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a savant's Ill-Luck.

The Paris correspondent of the Pt1H Null
Gazette writes in alluding to the tran
sit of Venus, M. Henri de Parville relates
the misadyentures which befell the French
savant, NJ. lie Gentil de la Galaisiere, on the
occasion of the late transit. LIE Gentil set
out from Paris in March, 1850, in order to
observe the transit at Pondicherry, and
reached the Mauritius in July. Having
learned that war had broken out between
France and England, and deeming it dam
gerons to try and reach Pondicherry, he
determined to go elsewhere but frigate
being bound for the coast OF Coroinandel,
he sailed in March, 1861. When they had
nearly arrived they learned that Pondicher-
ry had fallen into the hands of the English,
so the frigate was obliged to return to the
Isle of France. The 8ti of June, the day
of the transit, came the sky was clear, the
sun splendid, but how could the astronomer
take observations with the vessel rolling
about?, He had gone to India to see the
transit of Venus there would be another
| in eight years, and he made up his mind to
stay. He managed to get back to Pondi-
cherry, where Ire built a small observatory.
and waited patiently, but without comnu-
nicating with any one iniF France, for he was
ashamed of his first failure. At last the
third Of June, 1859, arrived and the NOM
| ing was lovely, but just as the planet be-
gan TO touch the disk of the sun the sky be-
came overcast, and LIE Gentil saw nothing.
For some time he was almost crazy, but al
last he recovered strength enough toroturr
/ to France, where he found that the person
/ to whom he had entrusted his property had
/ run away :; ani that considered dead, hs
had been displaced in the Academy. He did
lasot long survive these misinrtnnes.o
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WHAT THE WITS SAY.

Katie did She "did" Mr.. Owen COM
pletely. Budget.
And now they adulterate honey. This
is bees-tly fraud.-Terre Haute Mail.
1t is better to be alone in this world than
to bring up boy to play on the accordeon.
argus.
Think of whiskey freezing solid in Mon
tana. Well, they always did call it an ice
drink out there.-N. 7. Spectator.
A Utica editor, whose ear is shedding its
skin, explains that he has not been any
where to freeze it, but he has been exposed
to good deal of domestic discipline.
Sentinel.
Dr.. Holland is not going to wrestle with
the He'll question any more. With the ther-
mometer twenty degrees below zero, and
coal $12 ton. there is good deal to be
said on both sides of the subject.-St. Louis
Globe.
Tho woman who wore her absent lovers s
kisses on her lips for him to come and take
again, survived long enough to bestow them
upon Irresponsible third party, with good
collateral ecurities.-Argws.
"Mrs. Samuel Revolver Colt is gong to
found an orphan asylum" If the asylum is
intended for the orphans her revolvers have
made, we should like to know where she is
going to find vacant lot large enough fol-
| it.-Gourier- Journal. a.,
There is an intelligent compositor in
every newspaper offie. A country editor
recently wrote of respected citizen that
he is one of the main stays of the place
The l. C. got it, "one of the main stays Of
the place." The funeral occurred the fol
lowing Sabbath.-Cal. Alta.
This Office keeps boy who is paid fifty
dollars week to do nothing but sit on &
chair and yell, "Shut the door p' People
who come up stairs on business are thus
saved the pain of hearing seven or eigh
| men veil out in succession.-Detroit Fire
Press. Cut that boy in pieces and sene
some of him along this way.-Da"6url
Necs.
Beriah Bradley, the oldest inhabitant o
New Haven, died the other day, in his nine
ty-eighth year.-He was noted for his SO
Beriahty. Brigham Young is still able t.
sit up and be married occasionally.-Aftel
the College regattas shall have run a few
years longer we shall begin to learn hov
many colleges there are In this gloriou
country. it require wings to make
flying visit ?-Boston Post.
Stir up the sleeping lion i'll the breast o
a Welchman, and he will hurl at the hea'
of the offender such epithets as nobody bu
he or an infuriated Choctaw Or Muscovit
would ever think of using. For instance
Welch paper of New York, 7 Drych, say
of Ben. Butler: Ymddangsodd Ca
Butler" We have thought thousan
times of using the very same expression
connection with Butler, but some how G
other we always hesitated to do it.-Coa'
Ter Journal
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NEWSPAPER DECISIONS.
EvE-ANGELICAL CORNER.
New York girls pad their insteps

