Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1878-04-25
Odds and Ends.

An honest man is the most lOnesOm
work OF the Creator.
If change Of diet is advantageous, Gen
Grant ought to be doing well.
Alabama is the champion State for rails
ing mules. Ono little town has raised :
thousand.
! The New Orleans Times gives this ad
vice to the planters of that State: '.R:lis,
less hell and more sugar.
The cheek of the Goddess of Liberty or
the new dollar is very fine, but we do wisl
it had blush on it.
DIR. Lindermann, OF the mint, says the
new silver dollar is to be coin of '.loW
relief" It's what they call base relief
isn't it?
OLeary walked 52O miles in five DAYS
and nineteen hours; and yet there are
cynics WHO say that the human race is not
making progress.
Prison life is wearing upon Gilman, the
forger. His cheeks are 5lanching and his
eyes sinking. His hair is strcakcd with
silver, and he looks sixty.
The fact is revealed by the Savannah
Times that ''In the bright Lexington of
Kentucky there's no such word as No.
thank you; never drink"
While most of the Washington officials
have handsome horses and carriages, Vice
President Wheeler. it is said, seems con-
tent to ride to and from the Capitol in a
street CIR.
"We III know" said the school commit
tee man to the new teacher he was examin-
ing for her position, THAT A, &. and e is
vowels, but wot we wants to know is wy
they is so.''
After lapse of seventy years the her.
rings have returned en- massc to the shores
ofSweden, and the fisheries are now in
their glory again. to the great relief OF the
country. The last disappearance was in
1908. and according to tradition they
should be plentiful for sixty or eighty years
to come.
Bcecher said in sermon recently: ''.As
to worshipping a God that damns men
through all creation, cannot worship the
devil. and and that is what such God
would be-"
Ii is said that minister's son of Water
loo. n. T., cast 4 gloom over an entire
church fair by walking up to the grab-bag
and prize cake table, and demanded that
the @aElc be explained to him before he
DR.. Chaplin, the distinguished Universal
icf covc ho loc 1abcy.a1 ,,ot "a ,pucl, fo
people out Of hell as to get hell out of the
people. ''It is infinitely BETTER" says the
doctor, ''tc spend cne's endeayors in q
struggle tor right living than in search
for punishment"
The famine in China was the opportuni-
ty of the English and American mission
aries. They devoted themselves to reliev-
ing the dying people about them, and help
ing the suffering as far as the means at
hand would allow. This effected a change
in the opinion Of the Chinese as to the re-
lieion OF the missionaries. They now con-
cede that a religion which sends its dcvo-
tees on missions of mercy is at least good
religion, if not better one than their
own.
The rebellion in Cuba has at last been
conciliated. 1t has lasted ten years, at a
fearful cost of money and life. 1t is said
that at least 100000 of the best troops of
Spain have been sacrificed since the out
break of the insurrecticn in 1868. The
Cubans have voluntarily surrendered on
the following conditions: Complete am
nesty for them and for all who have in
any way abetted them. Fugitive slaves
who have fled to their camps to be free.
Deserters from the Spanish army to the in
surgents not to be punished. All slaves to
be emancipated within five years. Cuba
to be represented in the Spanish Cortes,
and to be put on equal terms with the home
provinces of Spain. These favorable con-
cessions are almost worth the cost of the
For Cuba, better than independ-
ence, is to be we'll governed.