Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1879-07-17
Odds and Ends.

A Delaware woman, hard worker all
her lite, being about to die last week, call
ed her husband and children about her and
told them where she had buried $1,000 OF
her earnings in the cellar. They dug it up
before the funeral.
AS match for sentence OF forty-three
letters, recently published, containing all
the letters of the alphabet, the following of
only thirty-three letters, which also ft,lfills
the same condition, is given: ~. Gray
Pack with--my box five dozen quills.''
A Kansas farmer purchased revolver
for his wife, and insisted on target practice,
so that she could defend her house in case
of his absence. After the bullet had been
dug out of his leg and the COW buried, he
said he guessed that she better shoot with
an axe.
Two gentlemen slept in very close
room. The window was, apparently,
stuck fast. A pane was broken to let in
the air, and then another, when they both
felt better and went to sleep. In the morn
ing they discovered that they had broken
two panes of an old-fashioned. bookcase.
Henry w. Longfellow, the poet, has five
children. Onslow, the eldest, is married,
and man OF business in Boston; Ernest
is rising young painter, studying abroad;
Alice, the eldest of the girls, is pleasing
writer, unmarried; Edith is a golden-hair-
ed young lady of twenty-five, who has just
married the third son of Richard ii. Dana,
Jr.. and Anna is decidedly literary in her
inclinations.
Once, while Randolph of Roanoke was
debating a question in the Senate, he said
it was a shame that the s'noble bulldogs
of the administration should waste their
time in worrying the rats of the opposi-
tion." He was called to order, but the
President ruled in his favor. Thus en-
couraged, he pointed his long finger at
the members of the opposition, and fairly
"Rats, did l say? Mice! Mice"
A new style of croquet sets are coming
into vogue, which promise to become very
popular. The hoops have an attachment ,
for candles. With a candle burning at the
top of each hoop. on still night, there is 8
sufficient light to enable game to be play !
ed. When there is no moon, and the wind ,
Is not too boisterOus, the effect is quite |,
and the young and spoony
consider it the sweetest invention of the : :
When the Governor of Oregon tele- v
.raphed to the Secretary OF War, at the b
beginning of the Indian outbreak, that a a
issue of arms was necessary to g
nable him to protect the settlers, he re- e
eived an answer as follows: "You have Q
more than your quota of arms" The il
Governor, however, was equal to the situ- b
tion. He telegraphed in reply: ave n
ave more than our quota Of Indians"
he required arms We're thereupon at once
sued.
The seat OF p jur, man absent from the :.
ourt was taken possession of by dog. =
he judge. addressing one of the counsel W
lid: sYou see, Mr.. Laning, the Jury ~
lan's seat is occupied. Are you ready to III
roceedT' The lawyer raised his glasses
, his eyes, made brief survey Of the jury
,x, and made the witty reply: "Your in
onor, that fellow might do for judge, hs
1t should hate to trust him for q jury ris
an" The judge Joined heartily In the mi
ugh that followed. en-