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

Low-necked dresses are no more worn
in Paris.
/ Pm the Main Legislature, shoes" are
drawn by the members as documents"
A sewing machine driven by electrici-
ty, is on exhibition in Paris.
/ "Catnip weddings" are the latest nov
elty-in honor of the first born.
A sentence of forgiveness is five let
ters-I "a u.
Transactions in the New York Gold
Room net almost 100000 daily.
London's population increases at the
rate of 100000 year.
Forty Iowa and nearly all the Boston
editors wear glasses.
Mr.. Ticknor, the EXPLOSION publisher
| intends locating in Paris.
Miss Nettie Chase does the honors for
her papa this season.
Black silks are now the fashionable
| reception dresses in New York.
Earl Dearly is down again with the
gout.
Grants doctors advised him to smoke
| less.
Michigan is the banner state of spir-
itualism.
Russia has 4,2OO miles OF railway,
completed and building.
The Proposed East river bridge will
cos: New York $30,00000.
Minnesota has torch-light sleighing
| parties.
The Missouri Legislature has passed
an act prohibiting prize fighting.
Mrs. Mattoon advertises herself in an
Iowa paper as an "attorneyess-at~law. "
On the $1,000 miles of railway in the
United States, there are $500 locomo :
tives in daily use.
A Dubuqe dog has saved the lives of
four persons, and has the unmuzzled
freedom of the city.
Garibaldi talks fourteen different Ian,
! guages. English he last acquired in
America in 1850 and 1851.
Why is a married man like a candle ?
Because he sometimes goes out at night
when he ought not to.
Lopez, of Paraguay, is said to weigh
800 pounds, and to be only five feet five
inches high.
Maggie Mitchell is putting up $780,
600 three story brown stone front, in
Yew York.
| Oh. Webb, Wisconsin newspaper
man, has invented machine for footing
up columns of figures.
Why is a dishonest bankrupt like an
honest poor man? Because both fail to
get rich.
A man whe had a scolding wife being
asked what he did for living, replied
that he kept hot house.
] The Columbia Crisis says Lucy Stones
face beams with intelligence and two
large warts.
A New York Church proposes to have
a full brass and string band instead OF
an organ.
The baby crop" in New York for the
week ending March 9th, amounted to
,124.
The Pope forbid the priests recently
elected to take seats in the Spanish
Cortes.
The wife of Wheatley, the New York
theatrical manager, is dying from a
cancer.
General Sam. Cary will probably be
put up for Governor by the Democrats
of Ohio.
A Cincinnati genius advertises for a
situation, saying that Work is not so
much an object as good wages"
George Francis Train is lecturing
Down with England, up with Ireland,
and on with America
Miss Anna Swain, the Nova Scotia
giantess, is nine feet high, the tallest
woman in the world, and 21 years old.
John De Witt, the noted pedestrian
has accomplished the great feat of walk
ing 1000 miles in 1000 consecutive
hours.
A Mississippi catfish has been caught
with a cannon ball in his stomach. He
evidently swallowed it during "the late
difficulty"
There is often but a slight separation
between q woman's love and her hate;
her keen teeth are very near her sweet
lips.
Some one writes from East Tennessee
that horse bones are collected on the bat
tie fields there and buried in the cemes
tries as the relics of Union soldiers.
A lady in GAINESVILLE, o., Mrs. Clark.
whose husband has been missing for 23
years, has Just discovered that he was
killed in the Mexican war.
A Chicago reporter took phonograph-
ic notes of his sweetheart's love talk,
and prevented jilting by threatening
publication.
The attempt to work the scenery at
Booths new theatre by steam power
proves failure, and the old-fashioned
manual power has been restored.
A New Orleans lawyer has married a
pretty girl, whom ten years ago he found
begging on the street. He educated her
for her present station.
Gilmore advertises for proposals for
the building of the Colosseum" as he
terms the structure wherein the peace
festival is be given.
An old bachelor seeing the words
families supplied" over the door of a
shop, stepped in and said he would take
q wife and two children.
There in the States and Territories of