Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1878-03-21
Odds md Ends.

| The Turks are not chivalrous. They
abandoned Sophia.
A man never uses his thumb nail for a
screw-driver but once.
The people Of the United States paid
S1O,OOO, 900 for kilograms last year.
The fool Of the period is the man who
never leads the newspaper
Nothing like being correct. Chevreau,
in his history of the world says that it was
created on Friday, September 8, a little af-
ter four p. III.
Two babies were born at Cheyenne, Wy
oming, the other night, and their respec-
tive parents had only been married the
previous day. This is rushing business.
What is the difference between school,
boy studying his lessons and a farmer
watching.his cows? One is stocking his
mind and the other is minding his stock.
a Chicago man got divorce from his
wife because she persisted in putting her
cold feet to his back in bed. Wives keep
down your feet and take hot brick to
bed.
The following advertisement lately APP
peared in country paper: 40 Piano
forte Makers-A lady keeping tirst-class
school. requiringa good piano, is desirous
OF receiving daughter of the above in ex-
change for the same
Testimony just taken before commit
fnp of the nOS lat chn>xrc hat f1,o
inhuman cruelty has been constantly prac-
ticed in the New Jersey State Prison. At
least one man was tortured to DEATH
1t is common proverb, and, indeed. it
is the creed of the homGopathist, that like
cures like. But there is one thing us to-
which neither. homeopathic nor allopatll-
ist has pronounced an opinion, and that is
what cures dislike.
IT. Barnum says in recent letter to
an intimate friend: NO, my friend; no
more new enterprises for me. l am now
doing the work Of ten men, and am 6S. [
am setting my house in order, and shall be
ready to pass in my checks whenever re-
quired.'
The New York World has had a series
OF interviews in order to determine wleth-
er dancing is hurtful or otherwise. Halt
dozen doctors Of medicine say that dane
ing is physically and morally beneficial,
under certain restrictions; and halt a dozen
doctors OF divinity are unable to see any
good in it, but Il great deal of harm.
A man recently started from Omaha to
st. Louis to get married in the latter city,
On the train he struck three-card monte
gang and lost several hundred dollars.
comprising every cent he had in the world.
He also lost another good thing, rs the
girl wouldn't marry him after that.
The temperance agitation in some of the
Michigan cities has broken out in new
spot. Societies of young ladies are now
the rage-Pink Ribbon Societies, they call
them, and every member is pledged to ac-
cept attention from none but Red Ribbon
young men.
When an Englishman is drunk he is
beliigcrent; when a Frenchman is drunk
he is amorous; when an Italian is drunk
sAO 40 AoHAttSAOuSs NiCll SCOlCIllliIl Is
drunk he is argumentative; when a Ger
man is drunk he is sleepy; when an Amer
lean is drunk he brags; and when Welsh
man is drunk he sings.
According to reliable statistics, recently
published, it tappears that the average life
Of certain animals and birds is the follow
ing: The hare lives ten years; the cat ten;
the goat eight; the donkey thirty; the
sheep ten; the dog fourteen to twenty; the
OK twenty; the SOW twenty-five; the pigeon
eight; the turtle dove twenty five; the par
fridge twenty-five; the raven one hundred;
the eaglel hundred; the goose l hundred
and fifty years. ..
Plants sleep at night, as is well known.
but their sleeping hours are matter OF
habit, and can easily be disturbed. A
French chemist recently exposed a sensi
tive plant to a bright light at night and
placed it in dark room during the day.
The plant. at first, appeared much puzzled.
1t opened and closed its leaves irregularly.
in spite Of the artificial sun beaming upon
it at night, and in the daytime it some
times awoke. 1t finally submitted to the
change, unfolding itself regularly at night,
and closing in the morning.
A bill has been Introduced in Congress
section 1896 of the Revised Stat
utes, which provides for the prepayment
OF postage on all mail matter, by adding
the following: ''Bnt il any letter weigh
Ing one ounce Or less shah have been mail
ed without being prepaid, such letter shall
be forwarded, and double the prepaid rates
shall be chargedand eolseosed on delivery"
A Kansas couple who were apparently
living in peace and harmony were no
ong ago divorced, greatly to the surprise
Of their neighbors; but the mystery is now
explained. The husband had homesteade6
l6O acres Of fine farming land. and there
was another l6o acres adjoining not vet
aiken up. The pair were divorced. the,
woman entered thevacant quarter section
md established her claim as the head of a
amily. When this was done the pair were
and now have fine firm ee
laf a section,