Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1875-03-12
The Word saCansrd." !"

The Word 'ACanerd.''
The origin Of the word csnard French
for duck,. when employed to signify
some unfoundcd story, 70 not generally
Known. The foll,wing are the tefms In
which NJ. Qnetelet relates In the Annuaire
lie + Academic, the manner IN which the
word became used IN its now sense: ITO
give . sky lift st the ridicaloua pieces cf
intellissaos which the iauraah ars in the
HABIT of pnhliehine every morning, Cor
nclesnso sl1lS kAo 1nas1lBelux e1Eess
ment he's just been made calculated y
prove the extraordinary voEscity Of ducks
twenty Of the animals had been placed
.ogcther, and one of them having been
killed. and cut into the smallest possible
pieces, feathera and al and thrown to the
other nineteen. had been gluttonously de
voured in IN exceedingly brief space OF
time. Another was taken from nineteen,
and being chopped small like its prede-
cessr, Was served up to the eighteen, snd
1t once gobblsd up like the other; and 30
on to the laat, who was thus ll.ced In
the position of having eaten his nine
teen companions in . wonderfully short
,ime All this, most pleasantly narrated.
obtained success which the writer was
far from anticipating, for the story ran
the rounds of all the journals In Europe.
II then became almost forgotten for about
. score of years, when IL came back from
America, with ampllfcation which 1t did
not boast of at the commencement, and
with . regular certificate of the antopsy
Of the body Of the surviving animsl, whose
esnpAsgus was dsclsred To have been
found seriously injured. Every one laugh
ed At the history of The canard lhus
brought up again. hut the word retains It's
novel Specification. +a..-=.. .-, .
Mr.. BsEcnsa's sons are working very
hard in his behalf, and every day are with
come of the younger counsel seeking ou'
testimony and perfecting plans outside Of
the CourtIuom. Henry Reecher, jun., is
n smart young insurance agent in Court
street. Brooklyn, snd during his trial be
intrus.s his business to his brother Herbert,
and Joins with his brother William in
helping the lawyers. Mr. ]. l.. Hill.
General Tracey. and Mr.. P. Keady are
busy all of every day. outside OF the
court with different branches of the case,
and it Is asserted by one who is in Mr.
Beecher's employ that six lawyers whose
rames have not been made public are Al
work for him-making thirteen in all.
General Trscsy Is cummitting his opening
speech to mem0ry, snd is waiting patiently
TO be called into the court room TO deliver
lit. The defense have long list of wit
nesses, and the working lawyers outside
the curt room are learning specifically
what each can testify Ii. They pass the
result Of their work into Mr.. Shearman 5
hands, who has the clerks trained 10 ar
range the matters to nicely. and the re-
suit will be that The facts for tho defense
will he woven strongly together, end male
to tell to g,,od advantage.
The World Without Sunday.
Think how the abstraction of Sunday
would ensl.ve the working classes, with
whom we are Unidentified. Think of labor
thus going on in one monotonous and
eternal rack, fingers forever strsining. the
brow forever dropping, the l0ins forever
aching, and the weary brain forever schem-
ing. Think of the beauty it would efface,
the rry-heartedncss it would extinguish,
the giant strength it would tame. the
resources of nature it would crush, the
sickness it would bring. OF the projects !,
would wreck, the grams 1t would extort,
The lives it would immolate, and the cheer
less graves it would prematurely dig. See
the toiling and fres'ing and grinding and
hewing. and weaving and spinaing, sov'
ling and gathering. moving and reaping,
raising and building, digging and painting
and striving and struggliDs. in the garden
and in the field. in the grsnary and in the
tarn, in the factory and in the mill, IN the
warehouse and in the shop, In the mcun
tain and In the ditch. on the roadside and
in tho country. out 1t SEA ani. on shore,
| in the dsy Ut brightness and Of hlsnM
What = picture this world would present
| if 10 had no sabbath!