Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1876-03-02
ALL SORTS.

with an ominOus anonymous?
-''How can We suppose that another wiz
keep our secret if W. have not kept it our
selves?"
Don't marry til you can support husband.
That's the advice the Barnstab!e Patriot gives
the Cape girls
The extreme height Of misery is a sman
boy with a new pair of rubber boots and no
mud of slush in reach.
1t is thin excuse for young lady to lie
abed until nine o'clock IN the morning be-
cause this is sleep year.
An English woman aavertises herself as
corn cutter to the royal family. She prac-
tees on rhe ''light fantastic toe
WNsLow the Boston forger, is in limbo.
Will not the Bourbon editor be warned in
time, and save himself from a like fate.
CHANG, the Chinese giant resides with his
wife at Changhai The entire Chang family
rival him in height, and he is seven feet eight
inches at that.
THE New York Tribune says that Blaine's
speech on the National Finances displays him
to far better advantage than any previous ef-
for in this Congress.
PHILIP GILBERT HAMILTON says the French
peasantry are intelligent and ignorant. What
they know they know, and what they don't
know they can CESS at
A DEoAYlNG newspaper plays its last card
when forced to enter the field OF forgery.
Witness the independents fraudulent st.
Louis 'special this morning.
Mis-. PAREN STEVENS house in Fifth ave-
New York, will cost, when completed, about
So, ,0O0,0 ,00O The malachite mantels in the
drawing room come to $4,000.
LIEUT.. Co.. GEO. A. Woodward, son of
the late Chief Justice Woodward, has been
nominated by the President for promotion to
the rank of Colonel in the Fifteenth Infantry.
MAYOR COBB of Boston has requested Mr..
Thomas Ball to furnish a model tor bronze
statue of Josiah Quincy. 1t will be placed in
front of City Hall, and the expense will be
betrayed from the Phillips fund.
CAsTELAR's latest epic is glowing pane
gyric or blank verse ascripti0n to Journalism,
written as an introduction to his sketch of the
| life of Emile Giradin. 1t is one of the best
efforts of the Spanish Republican statesman.
CAPTAIN CHARLES WAITE, of Old Lyme,
| Conn.,, has just died at the age of eighty
seven years, He has been Postmaster at that
place for forty one years in succession, except
during the administration of President Bu-
| chanan.
WARDEN CHAMFERIAlN, of Boston, depOs
! ed few days since before the Legislative
| Committee on Prisons that there existed in
that city regularly organized society of
criminals, with President, Secretary, and full
set of working officers.
BECK, who has just been elected United
States Senator from Kentucky, says he has
"a right to be proud" Of course he has.
He is the identical chap who not long ago
publicly declared that the word nation
was a stencil in his nOstrils.
No Congress was ever flooded with bills
to the extent of the one now in session; and
they are principally to pay the claims OF
rebels for losses during the war. With
Democratic House and Senate, what har-
vest these rebels would reap.
IT is singular enough to mention that the
last public speech of Senator Ferry was his
eulogy upon Senator Buckingham, and Rep
resentative Starkweather's last work was to
| write eulogy he intended to deliver on Sen
ator Ferry
WALKER s picture of ''Lookout Mountain"
| which is the property of General Joseph
| Hooker, has be en- lent by that gentleman to
the managers of the Soldiers Home, III Day
ton, Ohio, who will exhibit it in order to raise
fund to erect soldiers monument at that
institution,
W1NsLow, the Boston newspaper forger,
deceived and swindled everybody he could,
and then decamped. Not whit less Grimm
al, in moral sense, is the Bourbon editor,
who FORCES news dispatches and passes them
off upon his readers as genuine. We look for
him to ''git" any day.
WATTERsoN is enthusiastic over Lamar,
and holds him up as model for Beck He
speaks of his support OF the centennial bll!
| as far-seeing, right-hearted, patriotic and
courageous. and adds that his vote, with that
of fifteen other southerners, rescued the Gen.
tennial bill from defeat.
"SMlLAx'' writes to the Washington Repu6-
Ecan that out of twelve samples of kerosene
oil purchased at random by chemist in that
city, nine were found to be highly dangerous
and three very unsafe. The result, he thinks,
demands some legislation providing for an
inspector.
COLONEL Ives, of the Hotel Bates, at In
dianapolis, says that when he "kept' at Sc
dalia, Mo-, Winslow and wife boarded with
him. He describes Winslow as genial gen.
tleman. affable, polite, courteous, cultured,
learned, eloquent and, apparently, sincere
Christian-but he would forge.
THE Bound Brook Railroad Company had
charter to build railroad from New jersey
into Pennsylvania. and proposed to bridge
the Delaware river A suit to enjoin the act
resulted, and last week, Chancellor Runyon
held that the grant for the road carried the
incidental right to build the bridge, and each
State had q right to grant the right of way to
the middle of the river, and that after great
outlay in building the road with no opposition,
equity will not permit an injunction to pre-.
vent the building of the bridge because OF
OnnnSitiOn at the last moment.