New York girls pad their insteps.
Mary G. Haskins, of Danbury, N. H.,
has hair fifty-two and half inches long.
In Paris G71 women get their living by
serving as models for painters and sculp-
tors.
England has only one divorce to Americas
ten. Over there they are willing to put up
with flat-irons and such.
Mrs. Holmes, of Katie King infamy,
according to her own statement, is "ciek
of the hoal bisnes"
There is nothing more hazardous than to
be bothering an irritable woman with fool
ish questions on wash day.
A young man in the country announces
that he will give chrome to the young
| lady WHO VIII take MN Tor better or worse.
Tom Owens, of Iowa, is man of the
strictest impartiality. He has had three
wives and he drowned them all in the same
| well.
A Philadelphia broker courted young
lady for six years, and was too bashful to
| ask for her hand until her brother horse
| whipped him into it.
A citizen of Syracuse has thirteen child
ren, all girls. What that father has spent
for hairpins would have bought the West
ern Union telegraph wires.-NI. Sent
Mrs. Gridley is the oldest woman in
Chicago. She ascr1bes her longevity to
marrying when past 35. That's consoling
for ladies who have "turned the corner"
Charlotte Cushman has Cancelled her San
Francisco engagement, and a paper in that
city declares that the malignant cancer with
which she is suffering must ere long cause
her death.
1t is said that benevolent men arc always
happy. There's one in Brooklyn who isn't.
He gave his wife $40 for charitable purpos-
es, and she bought q smoking-cap with it
for the pastor.
Somehow, one can't help thinking Of
that citizen Of Syracuse who has thirteen
children, all girls. Probably there is not a
corner of the bureau in that mans house
that hasn't cold chew of spruce gum stick
ing to it.
Says Wisconsin editor: "a young
poetess sends in contribution entitled,
Let us Love- We will do our best, but
we have been married over four years now,
and are a little out Of practice"
A man out west who married widow has
invented device to cure her of externally"
praising her former husband. Whenever
she begins to descant on his noble qualities
this ingenious No. 2 merely says: "Poor,
dear man! How wish he lad not died !"
Mrs. John Sheridan, of Erie, Pa, has
just simultaneously presented her husband
with four female children. John, however,
was not present to express his joy. The
account significantly states that "hc went
West last Fall, and has not returned. -
N. 7. Sp pectGtor.
La hija del Presidente Juarez Sc va 8
, casar con un americana. iAerico Paper.
For the benefit of those of our readers
who do not understand the Spanish Ian
, guage, we will state that the above makes
the following important announcement
! "The daughter of President Jaurez is going
to marry an American. ."-AgGlaDche.
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An Anxious Livery Man.

The story here given is told by the lewis
ton (Me,) journal:
''Some time since two ladies called at a
stable in A., to hire horse and go ten
miles out. The proprietor was absent, and
the hostler, being a new conner and not
acquainted with the horses, gave them the
best-looking one. On the return of the
proprietor he found the ladies had gone
with horse that was so high-spirited that
he would trust but few men with him. He
took another team and drove after the
ladies, but did not succeed in overtaking
them until they arrived at their destination.
He asked them If they had any trouble in
driving the horse. They replied that they
had not; that the animal was splendid
horse; that he ran more than half the way.
and they did not touch him with the whip.
He asked if they had any trouble in passing
teams. They said they did not, as every
one who saw them coming got out of the
way and gave them whole road. Observe
how ready men are to give womeA their
rights"
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1875-02-12
Agricultural Growth of the United
States.

Whoever will take the time and trouble
to look over the official statistics of the last
twenty years, will find the increased pro-
duction of many articles almost 'ncredi-
BILE.
Three bushels of wheat are produced
now for one seventeen years ago. oats
have doubled in fifteen years. Barley, six
bushels for one twenty years ago.
Hops, seven fold in 90 years.
Flax, six fold in 30 years.
Wine, fourteen gallons for one when
California began to produce; California
produces seyen-tenths of all the wine in
America.
Irish potatoes have not increased and
sweet potatoes have decreased nearly one
half.
Live stock has quadrupled in value and
now amounts to nearly one thousand and
siz hundred millions, nearly two hundred
dollars for each family in the United
States.
Slaughtered animals have more thar
| quadrupled in value, now amounting tt
| over three hundred millions of dollars an
nnaliy.
Wool has more than doubled in amoun
and value.
Cation has increased over half million
bales.
Corn has increased less than any impor
tant product, being only ten per cent. il
ten years.
The value of the farms have not increased
per acre-farmers have had too many dead
beats to support. The average size of thu
farms have decreased about fifty acres, TIN
average was 1893 acres-is now 151 acres
but in four States, Massachusetts,, New
Hampshire, Arkansas and New Mexico
the farms average as large as ever. In tn
United States, the largest number OF farms
| (s47, ,615) come between twenty and NIT
acres.
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General Fremont and His Appearance.

