Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1877-05-17
Other People.

A little girl seeing The Punch and Jud
show for The first time, asked her nurse
us this Moody ami sankeys'
General Roger A. Pryor, the ex-Con
federate, has been invited to deliver til
Decoration Day Grafton at Brooklyn, N
Y.
Boston men find comfort in the fac
that no man with small hands and fee
ever amounted to anything in the way o
brains.
Dr. Talmage's sermons are now printed
Regularly in eight American and Canadian
journals, and IN five British and Colonla
journals, all OF different denominations.
All the Japanese screws turn to the left
and all locks lock to the right, and why
they don't hitch up horse with his heaC
to the vehicle is more than any Yanke.
knows.
The Indian prisoners at st. Augustine
Florida, are learning to make stoga boots
It's romantic 10 see an old chief wallol
pegs and hold half q dozen brads in bis
mouth.
Gen. Grant wears his honors as easily
as he would an old shoe, but Mrs. Gran;
is said to be much elated at her exalted
position as the wife of the only living ex-
President.
Dull times have driven many merchants
to the cash system, and they are now
ornamentlnS their stores with notices
such as: PAY day, trust tomorrow; y
eff trust bust;'' "In God we trust
all others cash. "
The first barrel of kerosene oil which
reached Zanzibar was supposed to be ?
new kind of brandy, and some of the
natives nearly killed themselves hunting
for the point where the drink comes in.
The last gallon was given to the women
for hair oil.
General Beauregard is described as q
man below the middle height, with snow
white hair and moustache, and face seam-
ed with innumerable wrinkles, and vel.
low as kites claw. His long nose Gems
to reach below his upper lip. as he bends
his head and places his hands behind his
back, after the manner of 1.-THE little cor.
poral.''
'Poor Carlotta" has at last, it is report
ed heard of the fate of her husband. She
received the news calmly, but it is lmp0s-
sible to say whether or not she appreciates
its significance fully. She has occasional
fits Of delirium, and one phase..of her in
sanity has never quilted her, She is still
afraid that her food is poisoned, and re
fuses to partake Of it until some one else
has tasted it. She writes, paints, and
studies music.
A loyal friend Of poor Charles Marchal
the painter, who recently committed
suicide in Paris, said the other day:
"Oharles came once a week to dine at II y
house, and some amusement was caused
by his ferocious appetite. One of the
young people said to him: I like you,
but you eat too much And we all
laughed" And then with tears in his
eyes NJ lrchal's friend continued, Eyes,
we laughed-but now we cannot doubt
that tile poor fellow had probably had no
breakfast that day."
Ex-senator Alcorn, of Mississippi, de-
nounces Hayes Southern policy. and
it as the triumph of bull
DOING" Alcorn is one of the few South
ern white Republicans who is neither a
carpet-bagger nor scallawag. He was
in the Confederate army, and was known
as ''Old Fuss and Feathers. for lis mag
niticent capacities for dress parade. HIS
slain on the battle field have never been
counted. He has never been bad Re-
publican. and was principally distinguish
ed in the Senate for his prominent lack of
brains.