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Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1877-03-01
The SNltnesS of the Sea.

The proportion of salt in the ocean 10
generally about three or four per cent,
though it varies in different seas and in
the same sea at different seasons and at
various depths. The Atlantic Ocean is
mere saline than the Pacific; the Antarc-
tic than the Arctic. The safest part of
the Pacific is in latitude 22o N and ITO
S. of the Equator. The least saline water
is in the Polar Seas, where the melting Of
the Polar ice freshens the water. Tho
surface is often less salt than the deeper
parts of the sea, owing to the flowing
into the ocean of large quantities Of fresh
water from rivers. Deep seas are gener-
ally more saline than those that are shall
low, and inland seas than the ocean, but
this depends on the proportion that tho
river water. flowing into the sea, bears T.
the evaporation from Its surface, and also
partly to the influx Of salt water. Tbs
Mediterranean, for example, in its deeper
parts is much more sal; than the open sea,
but the Baltic much less 80.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1877-03-01
Billiards..

A pawnbroker, named William Kew,
invented the game of billiards about the
middle Of the sixteenth century. During
wet weather, he was in the habit of taking
down the three balls and with the yard
measure pushing them, billiard fashion,
from the counter into the stalls; in time
the idea of board with side pockets
suggested itself. A black letter MS says:
Master William Kew did make ono
board whereby game is played with
three balls, and all the young men were
greatly recreated thereat, chiefly tho
young cler2ymen from st. Pawles. hence
one of ye strokes was named cannon,
savlng been by ono of ye SAID cler-
gymen invented. This game is now
known BY ye name of Billyard, because
William or Bill Kew did first play with
his yard measure. The stick is now called
kew or "cuc' 1t is easy to comprehend
how "Bill-yard" has been modernized
into Billiard, and the transformation of
kew" or ''kue" into cue is equally sp.
parent.
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Directory or IederNI and Ter
7'ifOriNE Officers Of
.NONfNslN.
Delegat" in Congress,
Hon. MARTIN MAGINNIS, Helena.

Office. Name Residence.
Governor......B. F. POTTS....... Helena
Secretary-...J T.. CALLAWAY.. Helena
Chief Justice. ID. S. WADE. Helena
III N BLAKE, Va.City
Associate Justices HENRY KNOWLES
Deer Lodge
U. S, Dist. Atty M Z PAGE. Helena
U. S. Marshal...W + WHEELER.
Territorial District Attorneys.
1st Dist. J G SPRATT......V Virginia City
81 Dist, J Il TOOLE................... Helena
3d Dist, A IL MAYHEW......Det Lodge
Clerk lst Dist. Court, L MUFFLY, Vir
Clerk ID Dist. Court, OBJ o'BANNoN
Deer Lodge
Clerk 3d Dist. Court, A II BEATTIE
Helena
Surveyor General. A J SMITH,. Helena
Register Land fife. ii MOE. +"
r. ceivcr Land Office, + Z STERLING
Helena
Coll' ctor Internal Revenue, T P Full.
LER, Helena
Collector Customs, 7 CUMMINGS
Helena
Bozeman Land District.
X gisier, ID W1LLSON....-... BoZem N
Receiver. j V BOGERT....."..... .BozemaD
United States Assay Office.
Superintendent of Construction United
S'atcs Assay Office, NJ A. MEYEN-
DORFF, Helena; Disbursing Agent
L Z FULLER, Helena; Clerk, K c.
Wal kER, Helena.
United States Commissioners.
GEORGE CLENDENIN, Jr., Carroll.
JAMES NJ ARMOUR, Benton.
ISAAC II ALDEN, Helena.
JOSEPH J WILLIAMS, Helena.
T MUFFLY, Virginia City
w p BUhCHER. Sun RIVER.
GEORGE f COWAN, Rad, rsburg.
JOHN POTTER. Hamilton.
GEORGE w IRVINE. ID. Deer Lodge
ORVILLE b U'BANNON, Deer Lodge.
FRANK II WOODY. Missoula.
Territorial Officers.
Auditor, d II CUTHBERT.... .. Helena
Treasurer ID H WESTON........ Helena
Warden of Penitentiary, N FISH. ID, er
Lodge.
Sup't Pub. Schools C HEDGES Helena
Supreme Court Reporter, e HEDG ELS
Helena.
Clerk Supreme Court, ISAAC r ALDEN
Helena
United States Examining Surgeon.
THOMAS REECE............... Helena
Registers in Bankruptcy.
CLARENCE EWING. Sd Dist. Helena
THEOPHILUS MUFFLY...-..Va City.
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laOudln.

