Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-01-30

Ex- SENAToA GwIN, of California, has sold
his Mexican silver mine for 81, ,00O,OO0
THE King of Saxony is a poet, and slings
very good doggerel for the waste basket.
LUCIA says: II never see so pad a plaiz
as Sc Philamadelfy to gif one Sc sore troat. .
THE Chicago Posts lunatic speaks of CO.
temporary as gone "where the hoop poles
bloom"
NEWSPAPERS are not worth much in Mo-
bile. The Tribune was sold there recently
for $4,000.
DAVID BAILEY is the champion Postmaster
of Maine. He has held the Cambridge office
since 1928.
A MAN is considered in comfortable cir
aumstances" in England, if his income is
$500 year.
UNCLE SAM had over 1914, 600, 900 in coin
salted down in his kitchen cellar on the first
of the month.
B. E. FARJEoN, the novelist who comes the
nearest to filling Dickens shoes, is coming to
America soon. ....
The Richmond Wing has celebrated its
fiftieth birthday, and the Baltimore american
its seventy-second.
THE jailer at Cincinnati takes the prisoners
out to saw wood, and yet sternly warns them
not to "cut sticks"
THERE are thirteen newspapers in this
country edited and published by negroes in
the interests of their race.
Miss HELEN TAYLOR, step-daughter OF Mr.
Stuart Mill. is editing the miscellaneous
works of Thomas Buckle.
VIM. OSWALD CHARLTON, of the British
Legation, will marry Miss Campbell, the
prittiest girl in Washington.
ALeERNoN CHARLES SwlNBURNE is evidently
breaking down. His last short poem is COM
posed of only forty-nine stanzas.
New HAMPSHIRE still hugs Puritanism
when it comes in the shape of pretty girls,
who do not object to the pressure.
The Chicago Journal says that Eli Perkins
writes best just after reading a good thing
which somebody else has written.
A DAVENPORT bible agent growled and
grumbled because he did not sell books
enough in town to keep him in beer.
MILWAUKEE policemen carry board pad
dies, and spank the urchins, irrespective of
sex, who slide in the streets of that city.
You've Herald Bennett will remain in Paris
until spring, owing to the high price of board
in New York during the winter months.
A blushing school girl entered Western
newspaper office the other day and asked tor
s'the papers for week back" Pannier?
A GulLELEss Danbury man saw beautiful
chrome advertised for ''for fifty GEMS" He
sent on the money and received the jack OF
clubs ."''
HueH HAsr1Nes makes $40, 900 : year out
of the Commercial Adoertiser. He got his
start from Thurlow Weed, and dotes On fine
horses. .t.--5 y.
ONE of the multitude of cabinet rumors
now afloat puts Mr.. COlfax in the place of
Postmaster General Creswell, after the 4th OF
March. .t- ill.,.
Miss NELLIE GRANT, Miss Lizzie Porter,
and Miss Edith Fish are affectionately de-
nominated the 'three graces" of Washington
society. ri .u+ tiA.t
"A married woman can collect damages
if her letters are opened by her husband.
so says New York judge-who is bach
elor, by the way.
WHEN it comes to concealing beef-steak by
the gastronomic process, no ordinary man
has any business fooling his time away eating
against Manton Marble, of the World. ....
A CONTEST between five pancake eaters
took place at Newton, N. j., recently. The
successful competitor demolished slxty-elght,
and his nearest rival sixty. .'
Sr. PAUL appears to be 1ourishing. In
the last year 932 buildings, at cost OF over
81, 800, 900, have been erected. Ut this num-
Der 10 were fine business houses. .,. r...
A WRITER in the New York Fsnancier
states that the Indebtedness of Chicago prop
ertv-holders for money borrowed of outside
capitalists is $65, 900, 600. "' .t, y
In time of peace Russia prepares for war,
by fixing the number OF her army, on war
footing. at 2,O84,OO, exclusive of militia
and the troops stationed in Turkistan and 81
IBERIA. -9 .' -.-
There is no disease so fatal on the West
ern border as an excessive fondness for raw
horse flesh belonging to other people. The
victim is cured the same as dried beef-hung
up to dry. 49,. ..' '..>,,a a.. ,....
? "MozEs ADDuMs," the Southern Journalist
and bad speller, has the best appetite-one
that can be depended upon at all times and
in all places-of any man south OF the British
boundary line. :ial orr .- aaa,E.' r<..-
LARGE land slides are reported on the North
Pacific Railroad, between Tenino and Ka-
lama. These slides have interrupted COM
munication between the Columbia river and
Puget Sound country. "t sF# #,1 a.'
Brigham Young says that Uncle Sam
may blow and he may bluster, but polYgamy
will live thousand years for all that. Brig.
hams children, at last accounts, numbered
one hundred and seventeen. .ag9iaf' a!a3..o
], The total property valuation in Washing
ton Territory Is $1S, ,569, 288.61. The amount
of tax due for the fiscal year is S64, on.
Walla Walla county pays $13s61S.16 of the
tax, being more than twice as much as paid
by any other county. Wahkiakum county
only pays $2S7.3 laoi f4-i.as 5~. e2ai