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

New York City mas 40, 900 people WI
depend on gambling for livelihood.
Two slaves formerly owned by Je
Davis now own his plantation, fl
which they paid 100000.
The Sultan Of Turkey recently CAV
reception to the Crown Prince c
Austria at a cost of E200, 000
Short bonnet strings, fastened cutel
under the chin with some odd AM
fantastic pin, is now the proper ca
per-"
As Jay Gould's income is estimated
at 50 a minute, a statistician says tina
he lost $l35 by the change from solal
10 standard time.
1t is estimated that there are now be
tween 600, 900 and 700, 000people in Da
kota Territory, and 200 600 more are
expected this year.
French artificial diamonds. made Of
variety of flint glass and graded to
conform to carat sizes of real diamonds,
are called "heliolas."
Upon the fields of Gardeners Island,
off Long Island, are sixty deer, the
largest private herd in the state. The
island also abOunds in wild turkeys.
The Methodists have grown from 15,-
600 members in 1884 to 1898, 800 at
the present time. Their centennial cell
ebration will occur next fall
Indian story-tellers very often give
their variations in the sign language,
and the laughter of their hearers will
often be the only audible sound for an
hour.
Linen shirts were first worn in Eng
land about the year 1850. THE art Of
washing" remarks the Burlington
Free Press, twas Invented very soon
afterwards.
South Carolina has 1,56S flour, grist
and rice mills, employing 1879 whites
and blacks, employing capital of 3d.
100. 700, and turning out So, 288, 800
worth of flour, feed, etc.
"Avoirdupois parties" are the rage
in Pottawattamie county, Iowa. Each
young lady is weighed on entering the
dining room and her escort paws for
her supper at the rate of half cent
pound on her weight.
Henry Darr, worthy citizen of Da-
wilson county, Ga, has attained the
age Of sixty and snug little fortune of
$4,000, without having a clock, a cook
stove, buggy, sewing machine, or
a newspaper in his family.
David +. Whitmer, still living in
Missouri at the age of eighty, was one
of the three witnesses who in 1880 pub
lished certificate declaring that thew
saw an angel come down with the gold
en- book which Joseph Smith, the NOR
mon, pretended to interpret
Petroleum flowing from break in
the pipe lines of the Standard Oil Com
pany at Pompton Lake, N. j., killed
twenty-nine swans belonging to DIR. |
Rogers. Money indemnity was refused,
and the company sent to their London
agent and had thirty-ive swans sent to
DR.. Rogers.
Lieutenant Danenhower is reported to
have won his wife as Othello did, by
tales of his most disastrous
chances. He first met her during his
occurring tour and afterwards in pri-
rate he narrated his adventures in the
Irctic seas, and so gained her heart az
veil as ear.
Henry Grafton Dulany has magnii.
,ent estate in Loudon county, Va, and
Inherited $1,000 600 from his mother,
lie is young, good looking and unmar.
led, and proposes to embark part of
lis capital in the banking business in
on the ground that he is
nxious for occupation.
General Toombs refused to subscribe
or the purchase of Alexander II.
stephens residence rs memorial hall.
because" he said. II want the peo-
lie of Georgia TO buy the property, and
'hen they do / will endow it with
nough 10 make it such college az
tile Alcck would like TO see if he were
l+N."''
John b. Gougn, now s4A.J -szvs,..
lme from England to New York in
$40, learned the book binders trade,
I'd for several years was chiefly dis
lguished for getting drunk, singing v
ngs and giving recitations. He be-
me a temperance advocate in 1910, ~
aking his first speech in the old =
Tabernacle.
The standard railroad time, accord d
g to w. 4. Allen, the originator of +
Q system, is now in use by all the rail-
ads in the country except the Union :,
vision of the Union Pacific, the =
ntral Pacific and the Southern "
citic, west of Deming, N. NJ. Less
an 10 per cent. of the people of the fo
nntry are using local time. Of
The latest venture in the newspaper ia
e is the proposed republication in
nerica from electrotype plates of the ca
ndon illustrated NetOs, with twelve ia
ge American supplement. The b,
leme is shortly 10 be projected, and
the terms of the arrangement the VI
ndon publishers will send none of in
English edition to this country. a.
The death rate of Russia is the high
in Europe. This is attributed TO re
paucity of medical men and the mi
bits of the rural population. Ac- al
ding to the rate returns the average
ration of life is only twenty-six years, ~,
l the mortality among infants is -,
yhtful. More than 60 per cent of =.
ants die before they reach their fifth ~
r, and nearly 1000. 600 children per- ="
each year.
correspondent of the Boston Her r.,
thinks that the time has come for - -
cen Victoria to abdicate in favor of n
Prince of Wales. "She is, and has '"s
n, F" he says, 'for many years only !
CURE head to the NATION, while he Iui
$ all the work, goes among the peo- OBJ
and interests himself in public af- TIM
$, showing great public spirit and ing
raj views on all occasions. As a
lier, rs hnntsman. rs a royal per- "A
age and rs true-hearted gentle- fou
d, the Prince of Wales has to day ma
in all Great Britain. NY fou
VS. of him are now completely revo- (.
onized, for see him wherever 90, ed
Cling with the people, aud even ire,
ly providing around the slums in and
or to improve the condition of the tho
tched London poor. Deeds, not
DIS, are what tell in mans life re- 2
|, and the prejudices which once ~ ~
ted regarding MIN are being bat L ~
d down, and that, too, by his own Lay
stentatious conduct And his po- "oll
IN in the country Is rather trying Y