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Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-07-03
The DrY One.

On certain voyage out, in exquisite sum-
mcr weather, we had as cabin passenger one
beautiful young lady and ten more or less
beautiful young gentlemen. Light winds or
dead calms prevailing the voyage was slow.
They had made half their distance, when the
ten young gentlemen were all madly in love
with the young lady. They had all proposed
to her, and bloodshed among the rivals seemed
imminent, pending:the lady s decision. In this
extremity the beautiful young lady cOnfidedin
my friend, the captain, who gave his discreet
advice. He said: 'If your affections are
disengaged, take that one of the young men
who you like the best, and settle the ques-
tion." II can't do that, because like them
all equally WELL" My friend, who was
man of resource, hit upon this ingenious
expedient; said he: Tomorrow morning,
when lunch is announced, do you plunge
boldly overheard, head foremost. will be
alongside in a boat to rescue you, and take
the one of the ten who rushes to your rescue,
and then you can afterward have him."
The beautiful young lacy highly approved,
and did accordingly. But after she plunged
in, nine out of the ten more or less beautiful
young gentlemen plunged in after her, and
the tenth remained and shed tears, looking
over the side of the vessel. They were all
picked up and restored, dripping to the deck.
The beautiful young lady, on seeing them,
said: "What am to do? See what plight
they are in. How can possibly choose,
because every one of them are equally wet ?"
''Then," said my friend, the captain. acting
under a sudden inspiration, ''take the dry
one" am sorry to say that she did so, and
they lived happy ever afterward.-[Charles
Dickens.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-07-03
An English Millionaire.

When people talk about millionaires they
usually mention Rothschild first, but there is
q man in England by the name of Ward, in
comparison with whom any Rothschild is a
pauper. This man Ward inherits vast
property, accumulated investments and es-
tates, which give him an enormous income !;
he has the most magnificent house in London,
the finest collection of art and the finest
country seats in the Kingdom; his wife is
celebrated for her beauty, and her display of
diamonds at the recent festival given by the
Emperor of Austria, at Vienna, made all the
other ladies, the Expresses, Princesses and
Queens look poor: What the income Of this
British Cresus is we have never seen any
statement of, but Manchester paper gives
an account of his annual profits derived from
his coal mines, which amount to the enor-
NOUS sum of s3, 100000. So the income from
one source alone of this inordinately wealthy
person is not much short Of $25, 600, 900 u
year.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-07-03
The Danbury s'News'' Mans Book.

The Danbury Neacs man has written a
book which has just been published, entitled
Life in Danbury. The title-page of this
ret along without advertising as it is for 8
cross-eyed man to borrow gun" l viii
quote the title in full
Life in Danbury: Being brief but com
prehensive record of the doings of a remark
able people, under more remarkable circum
stances. and chroniclcd in a most remarkable
manner, by the author, James nj. Bailey.
The Danbury News Man, and carefully
complied with q pair of eightdollar shears,
by the compiler
We have also an engraving of Mr.. Bailey,
according to which showing he is a young
and handsome man, neither cross nor ''cross
! eyed" but with face which is the best pos
sible letter of introduction. In his preface
he tell US why he wrote book:
''To the friend of the Meas, who may take
up this work, the question may come. Why
did he write book? 1t is natural inquiry
1t has assailed hundreds before our day; il
will afilict hundreds in years to come. And
probably there is no form of interrogation
so loaded with subtitle tortures rs this very
| one, unless it is to be asked for light in q
strange depot by man you had just selected
out of seventeen thousand as the man to be
the most likely to have match. Various
authors have various reasons for bringing
out a book, and this reason may or may no,
be the reason they give to the world; know
not, and care not. 1t is not for me to judge
the world unless am elected.
''It is matter which lies between the au.
thor and his own conscience, and know OF
no place where it would be less likely to be
R,<,, fOr n
is so novel, so different from all others, that
the public may be pardoned for feeling an
intense desire to know it. Some haYe written
book for money; have. not. Some for
fame; have not. Some for love; have
not Some for kindlings; have not.
have not written book for any of these rea-
sons, or all of them combined. In fact gen
tie borrower, have not writtrn q book at all
Il have merely clipped it.
Yours truly, The CLIPPER.
But in the preface it appears that he has
not quite freed his mind, so he starts of
with second one, as follows:
SOMEWHAT INTRODUCTORY.
This work is designed to while away a
stray hour which the borrower may have a,
odd times. The matter has been carefully
selected with a view to suiting all cases and
conditions Within its covers the banker
may find although it is extremely
doubtful; and here is something for the farm
er. the artisan, the undertaken, the laborers in
the mines, the porter, the merchant, the STU
dent, the man of leisure, the hackman, etc.
The matter was written at odd times, although
generally right after payday, and is submit
ted to the borrower with great deal of timid-
ity, but with the earnest hope that it may
be the humble means of making money.
eff in its persuai one single Cor even mar
ried borrower is made purer and better, and
his life made to appear brighter, and his
soul lifted up generally, l shall sincerely re-
joice to hear it.
Address me at Danbury, inclosing stamp.
s'THE DANBURY News MAN."
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-07-03
Sleep as n McGicRire.

