Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1875-01-15
BREYITIES.i j

Flour is selling in Corvallis, Oregon, a
81 per sack, good quality.
Forney writes that English girls are
magnificent creatures"
Papsr undergarments for women have
struck the Paciic Coast from Japan
The Mammoth Cave: in Kentucky 'is
for sale. Not in lots, however. The pur.
chaser must take the hole, or none.
1t is frequently remarked that girls who
dress loud" soon come to talk and act
loud.
Diptheria has caused the death of 1913
children in Choctaw county, Ala, within
the last three months.
When . man cannot drive we'll, he
makes up the deficiency of education in
that respect by severely pounding his sni~
mails.
The planting IF trees around mining
claims is urged in California. They are
30 handy TO hsye in lysching neighbor>
hoods.
A St. Cfoix girl, in = III of anger be.
cause she couldn't get her foot into small
shoe, seized carving knife and cut OF
her little toe.
St. Louis claims to possess . curiority
which no other city can boast, man who
is deposcd bishop Of the Church of Eng.
land, and now works in laundry.
The Western Union telegraph line bc>
tween Deover and Cheyenne has been 70.
set with cedar poles.
The Atlantic and Pacific telegraph com.
pany have extended their lines to Empire
City and Fsirview, Idaho.
THERE are in Denver two hundred and
forty>fve miles of streets, and over fivo
hundred miles of main and lateral lrriRst>
ing bitches.
Sublime keroism: Florida negress. forty
and full-bl0Oded, loved . Caucasian car
penter. and knowing that their union
was impossible, even if the carpenter
were joiner as we'll. left him the snug
sum of 81 $50 in hard cash, and went aud
mingled with the alligators in the sunny
river.
THE Milwaukee News says: "Here 10
Charlotte Oushnian worth, $25O, 900, sail
ing around the country getting $500
night, while Mrs. Bryant in Illinois, who
has raised seven children ard buried two
husbands, has justSone to the poor house.
j Colonel Hsrlow, tho Illinois Secretary
of Stste, occupies the house at Springfield
formerly owned by Abraham Lincoln, and
is trying to preserve !: aud the premises
o much as they were during Lincoln's
life. but relic hunters have carried Of
nearly al the picket fence.
Billy Patterson died IN Georgia, tho
other day, aud his befrs and assigns will
not carry out that enquiry con- corning the
lpers0uaiity Of the indlvldual VINO ones
struck him. The blow seems to have beea
fatal a1 last.
TIE latest name for It IL collecting
Treasury statistics. With the utmost self.
possession, the officers of the Pacific Mail
Steamship Company Insist that they only
authorized the expenditure of 1900. anA
this for the purpose of collecting Treasury
statistics. Somehow they worked these
''old statistics" around in such manner
that they drew out If the National Treas
ury something like half million dollars,
annually. Collecting Treasury statistics
is good. 'Thcre is millions in it,"
We once knew q man who ha large hot
legs of roasted mutton every morning for
his breakfast; and what gigantic pieces
de resistance he had for his dinner only
his cook and butcher knew. When he
bought turkeys he bought two--one for
himself and one for his family. No Em>
peror in the days of Roman decadenco
ever ate m ,re than this honest New Eng,
land citizen, and he lived to he eighty, in
spite of hot sausages every night just bes
fore going to bcd.-[Ex.
A farmer in Louisa county, Va, one
night last week, hearing noise about his
corn house, went out with = double.bar-
reel shot gun, and seeing negro, fired,
killing him instantly. Upon examination
he discovered that the man he shot at WAS
sitting upon q lever which had been in
serted in . crack, and the house bodily
lifted up, while two others were beneath,
getting out corn. As the first man tell
from the lever the house closed down up.
on the unfortunate wretches, and crushed
the life out of them
Major Eggleston, late Paymsster of tho
Department of Columbia, has been con.
victed Of embezzling over $12, 900 public
money, and sentenced to five years con-
dnement ct hard labor in.the penitentiary.
If the sum stolen is not refunded, he is to
he confined an additional five years. TIE
secret of Major EgglestOn's fell, Is We are
informed, is that he became infatuated
with fast woman at Portland, and in
less than . year went through with tho
money for which he is now In default.
A HUNGRY crowd sat down at the we'll
spread supper-table on Long Island
Sound steamer. upon which one of the
dishes contained trout of moderate size.
A serious looking individual drew this
fish toward him, saying ap0logeticallY,
This is fast day with me-" His next
neighbOr, An Irish gentleman, Immediately
inscr ted his knife into the fish and trans>
ferred it to his own plate, remarking,
''Sr, do you suppose nobody has soul
to besaved but y0urseaf:"
For some months past Dr. George e.
Nunson has been experimenting with. .
class of silver ores found in this district,
by . pr0cess of raw amalgamation--that
10, without subjecting the ores to . roast.
ing process. He hss.succceded in getting
from Polar Star ore, the satisfactory 70
suit of ninetytwO and So 10Oo per cent Of
the actual assay value. The Doctor will
continue his experiments with various
ores, and If the result should continue "a
v6foble. We may 'On have occasion to an.
hOunced revolution In working ores by
Colorado. o.-lGeorgetown Miner.
Y0U feel q superiority over the whole
your fair young bride Y0u~woaA not
change places with the Presidout Yet .
few short ycars. . few whlskings Of bfo4lh
handIes. an untimely stoppage OF tx0 6f
waited fat. .ironA and your weary body
will rest under the swaJing willow, while
some young gallant will bring your late
afflicted partner out to the cemetery and
whisper lOye in her ear, ~ together they
strew peanut shells over your grave
''Oh. Why should the spirit Of mortal be
proud!"