The Benton record. [volume] (Benton, M.T. [Mont.]) 1875-1879, 1878-10-18
IFTINAS.

he latest OlklGihk EFfitoo%1 s-+'0~
population of 2S,8ol ,154 souls.
The Colorado beetle has created great
havoc among the potatoes in New yea
land.
Ohio has new law authorizing nota-
riieg public to perform marriage cere-
monies.
South Australia is likely to become
rival to us in the matter Of canned ana
dried fruits.
A Georgetown Mass. man has been abb
sent from home without having been
heard from for over twenty years and has
Just returned.
A Chiaaman about to die lies with his
feet toward the door, in order that his soul
On leaving the body may have free exit on
its way to Elysium. ...-z
Three-fourths of the liquorice manufac-
tured in the United States is said to be
prepared in New Jersey. Spain and ASIA
Minor furnish the rest.
The capital invested in the London cab
hnxiness IS over two millions sterling, and
the earnings ofthe eabmen, OF whom there
are more than 10000, are twice as much
Liverpool papers state that the wife OF
laborer Of that city, recently produced
four healthy children at one birth: two
o- - 4 +v,o 1a,orb4ops
| In November, 1882, there died in
Philadelphia, aged lo2, Edward Drinker,
who had been subject Of seven SOW
ereigns and died citizen Of the Repub
| lie.
The plaintiff and defendant in an Eng
lish chaneery sait, after being reduced to
poverty by paying costs, committed SUI
eide recently while the case was still on
trial.
Several hundred vessels used for COM
mercial purposes, lately exeavated at
Rome, are covered with inscriptions throw.
ing light on BUSINESS terms in ancient
Rome. and the archaologjsts are hard at
work.
A great marble bull has been discovered
Al OLYMPIA in front of the Exedra OF
Herodes Atticus. On it IS an inscription
that Regilla, the wife of Herodes, pre-
sented it for the conduit built by her hus-
band. .-
Napoleon III. was a skilled mechanic.
Working at the lathe was his great hobby
Ceasing to be Emperor he ceased to wax
his moustache. AS a corpse he looked
short. His mothers ring was buried with
him.
| AtUnion Mills, N. B., recently. as a
six. year-old child was running across the
floor with pair Of scissors in its hands il
tripped and fell, and driving the points Of
| tht. scissors into its heart, died instant
ly.
A man while gathering pecans in Con
zales, Texas, recently, saw from his place
on the limb Of a tree something glittefine
On the ground below. It was Mexican
silver dollar. He dug at the root Of th'
,ree and uuearthed $4,000 worth Of th'
COINS.
A century ago the state Of the clergy il
the Lake District Of Englad was odd in,
deed. The curate was usually the villag
publican, and il was not an uncommon
sight to see the reverend host p1ayini
cards and drinking beer On sunda
morning with his customers until tn
church bell tolled.
Before the Gregorian reformation of th
calendar in 1882, such was the state G
! confusion into which things had fallen tha
!, from 1900 to 1882 no fewer than fity.fou
i casters out Of eighty three had bee
: wrongly cele rated, and if this had cor
tinued. after A. D. 1898 there would hay
: been 50 legitimate Easter.
!, since the Office of Camerlengo was e
i tablished, 300 years ago, only three Of j
0 occupants have become Popes. to VI
Honorius III. in 1906, Innocent VII.
I404, and the present Pontif. Since Il
election Of Innocent the custom had pr
2 vailed that t'he who had played Pope "
ls virtually ineligible
!. Although the Chinese language contain
words for right and left, these are We
: seldom used. You will frequently hear
: the north hand the south ear Q
: The packages on . mule are too hea
: Oh the south side; they must be shift'
: :, norhward, = and 50 On. The seotehm:
: who il church asks his neighbor 70 'isit
: bit soost,' would Be quite 8 home
: China.
= The earliest ecclesiastical buildings
O. Ireland are domed huts, built Of loose i
j. cut stones. Outside they look ike eair'
and their only ornanleatatlon i eFe
farmeI ii the wall by white quartz ston'
u