The Benton record. [volume] (Benton, M.T. [Mont.]) 1875-1879, 1877-05-25
NO.. 50
CIRCULAR NOTES.


' Light cloth jackets are worn with blac
i silk dresses.
: 4 San Francisco divorce court decide
d that snoring is sineompatibility."
Connecticut produces nearly 10000, 90
S pounds Of tobacco per annum.
4 convict on Blackwell's Island recent
o y received rope-ladder in meat pie.
: The new yeliow-trimmed bonnet ha
/ been not inaPPropriately called the Jaur
dice Helmet.
9 Locomotives in this country consum
j, yearly as much wood as would grow o.
$4,000 acres Of land in twenty-five years
t The man and the newspaper that frs
nominated Hayes for the Presidency ha
reached clear majority Of SO, 900, viii
all the back counties to hear from.
The author of that beautiful song
"Mother's hair is turning gray" has jus
issued the companion piece, Father
nose is Turkey red"
It is the opinion OF the Baltimore Bee
that the man who deserts his wife and
runs away with the hired girl is temporar.
ily insane.
Turkey has paid this country So, 900, 900
in cash for arms during the past year, but
every Americanhitching -postleans towards
Russia.
a Western paper has notice to its
subscribers which reads Of you do not
see this copy Of the Columbian, be sure
to let US know
A young lady says, "If eart-wheel has
nine fellows attached to it, it's a pity that
girl like her can't have one y
The boy who has never sat down on a
ounble,bee, or stepped on a rusty nail,
has not fulfilled lis mission.
AL things being equal the soldier
shall have preference, is the view the Pre-
sident takes in making appointments, and
it is the correct position.
Aoody's popularity at the Hub is vain
ing. In moment Of pnguarded enthu-
siasm he bIurted out that heaven was q
more desirable place than Boston.-Er-
change
An exchange says "A seedy old chap
thinks it is very strange that the number
Of men who are willing il lend you Eve
tuaE amount"
4 tall tramp looked in at Broad Street
office the other day. His imposing height
startled the broker. "Bless me, said he.
"my man, how high do yon stand in YOUR
stockings ~ Stockings z was the reply,
y amt got none
\ man feels the effect Of The hard times
when he has to come down from six to
three cigars per day woman when she
can't afford but two ia lse puhs to do up
her front hair with.
Slang, says the Norwich Bulletin, often
deep and tender emotions. Speak
ing Of a lady, yesterdays young man re-
marked that he expected to bag her, but
instead Of that she had sacked him.
There are two periods in every mans
life when he feels, deep down in his heart
hat II the earth was to open and swallow
lim up, it would be a pleasure to him
me is when he steals up stairs with the old
mans razor to take his first shave; and
he other is the first Sunday in a high hat.
4 lady eorraspondentofthe Lowell Jour
al concluded her letter as follows @But
have already wearied you," ETC. The vii
anoas type-setter madeit read, but /
ave already married yon." This is only
me Of the thousand little annoyancss
hat a newspaper man has to suffer.
An aristocratic woman Of New York
a fatal case Of suicide because
he could obtain no gold bullets. She said
saden bullets were good enough for com
1on people, but she wouldn't commit
pieide as long as she lived unless she
on?d have bullets Of eighteen carat gold. l
ueh a particular woman should be &C
Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania.
Dhorred smoking. His Quaker council Z
ne day, observing him approach, lail
oWn their pipes. T am glad to see,n
i'd Penn, you ashamed Of that vile ha-
+ '.Not at all. = returned principal
riend; I've only laid them down lest We
ioqld offend a weak brother 4
William Douglass, Of Scotland, wrote
e immortal "Annie Laurie" about the
ose ofthe seventeenth century, inspired .
fair Annie, who was deaf to his pas "
'nate appeals, andmarried another man
q now it turns out that John Howard
tyne's equally IMMORTAL song Of Home, s.
'eet Home was suggested by Miss
ayo, Of Richmond, who rejected tie
a #Ic,4to 4l4 I,,,c,,.zs. NJ ~ yry. Isl