The Montana post., 1869-04-16

\ threshlng machines in tie United
/ States.
Water works, at an estimated cost
of S130,OOO, are projected for the BEN
eft of Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Christians are to- be admitted into
| Turkish mosques and temples on the
simple condition that they will not scoff
at or disturb the worshippers.'
| 4 woman has just died in Hartford.
J Conn. at the age of 10S years and .
months.
The trail of the velocipede is over all
our exchanges, To the suffering news
editor it is literally "come wheel. come
woe"
Edwin Booth has sold his - 900 acres
in Giles county. Virginia. To a company
OF Tennesseeans for 100000.
a fifteen year old boy, heir to $1,000.
committed suicide in Akron, Ohio, by
hanging himself with q skate strap.
The milk of a certain cow in Cynthi
ana, KY, a veracious sheet says on be-
ing lightly stirred. changes into butter.
Mr.. Dalglish, NJ. p, who entertained
Reverdy Johnson at Glasgow, lately,
also similarly honored ex-re5el Mason
a few years since.
A Frenchman wants to monopolize
the right of placarding advertisements
on the Sdez Canal.
Scarcely forty short>hand writers find
employment in France, and the art is
! taught in but one school.
The Repeal League of Nova Scotia
are prepared to expend $156,000 in gold
TO defeat Hon. Joseph Howe's re-elec-
tion.
Frank Paul, General-in-chief of the
| Japanese army, is a German-American,
who commanded the 52d New York
Regiment during the war.
The Mayor of Greenville. Tenn, pre~
emptorily refused to officially welcome
Andrew Johnson on his return 10 that
city.
1t is an invariable custom TO present
the doorkeeper of the Indiana Senate
with a suit of clothes at the end of each
session.
The present Secretary of War, Gen.
Rawlins, began his career as a charcoal
burner.
Charles GiIdemeister, the architect of
the New-York. Crystal Palace, Gied at
Bremen, Germany, after protracted
, illness, February Sth, last.
Burlington. VT. has p new paper
called the Nee Ldc0, which is printed
in alternate columns of French and
English.
The Boston Adrertiscr thinks it is
queer that General Grant, with his wells
known dislike of bores, promoted Gen.
Anger.
An old citizen of Louisville, Ky, as
serts that the brigands and burglars
who intest the city, have a subterane-
an den in the sewer underneath Broad
! way.
When Il person dies in Balkap, Bul-
7 garia, the women do the mourning for u
year or more, by wearing all the cloths
ing inside out. The custom is an eco-
nomical one.
Mrs. John Morrissey danced in the
most elegant costume at the lnaugura-
/ tlon Ball, and Mrs. Governor Morgan. of
/ New YOIk, sparkled in the finest dia-
monds.
/ The Assessors books, New York,
I show aggregate sales of Clafin, & Co,
\ tor 1868, were forty-three millions. and
/ those of a. II. Stewart thirty millions,
I the latter for wholesale department
alone.
/ The burning of dead bodies is strong>
\ ly advocated in Paris. 1t is thought
I that the French Assembly may make
/ cremation legal.
Judge Hoar, the pew Attorney-Gen~
eral is a cousin of Mr.. EvaTts, both being
/ grandchildren of Roger Sherman. and
this makes both related TO eneral and
Senator sherman.
| The building wherein the Boston
Peace Jubilee is To bee held will cost
| 100000 and will be built on Back Bay,
/ at the foot of Boylston street.
A German :hus wrote respecting the
death of his wife: "If mine wife had
lived until next Friday she would have
been dead shust two weeks, Noting is
possible mitt Gott. AS de tree fails so
must il sthand."
] A line in one of Moore's songs reads
thus: Our couch shall be roses be-
spangled with dew" To which n sensi-
BILE girl replied: "Twould give me the
rheumatic, and so il would you"
Pants are to be as snug on the leg as
ever this spring. Vests will be single
breasted and open low. Fashionable
coats will have wide, rolling collar, cut
away to some extent and rather short.
A tradesman in Ohio appends to his
advertisement Ministers of the gos-
pei supplied with goods at cost. If they
agree TO mention the fact TO their con-
! gregations."
! The New Hampshire House of Repre-
sentatives viii consist of POI Republi~
/ cans and 131 Democrats; Republican
majority 90 The Statesman makes out
Stearns' majority for Governor TO be 81
/ ESQ, Eia's majority for Congress 1851;
Stevens l l,515, and Benton's 4S7.
The question of selling eggs by weight
is before the Massachusetts, Legislature.
1t was referred to a committee, who are
expected to sit on it till they hatch out
something that will be satisfactory.
The Congress of the United States and
\ the Legislature of Massachusetts, are
the only legislative bodies that adhere
| 10 tho old auatnfn n hills on