Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-04-17
No. III



An Ohio widower advertises for woman
to wash and iron and milk one or two cows.
THE death is announced of the Princess
Bully Mule, of the Royal family of the Apache
tribe.
RERGH is opposed to the celebration of St
Patricks Day, because of the Saints cruelty
to reptiles.
Twoyears ago Atlanta, Ga, was valued at
$5, ,OOO, 600. The present valuation exceeds
$14, 100000.
WHITTIER says he guards well his friend
ships, as worth more to him than any con-
ceiyable fame.
"A huge irrigating canal is to be CON-
seasons use.
GREAT floods are announced in the East,
and property to large amount and numbers
of lives are reported lost.
A GENIUS in Lawrence, Kansas, says that
he has discovered process by which he can
make twenty-five pounds of sugar out of
a bushel of corn.
THERE are nearly 1900 children in New
York under fifteen years of age employed in
making paper collars Many of them are
also familiar with cuffs.
THE New York Evening Mail, in its new
u1C p1CoCulS DIS 1IduUSOulC q ~ )OSIdDulCal
| appearance as any of its evening rivals.
while its editorial page is racier than ever.
g LET the Democracy take heart everywhere.
- Gazette.
. Democrats, don't you take anything of the
| kind. Be honest, and let other peoples
property alone.
AN Illinois physician says that he has
learned by actual and repeated experiments
that electricity, properly applied, will effect
cure in all cases of cerebro-spical meningitis,
or spotted fever.
ONE of the most remarkable of recent in
ventions is a cOntrivance to raise and lower,
in a suspended and perpendicular line, large
ship from one water level to another. YES
sells of / 1900 tons capacity, for example, may
be raised and lowered 800 feet at Lewiston,
N. Y, which overcomes Niagara Falls and
the rapids, in fifteen minutes. 1t is called
the Niagara ship elevator, but the principle
is equally applicable to several other localities
A New HAMPSHIRE man has invented an
other extension table, without leaves, mortice,
tenant, tongue or groove. The model, when
Shut up measures just two feet, and when
opened it is five feet long, and is so arranged
that child at one end OF the table can open
and close it with perfect ease. The expense
of the table is from One-half to two-thirds
that of the old fashioned ones The model
has been examined at Washington and is
approved.
DARWIN has been snubbed by the French
Academy, which has rejected his application
for membership by large majority. The
reasons for his rejection were solely scientific
NJ. Mirquc said the author of the "Origin of
Species had too far sacrificed science to re-
nown, and reason to Imagination, to deserve
place in the first rank of scientists. ssHe
has fallen too low, said the savant, ''espe-
cially in his last work, has too much be-
Titled himself not to be made to expiate it,"
DURING the Franco-Prussian war it was
estimated that, averaging both armies, five
Germans outweighed six Frenehmcn. Not
only are the Germans huge compared with
Frenchmen, but huge as compared with their
own ancestors. The Prussian soldiers who
fought at Sedan averaged three inches larger
around the chest and two inches taller than
the Prussian soldier, who fought at Waterloo.
This astonishing development is ascribed to
fifty years of military training, enforced upon
the whole male population.
THE Cleveland Leader has a $1,000 libel
'uit on hand, because it let gushing rural
correspondent say that Father F. A. Martin.
If Willoughby, Ohio, proposed to a widow "
% pray her husband out of purgatory for $40,
which was certainly very cheap, and the
husband would have said so if he had had
7oice in the premises Martin affirms he
ton't know where a mans soul goes after
leath-and If he did he could not cause it to
move by praying at it, and it may be safely
that the editor of the Leader will
lot be prayed out of purgatory for $40.
THE last ''irregularity" that has come to
light in Chicago is said to be an attempt on
he part of the proprietors of ''Jones' Mu-
cum" 70 swindle the Wild Man in their en-
10y out of his back pay. This untamed
pecimen of the genus homo, who was adver.
ised as the Australian Man of the Woods"
gas, previous to his engagement by the Mu-
cum pfoprietOrs, simple uneducated Ger
nan, named Fred. Hittisch, who made a
wing by filling whisky bottles for gentlemen
chicken fights. Fred. takes his solemn
ath bebre the Mayor that he was employed
, persoaate the Wild Man at Jones Museum.
Or sahry of $25 month, and his wife al
pom md like quilts upon the fretful
ander in spring time that she might the
etter 'tlo" the Wild Woman. For several
eeks littisch was the most untamed speci-
len OF humanity to be found in Chicago. |
[e chlttered like ring-tailed ape. ate !
w mat. and scratched his back against |
q artificial tree, provided for that bur. |
ose. Crowds came to see the living |
lriositfs, and though fifteen cent ad- |
issionl fees pTotruded from between sev. |
y fn&r of the doorkeepers hand, Hit
sch meier received dollar Of his salary;
I'd to ald insult to injury, the Museum pro-
'ietors borrowed the Wild Mars watch, Il
I'd he 1pw has to tell the time OF day the II
.st waj he can, The Mayor of Chicago II
IS insfucted the police to get the missing II
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