The Montana post., 1869-06-11


Gross behavior-getting fat.
Minnesota is overrun with agents OF
wheat buyers anxious to purchase
1t is said that more money is spent in
New York for tobacco than Tor bread.
The Boston Post calls a pillow a
soothing nap-sack.
The railroad fare To- Sacramento from
New York has been fixed at $190.S5.
New York is to have "womenis par
lament" next fall.
Smallpox is visiting various villages
in New York.
The National Bank notes in circula-
zion amount to $299.S10,1S5.
Marrying an heiress is a short and
agreeable way of getting rich
Gen. Joseph E. Johnston is named as
a candidate for Mayor of Savannah.
The Mt. Cents tunnel is 20 be finished
by Jan. 1. 1871.
The chief clerk in the New York Post
Office has been in that Office since 1917
Gen. Robert Anderson and family
sailed for Europe May %.
Six of Indiana's eight colleges admit
female students.
Hotel de Horse" was the name chosen
for his establishment by New York
stable keeper.
The Cincinnati Commercial speaks Of
Solomon as IAN individual with whom
wisdom was speciality"
A colored man named Bates, living in
Chicago, cowhided his son, . boy eight
years old, to death.
The New Orleans Times thinks the
coming man" is a Coolie. Geo. Francis
Train says he is "a woman"
A philosopher bas discovered that
men don't object to be overrated, except
by assessors
man lives at indianapolis who is
only 46 inches high, but weighs 135
pounds.
A 75-year old goose is still living in
Kent county. Maryland. She has raised
goslings annually until within three
years.
1t is proposed to set up the late Genl.
Curtin, in bronze and equestrian effigy,
in the public square of Des Moines, at
cost of S3O.O
The wife of II. H. Sibley died in ST.
Paul, Mimi, on the 21st, of pneumonia.
She was daughter of General Steele. of
Pennsylvania.
A. II. Corbin, a retired millionaire. of
New York. was recently married TO Miss
Jennie Giant, sister of the President Of
the United States.
Chicago claims TO have the most val
liable horse in America, &" Bashaw, Jr..
tor which S35.0OO has lately been re-
fused.
Somebody says that snoring is the
spontaneous escape of those milignanJ
feelings which the sleeper has not time
TO vent when awake.
A statute of Massachusetts, forbids the
second marriage of any person from
whom divorce was obtained on ground
of adultery.
New York professors of dancing have
introduced the kiss cotillion," the pe>
culiar feature of which is that the part
ners oscGlate as they swing corners.
An irritable man having been disAp-
pointed in his boots, threatened to chaw
up the shoemaker but compromised by
swallowing n cObbler.
One OF the regulations of a college in
Wisconsin is: 10Th, Students are not
allowed TO visit the rooms of the oppo>
site sex without permission. then only
in cases of absolute necessity.
In Brieg, Silesia. recently, a young
married couple committed suicide be-
cause the doctor had decided that the
young husbands leg must be ampu>
tated.
Driving the last spike has become
u California phrase. 1t is now applied
to all active exertions. and is something
similar TO the war phrase of fighting
il out on that line"
dentist in Vienna delivered imita-
tive teeth to lady of rank there who
declined To pay tor them advertised them
To be sold again, and to be seen in the
mouth OF this lady, naming her. He
got his money.
At recent public feast in a Connect-
lent town, one of the officials of the
occa sion informed a reverend gentleman,
who was present, that he was under the
painful necessity of requesting him to
ask blessing.
A drunken man walking along the
street at night, with his head thrown
back, looking at the moon with sover-
eign contempt, was heard to exclaim /:
" You needn't be so proud, Madame
Moon. You are full once a month. and
l every night"
In one of Cooper's novels occurs the
following passage: He dismouuted in
front of the house and tied his horse TO
q large locust" A FreLch author in
translating this passage, renders 1t
thus: He descended from his horse in
front of the chateau and tied him to a
large grasshopper."
Josh Billings welcomes spring as fol-
lows: Spring came this year as mutch
as usual, hail butuous virgin, 5000
years old and upwards, hail and harty
old gal. welcum tew York State and
parts adjacent. Now the birds jaw, now
tue cattle holler. now the pigs SIX kream,
now the geese warble, now the kats
Sigh. and natur is frisky; the virtuous