Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1877-07-19
This and That.

What word contains all the vowels ir
their proper orler?-Facetious.
Mems evil manre ers live In brass, theil
VIRTUES we write in water.
There are 5,9l3layyers in the Empire
IState, of whom 1888 haye their head
quarters in the city Of New York.
Bishop Mackinnon took lately from
Nova Scotia 10 Rome proofs of one thou
sand conversions TO Roman Catholicism.
The Turkish divers at Poti are destroy.
ing the Russian torp.does almost as fas'
las they can be put in position.
When Miss Nelson appnars on the Bos
ton stage, dressed in her 81 karat diamond
set in frosted gold, the audience lose sight
Iof Ter dramatic ability.
An English woman. who was born
without arms. as just had twins. She
wears her wedding ring on her toe, and
does all the housework with her feet with
Ia dexteri'y that is surprsirg. How she
will manage to nurse her twin babies IS q
IPrODlem yet 10 De SOiYed.
We can all find trouble without going
very far; and very likely, too, We can al
ioe Ike the old colored womai in New
York, who, hearing the Jubilee melody
"Nohohy knows the trouble I've seen,''
lsaid, eyes, and nobody knows how much
less trouble we might see If we would on
Ily stop looking for it,"
The grain crop of Kansas this year is
|estimated by an enthusiastic correspond
ent at 100000, geo bushels, of which so,
1000, 900 are corn. 20,0c0,OOO wheat, anG
the balance made up of oats, barley, rye
and other small grains. The value Of last
years crop, despite drouth and grasshop'
per ravase, was SAB, 100000. This year il
Will probably reach Sc, 900, 600.
(which language has the greatest nun
bcr OF words, and how many are there III
each of the principal ones 20 There ar.
twenty thousand words in TIE Spanish
twenty-five thousand in Latin; from
twenty two to twenty-five thousand il
the English, thirty thousand in French
forty i've thousand in Italian /; fifty thou
sand in Greek, and eightv thousand it
German. There are one thousand radlca
words in Hebrew. and thee hundred ant
sixty Chal:iaic words III the Bible.
There has laleiy been discovered il
Nicaragua plant which has e,ec!ro-mag
nctic properties. If you tear off brancl
you experience an effect as though you hat
struck battery. Tbc discovcrer coult
not ty careful an a'ysis detect any mag
nc',c metallic substance in the surroundin,
soil. The intensity Of the shock varie
aceoriing to the hour. At night it j
scarcely perccp'ible. Al 1 p. N. it i
strongest. Birds and insects never seen
10 alight on it.
A curious result of Arctic exposur
was observed in the case of those VIII
were absent from the Alert for the lor
lslcdge Journey. The HAIR OH their face
b;eached nearly .hite. The loss of colo
vas gradual, AID although motto d, wa
never allud' d to, each one imagining tha
his companions s hair was turning gra.
from effects of hardship and anxiety.
was OILY after their return to the shi
that those possessing boards and nous
tschcs discovered the change of hue i
their own hair. The color gradually re
turned in about three or four weeks,
1t is very evident that some of the oc
,cupants Of thrones In Europe are yer
sensible people, as instanced in the tae
that every son Of the reigning family i
Germany has to learn . trade. Kaise
Wilhelm is a glazier; Unser Fritz is
ype-stickcr. Here is an example worth
of imitation by the heads of all familie
in America. Every boy, whether ''bor
with gold spoon in his MOUTH" so
speak, or the offspring of poor parents
should be familiar with the intricacles O
some hardlcraft.
This epigram is said to have been writ
ten BY Peter Tindar on a blank leaf Q
u Paine's cage of Reason:
Tommy Paine wrote this book to prov
| that the Bible
j Was an old woman's dream of fanclt
most idle;
} That Solomon's proverbs were made b
low livers;
/ That prophets were fellows who sun
| semiquayers;
That religion and miracles all were
jest,
!, And the DEVIL IN TORMENT tale Of Il
5 priest.
}, Though Beelzebub's absence from hell I
( maintain,
; Yet we all must allow that the DEVILS
i PAINE" ....-.#.=