Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1879-11-13
ODDS AND ENDS,

Flour is rising All good flour sho;i,
rise.
: 1t is easier To rectity liquor than the hab
it of drinking H. - ~.
Industry, brain ard cileek-these three
b,a the greatest OF these is cheek
i it had rot been for lis lower eXtremi.
ties. lalmage to-day would have been Il
poor man.
just forty-nine years aco--thc first pas
senger railroad in England. tie Liverpool
ard Manchester Railway. was opened with
great ceremony. .-ss
"lIeal.hy place here:' asked a visitor
who WAS prospecting in the heighhorllood
OF Denver. Colorado. stranger. yes.''
was the repy; "tea years age we had to
kill two old men to get seed enough to
start cemetery
A man stopping his paper. writes: y
think folks ottcnt TO spent their mummy
I tor Il payper. my dada didant. and every
/ body sed lie was the inteliigentest man in
/ the country. and he had tlle Srartest fami-
iy OF baiz that ever duggel taters.' Of
course he didn't need pa, er. p E. \
/ a gentlemen who once called a. .ho
rooms of Senator Sumner in Washington,
twas told by his Young negro servant.
"NaSsa SunTIer, lie gone TO de Senate to
make him Speech What speech y ask
ed the gentleman, in surprise. why,
dat ar speech he's been hoilcrin@ out in
bed cherry morning desc tree weeks
Actuat Fact. T.
Postmaster James of New York city has
rehelled at the order of Postmaster Gener-
al Key. hich requires letters to be sent to
the Dead Letter Office the sllpelscriptionS
of which do not contain the State and other
technical details. Nj James obeved the
order for one day and found that there
would not be room enough in the New
\ Iork City Post Office to continue to obey
it longer, and that it WAS easier, for that
matter. tor the clerks to send the letters 10
the destination desired by the writers than
1t was to discover some technical preteXJ
for sending them to the Dead Letter Office
At Prince Edward. Va. the other day, i
chicken THE was on trial. when counsel
fer defense prodhcc1 4 venerable rooster
Of the mongrel breed. owned by the pris-
oner. which he sought to convince the
jury was the progenitor of the five Brall-
ma fowls which had been stolen. The
learned limb of the law astounded the jury
by declaring that the whole thing was ex4
planned by tile doctrine of revolution. Then
the ''noble tweIye'' 'eyoluted 1hirty-nine
lashes for the otterse. Virginia juries
don't understand DarNnism, bat they rec
ognize Il chicken tibet by insiipct. -, y,
Chicago has plenomenally tough po-
lccman. He WAS shot at by a burglar, re-
Gently. and the ball passed through his hat
and struck him square on the forehead.
The bali ilattened on the bone and caused
TIE officer to reel Il little. but he stright-
ened up ard picked the ball out Of the
flesh, where 1t haCt itnbeddcd Itself. The
officer went to the station and reported
the affair and then had the wound dressed.
The next day ne had Il headache, but has
since recovered. He was also shot in the
head in the army. but the ball made SO lit
lie impression upon him that he picked it
out himself. -. <-s.
Washing is -1'odern ide1. 7~-Ottr ances-
tors seldom washed anything but thcit
hands and faces. and | remember tha.
when was at school we only did this, and
,nce Il week our feet. In the seventeenth
century people were very dirty. Louis
XIV took only one bath in his life, and
lis daily ;ibulations consisted OF dipping
he ends of his fingers in spirits of wine.
lerouard, the physician of Louis MI,
,ept a diary of tie hourly occupations Of
'is master during twcnty-eigit years.
There is no record of one single bath.
SuSsy Rabutin tells us that Madame dc
on whose destinations Victor
'ouiih wrote so lovingly. smclt disagleca.
ly and wore solled petticoats.
A horrible brutal story cores from New
albany, Ind. a man named Stringham
cccpt,d Il wager to fight a savage bulldog.
le prepared himself for the brutal en-
ounter by getting ds'wn upon his hands
nd knees and growing and snar!ing, dog
ke. until the other brute became gradual
I infnriated. The dog WAS then turned
,ose and attacked Stringham sayagely,
ut he caught TIE car of the brute in his
eth and chewedit of. This only nfuri-
ed the dog, and when loosened from
tringham's teeth he mads another and
ercer attack. This tla,c Siringham
,ught the deg With his TECH in the under
p, and 90 lacerated and worried tie brute
lat it howled from pain, and, when finally
LEASED, fled from his torture and could
Dt again De induced to renew the fight.