Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1879-01-16
Odds and Ends.
The rattlesnake lives to be sixteen years

The nttlesnake lives to be sixteen year
old.
fa young man wants to see his name II
a paper let him get married. He will new
er enjoy his death notice.
''HOw much was this butter. did 70,
say?' Seventeen cents, sir.'' '.Where OF
earth have tn" other two gone? cal
smell but iifteen.''
Senator Chaffee, of Colorado, is the for
tunate owner Of half of a newly Develops
silver mine which is yielding $1,000 wortl
OF silver daily.
They make up flrs without sewing nov
by applyinga a solution of india rubber anl
benzine with brush and passing the ma
terial between two rollers.
Overheard on ferrybo..t-
has gone wrong with A. r. Stewards af
fairs since his death.'' 1T the old mar
had been alive the st. Marks churchyart
outrage never would have occurred
The Dublin (Ga) Post apologies to
some of its fellOw-citizens for having
slighted them in not asking them to sub.
scribe.
A skunk got irto the basement of the
Grace Church at YananOque. Ontario. one
e;ening recently. while service was in
progress, and the congregation was dis
missed without waiting for the benedic-
ton.
Rev. A. p. Graves. the evangelist. says
that all graduates of the Agricultural Col
lege at Ames but one are infdels. The
College aurora says none of them are in
fidels. Now, Who's right?
1t is a mistake to expect to succeed at
farming without plenty CT good honest
work. Some men may have made money
without work. but no farmer ever made IA
crop without good deal of that indispen-
sable article.
Major Mcdowell. of Chicago, brother
OF General Mcdowell. says that the re-
serve candidate for President. who could
get the German and Irish vote and make a
better run than any other man, is Hon. f.
B. Washburne.
A young man In the country wrote to a
Boston bookseller as follows: ..Dere sur !:
if yew hev gut book called Daniel Web
ster on a bridge please to send me copy
by Pyser's express C. o. d. want ter get
it termorrer i'll kin, cause my spellin teach
er says oughter to hev it,
A few years ago Mr.. Edison was in Eng
land. and anxious to find some one to take
up one of his inventions; but he failed. and
went back to, America. where Gould, of
Erie halfway notoriefy. made million
dollars by it.-London Truth.
Having been entirely without printer
the past week, we have had to DO job work.
play the devil, chop wood. set type. mail
papers. hunt up locals. go to market. be
bored. read and correct proof, avoid the
(beast with bill, according to
the old detinition hence had no time to
write editorials.
MIR. Guy Carlton. a robust farmer sew
ty-five years old, living near the village OF
n. ". has bought his coffin
and has it ready for use. He also has ready
tor erection solid marble block. chisclled
in the shape of dwelling. with doors and
windows. The block will he put over his
grave to symbolic by its form and soliditv
the last long dwelling of man.
Postmaster-Gener,l Key has directed
etter to be prepared for transmission to
the Speaker Of the House of Representa-
ives foreshadowing the discontinuance of
;he postal car service in all parts of the |
country on the first of January. unless
congress shall. in the meantime, make an
appropriation to continue it.
A case is going to court in Kentucky
where one man agreed to fatten another's
logs on the sb -es, for two over half. The
logs are sixtee number. and the qnes-
ion ia. how many hogs will each have
vhen the division takes place? Numbers
# people have applied the arithmetic, and
et they differ.
The editor of the Mower County (Minn.
Transcript, being hard pressed for items.
astened pair of bOb-slcds to his feet one
ny last weak and went out with skating
arty. Suffice it to say the experiment
twO-thirds of 4 column for his
aper, gave physician employment for
wo weeks. and changed his complexion
0 that his creditors will never recognize
i'm.
The employers in the manufacturing and
on trade in the North of England claim !
efore the arbitrators five per cent. reduc- !
on In wages in consequence If the depres- t
on Of business. The men claim that the a
tice Of labor is lower than in the past 20 a
AIRS. The newspapers continue to pub a
N accounts Of distress throughout the G
'untry. which the authorities and private a
tizens are entieavOring to relieve.