The avant courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1871-1872, 1872-04-25
Light AMI LlVELY.

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LIGHT AMI LlTELY.
J One of our music dealers ANNOUNCES in hi
window a sentimental song: ssThou has
Loved Me and Left Me. for twenty-five
s cents
i A detective received letter through the
post-office few days ago eontaiaing erusts
! from the pustules laf Q smallpox patient
with the message that If theseSdid not fix
q him. something else would. s8ss
j Il has just been ascerfained that the words
j mo cards accompanying amarriage notice
! signify that the welded pair don't play
poker; but that won't probably keep them
4 from amusing themselves with other articles
] of household furniture, such as plates, cups
and sancers. and three-lesged stools. Il
Al young man IN a fashionable -boardin q
house mp town incurred the serious dis
pleasure OF his landlady, one day last week.
/ because when she asked him If be would have
| 4 little more milk, he repIied-at that's too
thin.'' 1t was the same young man who said
Of boarding house bread.
'Tis but q liftIe faded -four. E,
Anold bachelor who sent d lock of his hair
and his name Gas Miss Bette Brown to 4
Boston clalryoyant received the following !:
* eu will marry railroad conductor in less
than year, having five children. and die in
ehia-bed Of the sixth y And this bachelor
is not happy at theptospect Of becoming the
mother of numerous young Americans.
There is no satisfying some men.
Two women III Salt Lake qilarreled. wlere-
upon one Of them gotta parrot and trained it
to say s Iot thief' whenever her enemy
passed by. The other retaliated BY training.
her parrot to scream You dye your hair,
whenever her enemy appeared in sight. The 4
hostlities resulting became so energetic that
the judiciary was appealed to. and both par
OFT guns were silenced.
An Oregon paper speaks of tile women ii
its vicinity as follows So far as we know
there is not woman in Coos County who
cares straw about the female suffrage bust
ness. which seems to concern SO many peo-
pie elsewhere. The fact that the increase of
children in the county IN the last year was
over four hundred and fifty fsay explain the
reason why they don't care to vote--being
otherwise employed.
An interior paper-we forget Its title and
location-says that the other day young /
man was walking out with some young ladies.
when he found smaH frog, and holding it I
iii the palm Of his hand, brought it rear his
mouth. which lie opened wide. The jnveu-
lie croaker, seeing what appeared to be q
place ofrefuge, gave a jump into the cave.
The young man looked very red in the face.
md the young Indies looked down in the
mouth, but the frog has never been seen from
hat day to this ssss 81 E.s#s
j Al spondent relatesa touching instance
il insect instinct as follows: IL found q
.ock-roach struggling in a bowl OF water
ook half peanut shell for boat. put
I'm into it and gave him two wooden tooth
,icks for oars, and left him. The next morn
ng I visited him and he had put piece DC 4,
white cotton thread one Of the toothpicks i,
md set the toothpick up on one end as a sig
.al Of distress. He had hair on the other
Doth pick, and there that. cockroacll sat
fishing. The scockrpach. exhausted, had
'one to sleep The sight melted me to tears.
never had to chew leather to get i soul.
was born with one. 4 took. that cockroach
ut. gave him spoonful Of Cruel, and he
eft. That animal never forgot that act of !;
indness, and now my home is chuck full or
ockroaelles. . 81 !
4 person having been mentioned who had
cen notoriously unfortunate IN his first arr 1
lage relation, end yet had soon after married
gain. was asked If il was not rash to enl-
ark anew in al adventure which he had al lf
aaeiv found 70 be 50 disastrous. M. 4 said I'd
ae' e'phlloso'pher, eleYating his hand and his y
m omuiltealanee glowing with enthusiasm. sit Il,
'as the triumph of hepe over experience.a Il