Houdin. the conjurer, used to tell IF 9
Count de Tolrlni, who. being redue ed tc
poverty, took to the display of his skill
as conjurOr for the means OF Lying. He,
too, used to do the William Tell trick, and
place the apple on the head of his son, OF
whom he was devotedly fond. On one
occasion, when continued success and a
crowded audience had raised his spirits to
the highest state of pleasurcable excite.
ment, he placed the apple on his dear
boys head, aimed and fired. TO his as
the boy fell fiat upon his
face on the stage. At first he smiled, and
then his face grew white with terrible
tear. He raised his son. The boy was
dead. 1t must have been an awful scene
to witness. Frantic with horror he dc.
nounced himself as murderer and de-
justice On the slayer of his SON
himself. He afterwards confessed that
he exhibition had been no fair feat of
skill. but a mere cOnjuring trick. The
ramrod removed the bullet-as he thought
with unerring certainty, but in this case
It had failed to do so, and his son g life
had been sacrificed in consequence.
TO do business a man must have dollars
lnu ncllae
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INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

| Virginia, the Mother of Presidents, de
rives larger revenue from oysters tha,
does Louisiana from sugar.
How New York butchers can ship sresl
beef across the Atlantic and sell it cheap
er than at home, is still bothering mathe
maticians.
| Rhode Island has had more failures ii
proportion to its population than any
other State. The individual Indebtedness
of the failing merchants has averaged
more, also.
Five thousand destitute persons are sup
ported this winter by the city of St
Louis; the same number by Baltimore,
and eleven thousand by Newark, New
Jersey.
Coal is gradually increasing in price in
England, and the prophets who said
steam would drive sails from the ocean
are hedging or trying to fad some new
fuel which will be cheap.
Turkish contracts in arms and ammu-
milton are putting al immense amount of
money into the pockets of Come rcticut
manufacturers. Bridgeport is one of the
livellest towns in the country, and her
shops are running night and day.
The steel flotlla which is now being
b1ilt for the British navy. and which is to
consist of two ships of extraordinary
swiftncss and six powerful corvcttes, is
being rapidly pushed forward. All of
them will be cascd in wood except at the
Prov, which will consist OF a single gun
metal casting. The two larger vessels arc
to be fleet dispatch boats, with a speed of
not less than 90 miles All hour. They
will measure nearly 1000 tons, and be fit
ted with engines of 1000 horse power.
E quimaux spectacles arc (says Deardrn)
another of their articles which struck US
rs curious and well-contrived. They con-
sist of piece of wood scraped thin, like
a aldAge, and perforated with two mar
row horizontal Sits, something Ike pigs
yes, where we would have glasses; al
rim about al inch brad projects in the
same direction as that of hat would; and
This simple mechanical process, tied about
The nose, proc the eyes from the drift.
ing snow and specul9, and improves the
sharpness of the sight.
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4 MischievOus Boy Sells Mr.
Astronomer.

