Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1878-06-06
Odds and Ends.


There is a clergyman tor every sever
hundred and eighteen of the population o
this country.
! The Providence Tool Company is work
; ing on a contract to furnish 100 900 guns t
the Turkish Government.
i Minnesota has 395 flour mills in opera
ton, with .4SJ run of stone. They viii
grind 5G,000,0O0 bushels of wheat PEI
year.
Mr.. a. S. Stewart 5 estate has not yielded
to the New York lawyers more than l l.:
per cent, and they pronounce The way he
tied his property up clear conspiracy
against the laws OF the land.
In MarShfeld, Mo-, the last saloon has
been turned into rcading-room, and the
reading=room has been placed in charge OF
the proprietor of the late gin-mi!l.
How women can manage to sit bolt up
! right and not change a position, looking
neither to the right nor left, during ser
mon in church, passes the understanding
y man will sit on a picket fence all the
afternoon to see a ball match. but put him
in church pew for three-quarters Of an
hour, and he will wobblc all over the
seat.
\ Milwaukee man who deposited SlG0
| in bank. and was told the interest would
be five per cent. came promptly at the end
of the year with five dollars in small cur
rency to pay that interest. When told
that the interest went the other way, he
looked up in astonishment, and went
away wondering why a man should pay
him five dollars tor being allowed to take
care of his money for whole year.
a Canadian youth, who was married the
other day. had not money enough to pay
the minister, but at night charivali party
came about the house, and his thrifty
father-in-law quietly went among the noisy
ones, asceitained who they were, and by
threats of prosecution extorted money
clergyman handsome fee, but to supply
the bride with Il liberal quantity of pin
money.
a man takes drink, aiid the pleasure he
has enjoyed is ended. but the information
he gets from the newspaper is treasured up
in his mind. to be used whenever occasion
or inclination calls for it. A family with
out a newspaper is always an age behind
The times in general information. And
there are the little ones growing up in is
norance without Il taste for reading.
An incident of the late unpleasantness III
Fall River 1T is said a newsboy was cry
ing out Justify, ''All about the detalcation," ;"
etc, wien a gentleman asked him if he
knew the gentleman referred to, and lie
said he did: said he was in his Sabbath
school, and it was only last Sunday he was
telling him to be a good boy, and not to
lie OF steal, and to save his money and put
it in the Five Cent Savings Bank, and the
boy added, ''now he's got all my fathers
money!
a young man went into the post office
at East Taunton and seated himself by the
stove. Not long after black snake,
measuring over five feet long, crawled from
his pocket on to the floor. AS may well
be imagined, the bystanders were some
what startled, but the young man explain
ed that he was snake charmer, and took
him up and returned him to his pocket.
A good printer will set six thousand ems
a day, or about twelve thousand letters.
The distance Travelled by his hand will
average one foot per letter, going to the
boxes in which they are contained, and OF
course returning, making two feet every
letter he sets. This would make distance
each day OF twenty-four thousand feet, or
more than four miles, and in the course of
a year, leaving out Sundays, that member
travels about fourteen hundred miles.
The following il report of an actual
conversation between two little children of
one Of our citizens. Perhaps the three
year-old theologian has reached the point
taken by some of our most advanced think
ers: Sister-"Fred. YOU do that naughty
thing again you won't go up to heaven" :"
Brothcr-"Yes l will; l amt afraid"
Sister-''Indeed you won't; mamma says
that only good children 60" Brother
"Oh, well, God wouldn't like such nice
little boy as am to 90 down where the
old devil is.''-St. Louis Times.