Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1877-08-02
Here and Tlere.

! Oiive brown is the stylish .olor for gen.
tlemen's business suits
Inc art museums of Boston and Phila-
delphla have been thrown opca on Sun
days. -,
Philadelphia has been selected for the
next meeting of the General Presbyterian
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combined circulation of the whole number
is only about GO 90.
A number of Egyptian mummies have
reached New Haven. They are no ten
derfect, but old settlers.
The area of cotton planted in the
Southern States this year is four per cent
larger than that of last year.
A plague of catterpillers is mentioned
on the Northern Pacific, fifty miles from
Duluth. The creatures were so thick on
the rails as to stop trains.
Virginians claim that since the whip
ping post was re.establisbed most of the
jails have been emptled, petty crimes have
almost ceased, and vagrants are seen no
more ii the streets.
If al the liquor and beer shops in Lon
don were set side by side, they would
reach sixty five miles. In that city there
is birth every four minutes, and death
every six minutes.
There has recently been discovered in
Alabama, au additional coal field, beyond
what was already known to exist, which
is, in area, equal to five-eighths of the
coal fields in Pennsylvania.
Frank Wakeham has found at Santa
Auna, CAL, number of shells of various
kinds, which were found at depth of
2S7 feet in his artesian well. He also
found petlitied wood at depth of 230
feet.
During the month of June there arrived
in San Francisco about four thousand
Chinese, among whom are many full
blooded Tartars. and recently a vessel
arrived with eight hundred Chinese mer.
chants.
Some Of the clergymen OF Cincinnati
made an attack Oh the Sunday opening of
the geological garden. The directors
passed resolution instantly to issue an
nual passes to clergymen. The result is
awaited.
President Hayes has requested the Naval
Officer of Baltimore to appoint as his
Chief Deputy the son of an ex-Re5e]. at
whose house the President was cared for
on being wounded at the battle of South
Mountain.
1t is estimated that the heat required to
evaporate water enough 10 cover loo
square miles of the earth 8 surface to the
depth of one inch, would, if converted
into power, be sufficient to raise LOCO, :
IOOO, 900 tons to the height of mile.
A firm in Taunton. Mass, it is said, can
produce fifty>four thousand tacks, shoe
nails and small nails, four thousand
slazlers' points, and two thousand eye
lets, in one day of ten hours. Four hun.
dred hands are employed in this work.
The other day Mr.. A. K. Gilbert, of
Major Powell's corps of explorers, built
la granite monument near Black Rock 81
and 81 100 feet above the present level OF
Great Salt Lake, to indicate the rise or fall
of the water. Since the Mormons settled
the valley, the lake has risen about Il
feet.
The French physicists are not quite SO
certain about the advantage of flooding
1.-THE Algerian Sahara as they used to be.
I'M. Naudin does not hesitate to say tha.
the proposed sea would probably be q
huge pestilential focus. In the rainy sea
son the waters would extend great dis
|tance over the flat shores, and In the dry
season the waters would recede. leaving
|exposed damp area full of miasmstie
Ipoison.
The late freshet in the Missouri river
has cut off farm from the Iowa side,
lopposite Council Bluffs, and opened
new channel east of it, SO as to give &C
much more to Nebraska; and large and
handsome lake has been formed at Omaha
which is now dotted with row boats
yachting and bathing clubs IN summer
race tracks, skating rinks and ice fields il
winter: and reservoir all the year. fol
water works are among the suggested
modes of utilization.
People in the West who have to endure
reports of races and base ball may be very
miserable, but they should 60 East il
ithev would feel real agony and mortifcs'
ltion. The wretched New Workers have tt
read about dog-shows, foot.racea, yacht
ling. rowing, shooting at the mark. 'arsey
ls.fox-hunting,' - polo. the ldiotic ihlita
ton of English coaching, and during 'h'
summer every wealthy numskull at Long
Braoch or Saratoga is allotted . certain
space in the daily journals.
Royal NJ. Bassett. Moses Thatcher. ant
others. representing the Union Pacific ant
Ogden & Montana railways, made tril
to Cottonwood Springs tho other day TO
the purpose of spying out good wagoi
road to connect with the railway. 1t j
understood that they were well satisfiet
that an excellent natural route exists from
lGsntile Valley. through Crater Valley
Soda SPRING. Blacksmith's Fork, to eros
Snake river above tho forks, pass VII
Sswtel's Lake ~ the Madison, and theme
down that stream to the new bridge. l
Lis calculated that By this cutoff the wag
on road to Nontans may be shortened b.
at least 100 miles, end the change wouk
lbs ths means of settling number Of fn'
lyallsys along the wsy. @HaT -