Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1879-12-25
ODDS AND ENDS.

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ODDS AND ENDS.
A western paper remarks that the world
will soon look upon America as the Fod
derland.
He becometh poor that dealeth with 9
slack hand" but he that slileth four aces
up his sleeve getteth to himself riches.
1t costs more to obtain good pew in q
. fashionable church in New York, than il
does to secure box in the theatre for the
season.
Baldheade1 persons are recommended
by one who knows how it is himself to
have spider painted on the top of their
heads in fy-time.
The two important events in the life OF
man are wren he examines his upper lip
and sees the hair coming, and when he ex-
amines the top Of his head and sees the
hair going.
/ MIR. Arthur Sullivan has been trying to
get his name up in Boston by saying that
the Boston ladies are the llandsonest in
the world. but MIR. Sullivan will probably
be surprised to find ont that Boston ladies
pride themselves on their learning aid not
their good looks.
You never see a woman button anything
that she can pin. and you never see a man
pin anything that he can tie with string.
YOu would have trouble making some
men believe that they couldn't tie Il but
ton-hole into wristband with piece OF
Irvine string.
What could be more intensely American
| than the net of the Yankee who. on. visit
ing an Italian convent and being shown
lamp which had not been permitted to go
out for more than five centuries, quickly
stepped up to it and blew it out, with the
remark. "Well. | rather guess it's out
now"
Sacramento Bee: Nearer, my God, to
Thee" was sung at the execution of a
murderer at Richmond on Monday last
1t was very appropriate when he was on
the platform, but when the drop fell he
was six feet nearer the devil, and it is
two-tO-one bet that he is IN intimate ac-
qlaintance of that gentleman at present.
A foreign lecturer on cremation asserts
that the ancient Creek, Celtic Roman.
Thracian. Swedish and Japanese reverence
for life indicates that the practice of burn
ing human bodies originated in religious
motives. There is nothing in the Bible
against cremation, he says, and when its
practice died out in Europe, science and
the arts died out, and the Dark Ages came,
and with them burial.
Mr.. Bonner paid $50. O0O for Pocahontas,
$36. 900 for Rar,,s, $33.OOO for Dexter, $2O,-
600 for Startle, $4,000 for Edwin Forest.
and $4,000 for Grafton, in order TO own
the fastest trotting horse in the world. |
And then that mean. good-for-nothing.
sixssyear-olh. st. Julian went off and trotted
4 mile in 2:l24. beating the noble Ra;as an
even second and driving the iron clear
through the great soul Of Mr.. Robert Bon
ner. Rarlls. Dexter, and the balance OF
Bonner's stable will do well enough to
haul express wagons, and things of that
sort. but they can't really be called fast
horses.
A few nights since, at I.ander's camp,
on the extension. a mule got loose, and
one Of the men attempted to catch it. He
drove it around among the dug-outs In
which the men were sleeping, and as it
was passing over one of the dug-outs the
roof feliin, precipitating the animal upon
the sleeping and unconscious inmates, de-
molis'ing the furniture. but doing no
DANA .e to the sleepers, who thought the
shower of mules pretty heavy, considering
the season, but did not stop to argue the
question from scientific standpoint be
fore extricating themselves from the deb
ris. The protncted-eared, nimble heeled,
quadrupcd persisted Ia en-
to keep one pair OF heels In the
mir MI the time, which performance was
very entertaining to the boys-after they
had got al q safe Observation-Disclosures Critic
rion.
DIR Leonard Hacon has the idea that too
much catechism is not good, and he OPP
poses new one, and in his scntenti0us ,
and rather satirical way says: II do not |
worship the old catechism. AN Scripture
IS given by inspiration of God.' bat no
production of the Westminster Assembly
. one with better or more inspired than
Dwighs's Theology or any other tolerahly1
body Of div nity. No one mcm{
her Of the westuslnstsr Assembly ad
4 them toxethes-kpew mor about the9- |
ogy than the lats Pr,fsssor Hodge kne,k.
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