Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1879-07-31
Odds and Ends.

The faster ulan is Tie faster he can run
through IL fortune.
Next to swearing slamning a door gives
the most relief to IN angry person. Swear
ing is the most convenient, however.
In Pawtuckct, a dog has been killed for
biting book agent. Ia some places the
animal woll! have received a.chromo and
been invited TO lecture
No man can ever tell just how much
money widow is worth until he marries
her for it. 1t is one G: those cases where
you have to take your chances.
There are 5i.4S7 persons employed in
the postal service of the United States,
greater number than in all the other de-.
partments combined. The number OF
postmasters is 59,25s.
Never accept anything, if it is in the BIZ
! bic, as true, which You cannot see to be
true, and never accept anything in the BIZ
ole as good when it seems to be in CONTRA
tiiction to your moral sense; and so using
the Bible it will help you thousand times
more than you make it master and your
mind its slaye.-Dr. j. F. Clarke.
At religious gathering in Portland,
man arose to address the assemblage. and
as lie progressed with his experience" he
Waxed warm and eloquent. "Brethren and
sisters he said eXcitedly, IL love the Lord,
love him better better, better than love
nice spring chicken, and l don't caro-
whether it 4 pulet or Il rooster!''-
Persons connected with the alleged ap-.
pcarance of tie Virgin Mary to some chill
dren in wood near Marpingen, Germany,
in 1876, have been indicted for fraud About
20O witnesses are to be examined in this
case, which caused SO much excitement ut
the time, and which went into Parliament
because the excited people at Marpingen
were dispersed by soldiers.
There is not,'' wrote the editor of the
Dead,rooa Daily Champion, "a q,,ieter,
more peaceful, wcll-regulatcd, and orderly
community in the whole western country,
And then, as the oilice-boy entered to say
that somebody wanted TO see him, he took
his bowie between his teeth, put Colts
neW-Dattcrn seven-shOoter on the desk in
front of hiin, and said. Jim. get out an
other coflin-plain pine one this tinle-and
let the son of gun in.''
n promising young lady Of Eureka. who
has some knowledge of the printing busi--
ness, declines the company of 4 most
worthy young man on the ground that
- he has no style about him; he won't
brace up, has no dash, cuts no figure, has
n t, !. H., 3,
and makeup, isn't man OF letters nor up
to tie period; is Il poor type Of the sex, is
OUT OF quo:a, and says she won't have him
impose on her." She shows solid sense.
md evidently lanEers tor the freedom Of
tie press.
y resident Of Bodie writing to a friend,
loses his enistle in the following languages
: This is going to be one of the greatest
places in the world. Its winters are the
'ollest and summers the hottest; mines
he richest; wlliskey, the poorest; weather,
most changeable; gamblers most numerouss
shootists,' most damnable, and prostitutes
most vile, of any place ever struck. To-
he above | should have added, most re-
suicides for Bodie car point
With pride to the champion suicide of the,
'acific cCast, who threw himself into the
sliaft-700 feet deep.
A rlucky editor in the centre Of Ohio
oes what lie can to meet his financial amt
olitc;,l Obligations, and at the same time
0 cultivate the domestic virtues. In a let
or to Il Cincinnati house which has been
o injudcious and unteeling as to dun him,
e writes: Dear Sirs-Find inclOsed
oliars on account. lave been too busy
collect enough money to pay you in
Ill. My wife has had baby. This does
OF happen very often. Moreover, l am
lifting Democratic paper up street and a
epublcan paper down street. This
ont last very long. hope to be able to.
Itch my breath within the next four
eeks. Yours, in haste, ="