Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1874-12-31
No. e


The girl of the period never comes TO full
stop.
When man loses bis suit AT court he is
left legally bare.
A duel is quickly managed 1t only takes
two seconds to arrang" it.
\ man in Washington was recently arrest
cd for kicking fifty dollar dog.
Making rilgrimaScs On harefoo; for pcnancc
appears to he a bootless enterprise.
Charity Ann Burden, of indianapolis. has
gone into the divorce court 10 re: rid OF her
Burden.
Benjamin West said the kiss OF his mother
made him /; pa, ,cr. Her slipper made him
a good boy.
Five Sundays ard MONDAYS III November
made extra work for The clcrEymcn and
washerwomcn.
Mrs. Partington says that on Thanksgiv-
ing days She allows Ike to I'LL himself 10 his
utmost rapaciy.
A Texas gentleman was married the Gay
before he was hanged. 1t is not stated which
knot he liked best.
Why is it that Il sailor will persist in call
ing all that part of ship below the rail the
''hull'' Of her, when it isn't much more than
half?
A traveller has lately christencd a new spe-
cics of small fruit in the northern part of
Palestine. They must be Danbcrrics.
bury Necs.
When we see man begging tobacco We
feel like reminding him of the old adage, that
''beggars must not be chew-sers. - Whitehall
Times.
Artificial butter-making has never proved
no EiA7o,,1tv, line in II, hn
hairs 80 that they look natural. Hautc
Gazette.
Here! how this: No stone marks the
grave of Capt John Smith. Where's the
committee on sentiment? Who'll hold our
ten cents ?-Detroit Press.
A Cairo man warns people not TO trust his
wife, and she retorts by saying that he'll 60
without clothes all summer before she'll take
in washing to rig him out again.
One of the meanest things Tennessee
man can do is to blow his brains out at a
dance and muss the ballroom floor up so that
further dancing is prevented.-Detroit Press.
A Vermont paper recently closed an obita-
ary OF ayoung lady by remarking that ''she
had an amiable temper and was remarkably
fond of ice-cream."
There will be no post Office clerks in heaven
if the ladies don't stop directing their letters
diagonall'-a practice as absurd as possible,
but ''all the rage
Boston !iremen are now known by the
sign of Il Greek cross in their caps We
have known them to he cross all over when
turned ont to false alarms. --l'oston 7rnn-
script.
In the thriving little town of Pronlontorv,
on the Central Pacific Railroad, way out in
t1,o, >1,s %l,>
boarders to dinner by firing off one barrel of
doublc-barrcl gun. With the other barrel
he collects his bad debts
There is Il pleas:,.:, anecdotc told of the
Senators from Nevada. Stewart was expa-
highly favored land. He wound up his eu-
logy BY saying that all that was needed there
was water and good society. Jones respond
ed, ''That is all that is needed in HI"
AN exchange tells us that female book
agent at La Crosse knocked lawyer down
with q twenty-five dollar bible and then
knocked his teeth out wit. six dollar hymn
hook. Arm that woman with an ordinary
library of costly religious books, and she
would whip her weight in wildcats.
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DR.. BEyNs, of Groningen, Germany, is the
discovcrer of the fact that carboleum, or
liquid carbonic gas, which can be obtained
from the chalk, lime and other csrbonaceous
deposits of the earth, has an expansive force
of fifty or sixty atmospheres, and is not dan
gerous as an explosive. The heat required
to develop it is small compared with that re-
quired by the steam engine. Three pounds
Of coal per hour per horsepower is all the
coal consumed. If this invention is found
practicable it will reyolutionize commerce.
We have in this country immense deposits of
chalk varying in thickness from 400 feet
along the Atlantic seaboard to 1880 feet in
Upper Mississippi Valley.
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