The Montana post., 1869-01-01
WASH GRAVEL.

Dan Rice has turned editor.
Mrs. Grant doesn't like the White
House.
A German proverb says that poverty
is ihe sixth sense.
The New York Indepen dent has been
enlarged.
The LLndou police have been armed
with cutlasses.
Henry Ward Beecher is worth one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
The Chicago Republican is coming out
as a two cent folio.
Copper mining in Michigan employs
$4,000. 600 of capital.
The regency in Japan is ended. and
the Mikado has been crowned Emperor.
Reverdy johnson has more than forty.
grand children. Poor things.
The Devils Dishful" is the eupho-
nious title applied TO section ot Dam
vers, Mass
Brougham's New York Theatre will
be opened at Christmas. Ii will seat
1000 persons and be model OF elegance.
A gentleman ot Terre Haute has Civ
en- 100000 To establish a first class fe
male seminary in that place.
A machine has been invented in New
England which em6osses and cuts 300
600 paper collars in ten hours.
There is u prospect of another bridge
being built over the Mississippi: this
time at Hannibal, Mo.
The Davenport brothers have lost
theiI money, married French wives and
got the consumption.
The Lancaster LHteHigcncer recon-
mends the division OF the keystone
State.
Twenty-Five years ago Geo ID. Prem
Iiss took a hoy, w. y. Haldeman into
his office as clerk. The clerk now pays
his former employer forty dollars week
to write.
Philadelphia turns out four million
dollars worth of shoes annually. and
claims that the ladies' shoes mnnufac>
tured there are the beet in America.
The population of the United States
is nearly 80 O00. 900. If it increases in
the same ratio as il has in preceding pee
riods. il will be 40 100000 in 1870. and
107, ,OOO, 900 in 1900.
A correspondent of the New York
EfNWNcNtSl HltONE NilaL
was no myth. but "A person well known
in Frederick. Md, and that the incident
related by Whittier ia his poem was
substantially true.
The Detroit Tribune drinks the fol>
lowing Van Winklish toast TO Mr.. and
Mrs. CoIrax. Heres TO their goot health
unit their families. unit may dey live long
unit broshper.'
The mails were arriving sgain in Salt
Lake, Dec Is There was only three
or four inches of snow on the railroad
but is drifted badly That makes mat
tiers so much the worse.
A clock having struck the hour of one
n tender hearted woman eqclain;ed-
'Oh what a cruel clock "Why soI'
asked friend. Because it struck it's
little onel" answered the tender hearted
mother.
The friends of Mrs. Alice Cary deny
with Indignation the inference from her
Lines to an Early Swallow" that she
habituaIly takes matin cocktail.
The Rev Mr. Nasty intimates that
President johnson would be an accepta-
Bile candidate for the Spanish throne.
because he has all his lite been putting
the Bourbon down
The Americans at Honolulu had a
little election of their own for President,
Grant receiving 12l votes and Seymour
only six.
In celebrating Franklin's birthday
the printers of Buffalo had good
time" and among others the following
toast was drank: Printers Wives
Nav they always have plenty of small
caps for the heads of their little origi-
nal articles.
New pumps for raising water to the
tanks for use on the Central Pacific
have been erected at Reno and Wads-
worth. The one at tile latter place. is
capable of pumping 10000 gallons per
hour.
Judge Ranney seems to have the in |
side track for the Democratic nomina-
tion for Governor of Ohio. The State
Convention meets on the eighth of JAM
uary next
The paliudrome is line that reads |
alike back ward and forward. One oi |
the best is Adams FIRST observation 10
Eve:
'"Madau, I'm Adam"
Another is the story that Napoleon,
when at st. Helena, being asked by an !
Englishman II be could have sacked |
London. replied:
able WIS ere I saw Elba"
The latter is the best palindrome,
in the language. |