A Physician says the cry for rest has
always been louder than the cry for food.
Not that it is more important, but it is often
harder to obtain. The best rest comes from
sound sleep. OF two men or women,
otherwise equal, the one who sleeps the best
will be the most moral, healthy and efici-
cnt. Sleep will do much to cure irritability
of temper, pecyishness, uneasiness. 1t will
restore to vigor an overworkcd brain. 1t will
build up and make strong weary body. 1t
ache 1t will cure broken spirit. 1t will
cure sorrow Indeed we might make long
list of nervous and other maladies that sleep
will cure The cure of sleeplessness requires
q clean, good bed, sufficient exercise to pro-
duce weariness, pleasant occupation, good
air, and not too warm room.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-07-03
Transplahtlng i'm the Night.

A gentleman anxious of ascertaining the
effect of transplanting at night instead of by
day, made an experiment, with the following
results: He transplanted ten cherry trees
while in bloom, commencing at four o'clock
in the afternoon, planting one each hour un-
til two o'clock in the morning. Those trans
planted during the daylight shed their BIOS
SONS, producing little or no fruit, while those
planted in the dark maintained their cOndi-
ticn fully. He did the same with ten dwarf
trees after the fruit was One-third grown.
Those transplanted during the night perfected
their crop, and showed no injury from hav-
ing been removed With each of these trees
he removed some earth with the roots. The
incident is fully vouched for; and if a few
more similar experiments produce like re-
suit it will be strong argument to horticnl-
turists. etc., to do such work at night.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-07-03
BENEFICIAL Effect Of Vegetable Pcr-
fNlne

An Italian professor has made some very
| agreeable medical Researches, resulting in
the discovery that vegetable prefumes exer-
else positively healthful influence ON the
tmosphere, converting its oxygen into
ozone, and thus increasing its oxidizing in
fluencc. The essence found to develop the
largest quantity of ozone are those of cherry,
laurel. cloves, lavender, mint, juniper, lem
ons, fennel, and bergamot; those that give
it in smaller quantity are anise, nutmeg and
thyme. The flowers of the narcissus, hya-
cinth, mignonette, heliotrope and lily of the
valley, develop ozone in closed vessels.
Flowers destitute of perfume do not develop
it, and those which have but slight prefume
develop it only in small quantities. Reason
ing from these facts, the professor recon-
mends the cultivation of flowers in marshy
districts, and in all places infested with ami
NAL emanations, on account of the powerful
oxidizing influence of ozone. The inhabi-
tants of such regions should, he says, sur
round their houses with beds of the most
OdorOuS flowers.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-07-03
Horrible Punishment.

