
A preparation for strengthening hair
has just been introduced In the New Or
leans bazaars.
It costs a million and half dollars a
year to do the printing for the National
Government.
Every daily paper in Boston makes
money, which can be said of the journals
of hardly any other city,
The color now fashionable in Paris,
Montana Red, is a brilliant shade like
ruby.
The new Gait House at Louisville,
KY, will cost 81 100000, and will be
furnished by July next
In 1888 Chicago had 80 log houses,
and 250 inhabitants. Moral: Adver-
tisel
One third of the sugar consumed in
the world is made from beets.
Never eat a friends meat and then
blab the secrets of the mahogany.
A st. Louis bride recently wore a train
10 feet long.
The poorest man in the world is the
one who has nothing but money.
Fifteen dukes and counts serve as pri-
Yates in the Papal army.
The production of "The'White Fawn"
at Niblo's cost 100000.
PERSONAL.
Henry j. Raymond is a Presbyterian,
Mr.. Greeley, as is well known, is an at
tendant CT DR.. Chapin's church. The
latter has approximated to an orthodox
standpoint in late years. Mr.. Bonner is
q Congregationalist, and Mr.. James
Gordon Bennett Roman Catholic. VIM.
Cullen Bryant and Peter Cooper are
Unitarians, the latter being member OF
DR.. Bellows church.
T. N. Machin, ,ex-Lieutenant Governor
of California, has been admitted to prac-
tice in all the Courts of California.
Dickens Dolby got so jolly the other
night-over big receipts probably-that
the police locked him up in a station
house.
James Buchanan will be n years old
on the 18th. of April, 1868. 1t must be
sad reflection to the old gentleman
that Heaven permits man to outlive a
good reputation.
A. t. Stewards city and State taxes
in New York amount To $250.000 this
year. Poor men escape such frightful
burdens.
Rumor says Emily Melville. the sc-
tress, and Lawrence Barrett, the> young
tragedian, are about tn embark together
on the connubial sea.
a.
and the only one who has taken I"
Dickens. has already cleared over $1O,-
600 by the enterprise.
Miss Pendler Cudlip is the lady who
writes under the non de plume of Annie
Thomas 1t is not surprising that she
resorts TO another name.
Henry Ward Beecher, Rev Lyman
Abbott, and Bishop Coke of Western
New York, are writing lives of Christ.
Belle Boyd has been granted a divorce
from Lieut.. Harding. Now, who will
have the harding-hoOd to marry her.
John B. Cough has announced that at
the close of this season he would retire
from the lecture field. ..
James Gordon Bennett, Jr., is about
to run a plantation in South Carolina.
Into the ground2
August Belmont owns $4,000 worth
of works of art-not including Little
Mac" ..
Gossip declares that Miss Grace Hilton
of Albany is the fGnce of Phil Sheridan.
A Grace-Phil alliance.
Mrs Stowe has book in press on the
Men of our Times" which she thinks
her crowning work.
Ben. Holiday has given Gov. Haight,
of California, a big silver punch bowl,
worth $4,000.
Charles Francis Adams has the largest
private library in New England-1S, ,00O
volumes.
A. 7. Stewart sold $4,000 worth OF
Goods on New Years eve.
| Queen Victoria is twenty pounds
heavier than she was a year ago.
Mrs A. &. NJ. Ritchie has refused &c,
600 to return to the English stage.
Gen. Forrest has fled a petition in
bankruptcy in Memphis.
Bayard Taylor has quite recovered.
Agassiz is lecturing in Washington.
Ristori has sailed for Havana.
Dickens has been reading in Balti-
more,
Humorous:
| A good story is told concerning thu
production of the Lady of Byors, a
the Salt Lake Theater. An aged Nor
| mon arose and went ont with his y
wives angrily stating that he wouldn
" sit and see a play where man made
such cussed fuss over one woman.
John, stop your crying" said an en-
ragged father TO his son, who had kept u
an intolerate yell for i've minutes
Stop, say; do you hearF To-
, don't suppose can choke on In MIN
, ute, do your cried the urchin.
A"green 'un," who had never befor
80, % .taar,n hont fell Ihrnnph the hatcl