They say that the Chief astronomer at
the Washington Observatory was dread
fully sold few days ago. A wicked
boy, whose Sunday School experience
seems only to have made him more de-
PRAYED, caught flre-fy and stuck it,
with the aid of some mucilage, in the
center of the largest lens in the telescope.
That night. when the astronomer went to
work, he perceived blaze Of light ap-
parently in the heavens, and what amazed
him more was that it would give couple
of spurts and then die out, only to burst
forth again in second or two. He ex
amined it carefully for few moments.
and then he began to do sums to discover
where in the heavens that extraordinary
star was placed. He thought he found
the locality, and the next morning he
telegraphed all over the universe that he
had discovered new and remarkable star
Of the third magnitude in Orion. In a
lay or two all the astronomers in Europe
md America were studying Orion, and
hey gazcd at it for hours. until they were
mad, ard then they began to telegraph to
he man at Washington to know what he
meant. The discoverer took another look
md found that the new star had moved
bout eli ghtecn billion miles in twenty.
our hours. and upon examining it close
y he was alarmed to perceive that it had
egs! When be went on the dome. the|
ext morning. to polish up his glass he
ound the lightning bug. People down
t Alexandria, seven miles distant, heard
art of the swearing, and they say he in
used into it much whole-souled sincerity
nd vigorous energy. The bill for tele-
raphic dispatches amoCnted to So, 600,
nd now the astronomer wants to find
hat boy. He wishes to consult with him
D. ut something.
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CanphOr Wood.

The Camphor- wood boxes brought from
China and the East are we'll known for
their strong preservative odor, and are
found useful i'll keeping away moths from
woOlens and furs. The China ana Japan
Camphor tree belongs to the Laurel family.
and that of Sumatra and Bornto is the
Dryobalanops Camphora. Even the
leaves and fruit smell of camphor. In
Sumatra this tree is abundantly met with
on the west coast, chiefly in the extensive
bush, but seldom in places more than 1000
feet above the level of the sea. The tree
is straight, extraordinarily tall, and has a
gigantic crown, which often ovcrtops the
other woody giants by 100 feet or so. The
stem is sometimes 20 feet thick. The
Barus camphor of this island is the most
Iesteemed Of any, and it is for this drug.
|obtained in but small quantities-sel seldom
more than half pound to tree-that it
lis ruthlessly destroyed. The tree when
felled, is divided into small pieces, and
these are afterwards split, upon which
the carphor, which is found in hollows
|or crevices in the body of the tree, and
above all, in kuo5s or swelliugs of branch
leg from the trunks, becomes visible in
form of granules or grains An essential
|oil also exudes from the tree in cutting
which is sometimes collected, but it Is
scarcely remunerative. On the west coast
|of Formosa there are forests IF camphor
wood, and great deal of crude camphor
lis shipped thence TO Annoy and other
Chinese ports. Large quantities of the
wood are sawn into planks. Tables and
cabinets are then made of it, and it is also
turned into platters and washing basins.
Only small portion of the vast camphor
forest of Formosa has been reclaimed
from its wild inhabitants, and this con-
sisls of fine tall trees, the growth of ages.
When tree ls felled, the finest part of
the wood is sawn into planks, the rest
chopped small and boiled down for the
Icamphor.
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GeneralitieS.
Foresight Is simple, aiterthought very

