Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1877-05-17
Ge7le1OZitieS.

Marbleized iron ware is pronounced by
the Harvard chemists ''alive with poison. "
People will do we'll to let it alone.
There are 4, 150, ,S67 Catholics in Ireland,
to ,2G0, $40 Protestants. OF the Protest.
ants, the Episcopalians are the most nu.
Imerous. constituting more than Onc-nalr,
or 667 1888.
The Secretary of the Treasury is about
to stop issuing one and two dollars green
backs. The idea is to stimulate the use of
coin, and prevent its accumulation for
speculative purpose.
An eminent French psychologist holds
that the numerical proportion of giants in
Zach generation is the same, and that
taking a hundred of the tallest men OF
any generation they will present just the
same varieties of stature as the hundred
tallcst men of the preceding one.
Faul de Chaillu says a parrot which he
taught to speak also transmitted his &C
quiremeuts to about twenty others, while
some of these escaping taught other
wild ones; so that one day he was sur
prised while walking in the forest to hear
French words blended with the chatter
ing Of number of these birds.
The Scriptures give four names to
Christians, taken from the four cardinal
graces so essential to mans salvation:
believers, for their faith saints, for their
holiness; brethren, for their love; disci>
+, Piles, for their knowledge.
People generally will be glad to know
that charcoal hes been discovered 10 be a
sure cure for burns. BY laying small
1piece of cold charcoal on the burn
the pain subsidies Immediately. by leav-
ling the charcoal on for an hour the wound
is healed, as has been demonstrated on
several occasions.
Florida has new law that juries shall
know how to read and write and also
know something about arithmetic. This
will bear as hard upon the whites as upon
the black population. The State ought
to go ahead now and require knowledge
of reading and writing on the part of each
voter. The stupidity of voters is about as
fatal to the wcll.being of States as the
stupidity Of jurymen.
Me-srs. Water and Oil
One day had a broil,
As down on the grass they we're dropping,
And would not unite,
But continued to fight,
Without any prospect of stopping.
Mr.. Pearlash o'erheard,
And quick as word,
He jumped in the midst of the clashing;
When all three agreed,
And united with speed,
And soap came out ready for washing.
The latest notion is to fell trees by cleo
tricity. A platinum wire is connected
with the two ends of the copper wire of a
salvanic battery. and thus becoming red
hot, is gently worked to and fro across
the trunk of the tree. In this manner b
tree which would require two hours hard
chopping to bring down can now be feiled
lin fifteen minutes. But would 1t no,
cost more for the battery than for the
lake?
According to the researches of an emf
Inent German naturalist. our earth has at
one time or other been inhabited by 1885,
Zoo kinds of animals, of which 20. 900 are
now extinct, while the other 135 900 are
still with US. Among the survivors are
&, 900 varieties of mammalia, 2,OO0 of
birds, 1900 creeping things, 5000 of fish,
loo, 900 Of insects. 1000 radiata, $500
|polypitera. !, 400 infusoria, and the German
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