Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1874-12-18
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By the dsobcdience Of lad in 1909
garden gate in Rhode Island was left open,
and pig got in and destroyed few plants.
| A quarrel between the owners of the pig
and the garden grew out of it, which
spread among their friends, defeated the
Federal candidate for the Legislature, and
gave the State & Democratic Senator. by
whose vote the war Of 1912 with Great
Britain was declared.
According to London correspondent,
<he estimated valua of all the diamonds
which have been discovered at the dia-
mond fields of South Africa during the
last three years does not fall short OF ten
million sterling. Many of the gems are
of inferior quality. that is TO say. OF yell
lowish color. The largest pure white
stone welshel between 20 and 80 kara's,
and the lar yest off -coioled" 2SS1a karals.
1t is right to add that large gems are by
no means exceptional, the discovery OF
stones If a weight varying from 40 to 50
karats being common enough. As is well
known the value of the diamonds in tho
European market has been greatly de-
precla'ei by the enormous quantity eX-
ported to this part of the world from the
Cape, but the prices of colored stones have
been more affected than those Of the
purer qualities.
Col. THOMAS A. SCoTT announced his
purpose openly to come to Congress ~ tne
approa hing session and ask aid tor his
Texas Pacific Railroad. Hcsays he wants
500 900 in all to complete the road.
1 his he proposes to raise on forty-year
bouds, the interest of which, at five per
cent. gold, he proposes to ask Congress to
guarantee. To secure Government, it Is
proposed to turn over all the land grants.
all the machinery, track, rolling stoc ana
appurtenanccs. and to issue tn, bonds only
as fast as the 70 .d is completed IN sections,
at the rate Of $50, 900 a mile for the plains
ana $4,000 mile FOR heavy grading.
Scott says he is confident he will never Os
obliged to ask the Government to pay
coupon, and that it is proposed to pay tho
interest on the first foul years olt OF the
proceeds OF the bonds
ENGLAND's marriage statistics have been
analyZed to show the probabilities OF
marriage for women of different ages.
Supposirg the sum OF woman's chances
of marriage to be one hundred, she ex>
hausts between the ages of fifteen and
twenty years, fourteen and half chances
If she lives unma RED from twenty to
twen'y five, fifty-two more of her chances
have vanished into thin air. If she re"
mains unmarried for FIVE years more, she
will turn thirty with only fifteen and
half chances out of her hundred left. Ats
ter thirty-fve, she ha, eleven AMI halt
chances, and at this point the statist;clan
gave up his calculation, exceDt that no
assures us that even after woman has
lived unmarried sixty years she still has
the tenth Of chance Of getting married
GU of the hund.el til which she Is sup
pv,0d " AIsS started lafo-
There is once more movement in 81.
Paul to revive the old project of making
direct and continuous .navlga.iOn from
that city 10 the Rocky Mountains. The
plan which commanded the most attention
as well as favor is to. .connect:the Rcd and
Minnesota rivers Lake Tr.verse, in
which the Red river takes its rise, lies
within mile or two of Big Stone lake.
which is the chief reservoir of the Min
ncsota.--By connecting these lakes with
canal, deepening the channel Of the ups
per Red river, overcoming the rapids and
shadows of the upper Minnesota with
locks and dams, and making similar im>
provements on the Saskatchewan, q con-
tinous chain Of navigation would te had
from New Orleans to the Rocky Noun
tains, and one of the most productive
wheat regions in the world would be dir
cctly tributary to St. Paul. The plan is
years, but the same barrier stands in its
way now as always-want OF money,
A MODEL HEN FARM. OF q hen farm
uear Marietta. Georgia, the Atlanta Herald
says: Mr. Daubere keeps his fowls in
flocks Of fifty. To these fifty hens are
added about four cocks. To each flock of
fifty he gives one acre of ground; that is,
he allows them the run Of one half acre
this year and the other half acre next
year, cu'tiyating the unoccupied half acre
every year with some paying crop. The
farm, with its eight hundred occupants,
thus occupies just sixteen acres Half Of
this is all the time under cult 'ation, 50
that only eight acres are really detractel
from agricu tural purposes. The farm
lies pretty level and is beautiful sisht;
its regular succession of fences, its alterna-
tion of cultivated spots, Its scores of shade
and fruit trees, its hundreds Of Growing
c iantlcleers and clucking matronly hens
make picture worth going hundred
miles to see.
THE human pulse, in all ages of the
world, has been consulted rs an index of
he.lth or disease 1t is kind of dial
within us which gives US both the meas
ure of time and OF health. The pulse of
a person in health beats about seventy
strokes in minute. and the ordinary time
of life IS about seventy years. In these
seventy years the pulse of temperate
person beats $3.50, Ala, 600 times II no
actual disorganization should happen, .
person might live until his pulse
beat this number Of times; but by the con.
slant stimulus of ardent spirits or by pulse
food the pulse becomes greatly
and the two billion fivc hum
drcd and seventy million four hundred
and forty thousand pulsations are per-
formed in little more than the ordinary
term of human life. and life goes out in
forty or forty five years instead Of seventy.
A Word FOR THE EARLY ROSE
practical farmer writes to the New York
Tribune Of his exp trience: IL have dis
c .rded all 9th r varieties for the Early
Rose, because this is the earliest, has the
best quality, and is freest from Gesease Of
any ! haYe tried. This kind sells ALWAYS
for the highest market price, so that al
though it may not yield as many bushels
per acre rs other kinds, it will yield more
,reenbacks. Last season l raised few
Peerless on sandy loan. When | h.r~
7estel them they were beginning to rot.
md IN four weeks time h ID not sound
potato left, whereas the Early Rose. grown
n the next row, up to the present writing,
nave sh ,wn no signs of rot. Further
more, after the Early Roses are dug lea
'aise a crop Of turnips or cabbages. or
'ow 10 grass, which can not be done after
! la.e growing potato.
If Congress should make an appropria>
ion to complete the Washington monp.
neat the people would encorsc its action.