Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1877-09-13
Wit and H1t711Or:

The flag of an nations.-The paving
stone.
-'Tr the Eist ham Of stunrrer hft bloom
ing alone.
The young man who said it was nip
ard tuck, went and tuck nip.
Lawyers should sleep well. 1t is i'm
meterial on which side they lie.
"A client is never certain about law
yer, and generally takes him on trial.
Why the call sensational report
''canard' is because one eanardly believe
it. you know.
| When can you be said to swallow
glassware: When you buy a tumbler and
goblet.
"A duke is one grade below prince,
and prints are worth about six cents n
yard.
How TO keep your nose from bleed
ing-keep it out of other peoples busi-
ness.
In the Black Hills, cats are worth ten
dollars piece. Boetjaeks are not quoted.
Two sisters-twins-hav to be told
everything together. because they are SO
exactly alike they can't be told apart.
A Wisconsin lumberman offers thirty
dollars in cash for III rattling good wife
one who is not too high-nosei to grow fat
on bean soup
A Japanese student newly arrived In
~; ~, all
because everybody took his hand and ask
ed after his health.
If your neighbours hens are trouble
some. and steal across the way, don't let
your angry passions risc-tiX place for
them to lay.
1T is suggested that one reason why
Californians hate Chinese is because the
latter introduced the fashion of having
shirts washed at least once per week.
The horse is noble animal; yet he
has an unpleasant way of slapping down
his hoOf in a mud puddle just when
fellow is going by in his duck pan,a-
looms.
"A stroke of lightning the other day
harm the boy. The reason was that he
had placed the boot under tree and gone
in swimming.
-''lIave you ever read about the tele
phOne:" was asked of a man in town II
few days ago.
IL s'pose have" replied the other, but
really forget whether he is Russian ora
T-,-l-:-'' .-"''"'"i II is ." hard TO get the
hang of these foreign generals
"A Pennsylvania Dutchman. who mar
ried his second wife soon after the funeral
of the first. was visited with two hours
serenade in token of disapprOval. lie ex-
postulated pathetically thus:
II say. poys. you ought to be ashamed
of yourselts to be making all dis noise ven
der vas funeral here SO sOOn."
-Mistress.-"Come. Bridget, how much
longer are you going to be about filling
that pepper-boX:'
Bridget.--(a fresh importation from
where they don't use pepper-castors)
'.Shure. ma am. an it's meself cant say
how long it'll be takin' me to get all this
stuff in the thing through the little holes in
the top
The Norristown Herald says:
A Pittsburgh paper speaks of Il young
nan ''who shot himself in the West End
)ne evening"" There is nothing like being
explicit. The young man is severely but
rot fatally wounded; but if he had shot
himself in the southwest end, and Il little
lOrtherly. veering southeasterly. there
would have been no hopes Of his rccov-
'ry.
An Ohio young man sat down the
,tller day and wrote ON the backs ofa
couple Of postal cards. Then he turned
hem over and directed them, but by some
nischanca placed the addresses ON the
wrong cards. The result was that shirt
in New York got Il very pc
lite invitation to go carriage riding some
where out in Ohio. while the young mans
,irl was made frantic by receiving the fol-
owing, please send me samples of the
tuff your shirts are made Of