Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1878-08-08
Whole N O., $50.
Odds and Ends.

DO not draw revolvers - unless, per-
chance, you do it by lottery.
The smallest minds require the longest
time in which to be made up.
An Indiana man stopped his paper be-
cause it had not contained circus adyerl
tisement tor three years.
He who will cringe before tne who Is
bigger than himself will play the tyrant
over all smaller than himself.
EYES," said man last evening, as hs
bent his elbow to raise the twentieth glass
of beer; lit is overwork that kills.
Do not advertise. DIR. J. G. Aver adver-
tised until he was worth thsee or four
millions. Then he went crazy, and then
died.
Martin Luther used to think that etuty
man who wouldn't get drunk was Il fool.
There is where Martins religion was
slightly feeble.
y wicked cotemporary says: :The OIL
dit1aTt idea of hell is a place of intense
heat; the Hottentot's, a place of extreme
cold; the Boston mans, place wliefe
there are no Goldfish and beans ~
Col. Forney says that in France every
body drinks but nobody gets drunk. That
is natural enough. In this country, where
about one-half the people abstain from
liquor, ore man is Obliged to do the driiik.
ing for two, and sooner Or later he nitst
go to the wall.
Forty-three of the subscribers OF the
Ogden Freeman have recently been killed
in Idaho and Eastern Oregon, and it is
remarkable fact, and should be a warning
to all delinquents, that they had not paid
up this years subscription. All the
prompt paying ones are still alive:
Richard II. Dana carries his ninety odd
years easily, being still erect Of form and
firm of step. He has passion for his re-
tired home by the sea, at Manchester, Mas.
sachusetts., and greatly prefers its quiet
pleasures to the noise and activity Of
fashionable watering place.
1t is a remarkable fact that every day id
the week is observed by some nation for
public celebraticii Of religious services.
Sunday is devoted by the Christians, Mon.
day by the Greeks, Tuesday by the Per-
slams, Wednesday by the Assyrians, Thurs
day by the Egyptians, Friday by the
Turks, Saturday by the Jews.
Bryant is not much of genius. He is
greatly overestimated. A genius always
smokes Or chews tobacco, and canti0t
write unless he is druiik 1t ic cad to think
what sweet poet Mr. Bryant might have
been had not his education in these matters
been neglected. Before he is pronounced
the greatest of American poets, let his
worshippcrs reflect Upon these deficiencies
of their idol.
The only equivalent III the Japanese
language tor the English word baptism ot
immersion is soaking. A ludicrious illus
tration of its application is the following
from the Baptist translation of the Bible
into japanese, which greatly astonished
the Japs: lin those days came John the
soaker, preaching the soaking OF repent
ance. Repent and be soaked every Urie of
YOU"
A Ceertield man thought it would be
good idea to drive down to the river the
other day and take bath. He put all his
clothes in the buggy and left the horse un-
hitched. The water was very enjoyable,
but not the absence Of the horse, who
concluded to trot home during his mas
ter's ablutiOns. 1t wasn't an easy job for
that man to get home, but he finally aca
cornplished it by the aid of fences and
trees.
Russian leather is made in Connecticut;
Bordeaux wine is manufactured in Califor-
mia, French lace is woven in New York;
Italian marble is dug in Kentucky, Mar
seilles linen is produced in Massachus' ITS;
English cashmere in New Hampshire,
Parian art comes from shop in Boston,
Spatiish mackeral are caught on the New
Je;srt coast, and Havana cigars rolled out
by the million in Chicago. The question
is: Is this foreign country? Are these
products foreign, or are we snobbish
nation?