Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1877-11-01
OdMs and Ends.

"A reporter one aptly called an unsu,-
&C; sful p';n,ers' Like i '.typoc.so:lical
error"
Why is 4 business man who does not
advertise IKE Enoch Alden? Because he
sees no sale from day to day.
He who rises too suddenly to the
heights of fancy will find, 10 his cost. how
deep is tie descent to tie abyss of disap-
pointmelt.
There are 1880 niles Of railroad in
the world. North America has $4,000
miles. all Ea.ppe, $4,000, Asia, 5000, and
Africa, l,5OO.
-Rochefoucault said that the rea5on
why lovers are SO fond Of one another's
company is that they are always talking
about themselves.
Frank Leslie, the failed publisher, it is
said, used to be Henry Carter. wood
cngraver in London, who changed his
name and came to New York for reasons
of his own.
The fashions in gentlemen's clothing
rarely ever vary. We have it from good
authority that the style this season will be
a pair of pants, a vest and a coat, the same
as usual.
When boy does something funny and
YOU laugh at it, he will invariably keep on
doing it twenty or thirty times mole, till
you are compelled to knock him down with
something.
-''Sad thing to lose your wife," said
Fl lend to Vermonter, who stood 1T the
grave of his wife. "Well, tOlerably sad,'
Ien.iel the mOurner, ''but thea, her clothes
just fit my Oldest girl"
When the coachman of Frederick the
Great upset his coach, Frederick swore
like trooper. but the cOachman coolly
asked: "And you, did you never lose a
battle?' The King smiied graciously.
Ex-Governor Packard has gone out OF
politics, and spends all his time feeling the
gums of the twins tor teeth, and trying to
teach them tC talk. And when the twins
are simultaneously slnitten with the worst
kind of nocturnal differentiation cole
Packard Just sits up in bed and holds hi
| hands over his ears. and says: ''Mercifu
heavens! This is worse than the rive
parishes
Indications of prehistoric people
which are plentiful, in Southwestern Colo
RADIO, have lately been discovered in West
, ern Nevada. Antique pottery and unde
e cipherable writings on the rocks are tn
, most common tokens. Al one place, en-
! graved upon rock, is the nude figure OF
r man, holding in his right hand shrub
the outlines of which show cOnsiderabl
artistic skill.
A rough North Carolinian, going Wes
, with his dozen children and his two doze
J. dogs. recently got on board steamer at
Kentucky landing, and his first questio
was: .'How much will you charge, Cap'E
to take us to St. Louis?' "Will you 60 o
h deck, or in the cabin?'' "Wal, Cap'D, rV
: lived in cabin all my life, and s'pose tn
t cabin IL be good enough for me now."
Trials have been made in Rome Of
IS solution of chloride of calcium as sui
# stitute for water in laying dust in tn
Y streets. and the results are laid to be higi
" satisfactory. The dampness commun
Gated 10 the road remains for who
: week, The road remains damp witho'
= being muddy, presenting hard surface
S on which neither the wind nor the passin
: :, of pedestrians has any effect.
/ The World tells the story of a dog tn;
saved the lives of ships crew at Colon
bo. A ship named the Julia Ann, havin
!: grounded. a difficulty arose as to how
70 line could be got from the ship to the Ian
u in order to rescue the crew. Several Inc
fectual efforts were made, when the CAPITA
l thought him of fastening a line around Il
ct - Az. chime doc a fine retrieve