Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1878-07-18
Odds and Ends.
''Brush off your mouth" is the latest.

Tom Thumb is worth 500, ,O0O-exactly
S353 .33 l-3 per foot.
The reason newspaper editors are so lit,
! tie inclined to push themselves tor office is
that they get all the abuse they want WITH
ont being candidates.
The oldest railroad man in San Francisco
at active work is the driver of dummy or
the Sutter street railroad. He is eighty
two years OF age antt wvINo r..0,-.. &C.,.
a DAY. His father was 102 years old, an;'
his grandfather lived until he was rs.
\ st. Louis man has little girl who has
an incurable mania for swallowing dimes,
nckels. and other small change. The other
day she resumed specie payment at the So
licitation of some castor oil and hey coin
balance was one dollar and fifteen cents.
A learned Jewish rabbi in Berlin has de-
cided that oysters are not fish, but plants,
and may therefore he eaten, although tie
law of Moses prohibits the eating of fish
without scales.
DR.. J. G. Holland. who has beet one tf
the most popular lectures has been advise;
by his physicians to decline all engage
ments for the coming season on account u
his somewhat impaired health. DR.. Hoi-
land is said 10 have made nearly $l20,00G
by lecturing:
Alexander II: Stephens is now enjoying
better Eealth thar for many years past.
The secret of his strange Vitality is said to
be remarkably sound stomach, which,
y, Ii. %.,;I
perform its functions.
No one can fancy the feelings of Il news
paper man when he hears a deinque.,
subscriber whom he has but twenty-ioUi
hours before vainly implored to settle
that little BILL" yell out on Sunday, PITT
me down $50 for the good of the cause"
when they are raising the church debt"
One of Mr. Fdisons chief characteristics
is said to be a strong reliance upon him
self. In other words. he never gets dis
couraged. When it was suggested to him
to try Il liamond-pointed needle f'f the
phonograph he said. Il intend ~; but
cannot get the lapidiies in New York to
make just what want. SO am going to
rig up the necessary mechanism and make
a diamond-pointcd needle Elyself."
The French are most excellent episfaih=
matsts. and II now appears the fim6tts
qtatriln OF SWitt's, which everyone
thought was original, is in fact 4 transla
ton from the French of Sceyole de Sainu
Martha. SWiit's verses run thus;
Sir. admit your general rule,
That every poet is Il fool.
But YOU yourself may serve to show i,
Every fool is net poet"
1t is confidently asserted, and ii is ii
doubtedly true that even at this day The
is not civilized country in the world w:
ont thousands of foolish people who s
'.beIieve in dreams" One of the pretti.
German epgranS, bye the bye, that =,
Maternal Love-" by Wernicke, refers W
pleasantly to dreams, and has this be-
arrayed in IN English dress:
Ere yet her child has drawn lis earla
breath.
4 mothers love begins-it grows till deaf
Lives before life-with death dies not-bu
seems
The very substance OF immortal dreams
A newspaper of Jan. 8. 1921, mentioAs
an extraordinary and absurd perform"
by the Postmaster CT Lismorc, Irela
then in his 9th year. lie Travelled Iur
wager from that town to Ferrtc9 in t'p-
garvin oyster tub drawn by pig, bstl.
two cats. goose, and Il hedgehog, viii
large red nightcap on his head, pig Dr.
esSs whip in one hand, and in the othtr
common cows horn, which he blew to O..
courage his team.
There are two things in life which evcr.,
man thinks he can do better than shy Ot"r
man; one is to poke fire and the tstlie, =
to run Il newspaper. No man ever saw The
first named operation conducted by anoth-
cr but his fingers itched to get hold of ,na
poker. And the man who, in the sec.c",
of lis own heart, does not tlNn
he could conduct and shape the III ID
newspaper of the world does not l,e-
Neee Fovk Times.
Ii is told of Robert Lincoln that WI
he WAS boy-stndent at Phillips AcaC
his father having just been made !
dent-lr,. with divers other students,
ed some innocent but mischiev0lls IT,
on the citizens Of Exeter, seh rs iii;
amusing ch1pyes of gates and signs il
night time. The citizens naturally di
like it. and ne students. with the G.
ton of Lincoln, were called to the jus
Office next morning to answer toy
mischief. Then forth stepped young
coin, in q manly way, and said: II 50
the reading of the warrant that maLT Il
my school comrades are charged "
committing offences last evening agf
good order and the peace and dignitr \
this pheasant village. l was in comp
with many Of the parties mentioned in 4
warrant, and if they are gully OF !
charges therein set forth, | an Gi,
amenable before the law. | therefore
before proceedings cOInmerice, that
warrant shall be amended by havin"
name inserted with the rest of my
rades, for do not desire any perst
shoulder any responsibility rightti,ly
longing to myself" No objection j. Hs
made, .he Warrant was amended ais II
certificate of summons, and all the stud. =
including the Presidents son, We're finy /.
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Not Sorry.
You viii not be sorry tRw hearing be- !.