Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1877-07-26
Here and There.

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ing dresses.
Bonnets are smaller than at the begin
ming of the season.
Canvas slippers are cheap and fashion
able, and are trimmed to match the dress.
1t is rumored that Rev. DR.. Chaplin o1
New York has fesigned his pastorare be,
cause Of the proposed reduction of his
salary.
Tx Queen Isabella is quarrclirg with
her son, King Alfonso, because he pro.
poses to marry princess who is not a
Catholic.
The English people talk plainly abou,
the avarlciousness and pecunlary meanness
Iof the Queen, especially IN all domestic
matters.
Rev. A. J. Munday, who is now preach
ing in Nashville. Tennessee, was once a
clown in circus, a tight-rope walker and
a clog dancer.
Ching Slang Bong, Chinese, is lectur-
ing in New York city. and they are talk :
ing of erecting Buddhist temple in that
benightei place.
1t is fashionable for young ladies to
wear the watch hanging with a chain at
the waist. The fan is also hung dangling
in the same way.
A "child wife" is among the latest ar
rivals at Castle Garden. She is 13 years
'of age, and her husband is Mennonite,
I22 years old.
Petroleum oils are coming into use for
dressing leather, and are claimed to be
much better and cheaper than animal oils
for that purpose.
There may not be gold, but there's no
question about the quantity of lead in the
Black Hills. Every Iudian has a gun full
of it, and isn't bit s,ingy.
The College of Romish Cardinals has
ordered the Romish clergy in France to
actively support MacMahon's candidates
in the coming elections
1t is little remarkable that only one of
our first seven Presidents had a son, :,
Adams, ard he succeeded his father in tue
occupancy Of the White House.
Departures for rural resorts are increas-
ing, The street-preacher, the curbstone
musicians and the champion destroyer of
corns are fast joining the innumerable
caravan.
Maud Oswald tried last week at Chicago
to ride 800 miles 10 twenty-six hours, bu,
was withdrawn after going 1C5 miles,
through her DOCTORS orders and against
her will.
Somebody has taken the trouble to keep
a record of the number of kittens born to
a New England cat. The number has
reached 103, and the prospects are en- :
couraging.
The expectation of American beef to
Europe has almost ceased. The matter
was rushed so that the price of the article
rose too high here, and expectation was
nippel in the bud.
So soon rs boil becomes hard and in
famed, paint it with iodine. The poison
will not be scattered, but absorbed by it.
Another authority says: "Do nothing for
boJs, but bathc them in tepid water -
Many women of the Russian wealthy
class have enrolled themselves as hospital
nurses for the army. Their uniform is 8
gray dress, on the breast of which is 3 rcd
cross; a white hood, and short black
cloak.
Nothing is palmer than that under our
present mode of farming wheat growing
will cease to be profitable within a few
years. ALREADY Michigan wheat has lost
its once popular standing in the Eastern
market.
The Bey of Tunis has decorated Thad
deus Fairbanks, inventor of Fairbanks
scales. with the order of commander. Thus
man scales the rugged heights aud finds
the weigh to glory.
The Danube at Widdin is so wide that
one side can scarcely be seen from the
other At Rutschuk, Turtukai and Sllis-
tria it is 75J metres wide, or something
less than half a. mile.
1t looks now very much as though the
apport,c nment of 1880 will augment the
political power both of the West and
Northwest. THIS will necessarily increase
the strength and names of the Democratic
party in the great struggle OF 1880.
Manv will be surprised to learn that the
number of employees in the Departments
at Washington has been reduced over lOOO
since the Inauguration of President
HAYES. The amount saved thereby is
$4,000 per day. That is something for
HAYES three months of office.
A statue of Moses, to be placed on
fountain in Paramount, has arrived In
Philadelphia. 1t is seventeen feet high,
weighs about fifteen tons, and is 80 large
that it could not be accommodated In the
hold of the vessel, and it was put on the
main deck. f""+
Lieutenant Flipper, the colored cadet
who graduated from West Point in the
class of the present year. and who, not
withstanding his social ostracisln by the
whole Academy, maintained his standing
with great honor to himself, has been ap,
pointei to the 10th Cavalry, colored reg.
imeut now STATIC led in Texas.
At the dedication OF drinking fount-
ain in Pittsfeld, Massachusetts. Senator
Dawes made an address. accepting it, say
ing that he '.had found 1t easier not to
i, ink liquor at all than to drink moder.
ately. however harmless and innocent that
might ba % others" BE thought the