Foresight Is simple, aiterthought very
complicated.
England's big gun, which weighs eighty
tons and cost quarter of a million dol
lars, IS cracked.
Jack langrishe is putting a half hitch
into his own back with pick and shovel
ID the Black Hills.
Nyou multiply 9S7,G54,S2l by 45 you
viii! find that you have only two figures
in the result. Try it.
The Southern States now owe S150,OO0,
600 in dcfaulted bonds which they can
never hope to pay.
George H. Corliss is talked of for Re-
publican candidate for Governor in Rhode
Island. He ought to know how to run
the machine.
An exchange says only one church is
now standing in New York city that was
in existence in l776-St. paul's, Broadway
and Fulton street.
"BiiZzard" is a rev word which would
be likely to get a footing if it had def
mite meaning. In Minnesota, a blizzard
is violent and cold storm of wind and
snow.
Water, though we'll warmed, would
|quench, nevertheless, the fire that warmed
lit. Thus may the character OF treacher
(ous person be described.
At a fair in Fail River, Mass. saw
and saw horse awarded to the LATEST man
in town were given back by the recipient,
who declared himself too lazy to carry
them home.
Parson Brownlow says that the election
|of ex Governor Isham Harris TO the SEN
ate is measure of revenge against the
dead lion, Andrew johnson, by the living
|secessionist jackasses." The old Parson
still lives, it appears.
An ''overworked woman writes to q
prominent New York journal to suggest
''that every female child that shall be born
for year to come shall be smothere4
and every third female child in the years
thereaftcr.''
The London World states that in the
archives OF the British Colonial Office is a
letter from Benjamin Franklin, asking
for an appointment as distributor of the
very stamps which brought about the In
dependence of the United States.
4 fire at Fort Ripley recently destroyed
the quarternlaster and commissary store
houses With nearly all their contents; two
sets of officers quarters and four laundry
quarters, besides other buildings. The
telegraph apparatus was also destroyed.
President Grant, in reply to resolution
of the House, gives reasons for sending
troops to the South and recalls preceden is
ic Democratic administrations, among
them one where troops were used by exc
cu!ive order to force the return of fugitive
slaves, without the call of the Legislature
or the executive of the State.
The bull worship of the Egyptians
finds its parallel 10 the fox worship of the
Japanese; dogs are protected from harm
by public edicts in Yeddo, as in Consran-
Iinople ,sndto kill stOrk is as great crime
N the eyes of the japanese as to kill an 4
is in the eyes of an English sailor.
The Pope has offered a plenary indul-
yeLca to Ill who, on last Ohristmas day
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Wit tandHunOr,

! A sequel to the "SOng Of ShiF,"-the
I''Tale of Coat"
The excuse base ball nine put in last
autumn was that 'lhe pitcher was full. :"
Spilkens always insists on spelling nee-
die medic. lie says every needle should
have All eye in it. Sew!
! 1t is said of an uptown man that hia
manner is so cold that when dog bit
him in the leg it had its teeth frozen.
A plain old Danbury gentleman saya
that the nearest approach to jewelry he
ever wore was a stone bruise on bis heel.
A Philadelphia shoe merchant wrote to-
his wife that he had become convert to-
cremation, and she SAID: go ahead; have
your sshes returned G. o. d. to me-"
| would l were schoolmarm
And among the schOolmarms band
With smal! boy stretched across my knee
And-a ruler in my hand.
on are nuisance. I'll commit you,"
said al offended Judge TO a noisy person
in court you've no right to commit
nuisance" SAID the waggish offender.
Laughter throughout the courtroom.
The powerful effect of Minnesota's
life giving atmosphere is receiving new
proof every day. The grasshoppe1 relief
business has developed woman IN Slb-
ley county 2S years old with ii children
and not twin.
The skeleton of a cat walked into
Ryan's store at Hohokus. Ryan, seeing
her. bawled out, mickey, didn't l tell
you a month ago to fade that cat a round
of mate day till ye had her fat?"
"Iou did, and I'm just after fadin' her
a pound"
HAS that cat ate pound this morn
in'?'
"Yes, sir.''
"Shure, think it's lie ye're tclln'
Bring me that scales. Now bring me that
cat"
The cat turned the scale at exactly one
pound.
There, didn't tell ye she had eaten a
pound of mate this mOrnin'?"
"All right, me boy; there's yer pound
Of mate, but where the divil's the cat?''
The man who teaches penmanshlp
should do what is write.
Every donkey that has cold nowadays
flatters himself that he is horse.
Bread is the staff of life, and liquor tho
former sustaining man, and
the latter elevating him for fall.
Why is drunkard like a bad politi-
clan? Because he is always poking his
nose into measures that spoil the cons,i-
tuition.
At a recent meeting Of the Nashville
Medical Society, an essay was read on the
interesting subject, why do we die?''
The conundrum will doubtless be an
swered by some manufactured blonde.
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POetrv.
The Sewing Machine.

