The Montana post., 1868-12-25

mouth and failing to kill.
According to the New York Haa, the
average life of American mechanics /.
forty-siN and one~half years.
Dan Rice has purchased the Girard
(Pa) Crisis, and proposes TO make
large paper of 1t.
DIR. Livingston. the celebrated African
explorer. is expected in England before
Christmas.
When Adam and Eve pnrtook OF the
tree of knowledge, did they study the
higher branches
The pretty girls OF Bainbridge, Ga.
are laying off Yankee calicoes and wear
ing Southern homespun.
The Marquis of Butte has an income Of
1 500. 900 year. This is a thing of Bute
which is a joy forever.
Mr.. Childs, of the Philadelphia Ledg>
er. is reported to have offered million
in gold for the New York Herald
The Massachusetts, Senate has 30 Re-
publicans and two Democrats; the
House $50 Republicans and 10 Demo.
Gratis
1t has been definitely decided TO land
the American end of the projected
French-American Cable on a high knoll
in Plymouth county, Mass.
In Australia they have fenced in TO-
900 acres. where ostriches are kept, and
il is tound that the feathers OF a full
grown bird will sell for $l00.
The Springfield Republican, predicts
that at the first opportunity General
Butler will join the Democrats and make
open war upon Gen. Grant.
There is just as much virtue in ped
igree as there is. in handing down from
father To son ten thousand dollars in
Continental money.
Indians in Omaha wear paper collars
fastened with a shoe string because they
have no garments on which To button
them.
The use of paper money originated
with the Chinese, and was introduced
into Europe about the year 1850.
Hiram Powers returns to the United
States this winter after an absence OF
thirty-one years.
Nasby says that it is curious fact
that Grants first battle was at Belmont
and his last conflict was rih Belmont
Enough money is spent in one month
in the liquor shops of New York 10 keep
the population in bread tor six months
PUnch hints that magistrates might
give attention to light weight groceTs
as we'll as heavy weight prize fighters
Thirty-one years ago. Rev. Elijah P
Loveioy was killed by a mob at Alton
GILL for publishing an anti~slavery news.
paper,
Among Isabella's carriages, soon to be
sold, is one in which Jane, the insane
Df fFha II. " x-al. l.aH oh xvst
the coffin of her mother.
1t cost the government $453, ,19S last
year to carry Mormon love letters in
Utah. and only S16.O60 postage was re>
ceived back.
Why is a man riding fast up hill like
another taking a little dog TO young
ladyg Because he is taking a gal
pup.
Pike makes good thing by the sale
of his New York Opera House. After
pocketing the SS50,000 he retains the
Theatre, which yields him S25 900 a
year.
Have you lost your watch, dear :"
inquired a loving wife wife of her hus,
band, who WAS tumbling in his vest
pocket. No, love 1T was a new bon
net had for you somewhere
At recent sale in England of Sir
Walter SCOTS manuscripts, Marmion
brought 1855; Lady of the Lake and
Ivanhoe, 81 ,320 each, and for an unpub-
lished MSS, $6,275.
In New York the Belgian pavement
costs $4.6S per square yard, the Nicol-
son pavement $475, and the granite
block pavement now being laid 10
Broadway $10.25.
'on quitting Poland" says the Paris
Figaro of the Goth, The Car signed
ukase interdicting moustaches and i'm.
perials. Henceforward Poles are per,
mitted to wear only whiskers.'
Even Tom Hood is almost inexcusable
tor such description as this; Heaven
reward the man who first hit upon the
very original notion of saving the in
side of cat with the tail of horse
Some of the most amusing sporting
pictures in u inch are from the pencil
of lady, and among the art contribu-
tors TO American Pict. rials are Miss
Lucy Gibbons, Miss Mary l.. Stone, Mss
Mary Halleck, and Miss =. w. ConanL
The Republican candidates for United
States Senator in Indiana are now mar.
rowed to three-Colonel Richard W.
Thompson, Lieutenant Governor Cum
back and Judge Hughes-all other gen
tlemen having declined.
Brick" Pomeroy gives up his La
Crosse (Wis) Democrat, or rather re,
moves il to New York, and combines It
with his daily paper there as a weekly
edition, to be called Pomeroy's Demo
crdt
The Anglo-Indian telegraph. running
through Russia and Persia, will, il 10
stated, be opened for use in May, 1859,
Recently company of workmen started
to commence operations along the Per
sian Gulf. taking 1900 wrought iron
posts, 5000 insulator-, and 600 miles oil
galvanized wire.
Mayence, on the Rhine, is the most