IPittsburg Leaders Washington Special1
I saw General Fremont in the lobby of
the House yesterday. He is now old and
bent. His face is deeply chiseled by the fur
rowing hand of time. His eyes are slightly
bleary: the cheek bones stood as prom
inent as those Of Sioux chief. Iron-gray
whiskers, short and stubby, closely trimmed
down from the base of his jaw-bone, grow
upon his thin neck His dark hair is yet
a dark iron-gray, and is worn quite long.
1t is combed well forward, and hangs down
in front of his ears. A well-worn beaver,
sets well back upon his head bright scar
let comforter ). q gray tweed light overcoat,
and ii dark suit of under-clothing made up
the general articles of his attire. He looks
like a whimsical, fussy old man, and little
like the hero of the Rocky Mountains,
whose pictures during the Presidents cam
paign of 1856 always represented him with
long curls, in the garb of Western from
tiersman, charging apace upon a fiery
charger, breathing the smoke of bloody war.
1t is said that Fremont is trying to get
some allowance from the Government for
his past services in the West. Speaking of
claims in this connection, without caring to
make another paragraph right here, l wish
to call your attention to the fact that the
Woodruff has brought claim for 500, 600
against the Government for damages done
her by the United states authorities for al,
resting and combining her after her pubiica-
tion of the Bcecher- Tilton scandal.
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a WILD Ducks RACE WITH A TRAIN
The Eagle says that when the train which
left Poughkeepsie at 9:10 on Wednesday
morning passed Barnegat, wild duck
which had evidently been left behind by its
mates, arose from the water not fifty feet
from the train and started southwark in .
straight line, not over ten feet from the sur
face of the river. It did not seemingly de-
yiate hairs breadth from its course from
the starting point to New Hamburg Tun-
mel, being abreast Of the center Of the train
all the time. When the train entered the
tunnel, the duck was still on the wing, and
neither duck nor tfaiad had gained an inch
of advantage. The duck acted as If it vi 8
charmed by The noise and speed Of the
train
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The ouintessence of Cheek.

Among the Americans who attended
ball given at the Hotel de Vile, Paris, when
John Y. Mason was our Minister there,
was Jack Spicer, of Kentucky. Jack rush.
ed the dress somewhat strong, and sported
epaulettes on his shoulders large enough to
start four major generals in business. Jack
was the observed of all observers, and got
mixed up with a party that his friends
could not account for. Wherever the Mar
shals of France went, there went Jack and
whe n the MaIslal sat down, Jack did the
same, always taking the post of honor.
The day after the ball he called on our Min
lister to France, who started up conversa-
tion in the following way:
"I hear, Jack, you were at the ball last
evening""
"I was, sir, and had a high old time"
"For which you were indebted, I sup
pose, to the high old company you got
mixed up with. By the way, how came
you associated with the Marshals ?''
"How? By virtue OF my office. Tney
were Marshals of France, while I am moth
else than Marshal of the Republic.
| showed my position, and took post accord
ingly."
"By right of your Officer What do you
mean?'
=" Read and see."
Here Jack presented Mr.. Mason with &
paper, with seal big enough for four
pound weight.
"What in the name of heaven and eartl
is this ?''
"My commission as Marshal received
in 1850, when l assisted in taking the cen
sus in Frankfort"
"You do not mean to say you travel OF
this ?''
"I don't mean anything else. Tha
makes me Marshal of the Republic, ant
intend to have the Office duly honored.
| Cincinnati Star.
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The Law-Making Season.

