The Montana post., 1869-04-16
APRlLLINGS.

/ uo Boiucu mean Is tue mlSer-
T. Thumb drinks.
Savannah is shipping pine lumber to
Scotland.
Humboldt is TO have a monument in
New York.
The bishop of New Jersey will not
"lay hands" on ehignoRs.
New potatoes are selling In New
York for S12 per barrel.
DR.: j.. q. Holland, Timothy Titcomb,'
is in Naples.
Oue-ffth of the order of Jesuits are
said to be in the United States.
Greece and Turkey are preparing 10
interchange diplomatic civilities again.
The Gentlemen's Social Club in St
Paul has sixty-five members.
Goldfish skin, dried and ground. is the
latest fertilizer.
A Massachusetts man is making glass
mold boards for plows.
Five hundred and seventy Methodist
churches were dedicated in 1868.
A French geography speaks of Port
land as tue capital of New England.
The present Protestant population of
France is estimated at !, 100000.
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pers.
Frederick the Greats old memoran-
dun book has been sold for $240.
| Fort Pillow Forrest claims to be thor
oughly reconstructed.
Societies are to be- formed in Virginia
TO encourage immigration froin Ireland.
| What is the difference between belle
and burglari One wears false locks
and the other false keys.
The Chinese river, Hwangho, has a
new mouth-6ve hundred miles north
of its old one.
The custom of ringing the curfew
bell was revived at Dover, n. H., on the
22d ult.
Some 6endish enemies of Wirz talk
of rerpetuating his infamous memory
by n monument.
| Velocipedes are sold in Cincinnati at
$35 each The factory turns out 900
n week.
Henry A. Smith, ex-Governor of Min-
nesota, dice of typhoid fever at his res
idence, in St. Peter, Feb. %.
Itis estimated that it will take $4,000
men twenty years to dig the Darien
slip canal.
Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer is engaged
upon the Life and Correspondence of
Lord Palmerston."
A velociyede journey of 1913 miles has
been done in France in twenty>!our
hours.
National Bank of Rockford, ILL.,, has
absconded, and the bank will probably
fail.
Cornell University has a collection of
| 5 600 600 shells. In Yale and Harvard
the students take more TO half shells.
1t is anticipated that the number of
Swedish emigrants this year will be
unusually large.
The Neapolitan courts have decided in
favor OF the right of priests to marry If
they choose.
General Scott's former residence At
Elizabeth, New Jersey, has been sold
for SO $50.
Ezra Cornell has given about 50 .000.-
600 to the Cornell University, and made
no fuss about il either.
1t costs $50 per ton. in currency. to
build a ship in Boston, and $45 in gold
in the British provinces.
young lady of Stanton, Va. keeps a
list of her male acquaintances in pock-
ct diary and calls it her devotional him
book.
Ex-Postmaster General Randall has
taken up his residence at Eimira, n. Y.
Wisconsin air does not agree wish him.
| kinglske. the author of the History
of the Crimean War" has been unseat-
ed by Parliament for bribery in his
election.
The forty thousand miles of railroad
in the United States give employ ment
to 450, 900 men.
Among the officers left without COM
mands by the consolidation of regi-
ments, are Doubleday. Sickles, Wager,
Swayne. and Butierfield.
A printer of St. Louis has had a very
fiat take'-he has recovered So 900 in a
breach of promise case from a damsel
of that city.
Henry Ward Beecher is to- have
sanding room on the Lincoln National
Monument in Washington. His friends
have decided to raise Sc 900 for the pur-
pose of putting him there in colossal
size.
The New York Mail reports the mar
riage of a grandson of Washington Ir-
wing. which is funny, in view of the
fact that Irving died bachelor.
The Deseret Neaos of April 1st. says ::
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