Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1879-08-07
Odds and Ends.

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Col. Bob Ingersoll has sold his $25,OO
residence at Peoria.
General John G. Fremont is getting ricl
again on mining speculations.
A petritied human foot was found n
Jacksonville, Oregon. the other day.
Sitting Bulls real name is Tatanka- Y o
tanka. But he always allowed us to cal
him ''Bull,' for short.
A farmer on the shores of Lake Ontario
has had nine acres washed away IN the
last twenty years. He is evidently losing
ground.
Beecher says he prevented morbidly re-
ligions woman from becoming insane, by
making her promise not to read the Bible,
20 to church or pray.
The unkind remark is going the rounds,
that Weston was born in Rhode Island,
but never could practice long-distance
walking without going outside THE State.
The Methodist General Conference, to
be held next year, is expected 10 elect sew
eral new Bishops. and the cDloresl Metho-
dists insist that one shall be ;Scolored man.
Mark Twain's forthcoming book on Er,-
rope and the Europeans is expected 10 be
the best thing he has ever written. Walter
Francis Brown. 4 young American artist
in Paris. is making the illustrations for it.
The new steel bridge over the Missouri
river at Glasgow. Mo-. is the finest bridge
of the kind in the world. 1t is nearly 800
feet long, and every strand is warranted to
bend double before it will break.
There was very little human nature about
the young English licntenan; vino ran a way
when the Prince Imperial was speared. All
the rest of us would have staid and got
killed.-BufaIo Erpress.
A boy In Crawford county, Indiana, mar
ried when he was II and was father at Is. |,
He lately married second wife. and now,
at the age of 50, is happy with second
child. There is - years difference between
the ages Of Ills two children. |
A Utah paper states that the people Of
Ogden are great bathers. The Utah North
ern runs special trains. and alsu special tick
cts on their regular trains, to Hot Springs,
giving round ride of nearly twenty miles
anil delightful bath for fifty cents.
The Indiana clergyman who suggests
the hanging Of I'LL the ex-Confetler,tes, is
reminded by Alexander Mcclure that ex-
trenIe measures like this would destroy 4
portion Of Hayes cabinet. and relieve our
foreign service Of some Of its brightest
ornaments.
The French navy has adopted an appa-
ratus for distilling salt water 1T sea. The
steam passes two cones, where It is Rrated
by being condensed into air current. 1t is
then purified by circulation through ami
NAL charcoal. and pure water is the result.
The French Academy of Science awarded
a prize Of $1,000 to tile inventor.
Sheridan went to see Pinafore one night
during its revival in Chicago last week.
and remarked to the manager that was the
first time lie had ever witnessed the opera,
rs lie had been long time absent on the
plains. The Indians all sing it." said
Phil. but didn't get to hear EN-
The mercantile failures for the second
quarter Of this year have been smaller in
number and amount Of liabilities than those
# any quarter for the last five years. Com
Jared with the same quarter in 1873, there
decrease of forty per cent in the num-
'er of firms collapsed. and of fifty -four per
ent in the amount involved.
A novelty in social amusement has been .
Introduced in Jackson county. Oregon.
The Iidings. of Ashland, reports that a
lumber OF young ladies' and gentlemen
rom jacksonville and other places met at
he grove ut Willow Springs on horseback.
nd to the music Of the violin went through I
number OF quadrilles and round dances
nth their horses.
The steady and rapid growth of our ex-
ort trade in leather is All interesting bust b
ess sign. 1t only began as an experiment
N years ago. but it has now reached about
100000 OF pounds u year, valued at 81
10000. The amount sent abroad duringl
Ne first six months OF the present year
as larger than ever before BY over mil
on pounds, and the business seems des-
ned to grow to still larger dimensions.
Says the Louisville Courier-Journal: =
We could walk seven miles bare-footed
rer turnpike to the funeral of fool p
no would try to make Il cork-screw OF a
Jules tail. but We can never shed atear
r the idiot who had no better sense than
kill himself drinking whisky. Every
me- dr,,nkari hands in his checks he ,
axes more room in this world for sober tn n,
en- who are trying to keep soul and body cIe
gether.'