IS Z
Now is about to set in the annual busy
season Of law-making, with Congress and
the Legislatures of thirty States in session,
viz: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Flor
ida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas,
Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts,, Michigan,
Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada,
Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, North
Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Is
land, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas,
Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, and
Wisconsin. AS some Of these are second
and others special sessions of Legislatures,
it has rarely occurred that so many have
been simultaneously at work. The politics
of these thirty Legislatures are; is Dem
ocratic, IS Republican, (Illinois) controlled
by m Independent balance of power, and
4 (Louisianal in dispnte. The list includes
all the States but seven, whose Legislatures
do NOT meet this Winter, viz: California,
Connecticut, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland,
New Hampshire, and Oregon.
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FAST RIDING TO SECURE RELOCATION.
Now and then, says the Sonora Democrat,
we hear of some one relocating quartz
vein that became vacant with tine first of
January, for want of complying with the
U. s.. Mining Law. On Monday an old
miner had lawyer draw up notices for tho
relocation of we'll known mine, and went
to the vein to post them. When he had
tackled up one notice he saw an acquaint-
ance coming OH horseback, who, upon
reaching the spot, said "you're too late,
I've got up the first notice." to which the
other replied, "l don't know about that,
I'll have the second up first" while the
new conner run his horse for the tunnel at
the the same time, hauling out a paper
which was supposed to be a notice. The
first man tackled his second notice. and was
just fifteen minutes by his watch coming
five miles to have his claim placed on re-
cord That was mighty fast time, but he
was determined to be ahead somewhere in
locating the claim, as he thought he was
first i'm the idea, and that the other had ac-
cidentally got information of what he in-
tended. Now it remains to see which will
hold the claim.
SIT AND SET. LAY AND LIE.-1'bs two
words, ssit" and "set," are too much
mistaken for each other. When gram
mar class is asked for the first time il it is
right to say "hens set, !" the Court sets. =
one-half of them perhaps win vote one way
and the other half the other. The Court
means the Judge or Judges; the Judge
sits, the Court sits, the jury sits, hens sit.
birds sit. Setting hen is wrong hens
are not g settlers or pointers. Set requires
an objective case we set chair, but we
sit in 1t. There is similar difficulty in
the words iie'' and lay" In families
1 whose hens s' set " everything lays and
all sslay abed.n The quoted words are
wrong. Lay means to place, and requires
an adjective, rs "thc hen lays eggs -
"now lay me. We should say the bool,
lies on the table; he lies abed !; lies low
everybody les If you please, but nobody
lays unless be has something TO lag.
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ST,LOuIS HOTEL
ENTRANCE FROM MAIN s. JACKSON SITS.
Helena. Montana,
SAM. SCHWAB. = PROPRIETOR.
THE LARGEST
First Class Hotel in The Territory.

Having secured a lease for long term Of
years Of this large and commodious house,
l have renovated, refurnished and embel-
lished it's roomy parlors and elegant suits
of rooms, and no expense or pains will be
spared to continue to improve and keep it
on first class principles. The tables are
supplied with the very best the markets
afford and the delicacies of the season. At
tendance unexceptioDable. Terms, reason
Bile. 281
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Chased by a River.

Hanging up my barometer to give it
few minutes to settle, occupied myself in
collecting resin from the pinion pines, which
were found in great abundance. One Of
the principal objects of the climb was to
get this resin for the purpose of smearing
our boats, but had with me no means of
carrying it down. The day was very hot
and my coat had been left in camp, SO had
no Innings to tear out, but it occurred to me
to cut off the sleeve of my shirt and tie it
up at one end, and IN this little sack | col
lected about a gallon of pitch. After tax
ing observations for altitude, wandered
back on the rocks for an hour or two, when,
suddenly, noticed that storm was COM
ing from the south. songht shelter in
the rocks, but when the storm burst, it came
down as 6: food from the heavens-not
with gentle drops at first, slowly increasing
in quantity, but as if suddenly poured from
am immense basin. was thoroughly
drenched and almost washed away. 1t last
ed more than half an hour, when the
clouds swept by to the north, and was in
the sunshine again.
In the meantime, discovered better
way of getting down, and started for camp,
making the greatest haste possible. On
reaching the bottom of the side calon,
found thousand streams rolling down the
cliffs on every side, carrying with them red
sand; and all these united in the cahon be-
low in one stream of red mud. Travelling
| as fast as could run, soon reached the
foot Of the stream, for the rain did not
reach the lower end Of the canon, and the
water was running down dry bed of sand;
and, although it camein waves several feet
high and fifteen or twenty feet in width,
the sand soaked it up and it was lost.
| Wave followed wave and rolled along and
was swallowed up, and still the floods
came from above. | found I could travel
faster than the stream, SO hastened on to
camp and told the men there was a river
coming down the caiion. We carried our
camp eQuipage from the bank to where we
thought it would be above the water, and
then stood by to see the river roll on to join
the Colorado.-Mgor j. ". Posoell, Scrib-
aser's for January.
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The chinese have names which. cor
respond III frequency with the Isrowns aud
Smiths; of Anglo, Saxon lhristendofn.
Those most frequently occurring are Chin,
Chang, Wang, and Shin, which are eauiya-
ienss Of gold, long. price, and stoise.
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Anna Dickinson expects to- make her
debut as an actress in Boston, under the
auspices of Arthur Cheneyr-the manager,
not the minister, 0f that name.
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tAiaa INTERNATIONAL HOTEL
- HELENA, MONTANA.

