Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1877-11-22
Odds and Ends.

--Dana's income. ss e litor and stocl
" holder Of the N. Y. Sun. is S5O.OOO.
The United States annually shi,
O over 100000 boxes of clothes pins 70 En-,
land.
: Some of the wcd,lin. cards sent ou
D this fall have engraved upon them. N
\ presents" This is not rule, only excel
tional cases.
-Asparagls tops are made into lette
paper of the finest quality in France
This is the country where they waste moth
, ing.
Cheap nOn-explosive oil from wood
chiefly pine. is now extracted in Sweden
in fifteen factories, with favorable re
suits.
! "A New York chemist says he wants
nothing more than three pals. Il barre. o
old water and twenty cents worth of drug,
to make six gallons of just such champagne
as fools pay dollar pint for.
Wooden revolvers were found on the
:
surmised that he lad lost his real weapons
in gambling, and had devised these sub
sttutes to conceal his fault from his Com
mantler. q.
While playing the last act of the
Shaughraun ut LOUSY lie. the other night.
Bouciclllt accidentally shot and slightly
wounded an actress, one Mrs Whiting.
who was playing the part of his sweet
heart.
-Recentlv in London three men made a
wager as to which of them could drink the
greatest quantity of whisky. After they
had consumed three bottles amongst their.
one of them drank off fourth. He i'm
mediately became insensiblc. and notwilh-
standing every medical effort, expired in
two hours afterwards.
"A number Of cOnvicts in the peniten-
tiary, at Carson. Nevada. attempted to
break out. They seized Matthews. the
Deputy Warden. holding Aim before them
to intinlidate the guards from firing and
made rush for the gate. Matthews three
times ordered the guards to fire. They
finally obeyed. severely woundins Mat
thews and several of the conyicts. when the
Others surrendered. None of the gang
escaped.
What purportcd to be the remains of
Christopher Columbus were recently dis
inferred from the vault of the metropolitan
church in San Domingo city. The leaden
burial case was opened, and the interior lid
was found engraved,
ILLTSTRpTS AND NOBLE.
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS.
The bells oft the city We're r,In9. and cam
non salute fired in honor Of the dead dis
cOyercr.
Free M*sOns in France have been for a
long while doubtful as to the expeliency
of considering a belief in the Supreme Be-
ing as necessity to the order At a con-
ventiOn held recently an article of the con-
stitution which ran thus. Free Masonry
holds to the principle OF the existence of
God and OF the immortality of the soul"
was changed to read. Free Masonry holds
to the principle of an absolute freedom Of
conscience. and to the brotherhood of man.
kind" 1t excludes no one on account of
his religious belief.
Since the establishment of the national
bank system in this country. sixty national
banks have failed. four of them in Chicago.
At the present time. 2l1 banks are in pro-
cess OF liquidation. Thirty are reducin.
their circulation-seven in Chicago. twelve
in New York city. four in Boston. five IL |
st. Louis and two in Milwaukee.-The re-
duction of circulation is not now as rapid .
us formerly; at one time $50 banks had
deposits with the treasury department for
reduction; now the number is lO3.
A Canada farmer recently saw two men
to drive hoy past his house.
but the brute was so obstinate that they
finally told the farmer that if he would kill
it for them they would give him half the
meat. He accepted the offer with joyful
alacrity. and not only killed the hog but
dressed it into the bargain. after which the
strangers drove away with their half But
when the farmer went at night to feed his
own hog he found the pen empty, and it
did not take him long to discover that he
had killed his own property, receiving half
Of it for his trouble.
One million postal cards per day are
thrown off by two Hoe cylinder presses.
md the supply is no greater than the de-
mand. The New York post-office author
ties, and we suppose the postmasters and
mail agents everywhere. pronounce the
postal cards at the New York post-Oflice
range from $1,000 to 100000, and tie sales
IRE steadily increasing, ca,lsin" a falling
off Of 81 600 per day in tie sale of stamps.
1t seems rather douDtful sort of hon
)r to have ones portrait put upon stamps
or lager beer kegs. yet that is the sort of
glory that is thrust upon some of.our
great men. Thus the new stamp for the
Eighth of barrel is blue. with the vignet,c
If Washington for center piece; the sixth
of barrel, brown, with a vignette of
Thomas Corwin; One-tourth barrel green.
with vlgnette of Thomas II. Benton; one
bird barrel. purple. with vignette of Gen.
ieorge Fl. Thomas; cnc-half barrel. buff.
With vignette of Jefferson; barrel, pink.
With vignette of ex-President johnson:
,ogshead, black, with vignettc of Silas
Wright.
She Wanted u Change.