Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1879-11-13
The Avant Courier
THURSDAY, =: NOVEMBER 10. 1879.
WIT AND HCMOR.
Soled again-Our Old shoes.

Soleti again-Our Old shoes.
It's poor land that can't hold its sown.
People pick their teeth and vet they it
not all get good ones.
"The rag business is picking up" Ant
the old bone business is going to the dogs
When an Erie Pa man stops drinking
his friends Pronounce him a case OF Erie
sip-less.
"Whole hug or none" as the young fel.
low said to his bctrothed, who was irrlin.
ed TO fiirt.
A dead snake can be brought to l,fawith
Il pint OF whisky. You drink the whisky
and then look at the snake.
No matter. remarks the Syracuse Her
hfd. how much candidate i.ches for office.
he never likes TO be scratched.
When YOU Eee young gentleman es-
corting young lady with suspicious regu-
larty. you can bet on that walking match.
1t is Il mean man who would fool fish
by wearing white choker and clerical coat
when strolling along the banks of brook
on Sunday.
An exchange has an article on Glow TO
run newspaper" This should be read
only by editors. as every other person in
The world knows just how newspaper
ought to be run.
Patrick-''And Bddy. da,lint, they've
been telling me there's too MANY of us in
the wyrruld. Now Bldy. if you an me
get The praste tc make us two one. troth.
won't there be wan the lrss?"
Correspondent-"Wil the editor please /
inform me where my family can 90 on
Sundays. and be cool and comfortable
without danger Of being crowded. An
swer. by Rochester Democrat: Go to
church,
rs that the way you go on al day.
SAID Mrs. Jobbins. a. she beheld her has
band gong through the physical accompa-
niments of a yawn. "Oh. nor he replied.
81 always take care to save myself tor the
home-stretci."
n Pittsburg paper has he follow Ing ac-
count OF n recent train robbery: Eight
masked robbers stopped railroad train in
The West. the other day. As the train con-
tanned an excursion Of editors. the only |
loss was the loss OF the time to the rob !
hers. q.
A ragged-looking pedestrian came TO the '
pack door of the Dunshudder mansion,
yesterday afternoon. and the hired girl 1
shouted: We've nothin' for tramps." c
Fair lady, pause" said the visitor. I'm
not tramp nor beggar." "What are We. q
hen"' Madam. I'm solicitor general d
There are several remarkable towns in "
New Hampshire, but Newcastle seems to u
'e the most remarkable Of them all. Ii the !,
springfield Republican is correctly inform :.
II, Newcastle docs not contain within its
limits single preacher. lawyer or doctor. o
ma we feel constrained to add that New y
astle contains a most fortunate cotlmuni- II
Y. &c
A man at I.+chficld. Connecticut. plead Of
q guilty TO assault on Il neighbor the ether =,
ay. and upon paying the fine and costs. Il,
. the amount OF about twenty-five dollars. y,
lrned to the plaintiff with an ugly look, 81
nd. shaking his fist at him. said: .lf Il
ad known that should have got off so =,
heap, would have BACKED your other "
ye."
Let the next spelling reform convention
held in Maine. and adopt measures to
form the spelling OF the lakes of that
tate. Some of the lakes there only a
arter of mile in length have names bi
ali mile long. The reforlners might II
restle with Lake Magoguekunkittchoen 90
usqnitamackinogue to begin with.-Nor- hi,
stsun Herald. ba
"Ialk about your narrer 'scapes,' said COZ
lardine, Il must tell you bout the one | aft
~. Ten years ago last winter, went ins
II into the words where bears and pan Die
ers wars thicker than gtln-chewcis i'm a TIN
male academy. soon got my eyes onto pa
big. noble iookin' bear. My gun had pit
Ell loaded with a bigger charge of pow up
r than usual. ! just pulled bead onto an'
nj bear. and crack! went the rifle and He
er went the bear, Willie my gun just give SUI
e powerful kick which laid me out fiat VIII
the ground. But the best of the thing for
is this: didn't see big panther which The
Is on bluff behind me, and as shot. the
g cuss jumped for me. only to meet thu the
IT of my gun, which was going his way. tur
the ugly varmnt fell dead. with his we
I'LL crushed in by the gun-stock." ly;
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