The Montana post., 1869-02-26
TROCHES.

eighty years ago.
! Seven Iowa journals have died lately.
A steam engine has been set up in
Jerusalem.
The whipping~post is retained in
Kentucky.
/ A son of the famous actress, Rachel.
is clerk for a gas company.
The crops in the Southern States this
/ year are valued at $400,000,000
! Awooden wedding-marryinga block
head.
Illinois grew 25,OOO,OOO bushels of pos
tatoes last year.
i Dancing is like new milk, it strength
ems the calves.
The Great Western railway of Eng
land cost nearly S3J0,000a mile.
The best thing an artist can draw is
a la-ge price for his works.
An English Gronaut lately assembled
five miles.
Pickpockets dis~purse a crowd
Garibaldi's novel Is called Clelia
Compressed coal is the latest novelty
in fuel.
Pittsburgh has siSty-eight oil refiner>
les.
Belle Boyd drew her dagger" on 4
stage manager in Texas the other day.
Burnett, the humorist, announces his
first annual farewell tour
\ Worcester citizen has a meerschaum
pipe $50 years old.
sword fish has been captured whose
stomach contained Turkish mail bag
One of the jurymen who tried Aaron
Burr is still living in Chillicotha, o.
cause they end at the polls.
a poultry convention is To set in
New Haven next month.
The widow of Gen. Kearney,it is said
lives in Indianapolis.
The new gold field in South Africa is
said to cover an area of about 1000
square miles.
The Earl of Dudley works ten square
miles of iron mines, and Is called the
Iron Earl
There are 2,OSO election districts and
nearly 1.200 school districts in the State
of New York.
The Jews in Warsaw have a theatre
in which all the plays are founded on
the Old Testament stories, and all the
parts are taken by males.
An insane man at Osseon, Indiana,
chewed his tongue through and then
died
Four things that come not back the
spoken word, the sped arrow, the past
life, and the neglected opportunity
Omer.
Philadelphia is run this year by
menagerie. The Mayor is Fox and
the Clerk is Wolff
The petroleum trade at Pittsburgh
approximates thirteen millions annu-
ally.
A st. Louis reporter was robbed a
short time ago OF the savings OF lifes
time-$25 currency.
A New York paper thanks an NJ c. for
5000 pamphlets, weighing perhaps two
tons
II is again reported that Robert Bon>
ner is negotiating for the purchase of
the New York Herald.
The complexion of a girl of the period
differs from railway season ticket-the
Albert ID. Richardson is preparing
some interesting statistics about the
Great West, which will appear shortly.
A man in Dayton, Ohio, has invented
a velocipede with one wheel. The only
fault found with it is, that it can't be
made to go.
Mr.. Bonner says that within the past
year the son of one of his contributors
has been elected President of the Uni~
ted States. A neat way of putting it.
The largest distillery in the country
has just been finished near Lexington,
Kentucky. 1t will be able TO make
2, 400 gallons of whisky per day.
The Cleveland Herald calls Mr.. Fiske
the Railroad Gobbler," which n cotem-
porary styles new phase of the turkey
question
An Austrian author asserts that Mas
poleon the first had twenty one illegiti-s
mate children, OF whom five are still livs
ing.
1t is said that Governor Hartman, of
New Hampshire, is the second applicant
for office under General Grant. Charles
;. Spencer, of New York, being the first.
Hartman wants TO be Consul to Lon
don
An unfortunate schoolboy in Massa-
chusetts staggers under the incubus of
the name of Andy Johnson. He gets
g licked" every day, either by the school
master or the boys.
Seventy-five millions of dollars con.
stitutes the private fortune of Russian
merchant prince. The address of his
only daughter is Miss Anna Gargarin,
Moscow, Russia"
The Joe Smith Mormons of Iowa have
been holding a series of meetings for
the last two weeks on Coon river, Iowa.
a veracious married man, who halls
from the East, recently visited Chicago.
country paper. says that ''as soon as /
reached the city L was attacked by a
corps of small boys, who pressed upon
me the cards of several lawyers, and
assaulted me with want divorce, mis-
ter? Here you are f; divorce in fifteen