Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1879-06-26
Odds and Ends.
India contains 240,000,O0O inhabitants,
o,ll OnD ,,.;o,tc

| lndia contains 2iU,UOO,OUO inhabitants.
and 10000 priests.
The Chinese language is spoken by $780,
G00,O00. The English language is spoken
by from $4,000 900 to IS ,OOO,O0
Several mill girls in Birmingham. Ct,
We're made very ill by eating ''motto loz-
enges." A physician pronounced it a case
of arsenical poisoning.
Here is almodcl epitaph:
| Under the sod and under the trees
Lies the body OF Samuel Pease;
He's not in this hole, nor here in his pod,
lie shelled cut his soul and went up to
God.
A Kentucky lady named Buckle has fall
en heir to an estate in Texas valued at
S3,000,000. The strange thing about it is
that it was left by her father thirty years
ago, and she has just received the intor-
nation.
A flock of geese flying rather low over
a Jackson county (Oregon) miners claim,
the man in charge Of the hydraulic pipe
turned it on them and succeeded in bring
ing down two of the birds, one of which
was secured.
In 1852 human skeleton was dug up
from Il depth of 60 feet, in New Orleans.
beneath four successive buried forests of
cypress. DR.. Dowlcr, in whose possess
sion it came, believed from its position it
had lain there 5000 years.
Athletic young men are all anxious to
walk 100 miles in 100 hours; but just ask
one OF them to saw up 10 sticks of hard
wood, and their strength evaporates as
quickly as if a stroke Of paralysis had in
terviewed them.
It is peculiar fact that the older doc
tor grows, the less confidence he has in
medicine. We read that an old professor.
who knows more, perhaps, than bakers
dozen of ordinary doctors. stated in St.
Louis recently that every dose Of medicine
was simply a Lind experiment, quite as
likely to miss as to hit. So with lawyers.
They never go to law.
A reverend sportsman was once boasting
of his infallible skill at finding hare. ''lf l
were hare said a quaker who was pres
ent. Il would take my seat in a place
where l should be sure of not being dis
turbed by thee from the first of January
to the last of December" ''Why, where
would you go?'' Into thy study
Wisconsin teachers who have arranged
the seats in their school-rooms so that
their pupils sit with their hacks +n,-~"rI
them. recommend the plan very highly. Il
enables the teacher to overlook the school
without the pupils knowing whether he is
observing them or not. 1t also isolates
the classes reciting from the rest of the
school, the recitation benches being in
front of the teachers desk, between him
and the school, Wisconsin State Journal.
The increase Of population in the past
ten years has been much greater in the
Northern than in the Southern States, and
the new apportionment, based on the cen
sus of 1880, will give larger representa-
ton in Congress to Republican than to
Democratic States. The estimated gain in
the electoral college is: Northern States,
4G; Southern States, 20. The Western
and Northwestern States show the largest
of gain.-Er.
A railroad company, suspecting dead
heads, put detective on the track. One |
lay he heard a passenger remark that it |
was very easy to go from B to D.
without u ticket. lie watched the speaker
md was surprised to see him hand the
conductor ticket. Getting into CONVEX
'ation with the passenger. he said: ''I'd
ike to know your plan for travelling with
,ut 4 ticket, and don't mind giving you q
couple of dollars tor it." ''Done," said
he man, pocke,ing the money. "When
want to travel without ticket walk