The Benton record. [volume] (Benton, M.T. [Mont.]) 1875-1879, 1877-01-19
MISCELLANEOUS.
Natter-o' money getting married to an

more guarded in future.
The fashionable entertainments next
season areto be Myrtle Germans" "Blue
Teas, and pudding Lunches
This IS a Gaelic proverb: "If the best
mans faults were written upon his forehead
it would make him pull his hat over his
eyes,
Little Rock has had another 100000
blaze They should hurry up that vigilance
committee, or there will not be any of the
city left. This is the seventh fire within
six days.
A smitten Londoner says Of Christine
Nilsson; cage cannot wither her, nor Gus
tom make STALE All Of which is hard to
swallow in this world Of frigitful changes.
Dame Fashion declares that the style of
wearing iewelry on the streets is obsolete.
EARRINGS and lockets are the last to go,
and in their place a display Of costly but
tons is being made.
Now the Washington ladies will have an
opportunity to turn up theirs noses tostheir
fullest capacity. The Mormon delegate is
going to bring his wife to Washington this
winter, and there is .four of her!
Just because a man has a black eye it
is no sign he has been fighting. He may
have been upon the wood-shed repairing
the shingles when his wife threw fat iron
at the cat in the cellar-way. Under such
circumstances any man would get hit
somewhere.
Some ofthe fastidious people in Wash
ington object to the modest fashion certain
Congressmen's wives have introduced Of
having their cards inscribed "Mrs. Hon.
Congressman, ETC." But it will be dread
ful fall for these proud women when they
are obliged to sign thenlrelves hrs. Ex
Hon. Congressman
One Of the greatest Improvements intro
duced by the Greeks into the art of sleep
ing was the practice Of undressing before
going to bed-a thing anheard Of until hit
upon by their inventive genius. Bed Gov
erings were often perfumed with fragrant
essences from the East. Counterpanes were
not only perfumed,but embroidered with
figures of animals and men.
A convict in the Philadelphia House Of
Correction was kept nineteen days in
dark cell, and fed on bread and water. At
the end ofth time he was discovered by
Common Council committee that made
an unexpected visit to the prison. The
prisoner when taken out, was unable to-
affected him.
After the death Of Minister Avery, the
Chinese Foreign Office, which is composed
Of the high and trusted officers of the En-
pire, sent to his widow an elaborate silken
scroll, to be hung ii the halls of mourning.
The inscription upon the scroll, .emblazon-
ed with Celestial art, is to the effect that
s1two eontinents-the Occident and the
| Orient-mourn for the loss Of one who
spoke right, did right, and was ever active
in the right
Queen Elizabeth, admiring the elegance
of the Marquis Of Medina, Spanish no
bleman, complimented him on it, begging
at the same time to know who possessed
the heart of SC. accomplished cavalier
| MADAM said he, "a lover risks too much
on such an occasion; but your Majesty's
will is law. Excuse me, however, if | fear
to name her, but request your hajesty's
acceptance of her portrait He sent her
a looking glass.
Newportis excited over a curious natri-
monial complication. Some forty years ago
three days old bride suddenly and
mysteriously disappeared. Some time
after she returned, announced that she had
obtained divorce, aud again vanished.
Nearly half a century goes by and the
husband has now a family and is rich.
The other day, after forty years Of silence,
she puts in an appearance and asked for
her husband, claiming that her story about
divorce was a falsehood. The matter
will probably come before tbs. courts.
| Colonel James S. Hayes, formerly an
Indiana State Senator, and q valiant soldier
during the war, and lately confined in the
Insane Asylunsof illinois because Of an in
offensive insanity, was lately n1isused BY an
attendant for trivial ofense, and his ankle
was put out Of JOINT. Before he could be
set, the doctors il attendance resorted to
chloral, whisky, landannm and other medi-
cines given in large quantities. From the
cumulative effects Of these he died, and
will be buried by the Grand Army Of the
Republic.
The New Orleans Pieayuns, IN trying
It's hand at description, says "The
modern city school girl goes along with q
/ bic tilfer, bastle, striped hose, hump
backed, carrying thirty-one different books,
three states, four copy books, bottle Of ink,
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