Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1879-10-30
ODDS AND Ends.

There arc seven morning newspapers il
81. Louie.
The Chicago street railways employ
nearly 1900 horses.
II is said that Schuyler Colfax la:
cleared $4,000 in four years as a lecturer
There are III present about $4,000 con
ticts in all the State prisons of this coun
try.
Elopemcnts in Missouri are usually made
by two couples together. and the surviv-
ing husbands and wives consider il all as a
fonr-gonc conclusion.
knowledge is the right bower. and one
81 the showicSt cards in the pack yet in
the game of life cheek is the little joker
that is o.tenincs the winner.
Shavngs from planning mil in Chicago
are. by an air blast. blown 700 feet. through
n l5-nch sheet-ron pipe to disti!cry
where they are burned for fuel.
Robert Bonner y i'll sell at auction. next
month. forty or fifty OF his one hundred
and fifty horses. Many OF these have no
record. but are Of celebrated stock, and
have trottca in 2:23. 2::24 and 2:25.
NO" said Texas lawyer, as he placed
a couple Of loaded Derringcrs on the table
before him. ''the fact that this witness is
desperate man. will not defer me from
asking him such questions as may deem
proper"
He was an honest. conscientious voter.
He stepped into Caucus of lis party. and
silently took his seat Presently quiet
little man stepped mp and said \: Beg your
pardon, sir; you can not have any bust !
ness here. The thing is all fixed"
The idea that you can read mans |
thoughts in his face is all bosh. Look the /
man in the face who borrowed ten dollars
from You 4 year ago '.for a day or two,"
and it expresses nothing but Darkness
the blankest kind
Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson is circulating
tract which shows that the people of the
United States pay over S700.0O0OOO year
for spirituolis and fcrmented liquors. and
only $95.000,O0O for education, and SIS
900 for religion.
Men and women are strange things. a
minister may preach for two hours against
The fire to come, and the people will ac-
ccpt his words and try to avoid it. but as
soon rs the fire bell rings every one in the
congregation drops the preacher at once
and skips out for the blaze.
The title of the chief executive nacis-
trate OF the United States is not ..his cx-
cellency," but simply the president. In
the convention which framed the constitu !
ton of the United States il was proposed I
that the president should be styled his en- $
'ellency and his majesty. but both propo-
sitions were rejected. They partook too |
much of aristocratic form.
Many readers of newspapers are Of such ;,
suspicious natures that they are always on :,
The alert to detect some insncere course of j,
teton on the part of others. When the !,
,ditOr of paper avows his purpose to be !,
he organ Of no man and Of no party. but ;,
20 speak the truth plainly Of all parties a
'au criticise them all in the interest of the s.
,eople. the average partisan reader is ready =,
o jump to the conclusion that all such =
ak is mere pretence--a sham-a cloak i;
'nder which the editor designs to secretly n
TAD the party TO Which the reader belongs
lie can understand independence if the in
dependent paper will always assault the
'ther side but he is sure the editor is net
NJ treacherousiy if he says a word against =. -.
nc side OF the reader So. Louis Journal. :. :.