Mr.. James Greenwood has published a
frightful account of the silent system which
is in operation at the Holloway Model Prison
in London. 1t is an otfense for prisoner to
speak one word, and he never is addressed
except in whispers, so that he may be in
prison two years without hearing the natural
sound of the human voice. The effects of
all this is SO terrible on the mind that prison
ers will speak out in desperation, at the risk
of any punishment, rather than endure that
horrible silence. The prisoners never see one
another, but remain in perpetual solitude. One
poor wretch, driven to desperation by nine
months solitude and silence, recklessly broke
out, in MIR. Geenwood's presence, ''For Gods
sake, Governor, put me in another CELL Put
me somewhere else. l have counted the
bricks in my cell until my eyes ache The
request of the tortured wretch was refused.
There is fine hole in each cell. and as the
wardens wear shoes of India rubber soles,
the prisoners can never be sure of being alone
Those condemned to the treadmill have to
ascend 1900 steps every alternate twenty
minutes, for six hours And this in place
so hot and close that the prisoners often lose
Ill perspirati0n three stones in as many
months. Every day the prisoners are taken
to chapel so arranged that they can see no
one save the chaplain, and him only through
an iron grating. And thus is the order of
devotion observed. Waldens are constantly
on the watch, less for a single instant they,
through the whole of the service, depart from
the rigid rule of "eyes right" They must
look steadily at the preacher; must raise and
lower their prayer-book with the elbows
squared, and all at once, like soldiers at drill.
They may not scmpe their feet without hav-
ing afterward to explain the movement. They
OF rebuke or punishment. God help them,
poor wretches!
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-07-03

AN Irishman had dream which taught
him the danger of delay 81 dreamed" said
he, II was wild the Pope, who was as great
Q iintlemen as any one in the district, and ne
axed me wad drink. Thinks wad duck
swim, and seein' the Innishowen and lemons
and sugar on the sideboard, told him !,
didn't care if l tok wee drap of punch.
Cowld or hot2 axed the Pope. Hot YOU,
Holiness replied and be that, he stepped
down to the kitche6 for the bilin' water, Dut,
before he got back, / woke straight up:
And now it's distressing me l didn't take II
cowld."
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-07-03

ONE of Detroits smart young men was
accosted by a stranger, who asked him what
building that was, pointing to the City Hall.
That's an idiot asylum" replied smartness,
grinning. 'Ah! just SO" replied the man,
''but do they allow you out without wet
sponge on your head?" Smartness didn't
laugh bit.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-07-03

IHE late DR.. Marshall Hall, of England,
said: "1f | were seriously ill of consump-
ton, woald live our of doors day and night,
except inrainy weather or mid-winter then l
would sleep in an upholstered log house.
Physlc has no nutriment, grasping for air
cannot cure you, monkey, capers in gym
not cure you. What consumptives want is
air, not physic-pure air, not medicated air,
plenty of meat and bread.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-07-03

For many years school-boys, inclined to
"slang," have referred to some period of in
definite remoteness, as eighteen hundred and
starved to DEATH" The origin of the express
sion is explainedby New Hampshire journ-
al in paragraph about a year without a
summer. While every one was speaking of
the present season as being remarkable in its
characteristics, this newspaper gave some
facts concerning the year 1916, known as the
coolest without summer" It was the
coolest ever known throughout Europe and
America. The winter was mild Frost and
ice were common in every month of the
year. Very little vegetation matured in the
Eastern or Middle States. The average price
of flour during the year was $13 per barrel,
and the average price Of wheat in England
was ninety-seven shillings per quarter, Old
New England farmers referred tb,the year
as "eighteen hundred and starved'to death.
The New Orleans opera house, an elegant
structure which originally cost 1920, GOO. was
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-07-03

DRUNKARDs are detected in St. Paul by
means of tarred lamp-posts
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-07-03

The New Orleans opera house, an elegant
structure, which originally cost $SS0, 900, was
sold recently by the sheriff for $40, 600.
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1873-06-28
The IMPERIAL
f'l1l.S
Insurance Co. of London
Sound Business Considerations
why the Imperial should
be preferred
TO ANTuT,;eRf1RElGa COMPANY:

