Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-09-11
GENERAL ITEMS.

| 42OO,OOO last year.
A MINNEAPOLIS man has put 504 long hand
words upon postal card.
Your postal card will not go if you write
anything on the wrong side of it.
| NEW HAMPSHIRE made $71, ,OO0 900 worth
of maple sugar and other articles in 1872.
| TOTAL glasses of water taken in three
hours out of one spring at Saratoga, 1851.
IT is said that more women are arrested in
San Francisco than in any other city in the
Union.
THE small villages of Tennessee have suf-
fercd more from the cholera than the popu-
lous cities.
tends the races, with Commodore Vanderbilt,
at Saratoga.
THE restaurant keeper in the Crystal Pal
ace, near London, pays $125, 900 year for
the privilege.
DARWIN was nominated for membership
| in the French Academy, but rejected by
vote of 26 to 6.
Mr. REvERDY JOHNSON is left, by the death
of Mr.. Meredith, the sole survivor of Gen.
Taylor's cabinet
ACCORDING to the Marysville (Cal) Appeal
| they are taking out gold by the bushel in the
diggingsnear Forbestown
IA cackling old newspaper fool" is the
epithet applied by one Sacramento editor to
another in recent argument.
VANDERBILT controls 1850 miles of rail-
road, representing 1915, 900, 900 of securities,
with gross income of $45,00O,0O0.
The editor of Nevada newspaper gives
notice that he cannot be bribed with five
cent cigar to write a tive-dollar puff.
ROBERT G. BR1oKLNELL, who has just been
elevated to the Supreme Bench of Alabama,
can set type with extraordinary speed.
Notwithstanding all they say against it,
there is not an editor in Montana who would
refuse to accept "back pay"--from SUBJ
scribers.
The printed Great Register of San Fran
cisco will contain 42, 248 names this year,
against 4O, ,O25 last October, an increase of g.
223 names.
THE Boston Transcript says the French
Academy has declared against the use of
coffee. This will not settle it unless they
exhibit the grounds
DURING the month of July the Central Pa
ci6c Railroad carried 8, 397 passengers to the
Pacific coast, and conveyed thence 1887,
leaving gain of 1,010 for California.
HEATED street discussion-'I don't be-
lieve in spiritua]sm. l think this: If
man goes to hell he can't come back here;
if he goes to heaven he don't acant to. % .lsaxsa
ONE Of the stories of Wall street is that
Henry N. Smith, the well-known speculator,
has lost 81, 500, 900 in the last three months,
but expects to make it up in the next three.
Truly, advertisers are becoming bright,
for we have the authority of an exchange
that the papers in certain part of the coun-
try are "fairly sparkling with advertise
ments.'
A BROTHER in a Thursday night prayer
meeting at LacrOss, added in his prayer:
"And that fellow who stole my hOrse-hit
him with thunder-bolt before he gets over
into Iowa"
A COUNTRY boy having come to Louisville
for an education, being asked, What is a
"strait p Mortified his teacher by replying,
1T beats two pair" He is on the editorial
staff of the C0urier-J Journal
CORNELIUS VANDERBILT offered Horace F.
Clark, few weeks before the latters death,
81, ,0OO, 600 cash down, If he would lead a
healthfu life; go to bed and get up early,
and eat simply and regularly.
"A country paper speaking of catch of
fishes says some of them were "slappers.
''Slapper" is the comparative of the word
"whopper." As: "whopper," comparative
''slapper," superlative ''sockdolager.
To see how eagerly human being will
catch at straw, it is not necessary to wit
ness drowning. The phenomenon is now
manifest chiefly within saloons, where the
end of the straw is immersed in tumbler.
SOMEBODY has been telling the Detroit Free
Press that Elder Black, of Indianapolis, SO
closely resembles P T. Barnum that circus
agents frequently rap him on the back and
call out, "How's things, you old mud-turtle!"
RUSSIA has constructed an iron-clad war
vessel of circular model, with six propelling
screws arranged at regular intervals around
it's circumference, thus possessing the advan-
tage of sailing with equal difficulty in any
direction.
A YOUTH of Salisbury, Connecticut, four
years old, and his young sister, saw rat has
ten into q hole in the barn floor. Said he,
- Sis, the Bible says, Watch and pray
You pray while l watch the hole, and I'll
swat him across the snoot when he comes
out"
UNITED STATES Senator Henry B. Anthony
Of Rhode Island, speaking of the back salary
grab, says in his paper, the Providence Jour-
a0l: s''The natural sense of justice of plain
men WAS shocked by it, and it may fairly be
,aid that neither the lapse of time nor all
hat has been said in extenuation has sensi-
bly, modified the first impression
-Mrs. Partington now says: You shouldn't
% 80 glutinous, Isaac" as with an anxious
expression she remarked the strong, convul-
i've effort that young gent was making to
,olt the last quarter of mince-pie-'you
houldn't be SO glutinous, dear. You must
,e very careful, or you will get some
hing in your elementary canal or sarcopha-
,us one of these days that will kill you,
saac"