Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1872-05-30
No.


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ldence In that city TO one of the new bishops
of the church. s ss5s,,s ,..s .sss,i.3sSI ,.s,f '.4
ANEwsPAPER in Jacksonville, Illinois, has
lost thirty-five cents in three libel suits
brought against it. aaa, so
AN eccentric Connecticut gentleman, re-
Gently deceased, left to religious institutions
$75, 600, to his cook $120, 200, and TO each of
his five children $4O0. AR
THERE was an independent old lady who,
speaking of Adams naming all the animals,
said she didn't think he deserved any credit
for naming the pig--anyone would know
what to call him.
A man having announced that he wanted
to marry girl with plenty of snap In her,
the La Crosse Leader advises him to tsgo for
the Wisconsin girl who swallowed forty per-
cussion caps the other week.
The following notice, printed on colored
cardboard with nice border, hangs up in q
place OF business in Rome, NJ Ys iss Mebbe
you don't peter had loaf round here, ven
you don't got some peesniss, ain't 1t ?''aa 3tss
JoM BUNyAN was once asked "a question
about, Heaven which he could not answer,
because the matter was not revealed In the
Sculptures, and he thereupon advised the in
quirerto live a holy life and go and see.
In is said people owe their, long lives to
their fannels, and it Isl known fact that ex-
ternal preservation from damp prolongs life,
| flannel garments should not be discarded.
pi.sMADAn,' said across-tempered physician
| to patient, .''if women were admitted TO
| Paradise their tongues would make It q .pur-
| gatory." 'tAnd some physicians, If allowed
| to practice there, would make il a desert, re-
piled the lady. t
a--C Cincinnati is the most densely populated
city in the country, having thirty six thousand
persons to the square mile. New York has
but twenty three thousand. Cincinnati aver
ages tifty-eight buildings to the square acre,
London has but forty, and Dublin thirty-two.
| IA GENTLEMAN in the vicinity of Philadel-
phia recently lost his wife, and young miss
of six, who came to the funeral, said TO his
little daughter of about the same age: Your
pa will marry again, wont he? ''Oh, yes!''
was the reply, ''but not until after the fun
eral !" Es. y ssfi 31 Il 3ls.ll
A countryman strolling through New Lon-
don recently, hand in hand with his Phillis,
impatient to visit the circus, exclaimed on
seeing bunch of bananas suspended in front
of one of the fruit stores: s. I'll be moved If
them amt the biggest beans ever seen,
Sophrony." F5t ..Fl
The latest development of Connecticut in
genuity consists in training dogs to howl noe
tu1nally under neighboring windows, and to
fetch home the boots and shoes thrown at
them. 1t is said that there are several CANNES
of such sagacity that they win not leave until
they get properly assorted pairs. s
Z. OFFICIAL returns made TO the Bureau of
Statistics show that 2, ,S43 immigrants arrived
at the port of Boston during the quarter ending
March 31st 1872. OF this number 2,016
were males and 827 females. Their ages were:
Under fifteen years, Ala fifteen and under
forty, 2,187; forty and over, 242
j THE Grown Prince of Germany is by trade
decomposition, and his son, Prince Henry, has
~ ann ifspd fn hnOI linda f~a
/ Berlin. This instruction, in q practical ayo-
4 cation is dueto an old custom, feligiously fol-
| lowed by the Prdssian family Royal, which
compels every member thereof to learn a
trade. sytf 4rrs s 81 t.,fsss I4,t 3 +.5s, IN 81
i JAMES SroREY, a young New Yorker of
4 brilliant wit but dissolute habits, was found
dead in the Grand Hotel at Nice, on the 10th
ult., having shot himself with pistol. He
spent the previous day and night in gam
bling hell at Monaco, A5son of Ex-Governor
Smith, of Rhode Island. had bisirenains en-
1 balmed to be brought home.
IF teaspoonful of genuine ground coffee
J., be thrown into tumblerfnl of cold water, it
viii float upon the surface of the water, while
the substances used in adulterated coffee will
! the suspected coffee is thrown upon cold
water and part of it sinks at once, the
sample is quite sure to be adulterated.
J THE weeping willow has romantic his-
: tory The first scion was sent from Smyrna.
in box of figs, to Alexander Pope. Gen.
Clinton brought shoot from Pope's tree to
America, in the time of the Revolution,
which, passing into the hands of John Parks
Custis, was planted on his estate IN Virginia,
thus becoming the progenitor of the weeping
willow in this country. Te
"A green twig may sometimes flourish
upon a decayed and rotten trunk. The City
Paymaster of New York, appointed five years
ago by Peter b. Sweeney, resigned in an hon
! orable manner recently, having handled S..
. 600, 900 of the city's money during the ''ring'
administration, without breath of suspicion
being raised against his good name through
the hurricane of public indignation.
WENDELL PHILLiPs is predicting to the
Boston workingmen (admfssion so cents re-
served seats 81 the near arrival of the mill
, lennium when money shall be obtainable at
! 3 per cent. interest instead of 10. To secure
this he should go to England, where that low
rate of interest obtains in connection with
pauper labor, hereditary monarchy, the SUI
! premacy of capital, and q state church. ~ y
-Tnd Teutonic tailor of Pennsylvania
: village, having married a second wife inde-
: Gently soon after the funeral of thetirst, the
young men of the place notified their disap-
proyal by tin. horn serenade during the pro-
gress of the feast. The vulgar fraction of a
, man expostulated in the following style:
, say, poys, you ought to be ashamed of your
/ sells to be making ali dis noise ven dare vas
a funeral here so soon!