Fir-t-it WAS established III 1903, and is the
ol l,si FIRE Insurance Company represented
in the United states
S,-cpui-It has 4 subscribed capital of Ss,pDt,-
fGD. OF which Si.!oj,hU i PAID Up IN Gold
with further accommodated assets of e2.2lG,pl3
maxim. Il at once the Strongest and Rlchest
Fire insurance Company in the World.
Third This CoAPANY DoE \ Fire business
EVciu,iveiy, and none OF Its assets ART liable
t. b. diverted for LIFE or MARINE losses, as IS
tin case with other English CUInpailIts r p
resented On this coast.
Fudrth--Tuis CJmpanys losses at CHICAGO
wer. less than ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS
and have be.n paid III null DOLLAR FoR DOLLAR.
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1873-06-28

Carson street, next door to the County Buildings
CARSON CITY, NEVADA.
Private entrance for Ladies through the alley
in the rear of Willis Drug Store.
Thanking the Ladies and Gentlemen of Carson
and .."iuty for their liberal patronage hereto
fore bes, owed upon me. now respectfully in
viie continuance of the same, as no pains or
expense will b" spared to make this the neatest
and most comfortable establishment in the state
of Nevada. Give call.
al.tt JACOB MULLER.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1873-09-18
Chineee Philosophy.

In ancient times there lived Il man,
Shicn. During Il travelling tour he had
occasion to rest the night at roai-
house. The weather was insutlerably
hot, and within the room musketoes
swarmed by thousands. Shien fortu-
nately had provided himself with cur
tains, but unfortunately the curtains
were insufficient to resist the enemy.
His efforts to keep them ont were in
vain, sounds of buzzing in unpleasant
poximity still continued, and writhing
under the intolerable torment of their
stings, his thoughts transplanted them
selves to his own peaceful home. He
reflected on the spacious halls, cool
couches, and the crowd of handmaids
to fan and wait on their lord; and, con-
tinued he to himself, chow is it that |
should have suffered one moment of
ennui in such paradise? Why leave
to seek pleasures and find misery
abroad 2" During these meditations he
observed the keeper of the post, who
had no curtains, pacing the room with
the musketoes swarming around him.
But what seemed to him inexplicable
was that the man still appeared to be
in perfect good humor. Shien, still
writhing in misery, exclaimed My
good fellow, you are one hundred times
worse off than myself, but how is 1t
that. while | am in torment OF mind,
Won on the contrary seem happy The
keeper replied "Sir, have just been
recalling to mind the position | was
once placed in when prisoner, bound
hand and foot, was helpless prey to
these murderousinsects unable to move
u muscle, they preyed on me with i'm
punity, and the agony was unbearable.
1t was the contrast of that horrible pc
riod with my present condition that
produced that feeling of eontentedness
with me-" Shien was startled by the
mine OF philosophy herein unfolded
Would, he thought, that the world in
ordinary life would but daily keep In
mind, and carry out, such spirit anaio-
ogv How vast then would be the re-
anti 10 man ,-North China He'aya.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1873-09-18
Browns Wooden Wedding.

Brown, who lives in Cambridge, had
the fifth anniversary of his wedding oc-
cur about week ago, and his friends
determined to celebrate his wooden
wedding by a surprise party. They
commenced by sendinga Il servant with
team to take Brown and his wife ont to
ride about 7. Then they began to come
in with presents and materials for sup
per. There was a little party of five
came first, all laden, hands full. They
all got nicely inside the garden gate,
which shuts with spring, when
Browns big mastitl, who is always left
unclaimed in his masters absence, came
rouLd the corner and surprised them
One woman stepped on her dress, and
in her fall so demoralized fragile
black walnut book case she carried that
it was aftcrward done up in 4 bundle
and presented rs lindling wo-d. An
other fellow got sa.oly out of the yard,
all but part of his pants, while old
Smithers, who weighs two hundred and
twenty pounds, plunged wildly, with
the eight-gallon pail of ice cream he
carried, through Browns glass hot
house in the corner of the yard, and
surprised some thirty dollars worth OF
exotics. Finally they fixed things NJ
and got into the house, and as it was
about time for Browns return they
commenced laying the supper table
They got down tea set of rare chinl
that friend of Browns in the trade
had loaned him Il week before, and
broke two pieces, so that Brown has
since been obliged to mortgage his hen
house and buy the set y and the com
ments of Mrs. Brown, when she saw the
condition of the carpet, were sarcastic
in the extreme. Finally, as n crowning
touch, they tried to hang out Chinese
lanterns, with the word Welcome
on them, on the porch over the front
door. They succeeded in hanging tive
lanterns, and when they had saved the
house from the fiery iicnd, there wasn't
enough porch left to pay for the trouble
of trying to hang out any more. Then
they sat down and waited for Brown
and his wife to come home. We draw
the veil over the scene that followed
their return. Some scenes are too Joy
ous to be described in cold, cold words,
BOSiOn Tr0rCicr.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1873-09-18
Japanese Bed.

