Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1875-06-24
No. 81


lictW cen TWO evils CHOOSE UcitHtE
A German figure of speech-Ncin.
The end of everything The letter &.
The Japs head off SIN by decapitai0r~
The people are coming to their census.
Ways that are liark-Cn!igh,cd streets.
PAUL Bo,roS does net walk upon the water.
He lies
Who is the greatest ierrifier: And echo
answers tire.
Short horns are preferred by temperance
Changers.
TU1Ens, the great French statesman, is
worth ~, ,0C0,oOo
An inn -iury--;wel1e n'cr considering the
rights OF travellers.
Beware of harmony. The revolutionary
fights began in Concord.
TwENTY-SISE car loads Of young oysters
were planted in San Francisco Bay, last
week.
Ir is stated that the Apple.ons pay General
Sherman $50, 900 for the copyright Of his
memoirs.
An old to,,e, says if there IS anything that
will make his mouth water, he does not wish
to see il.
We knew Il man once who objected to
sleeping ON Il straw bed, because, he said, it
was beneath him.
ONE OF the richest deposits of cannel c<al
in this country has just been discovered near
Bay city, Michigan.
INDIANA is said 10 have the largest public
school fund of any State in the Union, amount
ing 10 over $8,00O,000.
The advertiser who writes 10 ''puph up
hiu h,u;nocC .,pr1ertC tO remit q ONpW OhHr-
things phor the phavor.
Profitable business-The perfumer's. Few
make so large per cent. 1t will be valu;t-
able aid to the Centennial.
There is not much grief when a fat man
dies in Rhode Island, as it gives the sulvlV-
ors more room to stretch themselves.
MRS. R1pawAY, one of the victims Of the
Schiller disaster, left fortune of $50, 600 to
Emalinc Gum, who was employed as i house
servant 1T Sheffield, Conn.
n. Michel Levy, the leading publisher of
Paris, and Mr. John Harper, the leading pub
Usher of New York, died on the same day.
JUDGE PHELPS, Democratic Congressman
elect in Connecticut, has attached to his judi
already drawing $500 t. month as Congress-
man.
An oid lady recently directed the attention
Ok her husband TO pair of twins, rcnlarking
as she did SO. ''How much these two chill
dren do look alike, especially the one this
way
TIE people of Kansas, who have been re-
d,,cea nearly to starvation by the ravagcs of
the grasshoppers. have cheerily adopted a
dance which they call the ''Grasshopper Co.
tilliOn.'
\ n,astoion skeleton, weighing over 1000
pounds, the largest ever found, has been sent
to Yale College from Otisville, Orange coun-
ty, New York, where it was dug up two
years ago.
ONE of the modest little farming patches in
Illinois is laid out in $4,000 acres of corn,
$500 acres of flax, 1000 acres of oats, and
enough grass 10 produce about eight thousand
tons of hay.
The Detroit Free Press says it must be hui
initiating to Massachusetts to be compelled
to confess in the midst of her centennial Joy,
that she has lived hundred years without
learning how to make dam that will hold
water.
Mrs. Spraguc, nee Kate Chase, according
to writer, will be recorded in history as
being the most beautiful woman of the age
which she graced. and yet, from any ac-
knowledged standpoint of perfection. she can
stand no test.
In Washington, when two long-separated
friends meet, they shake hands and exclaim,
my dear fellow, I'm awful glad to see you;'
but out in Denver they come up, and whack-
ing each other on the back, exc]aim, cole
pard, I've fouled ye. Lets BOOZE"
A very pretty Sunday school song is the
one entitled, ''Put your armor on, my boys
There is, however, young lady in our town
who doesn't like to hear it. She says it sounds
like "Put your arm around me, boys and it
always makes her feel so lonesome.