DIIupt
HENRY wYTTENBACH, Proprietor.
o.
I TAKE pleasure In announcing to the travelling
lpublic that have hotel and will be glad TO
see my old friends and customers while soionrning
at the metropolis. and assure them comfort and
ceent table fare at my house ~ at the old Inter
national.
In consideration Of Hard Times, No Extras.
s77-sm HENRY WYTTENBACH
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MEAsUREMENTs OF ANCIENT CITIES
Nineyeh was IA miles long, miles wide,
and 46 miles around, with wall loo feet
high, and thick enough for 8 chariots
abreast. Babylon was 80 miles within the
walls, which were Is feet thick and 100 feet
high, with 100 brazen gates. The Temple
Of Diana, at Ephesus, was 42O feet to the
support Of the roof It was 100 years in
building. The largest of the Pyramids
was 4S1 feet in height and 853 feet on the
sides. The base covered ] I acres. The
stones are about 90 feetsili length, and tic
layers are 2O8. It employed 25t,, 900 men
in building. The labyrinth Of Egypt con-
tains 800 chambers aud II halls. Thebes,
in Egypt, presents ruins 81 miles around,
and contained s5O, 900 citizens and 100, 600
slaves. The Temple Of pelphus vas 80
rich III donations that it was llundered Of
so, ,000, ,OG0, aud the Emperor Nero carried
| away from it 200 statues. The walls Of
] 1 ssae were Is miles around. ss
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-03-13
A RepOrter's Trials.

They tell good story on certain
reporter of morning paper, which Is
too rich to pass unnoticed. The juvenile
scribe was on his rounds not long since
after anything that might turn up, when
he was accosted by Shocks, the practical
joker.
item for you to-day. Get out your book,
Its a sumner, / tell you.
Reporter Breathless with expecta-
ton. delves for his note book, and trem-
bling awaits "Well, what IS ltF
Shocks The j., NJ. and l. passenger
train ran off the bridge this morning.
Reporter-"Wh-what, is that so-ran
off the BRIDGE
Snooks-"Yes, every car, locomotive
and all
Reporter-"Horriblc! How many were
killed? Did YOU hear?' >.
"Snooks-None. Not bone broken
Reporter-"Why how was that?'
snooks-"I don't know; but I've been
told that trains run off the bridge every
hour or TWO.
Reporter-"What ! On, you're jest
ing
Snooks-"Oh, no, I'm in dead earnest
You know as we'll as l do that when
train af cars get on the brid' they must
of course run off one end or the other.
Good day. :.
Off went the practical joker laughing
at his own good humor, leaving the crest
fallen reporter thoughfully eracing some
newly-made hierographics on his note
book.
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Remarkable Discovery OfCoaI.

Some wonderful coal discoveries have
just been made in FL Dorado Canon, II
few miles southeast of Dayton. A short
time since there occurred food in the
canon which swept away the toll-road
leading up along its channel and tore
things to peices generally. The road be-
ing washed away, it appears that no one
tried to travel through the ravine. A day
or two since, however, the Virginia City
Coal Company, whose mine is we'll up to-
ward the head of the canon, sent some of
the employees out to examine the road in
order to ses lift were possible to repair
it. In travelling down the canon these
men cams to a place where the water
had torn up and swept out the whole bed
OF the stream, exposing an iurlnse bed of
coal. The coal had been torR up and
washed down the stream, and there re-
mains regular pavement Of it across the
canon for considerable distance along
its course. AS yet they have net dug
through the bed to ascertain its thick
ness Virginia, Nevada, Enterprise.