The Montana post., 1869-02-26
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Ohio is to undergo a geological sur
vey.
The Berliners ate up 4.O44 horses last
year.
Garibaldi's novel was written by a
lady friend.
At a late Charleston. :. c., wedding.
there were only p bridesmaids.
rat has bitten Kit Burns, who is
sick. How the rat feels is not known.
Beecher states that she coming man
will come on a velocipede.
Mrs. Daniel Drew has been stricken
with paralysis
The filed hair movement is spreading
in New York.
Mrs. Buffom. of Chicago. wants a wo>
man for President in 1872
The Iowa Mutual. lately suspended, :"
had 1900, 900 risks an s 900 cash assets.
During 1868. 474 churches were dedi>
Gated in the United States.
Carpets are bought by the yard and
worn by the foot.
What did Adam first plant in the gar
den of Eden! His foot.
Shakerism was introduced into the
United States in 1874 by Ann Lee.
There are 1900 locomotives in the
United States
For the Bank of England $4,000 notes
are printed daily.
There are still S3l log school houses
in Indiana.
Many Northern men are buying land
in Virginia.
Cincinnati soup houses dispense 1000
bowls daily to the poor.
Ripe, lucious water melons are being
plucked in Florida.
John Stuart Mill approves the allows
ing of prisoners to testify in their own
defence;
The Masonic Lodge of SAINT Fe, New
Mexico. have been presented with Kit
Carson's rifle.
Mr.. Chappell pays Charles Dickens
$4,000 tor 100 farewell readings in
England.
Premiums are to be given to veloci-
pede racers by the Michigan Agricultu-
raj Society.
A woman paid 81 in Nashville, Tenn,
a few days since, for attempting to
gouge out a mans eyes.
Last year 96 American Ministers re-
ceived the degree of ID. d., from fifty
two colleges.
The Couldocks were playing at the
Academy of Music. Buffalo, during the
first week of February.
Mr.. Pratt, the new Senator from Indi~
aaa. weighs 400 pounds. He will be the
greatest man in the Senate.
The Empress Eugene has paid one OF
her dressmakers 100000 francs for sim
gle years services.
The old South Church, Boston. which
has just made its gallery seass free owns
5000, 900 worth of property.
The ladies have revived the fashion
of wearing little gilt locket suspended
by blue ribbon from the neck.
In Paris there is a girl. having neith-
er legs nor arms. who sews, embroiders
and writes by means of her mouth.
The English army annually costs
$77y 7y275, 900 in gold. of which the soldiers
get less than one-third.
1t is expected that the New Jersey
Legislature will abolish the death pen-
atty.
The laying of the submarine telegraph
cable between New York and Brest,
France. will be commenced mex June.
The Chicago Legal Ne,os is said to be
edited by a lady, who gets her law
knowledge by being the wife of Judge.
The ice gorge in the ST. Croix River.
Minnesota, is forty feet high, and still
increasing.
The Chicagoans complain that the
dripping of water in their latest toy,
the tunnel, is an intolerable nuisance.
The New York Nail saws that Ver-
mont and Maine will both grant suffrage
to females this witer.
A railway theatre, to amuse the pas>
sengers, has been established on the
line between Manchester and Liverpool.
A "gelunivipede" has been invented
in Massachusetts,. Ii is an instrument
for the rapid propulsion of hand -sleds.
Senator Chandler isn't like the angel
that sometimes went down into the
pool of Bethesda. He never troubles
the water.
An Austrian hair-dresser cut his
throat, but il healed up, and the oper-
alton gave him a tenor voice which
eclipses all rivals
A bachelor, according to the latest
definition, is a man who has lost the
opportunity of making a woman mis-
erable.
A. f. Upton Postmaster at Elkader,
Iowa, inherits $57 900 from bachelor
uncle, who lost his life on the ill-fated
steamer United State.
Madame Olympic Audouard, who has
been travelling in this country, says she
likes the women of America much bet-
ter than the men. So do we
New Haven. Connecticut, i'm thirty
years has increased it's population from
IL, 1000 TO 10000. an4 it's manufactures
from three to seventy>five millions.
A Red River correspondent describes
an Indian as being "as grave, yet re-