The Montana post., 1869-03-05

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els, is in the printers hands
Connecticut has had her steady habits
interrupted by a wild cat. eight feet
long.
A Bureau Of Statistics is 10 be estab-
lished in Illinois. Some one out OF office
wants TO get in
, By putting borax into the cold water
in which dannels are TO be washed,
4 shrinkage may be effectually prevented.
A Yankee has invented music stand
I for travellers which shuts up into cane,
and weighs but two pounds.
4 One-fifth of the order of Jesuits are
! said 70 be in the United States at pres
ent.
/ Victoria is expected 10 read her speech
! from the throne herself, next time II is
delivered.
Sickle, the Parishian oculist, was such
n devotee of science, that he willed his
corpse TO science and forbade funeral.
! A setting. hen could not be called a
/ tomahawk, but it might be called a
hatchet,
/ Joseph Metcalf the oldest Mason in
the United States, died in Erie, Penn,
Feb. Sd.
Little hoys should be seen and not
heard. replied youngster when he was
asked TO recite his lesson.
! OF all the Southern families that emi-
grated to Brazil at the close of the war.
only seven or eight, IL is said, now re-
main.
A New York paper calls the Boy of the
Period, a dirty, lawless, lying, con-
scIenceless. unbearable barbarian and
nuisance.
! Law is like sieve; you may see
through it, but you must be considera-
bly, reduced before you can get through
/ it.
Mexican Buchanan. the actor, the 9th.
er night, polished of" in true pugilis-
/ tic style, an uncivil usher in the Patter-
son, n. j., Opera house.
The rage for veIocipedes is increasing.
and within the last six months twenty.
/ five patents for improvement have been
procured at one agency alone.
The brother of Governor Crapo, of
| Michigan, surveyor, was lost in the
woods in that State, and after six days
was found almost starved TO Heath.
/ A Rochester man nufacturer has an or
der for $50 900 worth of lamps of differ~
ent sorts for the Union Pacific Railroad.
An Indiana wood chopper has sudden
/ ly become rich, claiming TO have found
$4,000 which was hidden during the
war.
A monument costing $4,000, is TO be
erected In Central Park. New York, to
the memory of Fitz Greene Halleck, the
poet.
The grave of William Penn. in a VIII
l. Il L
less and unmarked.
Kansas City, Mo-, has a population of
81 ,140. Last year it's bank transactions
amounted to- $21, 100000.
According To the Figaro there are more
than 10000 persons in Paris who never
! wash themselves.
j Philadelphia has one hundred and
\ fifty manufacturers and five thousand
operatives engaged in making carpets.
/ A man at Philadelphia has been SEN
fenced TO imprisonment for killing a
horse by over-drjving.
! DR.. Poggioli has discovered q way of
increasing a persons knowledge by
electricity. Send him to Washington.
A jews explanation-"The rich,
said Jew, "eat venison because il is
deer. / eat mutton because it ish
sheep.
Mrs. Buffom has issued another sin
guldr manifesto. She advises all women
to become vegetarians, and abstain from
all contact with man. Trust the women
for that.
In the seventy>two national cemeter-
les, are inferred two hundred thousand
soldiers whose names are known, and
! one hundred thousand more as yet
not identified.
A St. Louis paper declares that the
only honest officer in the government
of that city is the police court clerk,
who has no chance to steal'
Down in Maine a man is sentenced to
death for setting fire to his house, while
another who tried to kill his wife, goes
to PRISON for ten years.
A locomotive without steam is on
exhibition in New York. 1t moves by
means of a system of balancing weights
and springs.
The city of Boston has a detective
whose sole business is to look after
thieves who steal newspapers from door.
steps.
Dubuque has a farmer in its suburbs
who one night lately had seven lambs
one calf, seventeen pigs and q baby, all
born on his farm.
Lincoln Avenue" has been created
in Washington. BY changing the name
of the thoroughfare heretofore known
as -Four street."
Two men were recently taken from
prison at Sydney. Iowa, and hung by a
mob. Their names were jackson and
Orton, and were under charge of killing
a Mr.. Holloway.
at Ballarat, Australia, il is asserted
two hundred millions of dollars in
gold have been taken out of the space
now covered by streets and houses for
the abode and traffic of population oi
10000.
A gentleman praising the personal