The Benton weekly record. [volume] (Benton, Mont.) 1880-1885, 1880-02-27
SHFTFNGS.
Firm fliends-Partners.

A poor relation-A story badly told.
II Excellent wash for the face-Water
1t is better to give than receive-a bill
L When q man hasn't red he gets blue
A lumber dealer failed last Week-co1l
II not pay his board bills.
:, Put boy in cast-iron boots and he
get his feet wet just the same.
e Broken Heart is station on Ainnesot
e railroad =.. - d.. 5 a-s
Make your life SO that there will alway
be heaven around YOU.
Delaware, Virginia, Nevada and Califo1
mia use the whipping-post.
The Mormons are said to be increasin
at the rate Of ten thousand year.
A year OF pleasure passes like a teetin
, breeze, but a moment of sorrow seems Al
age ot pain. .
The deepest mine in America is at pres
ent staying in California, it makes Il hol
2,640 feet deep.
Y female wig dealer ought to be "a goot
musician; she has q soul for harmony,
1t takes a good deal of grief to kill NO
man just after she has got new sealskit
sacque.
Nothing crushes the ambition out Of
young thermometer like carrying it il
your trowers pocket.
/ Hartford family etfectually wards of
tramps by havinga ton of coal dumped in
the front yard.
| Why can't they use electricity as mo-
tive power? One flash of lightning can
make whole crowd move on
With all the variety of canned good in
the market, we have yet to hear of canned
hash.
Delilah subdued man by cutting his
hair. Most women do it by pulling the
mans hair out by the roots.
The man who wills his body to med
ical college for the benefit of science gives
himself dead away. -:
In 1915 the average yield of wheat in
France was eleven bushels to the acre,
now it is fifteen. .@a...
Japan is now manufacturing boots for
sale in the United States from leather
brought from American ports.
''Sing a Song Of Sixpence" dates from
the sixteenth century, and ''Three Blind
So. l. l.
The average temperature Of the south
literal branch of the Sutro Tunnel is l02
degrees, at a depth of 800 feet
The drinkers of the German Empire
during 1878 drank 84l ,05S,7 gallons of
beer, or about twenty gallons for each per-
son.
The man who got in barber's chair,
pinned the newspaper round his neck and
began to read the towel, may justly be
called absent minded
Cleanliness is generally regarded as q
virtue, but in Germany they call a bath
'bad," and even in France they look upon
it as a ''bain.''
sEphis sidewalks handy, but not sandy
as I wish it 7sas5" said the man who reach
ed his length OF the icy pavement.
A number of girls in Birmingham have
been made i'll by motto lozenges. The
answer disagreed with them, perhaps.
II have great ear, a wonderful ear"
said conceited musician, in the course of
$50 has a jackass!D replied
a bystander.
Gen. Spinner says the climate of Florida
cures the rheumatism. Now, if he could
only find something that would take the
cramp out of his signature.
The Boston Adcertiser relates that the
same ship lately took to Africa 100000 gal
Ions of rum and one missionary. Heavens
what did they want ofso much missionary. |
There is believed to be only one thing
slower than molasses in January, and that
IS II lady making room for another lady in
a street car, /
s'Excuse these steers said sad-eyed /
stock droyer to an elderly lady, after his
nfuriateG cattle had tossed two of her off |
spring into the mud.
Care killed cat, says the proverb, but
he style of bootack with which the deed |
was done is not mentioned. !
1t is fact fully understood by railroad |
men that the lines having the most long
on the route secure the bulk Of the /
3ridal-tour trade.
II am looking for Paradise Lost said
BOARD, and was cropping about under the
able.
A New Jersey paper carpeting factory
.ecently filed orders from Germany and
South America. Formerly Japan made
Ill such goods:
1t a said that yultttre eall fly 1853 miles
IL an hour; wild geese. ninty miles, and
swallows ninty-two miles; common crows
make about twenty-five miles an hour.
The rich lands of the estate of the late
). d. Coar, once valued at $175,00o, and
situated in Charlestown and Georgetown
Counties, S. c., were sold recently for
S25, ,OGO.
There is DO excuse for % man to go shut
ling through life with his hands in his
pockets and no more animation about him
han an old door mat on which every ybody
wipes their feet.
A number Of enterprising Jews have
oeen engaged in collecting the bones of
lorses that fell in the late battle between /
Russia and Turkey, and have sold them to /
Austrian sugar refinera.
Recently a man named Montgomery, of /
County Down, Ireland, drap- /
oed down dead !; his wife, upon hearing the
news, fell dead also: and, on a message be-
ng despatched to the sister of the latter it
xas discovered that she had died sudden
y.
Fossilized remains of what il reported as
gigantic prehistoric man have been
ound 200 feet beneath the earth's surface
II cave recently opened in mine near
eureka, New The lower limbs, head and
leck are said to be clearly defined and
natural.
There is a curious and close likeness be-
ween the characters Of the Greek and the
American, which goes even into the type
f the physique; it has often been noticed
n Greece, both by Greeks and foreigners.
The element OF imaginativeness is one Of
he strongest components in the similarity.
The Herue Horticoze, Of France, contains
communication from 4 horticulturist,
Yho claims that gas tar mixed with saw
lust has driven away al the ants that has