Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-09-25
No. a.
GENERAL ITEMS.

IHE Great Eastern arrived at Portland,
failing to repair the cable of 1866.
BARNUM paid $4,000 for advertising his
show in St. Louis and took in $50,OOO.
T. MAST is registered on the alphabetical
list of arrivals at Boston as ''Nast, T."
CULLEN BRYANT, in the eightieth year of
his age, is starting for voyage around the
world
| There are seven newspapers published
| in the United States which are now over 100
! years old.
NEW YORK is said to have fewer shade
trees in its streets than any other city in the
| United States.
IRVING received about $24O,O 900 for his en-
| tire literary labors, and no American author
has equalled him.
THE Mississippi Republican Convention
has revived word in vogue when Bill Allen
was boy-locofoco.
GEN. FREMONT, it is reported, is danger
ously i'll at his residence on Porcupine Island,
off the coast of Maine.
A YOUNG LADY at Lafayette, Ind, sings all
the popular songs while fast asleep, and
knows nothing about it.
THE successful plan for the new Chicago
Court-housei is said to have been the work of
dH OIuce DOy III tnaI Guy.
The Portland (Oregon) committee on a
plan of action proposes to rebuild the burned
district by means of loans on real estate.
THE new Archbishop of Lima, Peru, on
taking the oath of office, swore to hold the
laws OF the country superior to any orders
from Rome.
EX-GovERNoRs HOWARD and Burnside were
run away with at Martha's Vineyard, on
Tuesday. Being severely hurt they have
sought Providence.
A ''freess locomotive is henceforth to be
used in Chicago in the place of dummy en-
gines. The steam is placed in the boiler be-
fore the car starts.
A NEWSPAPER punster thinks Chicago aptly
named because there is no place on the con-
tinent where man can get rid of his She
cargo with as little trouble.
NEW JERSEY has made enough on water
melons and peaches to enable her to announce
her readiness to pay off her war debt as soon
as her creditors want their money.
"A Detroit hotel-keeper was so angry with
a man who sent him circular advertising a
bed-bug exterminator that he knocked him
down and bit off portion of his ear.
The latest instance afforded by fond
mother of her sons cleverness, is said sons
correcting her for saying he was all over
dirt. He said the dirt was all over him.
"A merchant who has class in Sunday
school asked, ''What is solitude ?" and was
visibly disturbed when a miserable boy an
swered, "The store that don't advertise"
The ruins of three Spanish cities were re-
Gently discovered in the mountains of Sala-
manca, Costa Rica. A century has passed
since those cities were inhabited, and among
the ruins is fort, with cannon all decayed
and rusty.
The monster, Canovan, near Detroit, Mich
igan, who few days since brutally outraged
little nine-year old girl, from the effects of
which she died, had his trial on the 9th, and
was sentenced to Imprisonment for life, the
extreme penalty fixed by law.
The retiring editor of Kansas paper
"valedicts'' himself as follows: eff have
said anything through these columns am
sorry for, I am glad of it. To my friends, 1
thank you for your liberality, and to my enc
mics, you can 60 to the devil"
To polish tins, first rub them with a
damp cloth; then take dry flour and rub it
on with your hands; afterwards take an old
newspaper and rub the -four off, and the tins
will shine as well as if half an hour had
been spent rubbing them with brick-dust or
POWUC1, WuICu SpOllS Luc uIuUS.
> GRACE GREENWOOD relates, as an instance
OF the extravaganza of New England humor,
that when young farmers wife made her
first boys pants precisely as ample before as
behind, the father exclaimed: "GoOdness!
he won't know whether he's going to school
or coming home!"
INSTRUCTIONS have been issued to Post
masters that envelops for registered letter
packages are not to be charged with postage,
the envelope being mere pouch in which
letter is transmitted. It has been the prac-
ice OF many postmasters to charge postage
aot only on the letter but afterwards to in
close it in a registered envelope and charge
postage on the whole package.
A PORTABLE travelling bed which can be
oiled up like shawl in cylindrical pack
'ge about two feet long is one of the latest
INVENTIONS OF this progressive age. 1t con-
lists OF light hair mattress, a single or
Ouble air pillow, fine wOOlen cOverlet.
and attachments and cords for
the whole contrivance as ham,
aock.
The Omaha Republican says: "The en-
ineer of the line projected from Omaha to
lew York has presented q report to the di-
ectors OF the company in which he gives
le following facts and figures: It Will be
'1~4 lilies lOng, saving distance OF 225
hles on any present route, no point deviating
lore than 10 miles from an air line. From
rnaha to Chicago twill consist of single
ack, from thence TO New York it will be
ouble. The company already has one hun
ed miles graded to Ohio and Indiana, and
cured nine hundred miles of way. II has
10000, 900 of local aid guaranteed, but the
,st will be $175, ,OOO, 900. The difference is.
be obtained by the sale of stocks and
'nda. The company expect to build the
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