Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1877-07-26
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Not many women are blacksmiths, but
most of them can ''shoO' hen.
What word may be pronounced quicker
by adding syllable to it? Quick.
Men who travel barefooted around a
newly carpeted bedroom often fiEd them>
selves on the wrong tack.
A Newark man set hen on blue glass
eggs. TLenext day she came off the nest
with forty eight chickens, and every one
of them Il rooster.
A prominent journalist IN New York,
who is perfectly bald, has offered a reward
of one thousand dollars for a tale that
will make bis hair stand on end.
One of Sir Royle Roche's invitations to
an Irish nobleman was rather cquiyocal:
~ hope, my lord, If ever you come with-
in mile Of my house, you will stay there
Iall night"
Mr.. John T. Raymond, while passing
the Treasury Department in Washington.
thea, IN quiet manner, ',here's millions
latter it,"
On hearing clergyman remark ''the
word was full Of change" Mrs. Parting
ton said she could hardly brig her mind
to believe it, so little found its way into
her pocket.
Il live IN Julia's eyes," said an affected
dandy in George Co.eman's hearing. Il
don't wonder at it, replied George,
''since observed she had styo IN them
when saw her last''
The man who inyents some way by
which fellow can take his liver out in
the spring, and hang it up in the back
yard and whip it as they do carpets, will
confer boon on his fellows.
"Ah, Jenny said sympathizing
friend to man who was just too late for
the train, you did not run fast enough"
Eyes, did, said Jenny, Il ran fast
enough, but l did not start soon enough"
A Gear old lady presented h.r son, ON
his departure for sea, with Bible. On
opening 1t during gale, it fell from his
hands, and out dropped fine tooth comb
and the admoni,ory book mark. Search
tdaily.'
An Alabama man refused to accept cer-
tain bank bills rendered him, because the
mules engraved upon them we're not
properly geared. He SAID that the en-.
graver had put the breeching upon the
lead mules insteal Of those at the wheels,
which made very grave state of affairs
in going down grade.
Beneath this stone my wife and l,
Back to back together lie,
More best than when in life's short space,
We lied like others face to face.
Now free from trouble, free from tear,
If she should sco.d, could not hear.
When the last trump the air shall fill
If she gets up, then I'll lie still.
In the Quaker cemetery at Lebanon, N.
Y, the graves are arranged at least TWEEN.
ty feet apart. This is wise precaution.
1t would be great scandal if a wife could
rise up at the sound cf Gabricl's trumpet,
anG find herself near enough to her hus-
band to reach out for him in the old earth.
ly fashion. -.--. q
At the close of the sittings in the iii.
nois House Of Representatives, tho clerk
read the following: II am requested to
announce that the Rev. DR.. Mcfarland
will deliver lecture this evening in tho
hall on the Education of Idiots Mem.
bers Of the Legislature inyited to attend"
One evening in Boston, just as WASH
ington Aston, the painter, was approach
ing the door of dwelling, where q splen.
did party had assembled, he suddenly
stopped short and said to his friend, II
cannot go in" Nonsense! why notP"
Il have hole in one of my stockings" 4"
'Pshaw. man, nobody knows it," ''Bus
l dO," said the celebrated artist.
"Massa, you know de m big glass shades
wha: am aribe last night? "Welly' said
his master-''Well, l was pcelin' de .p-
pies, when Mr.. johnson told me to bring
one oh dem out, and-"-''Wellf said
his. master impatiently.-"Well, just u I
was gwine to do--"-"You let II fan
and broke it, you careless scoundrelrs
anticipated the mastcr-"No, LidnV
nudder," said the negro, sulkily.-"Well.
what then?" said bis master, recovering.
"Why l struck him agin de corner OBJ do
shelf, and he brake hi~self all to pieces.''
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