The Montana post., 1869-03-12
sCARCETIEs.

Queen Victoria has fifteen grandchil~
dren, and expects more.
BY horrid old bachelor: a screams
ing farce-A baby.
Somebody defines shifting the re-
sponsibility" as dressing baby.
When is a ladys hair like news?
When it is found in morning papers.
A Paris bride paid $4,000 for her
handkerchiefs.
The greatest draw back to ones com-
fort is blister.
Seventeen Mississippi towns are pre-
pairing to build cotton factories.
A los. city, like Pompeii, has been
discovered near Cholco, Mexico.
The late John Magee of Watkins, n.
Y, left $70,000,0 900 to his weeping relas
tives
An amber mine has been discovered
in Prussia, some pieces being the size
of a chilis head.
Maine proposes TO fill her State pris-
ons with adulterated liquor makers at
five years apiece.
General Grant. Jay Gould, John Scott
and Speaker 1ounglove, of New York,
were all tanners by trade in early life.
Why is a lady whose dress touches
the floor like vagrantg Because she
has no visible means OF support.
1t is estimated about / 900 distilleries
are now running throughout the coun-
t-y.
4 starch mandatory in Massachu-
sests uses up u thousand bushels of po>
tatoes daily.
A Maine man sued the husband of
his daughter for tea, cake and candles,
consumed during the courtship.
The average cost of funerals in Chica-
go is five hundred and foriy-seven dol
lars.
McPherson's life OF Thaddeus Stevens
will cover one thousand pages. and viii
appear next fall.
Albert d. Richardson is preparing
some interesting statistics about the
Great West, which will appear soon.
An Ohio document of 1912 imposes a
fine of one dollar upon a man riding
on Sunday to see his sweet heart"
A lady in Cartridge, Massachusetts,
has the pen with which Mr.. Lincoln
signed the Emancipation Proclamation.
Society has decreed that a widow
must abstain from balls and parties one
year after her husbands s death,
Why should we presume that the an
gel Gabriel is an expert gambler Be-
cause when the last card is played he
will trumpet.
Columbus is divided in death His
body rests in an iron coffin beneath a
church in St. Domingo, while his heart
is buried in Havana.
In the latter part of December, last,
st. Petersburg, Russia, and suburbs,
was nearly buried in snow. In several
streets it rose to twelve feet in height
why do women expend so much
time and money on dress2" asked a
gentleman of belle. ITO worry the
other women" was the diabolic but
truthful reply.
1t is estimated by the Registrar OF
England that by the middle of the
present year, London will have a popu-
lation of 3,170,754. AT the beginning os
the century. the population was under
a million.
Mary Z. Harris, whose acquittal by a
Washington jury established the fact
that IL is not murder for a good looking
woman to shoot a man, is now in an in
sane asylum.
The Paris Pdtrie announced the arri-
val of his Excellency, President Davis
but was ordered TO allude to that indi-
vidual in future simply as NJ. jefferson
Davis.
Whitelaw Reid, author of " Ohio Dur
ing the War, has accepted a prominent
position on the staff of the New York
Tribune, viz: that of chief editorial wri-
ter after Mr.. Greeley.
Divorce bills are still the special, gem
eral and universal order of the day in
the Delaware Legislature, and have
monopolized nearly the whole time
since the opening of the present session.
A notice of q recent steamboat explo-
sion, in Western paper ends as fol-
lows: THE captain SWAN ashore. So
did the chambermaid. She was insured
for $4,000 and loaded with iron."
Ernest Renan has been sued by his
publisher, to whom he promised the
manuscript OF the Lite of st. Paul" !" on
the 1st day of January, 1868, but did not
deliver 1t. Renan has been advised by
his friends to withhold the work from
publication, as II is inferior to his "I.ife
OF Jesus, consequently he refused IL to
his publisher.