Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1876-07-14

Ir1sh stew is dish aeyer seen in Ire.
land.
Cat. gut il not the gut Of cats but Of
sheep.
Kid gloves are not kid. but are made Of
lsmbskln aud sheepskin.
Arabic figures wefe not invented BY the
Arabs. bu, BY the Indians.
Tuhe-rose 10 no rose, but the tuberous
pslianth (palianthes tuberos.)
Salad oil 10 not oil Of salads, but oil for
cleaning csllets or salads. O., helmets.
Blsck lead does not contain . single
particle Of lead, but il composed Of iron
and carbon.
Turkish baths are not OF Turkish orr
|gin; nor are they baths At Ill. They are
hot air rooms,
Salt 10 not salt ct I'll, and has long been
wholly excluded from the class Ut bodies
denominated 6alts.
Cleopatra's Needle was not erected hy
Cleopatra, nor in honor OF the Queen; but
by Rameses the Great
Brazilian grass does not come from
Brazil; nor il It grass 1t I'll. It consists
Of strips of palm Leaf, and il chiefly i'm.
ported from Cuba.
Whalebone IL no bone At al, nor does 1t
possess sny properties OF bone. It Is q
substance attached to the lower jaw OF the
whale, and seems to STRAIN the water.
which tho creature takes up in large
mouthfulls.
Sealing wax Il not was at al; nor does
it contains single particle of wax. 1t Is
made of shelIac, Venice turpentine. and
cinnabsr gives it the deep red color, and
the turpentine renders the shellac soft and
brittle.
Burgundy pitch is not pitch, nor Is 1t
or exported from Burgnn
dy. The best Is . resinOus substance.
prepared from common frapkincense. and
brought from Hamburg; and by tar the|
largest quantity is mixture of resln snd|
pa!m oil.
The old adage 10 1.-THE proof of the pud.
ding is in chewing the string" and vel
often demonstrate the fact 1t happened
this way. We had two Lens setting. oneI
on twelve duck eggs, the other on eight
turkey eggs, N the root cellar. During|
one Of our late hard rams the wafer ran
into the cellar and rather unjointed the
arrangements of the hen with the turkey
eggs. She struck TOR, not higher wages,
but dry roost. while the eggs foated
Quietly on the tide, but the tide ebbed and
|she renewed her avocation. In four days
from that time and during the high water,
our ditch could not contain what came
down, and by reason of numerous gopher
troles, this time the cellar was filled to
|overdowiLg. Ducks eggs and turkeys
hens and potatoes, all cha red the ZANE
fate and we're drenched, DRENCHED. For
several hours the eggs were rs cold Is the
water Of the rver, which was not hot
enough to make even . soft boil. Az we
had number of biddles that desired to
get = job Of setting, we thought we would
set them to work on these cold eggs to
see if they meant business, and also to
determine whether eggs that mad become
thoroughly cold would hatch. 10 due
time the duck hen came off with twelve
lliyelv duckltngs. That settled the hash
lin regard to ducks. But how about the
turkeys? Well, when the four weeks
came round six of the eight turkey eggs
Matched, and gave us nearly half 40 many
a. the high water had drowned several
Idays previous. This snnihilates the the
lory which we had always supposed true,
viz: that eggs would not hatch sitter hay
ling been set on for some time aud then
become cold.-[R. @. T. in Lariner Elk.
lprees.