The Montana post., 1869-03-05
THE DAYS DOINGs.

Michigan has refused to pass an eipb,.
hour law.
Longitude like clothes line, stretebs.
from pole to pole.
Baltimore is thinking of erecting a.,
800, 900 theater.
MMahon, the Duke of Magenta i
the only Marshal of France who has
son.
Solon Robinson asserts that the apnls
trees in the country are slowly dyins
ont. and that nothing can save them.
Singed butter is the last board,ns
house dish.
A Texas darkey has gone into hank,
ruptcy.
Massachusetts has $500 Second Ad-
ventIsts.
The Hon NJ r. Jugg. has arrived q,
New York from Albany.-Chicago Post
Easy way to get hack-try to shave
with a hatchet.
Gov. Fenton is the first Senator elect>
ed from west of Auburn.
jeff Davis and his wife are both quite
| i'll in Paris.
Gen. Sherman has had the erysipe-
las, but is recovering.
That report is about the Princess
Clothilie, this time.
The w. U. II. Co, has opend a free
school in New York to learn woman tell
graphy.
A writer in the Ontario Times propos
es To stock Canandaigua Lake with three
million of young fish.
The retiring Gov Crapo, of Michigan
paIdoned only eighteen criminals during
his four years term.
Several State Legislatures have bills
pending for the suppression OF prize,
| lighting Down with all rings.
Walt Whitman is writing poem 70,
the Br0ddscny Magazine, entitled "Ethi-
opia SalutIng the COiors."
| Hon VIM. r.. Wallace declines TO be
| the Democratic candidate for Governor
of Pennsylvania.
Henry Reed. late of the Cincinnati
Enquirer, has Joined the staff OF the 81
Louis Republican.
The difference between perseverance
and obstinacy: One is strong will
the other n strong won't.
Some 500 New York clerks have
formed a cooperative insurance com,
pany.
It is stated that Secretary Seward
will shortly make The journey 'across
the Continent" and go down among the
South American States.
The Babylonians used TO sleep on
| skin filled with water. In these lat.
ter times some men sleep on skin filled
with corn whisky.
my notion of wife at forty" said
Jerroid, "is that a man should be able
to change her. like bank note, toi
two twenties.'
Nell Bryant, the Ethiopian deline-
| ator. has returned to the burnt cork
business in New York, after an alb,
sence from the stage of three years.
The Booth family had a meeting,
lately, in New Haven, Conn, to delibeI.
ate about $57.000,0O0 said to have been
left them in England.
Quincy, ILL.,, is as well as could be
expected in view of the fact that sir
male children, born in different families
last month, averaged 134 pounds in
weight.
The New York Tribune cleared $225.
600 last year, the most profitable yea
of its existence. The previous year ];
cleared $125,000.
1t is rumored that Senator Nye,
Nevada, will succeed Mr.. Morris as ths
American Minister at Constantinope
in March next.
Anna Swan, the Nova Scotia maide,
of twenty-one, who stands about min
feet high, has gone to London, England T
to astonish the citizens by holding
few LeUees in that city.
patron of the Portsmouth N.
journal has appeared in that oihe
every Friday afternoon for the pas
thirty-eight years, with his pennies =
pay for that paper.
The sale of Protestant books in Span
has greatly alarmed the Catholic clef
gy, who have formed an association 2
resist the innovation and reinstst
Catholicism TO it's former exclusive d
sis.
The name of Miss Anna Surratt a.
pears on the list of applicants W
passed examination for teachershlps
ihe public schools of Baltimore.
A St. Louis paper says of a late gas
powder explosion in that city, tna1
was sudden" Gunpowder explosioa
generally are. Powder, If at all, lgnis
much more rapidly than ordinary az
cles of fuel.
A lady in Oregon in writing 10 o iria.-
says that cattle in that region Ave
such great age,.their owners have
fasten long poles to the end oi lH'
horns for the wrinkles TO run out on
Preparations are being made IN We
York toE an excursion. on the comp
tion of the Pacific railway. A hs1
the guests is being prepared, ana ~. =
party is expected to start about '1
first.
They are expecting an early spIr
and heavy floods in California. ~
first-the swallows have begun 10
pear in great numbers; ca9se secon.
the beavers have built higher h0D'
than usual.
The requisite houses for the Ln:5s la;