The Montana post., 1869-01-08

President timothy DWiShb VI
was the first man in America to cuitl-
vate strawberries.
Chicago has had the thermometer at
zero, and divorces are less frequent
Boston Post.
The remains of Mr.. Pollard were car~
ried To Alta Vista. Nelson county, Va,
Tor interment.
Miss. Walters. the notorious "Skit-
ties" of London and Paris fast life. died
recently.
MIR. Francis B. Deane. the founder OF
the Tredegar iron works, died last week
in Richmond, At the age of 13.
Only seven of the Republican MEM
be-s of the last Indiana Legislature are
members of the present body.
Dickens oldest son has lost heavily
| in a paper mill enterprise and become
bankrupt.
Nineteen negroes are sueing for the
estate of "A former master in Columbus,
Ga.
IL has only cost John Bull $4,000 to
/ fit up one of his war ships tor Pile
trip By Wales and his family.
An experienced old gentlemen says
that all that is necessary for the enjoy
ment of love or sausages is confidence.
! The new suspension bridge at Niagara
was 10 be ready by New Year. 1t is l ,2G4
| feet long.
| Work for some good be it ever so slowly;
| Cherish some flower, be it ever so lowly;
| Labor, true labor, Is noble and holy.
A visionary poet in an English maya
zine talks ot little mouth too sweet
To kiss Guess not.
Jenkins says that the reception given
Gen. Grant by Marshall o. Roberts, in
/ New York, cost $4,000.
1t is now certainly known that the
Rev. Mr.. Spurgeon will visit this counN
| try next year.
The ladies have revived the fashion
of wearing little gilt locket suspended
/ by blue ribbon from the neck
| Brown-he Brown of Grace Church,
/ y. Y, Is engaged in writing book on
polite society.
The Lewistown, Maine. journal says
| that opium eating is becoming quite
prevalent in the State.
Somebody wants to- know if our Min>
lister to SPAN is Hale fellow we'll met
! with the Junta boys.
j. B. Cough offers 10 sell out his world
/ ~ goods for So 600. His farm is worth
! T52 600, and his library $1,000
\ Railway Theatre, 90 amuse tha pas
sengers, has bean established on the
| line between Manchester and Liverpool.
| Bayard Taylor says a Roman noble
man told him that the successor to Pope
! Plus IN. is already chosen.
An American has taken out patent
in France for style of printing which
may be read in absolute darkness.
In a French translation of Milton, the
! passage, Hail horrors. hail % is ren>
dered, How dye do. horrors how d ye
do ="
! H Rasin has been appointed United
| States gauger for ST. Louls. Most of
the appointees TO this position are Raisin
H. " i. World.
Says Kate 20 her new husband, "Juhn.
What rock does true love build upon p"
| Quoth John, and grinned from ear To ear,
"rhe rock of yonder cradle, dear"
The World says that Mr. Belmont
contributed hundred thousand dollars
or more toward the expenses of the De-
mocracy in the late election.
The Rothschilds have bet $50 000, 900
on the Spanish revolution. That is.
they have loaned that sum to the new
government.
The law providing for Communication
of time for good conduct is working
very well with the Rhode Island prison
ers.
According to the Tribune, New York
| City consumes between three and four
tons of hair. at a cost of $2.000,000 per
annum for its wigs and chignons.
The Rothchild family mausoleum is
fitted up like drawing room and made
as cheerful a chamber as one could de-
sire for the long sleep.
\ private hospital for the cure of inc
briates has just been established at st.
Louis, and is very likely to be well pat
ronized.
Harry Brunswick, son of the celebrat-
ed billiard manufac urer was among the
lost by the recent steamboat calamity on
the Ohio.
The annual earnings of the American
people are estimated at $500 600, 600,
and their domestic trade as nearly Sc =
000, 600 900 year.
PATHS husband is in tribulation. He
mortgaged his salary two years ahead,
and Napoleon turned him out of his sit
uatiOn.
Sol. Smith, in his autobiography. says
that Forrest, the tragedian once engaged
with a circus in the capacity of tum-
bier.
A Justice in Chicago lately adminis-
tered an oath of total abstinence from
liquor to a young and progressing lady,
at her own request.
From statistics recently published it
is established that while in 1885 there
was only one mad man TO $500 souls in
France, there is now one to every 400.
A history of American journalism is
being written by Frederick Hudson. for
N erly managing editor of the n. Y.
Herald.
More than 100000 life policies are in
force in the State of New York, repre-
| eentinp upwarda of 81 GOO 600 Onn In