Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1878-01-24
Odds and Ends.
The first news-carrier-NOah's dove.

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Army ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS and reviews.
Great Britain has GO, O,OOO velocipedists.
1t is beauty's privilege to kill Time, and
in revenge Time kills beauty.
Kelley has named his first motor 1.-The
Tramp" because it won't work.
g Sealskin sacks are worn i0nSerr:: iir:. !"
California has had copious rain fall,
and the crop prospects are very cncourag-
ing.
This is the time of year when the
thoughts Of the impecunious young man
are turning to matrimony.
A Vermont swain got down on his knees
before his sweetheart and read his declar-
alton from manuscript.
The Walla Walia boys got policeman
drunk the other night, took his hat off,
blacked his face, and then took him to Jail.
When a dog barks at night in Japan the
owner is arrested and sentenced to work a
year for the neighbors that were disturbed,
and the dog is killed.
In the year 1873 there will be two eclipses
Of the sun and two Of the moon. The first
will be a solar eclipse and occurs on Febrll-
ary LIST; invisible in the United States.
A prisoner in a Louisiana Jail patiently
feigned paralysis for three months. so as to
get chance to escape; and, when the
chance came, in the language of the local
newspaper, ''he was off like telegram"
The New York court house will be fin
ished the coming summer. 1t has cost thus
far little over twelve and a halfmilliOn dol
lars, and the trifling sum Of 100000 will
finish it. Economical, close-tisted fellows
those New Workers.
A newspaper establishment out West
has the following notice placed conspicu-
ously in its office: ''When you enter our
sanctum, close the door after you; when
you get through with business, serve your
mouth the same way"
An engineer proposes to heat the town
Of Virginia, Nevada, by means OF the heat
generated in the mines underneath the
place. He says there is enough to warm
every house, and he proposes a system Of
pipes through which the warm air will be
distributed. Thus he will ventilate the
mines also.
He was wild Texan, just from the
frontier, and had boarded the train at Fort
Worth. 1t was his first ride on the ''kers."
and as. the conductor reached in his hip
pocket for his punch, the sharp eye of the
Texan caught a glimpse of its polished
handle, and Quick as thought he leveled
navy six on that conductor, saying, ''Put
'er up or Ill blow daylight through you!
No man can get the drop on me-"
A man picked up purse in the street
and advertised the fact. In ten days lie
was visited by sixty-one men, women,
boys and girls, all claiming 10 have lost
money. The sum was but eleven dollars,
but of each visitor who called the finder
asked: $50 you lost fifty dollars, did
you?'' Nine tenths of the applicants
promptly replied, ''Yes, SIR" ''Ah," said
he, ''yours was another purse
It is an interesting coincidence that while
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ing generally discussed pro and con in this
country, Canon Farrar's recent declara-
tions on the same subject are attracting
even more attention in England. Ever
since the Canon first broke away from the
moorings of orthodoxy on this question,
his church has been filed to overflOwing
at every service. Sound or unsound, the
theory is evidently a popular one, and by
the sentiments which have been called out
when only one man of reputation on each
side Of the water has had the temerity to
give voice to the latent instincts of the
many, we may infer that a comparatively
few leaders would clear the way for a
sweeping change OF views on this subject
o. perhaps we might better say change of
profession.