Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1875-02-11
Facts and FancieS.
The head lnan-.A barber.

Criminals should come to halt or halter.
Epitaph for a cannihal'' One who loved
his fellow men,
A Leavenworth paper is abusing Judge
Sherry because he is not stout.
In Italy 1900, 600, ont of population OF
"a, ,OO0, 900, are unable to read or right.
The reading of complaining letters makes
one look upon the whine when it is read
An old lady thinks that a good many mod
e1n ''songs' thoroughly deserve to be called
''strains.'
ALFONSO was officially proclaimed King Of
Spain at Havana on the 23d inst, by Captain
General Concha.
Mark Twain says the Sandwich Islanders
are generally as unlelte.ed as the back side
of a tomb stone.
Rubenstein has written an opera which he
calls Nero 1t is to express pianists con-
tempt for tiddlers.
The school lands of Texas amount to over
100, 900, 600 acres, an amazing endowment Tor
free school purposes.
A doctor gave a man Il box OF pills with
directions to ''take one pill five times day.
An economical pill that.
A forward chap at a ball asked to engage
lady for two sets ahead. She made her ex-
CUSC9 anu Ilc IcCclN tl OllC ocI DaCA
Perhaps it was California compositor who
made an editor say that contemporary stood
'in the front rank Of inferior Journals.
TnR Federal Council of the German Gov
ernment has empowered Bismarck to con-
clude an extradition treaty with the United
States.
In describing the execution Of u man in
Ohio, the other day, an exchange says: "As
IAl~o RI
| dignity"
| ONE hundred and forty-eight Sisters OF
| Charity, who had been expelled from Mexico,
! arrived at Havana on the 23d inst, on their
way to France.
A poet is in our midst with long hair. His
! poem is also long, and the only reason all his
long lines don't rhyme is because the paper
isn't wide enough.
THE Governor of Michigan says that the
| $l50, ,O0O, 600 worth of railroad property held
by the people of that State is making hardly
any return to its owners.
! GREAT BRITAIN has declined to send rep
resentative to St. Petersburg to the Interna-
tional Code Conference, alleging that no prac-
teal result can be expected.
! PElLlAp DEIDEsHEDER, the mining expert.
! claims that the California and Consolidated
| ViIg ginia mines show ore deposits already
prospcctcd anG measured worth $780,
100000.
"If labor is not degrading asked Michi-
gan paper, "why is it that leading citizens al
ways hire boys to carry in their coal?" Why,
simply because the boys won't carry it unless
they are hired.
A romantic young lady whose father re-
fused to rent all Italian villa on the banks of
Lake Como as a summer residence, has threat
encd to go west and marry California high
Wayman.
THE Arizona Miner prints the full text of
Governor Statfords message. 1t is cred
! table document, and among other things
shows that Arizona is out of debt, and has 4
surplus in the Treasury.
ENGLAND vs., Ireland: Jennings, the ,ln-
naturalized English editor of the New York
Times, belaboring General Sheridan for char
| acterizing White League assassins as ban
ditti. National Republican,.
Texas would have been splendid place
for Micawbcr. When he sat down, waiting
for something to turn up, the playful nibble
of tarantula would have turned up what he
sat down on in very lively manner.
"A little girl four-year old created rip
pie by rcmarking to the teacher of her Sun
day-school class: ''Our dogs dead. | bet
coming up the walk. He's cross to stran-
gers.
Talk about stamina in female character.
but their is mother in Detroit who will sit
on the corner of the bureau and read dime
novel half through before she becomes aware
that her baby has been bowling for thirty-fvc
minutes
A mischievous boy SHE'D q SNOWFALL at
the school-marm the other day, and, lodging
into convenient alley-way, sat down on
pan full of hot ashes. Remember, boys, that
retribution follows close upon wicked acts.
TIE name of the giyer of anonymous e.
600 checks in England has come to light by
his death. He was an old bachelor named
Atwood, who gave away about f2 600,
and leaves doub1: that amount to be scranl- .
bled for by his heirs.
Don PIArT, of the Washington Capitol, has
passed some few of his later years in trying
to teach mankind that virtue has its own re-
ward. Nevertheless, when the Pacific Mail
mamma began to fall, Don held out his hat
and caught $5, 600 worth of it.
If the veritable ground hog which is
said to step out on the second of February as
thermometer of the weather, is an inhabi-
tant of Montana, and being able to sun him
self to-day anywhere in this latitude, he will
return to his hole and wait six weeks for
thawipg.
The last King of Spain. before the one
just proclaimed, bearing the name of Alfonso,
was Alfonso XII, historically known as the
Avenger, who reigned from 1924 until his
death before Gibraltar in 1850. so that between
Alfonso XI and Alfonso XII. there is only
the little period of 525 years.