Dinner over, siesta on the soft mats
is next in order. These mats seem made
for sleep and Incidence. No booted
foot ever defiles them. Every one leaves
his clogs on the ground outside, and
glides about in his mitten-like socks,
which have each a special compartment
for the great toe. My waiting damsel
having gone out, and there being no such
things as bells, I do as the natives, and
clap my hands. A far-off answer of
he-i-i is returned, and soon the shut
fling of feet is heard again. The house
wife eppcars with the usual low bow,
and, smiling so as to again display what
resembles mouthful of COAL she lis
tens to the request for a pillow. Open
ing the little closet before spoken of,
she produces the desired article. 1t is
not ticking-bag of baked feathers In
closed in dainty, spotless case of white
linen, but little upright piece of wood,
six inches high and long, and one wide,
rounded at the bottom like the rockers
of cradle. On the top, lying in a
groove, is tiny rounded bag OF calico
filled with rice chaff about the size Of a
sausage. The pillow-case is a piece of
white paper wrapped around the top,
and renewed in good hotels daily for
each guest. One can rest about four or
six inches of the side of his Os OccipitiS
on japanese pillow, and if H. wishes
may rock himself to sleep, though the
words suggest more than the facts war
rant. BY sleeping on civilized feathers,
one gets out of training, and the Japa-
nese pillows feel very hard and very
much in one place. The dreams which
one has on the these pillows are charac-
teristic. In my first some imps were
boring gimlet-holes in the side of my
skull, until they had honey-combed it
and removed SO much brain that / felt
too light-headed to preserve my equi-
librium. On the present occasion, after
falling asleep, thought that the pillow
on which lay pressed its shape into my
head, and the skull, to be repaired, was
being trepanned. My head actually
tumbling off the pillow was the cause of
the fanced operation being suddenly
arrested.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1873-09-18
OUTSIDE THE FOLD.



l am waiting ever waiting, for the days that never
come;
am sitting, worn and weary, midst Life's shadows
Memory DER the Past is mourning, and the Futures
all untold:
Earth has grown so strangely gloomy. Take me-
Lord within the fold.
Eycning-shadows gather round me, darker shadows
shroud my sOul
There is but ono rift Of sunlight streaming from
that far-Of goal
Shall ever reach that portal? walk within those
streets Of gold?
For I'm weary-watching- waiting. Take me, Lord
within the fold.
Through the night dream of Heaven, and my
loved ones waiting there;
But, alas 1t il but dreaming, for wake TO anxious
care.
There know thorc comes no sighng,-only peace
and bliss untold.
Lead me in those suu-lit pastures. Take me, Lord
within the fold.
Is there room for one poor wanderer who has, wan
ton, strayed away?
And forgiveness for a lost one, wandering farther
every day.
Tender shepherd, wilt thou hear me? am lonely
am cold.
With those shelterinB arms support me. Take me-
Lord, within the fold.
Hark I hear the kindly welcome. Can dare to
enter in?
| who am so prone to evi,- who blindly grope in
Now the peans of the blessed vbrate on the harps
of gold;
can hear the angels singing Take me, Lord,
within the fold.