Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1874-04-02
GENERAL ITEMS.

GENERAL 1IEMSs
TnE German Reichstag has voted second
time against fixing the ordinary strength OF
the army u, 4OO,OO
THE New Jcr>e; Legislature rejected the
proposition to appropriate $500 900 tor the
Centennial Celebl alton.
TollP Gibson, who claims to have been
the tt>t white settler i'll Olnstrd county,
MinncsOt.. is still living.
The wife uf wealthy citizen OF Erie,
Pa, has been arrested on s:;srlcion "1 mur-
.lcriny servant girl, Of whom she was
Jealous.
THE Pore has written to the Austrian
bishops, incl,ins them to use all their int!''-
cncc IL prevent hc passage Of the proposed
ecclesiastical laws.
A CONTEMPORARY points out The nconsistcn.
cy between Dio Lewis theories OF Good
living q, 81 week and bis refusal to do
good for Temperance al less than $40 day.
AFAvoRlrE song Of the Temperance ladies
out West is, "Sha!l we gather III the River!'
and the response of the saloon keeper III
every instance is, "By Ill means; start
now
CARDS are soon to bc issued for the ap-
prOucning wedding Of Miss Anna MahOn and
Lieut.. Clais. The former is the daughter
of the First Auditor Of the Treasury, and
the latter the well-knowr assistant OF 'Old
Probabilities.
Upon the .'outer wall OF a female col
leyc in Ohio, recently, was discovered, con-
s,,cuously displayed, the sign, "Domestic
Sewing Machines" Some "t those speci-
mems of total depravity, known as college
students, did it.
In the Yum County Hospital interesting
experiments have been made with 4 magnet
tor the cure IF rheumatism and paralysis.
large horseshoe magnet is used, and one case
OF paralysis has been almost cured, and sew
eral cases of chronic rheumatism relieved.
A SoUrn AUSTRALIANS paper announces that
! y Mr.. Greathead. of that colony, has discov-
| cred that dose of four drops ot strong sui
phurc acid in three-quarters ot tumblcr OF
water for adults, aud smaller dose for
children, is an intallible cure tor diptherla.
! RECENTLY in Ohio, young lady died from
what a round-hcaded old doctor said was
s.heart klQt or embyol of the main t1uid OF
the heart" but she revived in an hour, and It
was found she hiatt been temporarily ch0ked
by u chew of gum which she had swallowed.
TnK Kingston, a.. Cleaner of the 7th
inst. saws that, in accordance with instruc-
tions from Her Nj jesty' Government, an in
quiry will shortly tie held with respect to the
British subjects captured ON the steamer Eir-
ginius, and shot by order OF Burricl.
SENATOR ScorT was talking to Pennsyl-
vania Sunday school. q Sunday ortwo ago, and
asked the scholars why Simon was kept in
prison. One of the teachers quietly prompted
y boy to say that it was for u hostage, and the
youth, not quite catching the words piped out:
''He WAS detained tor postage
A CLERGYMAN lit the examination of the
young scholars of his Sunday school, put the
following question: "Nhy did the people
of Israel set up Il golden calf?' because
they hadn't money enough to set up an OK,
was the reply of little chap, who took
dollar -ani-cen's view OF the matter.
A YOUNG man having put II crown piece
into ''thc plate" in an Edinburgh church. by
mistake instead of penny, asked to have it
back, but was refused. In once, in forever.
Aweel, aweel, grunted lie, will get credit
for it in Heaven. Ma, ma, said !cems, the
door-keeper, yc'llget credit only for the penny
ye meant to gle.
Nix. THos. J. MAyALL, Of Boston, who has
already received 280 letters patent. has per-
! fecting press which he believes will excel the
Hoe, Bullock, Campbell and other presses in
speed for the printing of newspapers. 1t Will
print both sides at the same time, thirty thou
sand impressions an h0u-, which is double
the amount of any press now in operation.
THR marriage of George w. Gootee and
Mary s. Thomas of Marion county, Ken
lucky, has been indefinitely postponed, ow-
ing to suit for breach of promise brought
against the former hy Miss Annie Coy, of the
same locality. damages laiG at $50, 900. 1t is
one of the new, new stories, Of which about
nine hundred are being told ut this writing,
GAIL HAMILTON, writing of Biblical men, re-
remarks: 1--WE should say that Esau WAS far
the most agreeable, interesting and gifted
person; and that Jacob, with his sly ways.
and his mean-spirited willingness t" work
seven wears longer for the man who had
cheated him out Of one wife and into another.
was not man to be held in the esteem of
gods or men or women"
The published plan Of all Eastern scientist
for producing rain is to "elcvate copper
wire by \ balloon, or other means. until its
upper end reaches the Clouds" hitch the
lower end to n railroad track, and send up
currents of electricity. All farmer has TO
do for safeguard against drought is to buy
q balloon, three or four miles of copper wire,
battery, a railroad and some gas works.
Mr.. John G. SAKE, our wcll-known Amer
ican poet, sent the following epigram in reply
to an invitation to address = Temperance
Convention
"You have heard Of the snake in the grasA my boy.
| OF the terrible snake In the grass
| Rut'now t0u must know,
| xan's deadert foe
| r. enake Of different class,
| Alas!
Tis the venomon enake In the g'aw"
jar 0oUID hes been elected to the dtrec-
tory Of the Union Pacific Railway Company.
and the stock has not declined in cOnse-