Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1875-05-20
No. IS
All Sorts.


Minnesota farmers pay IS cents a barrel
for wood ashes to SOW on grass land, with
plaster, and the speculation pays.
II say, Pat, what are you about utsweeping
out the room p NO. answers Pat, 'Im
sweeping out the dirt, and leaving the room.
Brown, the famous sexton of Grace church,
New York, began life as carpenter: he
now has country seat and is rated af $780,
900.
The grasshoppers i'll the Western States arc
around the railway stations these warm spring
mornings, to see who GENES to purchase seed
wheat.
\ law forbileiing the payment OF different
salaries in the public schools on account OF
sex has just passed the Legislature of Cali
fornia.
Mr.. James Lick, of San Francisco, has sub,
scribed s., 500 to the Philadelphia Centennial,
and has given in,imaiion that be will double
the amount.
The most curious freak Of one Of the re-
cent cyclones in Georgia was the driving OF {.
hickory tree two feet III diameter tour teel
deeper into the ground.
Some 200 horses are being trained III the
vicinity Of New York for the spring races.
There are also about 100 in the vicinity OF
This conunirum is respectfully submitted
to the best speller Ii S-i-ou-x spells su, and
eye spells i, and sighed spells side, why
doesn't -g-h-e-d spell su!clde'
4 Chicago physician has arrived at the
conclusion, from extensive investigation OF
the subject, that hog cholera and typhoid
fever in the human sub ject are identica! dis
eases.
"Katy Pease,' who won Che $4,000 four
mile race in San Francisco last fall, in 1861,
is at present in California, and will be entered
in the Grand $780, 900 four-milc race. which IS
to take place soon.
A prominent Detroit Univcrsalist some
months ago married red-headed widow with
four children, and last week he remarked to
friend, Il was blind when believed there
is no hell. see now!"
Mrs. Belknap is concadnd TO be the
! best-dressed woman in Washington. A cor
respondent says that when Worth received
| the order for her trousseau he retired to 81
cave and tasted for seven days.
''lhcrc was an old family fuel between
| them," was what witness in a Chicago muir
der case said to the jury. The Judge asked
her if she didn't mean s!teud," =" and she asked
him who was telling that story:
"Augustus, dear" said she, tenderly push
ing bin from her rs the moonlight flooded
the bay-witiow, where they we're standing,
II think you had better try some other hair
dye; your moustache tastes like turpentine.'
To prevent oyerheated horses from suffer
ing from that cause: TO one pint Of water
put an ounce of chloride of ammonia one
ounce sweet spirits Of nitrc, one drachm Of
tincture aconitc, giving tablespoonful every
hour Or two.
1t is said that the precedency question be-
tween the Princess Louise and the Duchess
Of Edinburgh is very troublesome at court
The Princess Louise is understood vaguely to
rank as her husband does, yet she has pre-
cedence over the duchess, who is an Emper-
ors daughter, married to Queens son.
A new style of candy, called jaw-breaker.
is meeting with tattering success, being all
little girl, and broke u tooth for another. A
citizen of St. Louis who has been married
eight years and supports his wife's folks
bought $5 worth of it, and he says it has
done what its name implies
Miss Bessie Turner testities that Theodore
entered her room. A practical pate'Jo'0allds,
who has many daughters, says he has made
good use Of the above remarkable statement
He no longer trusts to the bell to rouse his
children, but marches into the dormtories
and cries. ''Wake up. girls, wake up! Theo-
dore Tilton is coming!"
Says the Scientific american: "Far better
absolute ignorance Of letters, with the inquir-
ing habits of mind educated senses to be got
by scientific training for a year or two, than
the half-acquired art of reading. which the
aiOrity of children carry from, the schools,
weighted with the unawakened faculties anc
apathy of knowledge which they too COM
monty exhibit.
A convention of the humorous paragraph
lists of the country is talked of, each delegate,
of course, to nominate and elect himself.
What crowd there will be- The New York
Commercial puts in claim to be Of the party
by begging to suggest either the Bay of Fun
dy or Laugh-a-yelte as proper point for the
meeting and why not call the assembled wits
the National Board of Fun-der-writers.
"Did you ever see that picture, grandma ?,
asked young lady, as they took view OF
the family portrait gallery. 'See il! Why,
it's portrait of myself when was sever
teen" II thought you had forgotten 1t. or
you wouldn't always be lectur'ng US girls
about modesty in Dress Grandma looked
over spectacles and declared the girls now-a-
DAYS were very impertinent to their elders.
Ar recent spelling match at Columbia,
Tenn, for the benefit of one of the churches
there, the teacher premeditately brought on
personal difficulty between clerk in gro
Gerry store and the word ''rhaps''dy." No
sooner was the unoffending word thrown at
the young man than with the widest conf
dence in his ability to knock both Worcester
and Webster into the middle "f next week at
single blow, he hurled it back manged,
mutilated and bleeding, thus: ''W-r-a-p wrap.
s-.,, wrapeO, d.a, wrapsOdH."