Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1878-11-14
Odds and Ends.

ted States is S9. .262. .SO3,S
'sThs is tight work for the botlv.' a
the man said when tile bear was hugrin
him.
If Mr.. Edison will only invent proces
for making confectionery out of sugar. an.
five cent cigars out OF tobacco, he will b.
entitled to niche l, section A., Temple O
Fame.
The nation that produces the most mar
riages is fascination; and the nation tha
produces the most divorces is alienation.
All the theology in the world has neve,
succeeded in answering the chilG's ques
ton, ''Why doesn't God Kill the devil?''
The Graphic relates the assertion that i,
is only the female i,oney-bee that carries
astingcr. but are men to respect sex when
'nalf dozen bees are trying to squeeze down
behind a No. Is collar?
Going in debt has wrecked more for
tunes and hopes, made more mortgages.
and brought more wrinkles to the brow
than any other mistake farmers are charge
able with.
1--WE sh.n put Uncle Sammy through y
telegrap'ied Manton Marble from Talla-
!assee. Mr.. Marble failed. bat ..let hin,
not be despon'!eat. We shall put Uncle
Sammy through" ~. \. Tiaune.
As soon in the f;.l' rs bulbs can bc OBJ
tanned they should be planted though, this
will not generally be the case till October
hut it is us well to bear in mind that the
earlier they are planted the finer they will!
flower.
The bridge between New York and
Brooklyn. now about completed at cost
of SS.0O0.OC0, is likely to he abandoned, as
1t is claimed that it will he unsafe and al
most useless. us not more than ten thOus-
and persons an hour pass over it,
AT trial OF agricultural implements un-
der auspices of the Paris Exposition, curl
osiiy centred around steam reaping-ma-
chine. which. managed by one man. moved
through the waving grain like Il thing of
life, with a sweep OF sWath nearly twelve
feet wide. In the evening it was worked
again. an electric light supplying the need
FIJI illumination.
The Univcrsalists of New Hampshire, a;
their recent convention. unanimously re-
solved that ''t'iis convention ,lisapproves
and condemns the use of tobacco by any of
our ministers as Il habit inconsistent with
the purity and Temperance of the Gospel.
wiicr every minister is called upon to pro-
claim and practice, and that no one should
this habit
The sheep bites closer than the OK. lie
was designed to live where the other would
s:arye: lie was designed in "iany places to
follow the o;l:er. and to gather sufficient
nourishment where the OK would be u',-
able 70 crop single blade. The purposes
are answered by this: All the nntriment
that tie land produces is gathered from it,
while the pasture is made to produce more
heritage than by any other means it could
be forced to do; the sheep. by his close
! bite. not only loosens the roots of the gras,
and stimulates their spreading. bu' by cut
ting off the short Suckers. causes the plant
| to throw ont fresh, more numerous ant
stronger ones, and thus improves and in
creases the value of the crop. Nothing
will expetlitiously or effectually make !
rich. permanent pasture than IFS being
occasionally and closely eaten down b!
sheep.
| A writer in Land and Water. an Englis!
scientific magazine. says: "A friend
mine took lodgings the other day in farm
house; he complained bitterly of man!
things. The growing of the fowls in III
early morning was bad enough. but ia
greater nuisance existed than that. Tn
worthy farmer kept donkey for the us
Of his children. This animal was cham
rion ass for briying: morning. noon an
and night he WAS 1T it. The fact was th;s
unless the children were petting him b
was unhappy. A friend to whom he ap
plied knew of cure. In the dusk Ofeven
ing he slipped into the donkey's stabl
arn,el with heavy weight; this he aiiixe
to Neddy's tail. Ned,iy never brayed tha
night. nor as long as it was done. 1t ar
pears that to bray. Il donkey must exten
the tail, cannot say why. but | kno'
that in this instance il had the desired effecl