Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1877-03-22
Other Places.

Nebraska was eight years old the frs
of this month.
4 slo,eoe bridge is being built acros
'ae Lies Moines river at Donaparte.
!, Over two hundred and eighty six news
| papers are published in New Y5ik.
The capacity of the artesian well a
McGregcr is 1.000, 600 gallons per day.
The shop girls of Boston number near],
one tenth of the entire population of ,b
city.
In Texas wild turkeys are a dollar 6
dozen, and whisky is fifty cents drink
too much turkey.
inducements are offered by the lane
Department of F'ori tor $4,000 wealth, 4,
Mennonites to emisrate to the orange
groves.
Maine has prohibited pool selling and
Lotteries within her boundaries, and the
law applies especially to schemes OF
chance IN church fairs.
Gamblers in Virginia City have present
eo petition TO the Legislature to preven,
a mans wages being attached for a
saloon bill of over FIVE dollars.
The Rhode Island Legislative Miscegen-
ators haye passed ths bill to permit blacks
and whites to intermarIy. Little Rhody
thinks this is Providence plantation.
The wealthy citizens of Boston are to
be massacred. and their property divided
among the people, unless society of
"a iical reformers have resolved in vain.
The Rutland, VT, Globe is responsible
for the assertion that there ire 90, ,522
white men in that State who can neither
read nor write, aid e.S67 more who do
bSth 50 badly as to be called Iliterate.
One morning recently the ocean at At.
lantic City, for mile or two from the
shore. was covered with q coating of ice
which resembled waving glass. This oc
ours only during the severest weather aud
when the air is very dry.
Mr.. @. w. Childs of Los Angeles, Call
fornia, has 800 full bearing orange trees,
Which average 1000 oranges to a tree,
ard sell for three cents apiece. Nine
thousand dollars yearly return from less !
tl'an four acres is not to be sneezed at.
Sam Sing, a Celestial nabob of Elko
CAL, is about planting a co1SnJ of Chinese
in Chicago, starting with eighty. I've and
having $50 others awaiting His order.
papels indulge In feryent hopesE
that.the Chinese will become SO enamored
IF the new climate as to relieve the Pacific
shores of their presence. I
The Prefect of the Paris police, after
with number of conpetent
officials, has decided to put into immediate
operation q plan organizing classes for
reading and writing in all prisons, which
all convicts totally uneducated shall be
made to attend.
Mount Rainier, is situated about fifty
miles from Puget Sound, in Washington
Territory. 1t reaches an elevation of IA,
IA feet. 1t is the highest and grandest
If those isolated peaks of the Cascade
.ange whose cOne-shaped, crater-like
,ummits, with their hot springs, emitting
,team and mud, have awakened fresh In
crest in the study of volcanic phenomena. K
The Ran-;ug Gardens of Babylon com {
,rised four acres of land raised on tase K
by Pillars, and towering In ter s
aces, one above the other, 800 teet inl
leight. At . distance they looked like a|y
,ast pyramid covered with trees. ThsIa
Mound was constructed by Nebuchadnez-|t II
ar TO crafty his wife Amytis, who felt '
yeary of the fiat plains of Babylon, and
oneed for something to remind her OF ner
alive Median Hills.
The city of Salem In Oregon has adopt
d this original method of dealing with
runkenaess: When aby person becomes
utempt rately given to strong drink. q
ertain number Of citizens may petition to q
ave him declared drunkard. The Pc
ition is directed to the city recorder. who
Ives notice by publication in some dailyI
ap.r, that the person named in the petit B
on hss been declared common drunk 10,
rd." After such notice 1t is unlawful 3.
or any one Ito give or sell to such person, =
Z assist him in getting any wine. spirit q
0us or malt liquors." I'll