The Montana post., 1869-03-26
POST SCRIPTS.

Behind time-the back of the clock.
Sixteen ladies are studying theology
at Oberlin.
Troy, N. Y, has fifteen pianos in its
public schools
The cheese product of last year is es
timated at $25 100000.
Bangor, Me-, celebrates is one hun
dredth birthday this year.
In England even the Queen has to
pay postage on letters.
Chicago sold $30,OO0,c00 worth of
hogs last year.
FIorida's present Secretary of State is
a talented and erudite African.
Philadelphia has monster rink which
will accommodate 1000 skaters at once.
Out Of 492, 800 soldiers in the Austrian
army but'44, $50 are able to write.
The New York Herald comedies that
Christianity is a success.
There are nine million marriageable
women in England.
A vein of fine marble has been found
at Fort Dodge, Iowa.
There are about one hundred and fifty
Mormon saints in New York.
Inc salt mines OF AuSITlA are WOIkeO
by a million miners.
"Chicagoized" is the latest term for
having been divorced.
What State is round at both ends and
high in the middlef O-hi-o.
G. w. Sta-buck, of the Times is likely
to be the next Mayor of Cincinnati.
So toed boots are said to be COM
ing into vogue again.
Paris has 90 political journals. and
40 that are not political.
Amonthly satrical journal. to be called
the Capitol, is threatened in Weshing>
ton.
The expenses of the French Govern>
ment are S515,000,000 per annum. I'VE
do these things better in France"
Chicago has 1000 drinking ssloons,
which take in $10,000.000 a year, and
pay the city 100000.
Bismarks s daughter will be married
in few weeks, on Ler fathers fifty
fourth birthday.
The Democrats of the First Connect
cut District have promised to uDani-
mously nominate Senator Dixon for Cons
gress.
When was Ruth very rude to Boaz
When she pulled his ears and trod on
his corn.
The latest style of marriage certifi-
cate contains pictures of the welded
pair. Good idea.
The Prefect OF Paris had to pay half
a million of dollars and more for a sin
gle house he determined to demolish in
running one of his new streets.
Il.
fifteen cents capital three years ago, and
now gets a living out of it.
In Switzerland, one who kills another
is liable for the debts of the murdered
man.
Philadelphia is discussing the feasi-
biliry of tunneling the Delaware, from
that city to Camden.
Negotiations of small loans just now
find trouble in raising the wind, since
everything is Lent.
A kentuckian being asked how much
corn he raised. answered, About ten
barrels of whisky. besides what we waste
tor bread"
A gentleman in Quincy found an ex-
press package addressed to adam Sell,
Chicago He opened it and it was.
lh6 ldSS lIICh WAS u luEOW N1TS.
tington's old gaiter in the alley, and call
the old lady down from the third floor
to see an alle>gaiter.
The young men of Chicago are said
to be classified according to their skill
as velocipedists into the "timid tod
dlers," the "wary wabblers," the "go-it-
gracefuls" and the fancy few"
The superstitious people are in
tr1nHln 1890 naI
Friday and will end on Friday, which
they think will make it an unlucky
year.
The most widely circulated paper in
Madrid is called the Nightedp, and issued
at the remarkable hour OF eight and
nine in the evening.
Not one lineal descendant of the %
barons who forced King John to sign
the Magma Charta now sits in the House
of Lords.
The old custom of balloting for mems
bers by the use of beans and corn is
still retained by the Massachusetts His
torical Sociery. The beans reject-the
corn admit. As general rule, those
who don't know beans" are unsucces- |
full candidates.
Thirty shoe pegging machines are in |
operation in the town of Alton, New !
A shoe can be pegged in |
two minutes with one of these MAJ |
chimes. .r
A Royal Navy" man has invented I
by which the Captain, sitting
in his cabin. may control the motion OF /
his ship with his thumb and finger. The
IMAM at the wheel will become a myth. |
The largest man on record. in modern |
times, was Miles Darden, a native of
North Carolina, born in 179S. He was
seven feet and six inches high. at his
death, 1857, he weighed a little over
| 900 pounds. i..l..I. --..
All gold that exists in the United |
States to-day could be placed in square
box Of less than fifteen feet IN length.
width and depth. A room one hundred