The Benton record. [volume] (Benton, M.T. [Mont.]) 1875-1879, 1876-07-21
MISCELLANEOUS.

fore he noticed the child.) Master Tom
ny: "Oh, don't mind me, PAT It's an ex-
preston I often make use of myself"
There Is a medium between velocity and
torpidity. The Italians say it is not neces-
sary to be a stag, but we ought not to be
a tortoise.
Webster's Unabridged Dictionary con-
tains one hundred and fourteen thousand
words, and three thousand pictures. Jones
says when he came home late the other
night, in the space Of fifteen minutes his
wife applied all the words to him, besides
some extra ones and the fire shovel, sng-
gesting to his mind the picture Of the duck
ing stool on the 4l8th page Of the Diction-
airy.
An old farmer employed son of Erin
to work for him on his farm. Pat was con-
stantly misplacing the endboards in the
cart-the front board behind and the tail
board in front, which made the cid gentle
man very irritable. 70 prevent blunders,
he painted on both boards large "B, y
then calling Pat to him, and showing him
the boards, he said, Now, you blockhead,
you need make no mistake, as they are
both marked. This" pointing to one
board, lis b for before, and that" indi-
eating the tail board, lis B for behind ! !"
whereupon the old gentleman marched of
with great dignity.
Habit has SO vast a prevalence over the
human mind that there is scarce anything
too strange or too strong to be asserted Of
it. The story of the miser, who from long
accustoming to cheat others, came at last
cheat himself, and with great delight and
triumph picked his own pocket ofa guinea
to convey to his hoard, is not improba le
or impossible.
| The South Sea Islanders imagine that
pain in any part of the body IS due to a
crack IN the adjacent bone. the plan of
treatment they adopt is to make 7 Incl.
sion through the flesh to the bone, and
then carefully to serape this latter with a
piece of glass It IS almost unnecessary
to remark that, when this mild operation is
performed on the head, recoveries are not
frequent,
Our minds are as different as our faces;
we are all travelling to one destination
happiness; but few are going by the same
road.
/ Seventeen Turkish gunboats are at Wild
dan ready to lombard Belgrade.
In St. Louis the Fourth was ushered in
by the Germans, BY grand torchlight pro.
cession, consisting Of all the German sing
ing and civic societies Of the city
Dispatches from every quarter state
that the Centennial Fourth was ushered in
with most enthusiastic demonstrations
Cities and towns were Illuminated, salutes
fred, torcblight professions, ringing Of
church bells and firing salutes.
AS the clocks struck twelve in New
York on the Fourth, the city vas given up
to most aprosrioas bilarity Imaginable.
salutes were fired At The forts ard BIZ the
men -of-War il the harbor, and the church
bells rang, while steam whistles on thogs-
ands Of factories, tugboats and steamers
added to u e din.
Our boy swipes, says California paper,
| is a regular attendant at Sunday school.
Last Sunday his teacher was explaining a
chapter to the class in the book 81 Kings.
After delivering herself ofwhat she thought
to bea very entertaining discourse, she ask
ed the class, What is king? This was
poser to the class. Finally our boy svipes
who IS the pride of the Sunday school,
held up his hand. This made his teacher
smile benignly for she was proud to see
him SO ready with an answer, 50 she said.
Well sKipes what is a king
Well miss you see when you get in the
king row and put checker on him, why
then he's a king and when somebody leads
jack, and another fellow plays the queen
il pedro, yon can make his eyes hang ont
by taking EN- both with the king"
Dom Pedro, it is said, takes of his hat
to every woman be meets in this country.
San Francisco celebrates the Centennial
birthday Of the nation By q three days jan.
boree.
Hobart Pasha has sailed from ConstaR
tinople for Smyrna aith feet of eight