Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1872-04-18
No. II
ALL SORTS OF ITEms.

The library of William Penn was sold at
auction, recently. in London.
ZIMMERMAN, of Fond du Lac, owns up to a
fifth wife and nineteen children.
The national debt was reduced $15, ,O00, 900
during the month of March, 1872.
A. H. STEPHENS Is tired Of editorial life,
and will sell out his Georgia paper.
O'DoNoyAN Rosa succeeds Michael Scan
Ian as editor of the Irish Republic.
THE Duluth editors denounce each other
as "squaw doctors" and "cobras."
THIS country imports $15, ,000, 900 worth of
spool cotton yearly from Great Britain.
CoNaREss does itself honor in voting an ap-
preparation for statue to Admiral Farragut
MIR. SKIN was chairman of meeting in
Indiana that indorsed the course of Congress
man Shanks.
A PITTSBURGH dog-importer has sold two
English bull-terriers at $500 each, and two
pups at $75 each.
IT costs three and half cents to get your
hair cut, and one and a half cents to get
shaved, in Germany
SLEEPY JOHN, a well known Galena trotting
horse, has been purchased by a Cleveland
man for ten thousand dollars.
A KANSAS paper says: "The beef of an
average Texan, If the bones are taken out
can be salted away in the horns"
The first daily newspaper established in
England was the Daily Courdnt, published by
Elizabeth Mallet, in February, 17O2
THE Rev. Horatio Stebbing is the Beecher
of San Francisco, California, and successor of
Starr King. His present salary is $4,000. II
THE editor of the Middletown Nail offers
to ''vaccinate, free of charge, all new pre-
paying subscribers to his paper, for thirty
days"
THE dyke at Duluth has been fully COM
pleted, and the "Zenith City of the Unsalted
Seas" wants to know what Superior is going
to do about it.
A young man in Hartford read somewhere
that more deaths occurred at 5 o'clock in the
morning than at any other time, ,and now gets
up regularly at O'clock, in order to be out
when death makes his morning calls
AT the first victory for freedom over the
Democracy of New Hampshire, in 1S45,
Whittier wrote:
God bless New Hampshire! From her granite peaks
Once more the voice of Stark and Langdon speaks.
THE New York World has a spite against
Montana. 1t was only the other day that 1t
declared Florida and not this Territory the
Italy of America. Can petty malice go
further2
Mrs. PARTINGToN is anxious to know what
all this land grant business means. She says
that the women In her neighborhood are as
one man--they want to land Grant in the
White House again.. te t
JUDGE ROBERT G. PTMAN, who was last
year the Prohibition candidate for Governor
of Massachusetts, opposed the attempt to or
ganize q National Prohibitory party, and
THE editor of the Madison Free Press
speaks conteptuonsly of tone of that class of
intelligent donkeys who are always assisting
you by suggestions, and kindly clipping stale
news for you for publication as a "good
thing" sst1
Sol. MILLER, of the White Cloud (Mo.l
Chsef, says pithily and appropriately: "The
bushwhackers all over Missouri and the bor,f
ders of Kansas are sticking their heads out of
the brush and calling themselves Liberal Re
publicans.' tSa
THE New York gossiper of the Chicago
Tribune says that Hastings of the Commercial
AdUertiser wants to sell out, that Brooks of
the Espress, wants to suspend, and Young of
the Standard ditto, while the Times Office is
the home of discord. sis
THE champion conservative dwells in Lew
iston, Maine. He is seventy -one years old,
and has never been in railroad car, never
put letter in the Post Office, or sent a tele-
graphic dispatch, never was on salt water,
and never attended an election.
A LADY in Atlanta tied her husbands hands
and feet the other day, just for fun, and then
went through his pockets for certain billet
dOur, and found it His physician tells him
that his face won't be badly SCARED, though
he may remain permanently bald.
A New York farmer laughed when his pru-
dent wife advised him not to smoke on a load
of hay. He footed thome that night, with
his hair singed, most of his garments pray
to the deyouripg elements, and the iron work
of his wagon in potato sack; and then his
wife laughed.
BERfAH Brown, long leader of the Democ-
racy of Oregon, was disgusted by the late
State Convention of the party He condemn
ed it publicly as the most corrupt party con-
vention he ever witnessed, and said that after
it he deemed adherance to the party. personal
degradation.
M. THEIRS was printers devil in 1925, and
now he is at the head of the French govern
ment nondescript, engaged in the suppression
of newspapers. This is solemn warning to
all who contemplate abandoning the Journal
istic profession. They may get in as tight
fix as Thiers.S 20
THE Carson (Nevada) Register of March
oath relates the following: On Sunday last u
lady of this city, while teaching class in the
Presbyterian Sunday School. asked the schol;
ars who God was. A correct answer was
given. She then inquired who killed Jesus
Christ. After a few moments little gin 81
held up her hand, and on the, lady desiring q
her to answer said with much spirit "The