oo' one! Don't say! Which did yo
/ get?
One of the kind to open and shct?
own 1t or hire it? How much did yo
paw?
Ooes u 90 with crank or treadle? Saw
I'm single man, and somewhat green
Tell me about your sewing machine"
Listen, my boy, and hear all aboutit-
don't know what should do without il
I've owned one now for more than a wear
And like it so well call it my dear"
lis the cieverest thing that ever wa
seen,
This wonderful family sewing machine
It's none of your angular Wheeler things
With steel-shod beak and cast-iro,
wings;
Its work would bother hundred Of his
And is worth a thousand. Indeed it is.
And has way-you needn't STARE
Or combing and braiding its own bach
hair!
Mine is not one of those stupid affairs
That stands in corner with what.not.
and chairs.
And makes that dismal, hcadachy noise,
Which all the comfort of sewing destroys;
No rigid cOntrivance of lumber and steel
But one with natural spring in the heel
Mine is one of the kind to love,
And wears shawl and soft kid glove
Has the merriest eyes and dainty foot,
And sports the charmlngest gaiter boot,
And bonnet with feathers, and ribbons
ana loops,
With any indefinite number of hoops.
None OF your patent machines for me,
Unless Dame Natures the patentee!
like the sort that can laugh and talk,
And take my arm for an evening walk,
That will 10 whatever the owner may
choose.
With the slightest perceptible turn Of the
screws.
One that can dance, and-possibly-firt; i;
And make pudding as well as shirt;
One that can sing without dropping a
stitch,
And play the housewife, lady, or witch
Ready to give the sagest advice,
Or do up your collar aad things 50 NICE
S7hat do you think Of my machine?
Amt it the incest that ever was seen?
Tlsn't clumsy, mechanical toy,
But flesh and blood! hear that, my boy!
With turn for gossip, aud household af
fairs,
Which include, you know, the sewing of
tareS.
Tut, tut-don't talk! 1 see you're in a
thrall;
needn't keep winking so hard at the
wall;
know what your fidgety fumblings mean;
Would you like yourself sowing ma
chine?
Well, get one, then-of the same design
There were plenty left where got mine.
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YELLOWSTONE FIELD NOTES.
BY j. v. BOGERT.
No. III.

From the New North Westj
BIG HORN VALLEY
Iat this point is more than mile in width
and extends-in q direction 70 west OF
'south-to the foot of the Big Horn noun
tains, % miles away. The grass is every
where good. The river runs about halt
las much water as the Yellowstone, and
upon the opposite side washes steep
sandstone buffs 100 feet high.' The
valley soon increases in width to between
4 and miles, when SIX miles below we
reach
BEAUvAIs CREEK
which runs 4osouth of east through a
finely timbered valley bottom.
ROTTEN GRASS CREEK
lis next reached-running from the south
east through a ravlne IL feet deep. This
stream, ten feet wide and two feet deep,
is situated in good hay country. A few
miles lower the valley narrows to 400 to
500 yards in width, but soon again open
ing incr, ases to width of one mile, when
SOAP CREEK
is crossed-dlstance from Fort Pease, "a
miles. "All day long," says McClernand.
I'VE have been marching through a mag
niflcent valley, about 215 miles wide, with
a rich black loan soil, producing luxurl-
ant grass. The loot hills increase in fer
tility, while the Fort Pease sandstone
here gives place to granite, always the
herald of better and more plentiful wood,
water and grass. Altogether it is the finest
piece of tillable land have seen in Mon
tana. Not stone or cactus is found 10
the valley, and water is everywhere
abundant"
THE HAY FIELDS OF OLD FORT C. F. sMITF,
living in a direction south 80 , west, come
next upon tue way. 'Mo-t of the walls. :
saws McClerDand, "aIe yet standing
built of sdobes upon stone foundations
the roofs fallen in. The flagstaff lies
across the parade, and from the manner
in which 1t is cut, We suppose it wss ielled
by Indians. The cemetery is least in
iured of all, and the monument erected TO
The late Lieutenant Sternberg and fifteen
soldiers ami citizens. is but little defaced,
The corners only having been chlgped
awsy with a hatchet. This nonument.
by sorrowing friends. and sand.