Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1878-06-27
Odd.s u7ld Ends.

mad from love last year
r History makes haste to record great
deeds. but often nrglects good ones.
Within thirty months Coy. McCrcery
! OF Kentucky, denied 1898 petitions tol
f: pardon.
t ''It the sun does not move, why did
Joshua command it to stand stil:" asks
: Rev. Jasper: Tally one again.
Some people who are too high-toned to
associate with those who earn what they
Use. never earned an honest dollar or spent
one honestly earned.
. An editor Of Il Sunday newspapers says
in cXtenuatiOn OF his deseeration of the
Sabbath that. IF fish are wicked enough
to bite on Sunday they ought to suffer tel
IT,;
Edison is said 10 be inventin@ machine
to save time in catin@-somettino of this
kind seeming to be in great demand among
Americans.
tC"a fences make good neighbors of
farmers. and the same is true in town. \
board fence ten feet high will keep more
peace between two families than seven BIZ
b!es
IN English writer asserts that there are
real spiritual snakes and other reptiles. as
well as ghosts OF human beings. In this
light it is possible that ihG fellow who
drinks to excess really does see snakes.
etc.
\ n Iris i,D,rp md fnn1-
rel over a goose into the st. Louis courts
in 1854. and the case fingered along until il
has cost the two $3.50 in money, besiles
loss OF time and vexation of spirit.
Recent Investigations have revealed the
tact that Jonah would have left the whale
q day or two before he did. but he couldn't
swim: Finally compromise was effected
and the whale cast him on dry land. Sc
lah
\ man was earnestly looking into the
seartlt Of something he could not find.
WHAT aie yon doing?' asked a bystander.
IL am hunting Ely reputation in the place
where lost it, was the mournful an
swcr.
"Ncvcr," said Mr. Phincas r. Barnum,
the other day. to the question as to when
he intended to retire rom his profession
IL will die in the harness. he continued.
| IL cannot give up business, it is as ncces-
saly to me as air.'
4 dctout woman took her baby to
church. The voice of the preacher walked
the child into screams. "Do not 90" said
the minister, ''tie baby does not disturb
me-. THAT may be-" replie.i the moth
er. still retreating. but you disturb the
baby
\ correspondent of the New York Sma
says II ''cohee is the mother of rhcima-
tism. That he has abstainetl from the
use of the beverage for five months. and is |
now entirely free from "twinges diaboli-
CAL with which he was afflicted previous
to that time.
During the year. seyenty-four million
pages of tracts were distributed by the
American Tract Society, and the receipts
were over four hundred thousand dollars.
The tracts cost less than fifty thousand
dollars.
''Anybody that has pint of brains.''
says the eloquent jasper. ''mus' know dat
if dis year world turned ober. de water
would fall out oh de ribbers. and we all be
drowned, same as if you would turn a tub
upside down. Do you reckon dat if a tub
was turned upside down de water would
stay in dat tub -
The New York Senate defeated a bill for
the taxation of clergymens and another
taxing the property OF churches above the
amount Of $1,000. The supply bill appro-
priatihg $4,000 for the Roman Catholic
Prolectory of New York was opposed,
but passed by 20 to 32.
An Illinois genius has invented novel
to prevent horses from run
ming away. He places powerful electric
battery under the buggy seat. with a con-
Meeting wire thcrefrOm to the horses bit
and another to the crupper. If the horse
wants to run away the driver turns on the
electricity. which goes 10 the crupper fra
verses the spinal column to the head. and
instantly paralyzes the horse, bringing him
TO a dead halt.
Francis Witte. a wealthy st. Louis Ger-
man. has just lost 4 suit his niece brought
against him. because he did not keep his :,
promise to give e1 900 and a wedding out
it when she married The niece came
from Germany and served her widowed
lncle fourteen years without wages on the
.tro n,th Of f1,af ,NrCp,;,n lint fI, I
young woman married against the uncle's
wishes four years ago, he refused to give :,
Ter anything. \ jury has now returned a :,
,erdict in her favor for the money and Sl00
or the outfit, with interest on both sums
to several hundred dollars
more.
Long courtsiips in Ohio have bad end
ne. as is shown in the case of Miss Rebec- t
a Q. Williams. of Somerset. Perry county. I
When Miss Williams was sweet sixteen I
he had devoted lover in the person of s
7. Mrrry Brown, four or five years her e
enior. Mr.. Brown played the part of t
he devoted lover for fifteen years. and a
hen deserting Miss Williams, married Ii
onng lady Of Newark and settled down h
n Columbus. Miss Williams sued for :.
reach of marriage promise, and among :
he curious features OF the case Vas the i,
oluntcer testimony of several young gen d
lemen of wealth and good standing to the !,
fleet that they liked aliss Williams, and Fl
you'd gladl! have entered the lists to win +,
er hapsi. had they not looked upon her a
5 TIE prnniSa1 ,yita "a ~, proun rfb;c =
1as the general understanding of the peo- L
lie. and popular sympathy is with the de- h
erted lady. The case has been settled, d
alignment for 5000 against the defendant
eing entered by consent of both parties.
liss Williams Is still handsome woman. "
nd fhnrso ic roS Sihlr n chanco Cor c<.,,e q q i.