The avant courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1871-1872, 1871-12-07
BOHEMIAN, MONTANA.
The SAN Francisco Town-Crier.

which has impaired its characteristic flavor
to the Nescs Letter, and given its peculiar
reputation, is the Toacn- Cier. Not only may
we say that the Toscn- Gicr is peculiar to
California, but We may go further and say
that outside of that free and easy commons
wealth IL world be utterly impossible for the
Tuwn-Crier to live and move and have his
being. lie would be as much ont OF place In
New York or Boston as an Apache Indian.
No one would have the folly to attempt to
classify the .:fown-Grier. and it is scarcely
less hopeless to attempt TO describe him. He
Seems to have broken away entirely from ali
tie habits, customs and traditions, and be-
iiefs which bind the rest Of mankind. He
lives nothing, fears nothing, believes moth
ing. and respects nothing. No fiattery car
bribe, and no threats can intimidate hins; and
withal he has wit as keen, as polished, and
y as relnorseless as napier. He Is veritable
IShmaelite, to the extent at least of having
his hand against every man, whether every
mans hand is against him or not; and we
should imagine that his presence would be
one of the terrors of life in San Francisco.
With this preliminary, we introduce the
Town-Crier as he shows himself In the Nesos
Latter Of recent dates:
Chinese are receiving instructions in Sum
day Schools at Olympia. Exchange. SO they
are here. The instruction is given by the
white pupils just outside the schoolhouse.
aud is commonly impaired with brick.
The parents of the double baby, which re-
Gently died in Boston, were insuited by an
offer OF six thousand dollars for the remains
of their dead darling. The proposal was in
dignantly rejected. They demand ten thou
sand.
he Call SAYS the world will go by MS ere
long, and Our relics will not be worth the
price OF fire-wood. We suppose our neigh
Dor aludes tocorporeal relics; our spiritual
relics will be worth considerably more than
ffre-wood, because they will burn longer, and
with more intense heat.
The newest and sweetest thing in suicide is
to go out to the sepulchre Of your boy who
was slain by tumbling edifice. and tipple
strycfnine out of clam she'll TO Mr.. Lewis
Beach the public is indebted for this beautiful
conception, and for this beautiful conception
tle.devil is indebted for nice, fresh roast.
A gentleman iii the wholesale liquor line
alsertisess that's some persons lave been cir
e.,lating the falsehood that his WHISTLES con-
tain foreign and unwholesome matter and
adds: ITO those accustomed to use these
WHISTLES the SANDER needs no refntaion.''
True; they rest peacefully in their graves, and
the idle tale of the traducer impresses them
not. $3.50 trs f8yrT
A correspondent says there is somewhere
d law which Furnishes the children for the
crimes Of the father, even unto the third and
fourth generation; and he wishes to know
when it was enacted and where it may be
found We donot know; it sounds very
much as if it might have been passed by the
last California Legislature, against the Chi
nese; but we don't think that any one who
voted for it can ever be reelected.
Here is an unimportant but interesting part
or Inc description of Turkish beauty who
II soionrning iii New Y ork-temp IT isl
to be hoped ..She has the eyes Of houri.
aitnond-shaped,. deep and dreamy, and bril-
liant. white teeth that laugh as she laughs
Sweet Venus, what nice girl II would be
worth thousand years of ones life to own
her. What delight to see ones own face mir
rored in those eyes! What bliss to minister
TO her wants! For example, to insert slices
Of bacon between those laughing teeth.
4 son Of Martin r. Topper, the author Of
..proyerbial Philosophy has been killed BY
being run through the body with q loaded
wagon. Happy fellow 70 longer can the
sneering world taunt thee with thy parent
agei No longer win young maids turn aside
their eyes, and bare-footed urchins hhrl upon
thee added eggs and d tempest of dead cats.
No more shall old men spread their palsied
hands across thy pate and warn thee against
proverbially philosophizing! No more shall
suspicious beldames cry out to their daugh-
ters-st Martha, drive in the geese; herecomes
old Tupper's boy!''
Virgil williams, the artist, has arrived In
town. ysdtorst 10 the art gallery Ut Wood
wards Gardens viii regard his advent with
some apprehension. And So. for, that mat
ter. will visitors at the Fair; the few weeks Of
the exhibition win be amply sufficient fol
this gentleman to knock off half acre Of
landscape to affiict us He possesses some
merit as an artist but it Is hard to tel
whether it lies III landscape or marine paint
ing: YOU never can tell his cows from his
ships, except when they have their tails ex
allied, when the absence Of spars betrays theil
character. Even then they may be mistaken
tor scslooners scndding under bare poles.
For the memory Of the late Johla Ridd. o
Illinois, we entertain the liveliest contempt
Mr. Kidd recently dispatched himself with ;
flrearm for the following reasons, set forth In
letter that no Left behinds Two years agt
/ discovered that I was worthless NV grea
failings are irsnce1ity OF character and 81,
ugliness Any one who watched me q lttl'
while would discover MY nnenviable nature.
Now, it u not that MIR, Rild was WORTHLESS
that We hold his memory in reprobatioli; no
that he was insincere. nor sly. nor ugly.
is because possessing these qualities he wa
foolenaugl ito think they disqualified hin
for the duties OF life, or stood in the way Q
his being On ornament to society and Al
honor to his country. That's what makes u
tiespise him.
Here's another dispatch from over the sea
snalrynple, member cf II Parlianent fo
Bath, goes M America tosts,dy the treatlnen
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