The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1885-04-29
GLEANINGs.


Nearly l. 900, COO people received char.
liable a:d in Great Britain the past
year.
A two-year-oId chihl al Gainesville.
Ca, can already rcpeat The entire
alphabet.
The twenty-five firms who publish
school books In this country d0 bus-
mess Of about So, 000. 600 year
Mrs. Louisa s. Vaught, OF Freehold.
n. j., who died recently. left $4,000
20 number Of evangelical societies.
A petition has been presented TO the
Connecticut Legislature asking for the
passage of law prohibiting the use
of tobacco in the public schools.
Deputy United States Marshal Gum
roper, of Springfield. Mo-, undertook
to light a fire with kerosene. 1t didn't
kill him, but he won't do it again.
A disagreeable witness In Black Hills
court got singing blow under the
ear as he left the box. the defendant in
the case performing the suggestion.
Germany is going in heavily for beet
root culture Ninety new factories
were started last year and nearly as
many are in course of construction.
Thirty-three thousand deaths from
diphtheria occurred in the province Of
Kharkof, the southern part of European
Russia, between the years of 1871 and
1882. yACG1
Beecher's double, the man who goes
to theatres and gets the Brooklyn pas
tors name in the papers. is Johh Wy
man. Their resemblance is very strik-
ing. t CO.
Arthur Peel. son of the late Sir Rob
ert Peel, will probably be the next
Speaker in the English House of Com
mons. he is ID years old, and is of
stately presence.
A French scribbler, writing of Queen
Victoria and her late gillie, Brown,
has had the indecency to say that she
takes her second widowhood even har-
der than the first
In the woods Of Belmont, N. H., is
living a married woman of thirty
years, who wears overalls and chops
wood with her husband, averaging a
cord of wood day.
1t is said that Gladstone's private
iife is wholly above suspicion. His
home at Hawarden Castle is as happy
as any in England He has no petty
vices and no eecentricities.
A negro in Virginia who has been
tried for abducting white girl cries !
that it is mighty hard to SEN a Gull
nrd man TO the pen'tenshary cause a
white gal runs arter him"
The Ogallala Cattle Company, of
Omaha, which bought 45, 600 head. has
aiken also the Boser herd of 45, 600 for
b125,000 The company now has over
100, 600 head and $4,000, 600 invested.
Mrs. FRANKS, the first woman to land
IN Galveston Island, then inhabited
,nly by sand-crabs. and the mother of
he first white child Iorn there, is still
live and hale and hearty, though at
N advanced age.
A Des Moines intelligence office has
eceived an order for cook TO 90 to
Colorado. The person writing says:
There are ten men here TO one wom-
n, and a good cook can get large
wages and a husband
A Utica gentleman relates that hs
nee asked Theodore Parker, who was
lining with him, question concer-
ing Wendell Phillips orthodoxy, and
lr. Parker replied: Il do not care 10
ay that he believes or rejects the five
oints, but ! will say that he practi-
es one of them-the perseverance OF
ne saints which is much better than {
belief in the other four.
At hunt breakfasts in England the ]
able has rolls, toast. omelettes, kid {
eys, bacon, eggs aud sausages, the {
deboard having game and tongues. !
he tea and coffee of the table are a
'metimes neglected for the wines and 4
quors of the sideboard. Refresh-
ents are usually taken out to ladies, y
nd frequently to gentlemen who dc a
IT care to dismounf. b