Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1879-09-04
OF Eastern Montana and the In
Odds and Ends.

'e. 'e. Odds and Ends.
~ Sir Henry Bessemer's new gigantic tel
lie cope cost $2OO, 1000.
I" VIM. d. AstOr the other day paid $40
table cover and two bedspreads for
II yacht Ambassadress.
e Charles Lamb once said that the great,
. pleasure he knew was to do a good acti
!, BY stealth and to have it found out by
- cident.
.r Mark Twai;, has received more mon
II for his play Of Gilded Age'' than Shake
n peare did tor all his dramas put togethe
70 Such is life.
IS At the close of the war a young ms
5 named Crouch hired out to herd sheep
p Sl2 month in Frio county, Texas. Il
n now owns 10000 acres of fenced Ian,
: 1000 cattle and 1000 sheep.
$ 1t is estimated that over 100000 colore
people have been added to the Methods
Church since the war. They have cause
more than thousand churches to be bull
and more than 5000 colored young me
are in their aid schools in the South.
The ugly girl never gets married and til
common young men die old bachelors
NO matter who is married, tile bride in tn
report is always ''bcautiful and accom-
plished," and the sheepish groom is in
variably, 1.-THE son OF one Of our best f,mi
lies.'
A Grand Jury at Spartansburs, S. C..
has reported that the hanging of a murder
er by lyncllers was ian outburst of popu
lar indignation which merely anticipated
the sentence of the law of the land,'' and
refused to indict anybody concerned in the
outrage.
by the death Of his sister Vice President
Wheeler is LETT entirely alone in the world,
without family, his wife having died at
Washington, in 1875, and no children ever
having been born to him, and without kin
except solitary cousin, clergyman, OF
Pittsburg, who discoved his relationship
during the Presidential campaign of 1876.
The Earl Of Dunraven says: "WhctIer
in connection with this country TGreat
Britain or as Independent, or as joined to
the United States, or any portion OF them,
that vast region which is now called Brit
ish North America will assuredly some day
support the strongest, most powerful and
most masterful population on the conti-
nent of North America
While Judge Reed, of Ripon, was fishing.
recently, at Green lake fish took his line
with such force as to wrench the pole from
his hand, and the whole tackle disappeared
under water. The fish that took the rod
was mo'!erate-sized perch, and he was
swallowed by large-sized pickerel, and
the pickerel in turn was caught by fisher
man and the lost line and rod recovered.
About week ago an Iowa man died.
lie was very wealthy and left three sons,
his only heirs, and would you believe it,
the ungrateful boys got together and ran
away with all the property before the
lawyers could get at it and devided it with
elch other? There is so much sordid. mean
yrasping selfishness in this world, that
it is enough to discourage
good lawyer.
William H. Hays, the president of the
National Bank of the State of New York,
1as just celebrated the ffftieth anniversary
If his experience in Wall street.
Sixty days in fifty years will cover all his
holidays, and the only pleasure trip he ever
made in his life was flying visit he made
o Indiana. He is apparently as hale and
hearty, as he sits in the bank presidents
hair countersigning national bank notes,
IS he was fifty years ago, when his chief
was making the fires and
out the office.
Tile old gentleman who threw the paper
|own the other morning with the impatient
EJACULATION, ''Oh, there's nothing in it ~
nd went out to look at his garden was the
anne one who, coming back halt an hour
ater and, discovering that his wife had cut
p the paperi into patterns, ,thereupon ripped
round like yellow jacket and finally de-
srted with a slam of the door that clatter-
d the crOckery to the uttermost parts of ;
he house, and with withering remark
n ''these gaulbusted women, any how ~
Louisville Couricr-Jommal.
An old Turk was once walking with
is son along the streets of Constantine !
lie when they saw on the opposite side of :.
le way Frenchman dressed in the ex-
'eme of the fashion. He was equipped
18th shining beaver hat, small and tight
oOtspOlished like mirror, and pantaloons I
mt seemed as if his legs had been melted S
I'd poured into them. (Dickens.) His '
Teglasses, his little cane, his waxed mus '
che, completed the picture. Evidently Il
, felt himself 10 be the object Of universal
The Turk paused, and point Q
g across the street, said: MY son, iook a
ere! Now, if ever you forgot God and
e Prophet, the time may come when you il
iii look like that" p
A new Judge, fresh from the East, has II
troduced into New Mexico the practice II
administering Oaths of the Bible. The v
lnta Fe papers insist that at Las II
egas the Sheriff ransacked the town in ii
In for two days in search Of the necessa- o
volume, and finally only succeeded by o
'rrOwing one from convent. The Las 81
egas papers retOrt that when the Bible Il
40 introduced into the court ct Santa Fe, II
e lawyers sized on it and read it with al
idity for some hours, imagining it was a p
W Eastern publication, until one of them
membered having heard of the story of
,niel when he was small child in Chau-
aQua county. -.
Early Married Life. M
h
The Hathaway's who lived in Shottery pt
: forty years prior to Shakspeare's mar OF
age. The poet, then wholly undistin- e
ishei, had just turned eighteen, while o,
J bride was nearly twenty-six, and it is al
EN- said now that she did very wrong pc
wed this boy-lover. They were married as
November, 1851, and their first child, ps
Same, came the following May. Anne nc