Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1877-09-13
Odds and Ends.

TO be at oncein any great degree loved
and praised is truly rare.
Where most people have to 90 fol-
summer rccreation-''To work.
/ i am persuaded that every time man
smiles (but more 50 when he laughs) it adds
something to his fragment of lfe.-Ste,me.
A modest young country editor says
sour editorials have been crowded out this
week by Il pressure of interesting reading
matter.'
Two counties in Texas would make
sixty Rhode Islands, if they had the peo-
pie, and the enterprise, and the water
power.
The latest umbrella is packed in Il hOl-
low stick. The carrier touches Il spring.
and the umbrella shoots out and spreads
itself
One of the firemen ut recent fire in
the western part of the State, when he found
the hose not long enough to reach from
the hytllant to the burning building. call
ed in his excitement for the men to bring
up the hydrant.'
1t is the great privilege of poverty to
be happy unenvied, to be healthy without
physics. secured without a guard, and to
obtain from the bounty of nature what the
great and wealthy are compelled to pro-
cure by the help Of art.
How many common figarative express
sions in our language are borrowed from
the art of carpentery may be seen in the
following sentence: 1.-The lawyer filed a
bill. shavcda note. cut an acquaintance.
split Il hair. made IN entry. got up Il c;,se
framed an indictment, impanneled a jury.
put them in Il box, nailed Il witness, ham
mered Il judge. and bored Il whole court
lis there an opening here for an intel
lectlml writer'::' said very re,l-f.ced youth
with the cork of bottle sticking out OF
his bre:ist-pocket. The editor, with much
dignity. took the young mans intellect in
and said. IAN opening? yes sir; Il kind and
considerate carpenter, ,foreseeing your visit,
left an opening foryou. Turn the knob to
the right"
"A writer in a recent article on rail-
roads mentions the fact that upon certain
railroad the deaths from accidents for the
year averages one man and scvcn-eighths
Of !. man Il day. Its awful to contemplate !
what a solitary life the other eighth-the
portion-of the man has. living
.ll alone in.tlis cold world. Perhaps it is
A foot, and can't pull Il stocking on. for the .
other seven-eighths of the man amt there
to take hold Of the top with his teeth
md draw 1t on. Or suppose it is-well. |
we might 90 farther. but we think the wri-
.cr on railroads has made mistake some
where.
Instead of asking the blessing on sit
ing down at the table, family up town
laye for years been following the custom
)f repeating verses from the Bible, each
)ne repeating one. commencing with the
lead of the family. A few days since a
1oung man in the family brought up to
Inner with him young friend who was
lot aware of the custom and ready at all
lines to get in Il word of merrinent.
When they sat down at the table the friend
vas placed next to the head of the family,
who began the worship by repeating: 1.-The
owe of money is the root of all evil" The
riend took it that the remark was made to
lin, and replied by well, pass along the
'oot.'
Peter Cooper barely missed becoming
hat thrittless sort of fellow they call ''a
lack at all trades and good at none." He
'egan life as an apprentice to coach
maker; then he made machines for shear
ne cloth; next he became grocer; then he
'egan the manufacture of glue and isin-
lass; then he went to making iron .and
wire; and finally he studied telegraphy.
md now he perhaps feels that
lis life has been almost wasted.
f lie had stuck to one thing at the start
nd pushed it along with vim and energy
nd industry and all that sort of thing, he
night to-day have been in comfortable cir
rs it is, eight or ten millions
f dollars would probably cover every
hing he is worth in the world. 1t is hard ;
V worth while to admOnish the young
zen of the country to take warning from {
is example. They won't do it.
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A PyrOtcchiMic Goat.