Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1876-08-17
No. SO
ALI. SORTS.
SAMMY drinks and Hen bricks.

Ow1NG to climatic changes the cedars of
Lebanon are dying out.
JEFFERSON DAVIS IS staying in London at
present in the Langham hotel
! HENDRICKS HUDSON and his men are roll
| ing kegs Of cool lager in the Catskill.
| II is noted as an interesting fact that the
wages Of sin have not been cut down.
In Madagascar there are now 1900 Chris
tian churches and 600 worshippers.
! a Sioux motto White man big smart
| he furnish brains; red man heep brave-he
knock 'em out"
EIGHTY tons of fresh meat from New York
are now sold in the West End markets, Lon
don, every week.
! DEMOCRATS want Tiiden to marry Miss
Anthony. Susan is willing, but Sammy is
opposed to the Union.
GEN. LEW. WALLACE, the author of ''The
Fair God" has written a tragedy founded on
the story of Commodus.
! MAGGIE MINoT, of Iowa, is twenty-three
years old, twenty-seven inches high and
weighs thirty-one pounds.
FIELD MARSHAL WRANGLE will celebrate
the beginning of his eghtieth year of service
IN the Prussian army August Is.
WITHIN the last six months the city debt
OF New Orleans has been reduced over $644.-
OOO, ana since December, 1874, So, 1872, 100.
GREAT quantities of soap are made from
the soap weed that grows in New Mexico,
but the native greasers know nothing of it's
use.
An iceberg 1000 feet high has grounded
just outside the harbOr Of st. Johns, New
toundland, and the inhabitants are cool and
happy.
The Russian Mennonites are excellent
farmers, and make irst-class citizens. Over
$4,000 more are preparing to come. The more
the better.
SETH ADAMS bequethed $4,000 for the
endowment Of Nervine Asylum where per-
sons lab0ring under nervous affections might
be treated.
IoE consumption in tho large cities of the
Eastern States has been from fifty to seventy
five per cent. more than it Was for the same
time last year.
Rain-ln-the-Face it is reported, strange to
say, is not a teetottler. When fed by pa
ternal government at the agencies, he prefers
Whisky-in-the-tace by large Odds
VANCE AND SETTLE, the rival candidates
tor Governor of North Carolina, are stump
ing the State in company, ''dividing time,'
assit is called in the South
SARATOGA will have a centennial next wear.
The local press is already breaking forth in
to Yankee Doodle rhetoric. What shall it
be-a regatta or hOre-race?
YOU'VE men are so scarce at Long Branch
this season that the girls have been known to
hang pair of pantaoons over the back of a
rocking chair and gaze at them for hours at
a time.
tvro inv orJ,,
Democratic politician is represented by the
amount of whisky he can get into glass
without being called to order by the bar
keeper.
PHILADELPHIA landlords keep right on
charging for fires through the heated season.
II any one complains, the proprietor only
asks, ''But wasn't your room kept warm
A NORTH CAROLINA lad, plucky but poor,
sold subscription books after school hours.
ion, went to Niagara Falls, and spent two
weeks at the Exhibition.
GEORGE SAND always preserved her love
etters, and never ate boiled cabbage with
Inything but wooden fork The lives of
hese great women do much to teach us how
We can make our lives sublime.
IF Uncle Sammy had paid as much atten-
Ion to outdoor sports as General Dix. he
night go hunting wild ducks after Hayes
lection, instead of sulking around ALBANY
Ike superannuated hypochondriac.
THERE is no act for which woman about
faint will be more grateful than the act of
ONE kind friend who anticipates the swoon
IA arranges her dress so that the flounces
viii be displayed to the best advantage.
They have corn in Louisiana that is not
luch larger-Well, than lady's. On fully
eveloped stalk, about 10 inches high, are
No perfect ears, each an inch and a half
ing, with grains not much larger than bird
not.
THERE is clock in the Centennial build
lg which tells the month of the year, the
le day of the month, the day of the week,
le hour of the day, the minute of the hour,
nd which is said to run for 100 years with
ne winding.
DID she not return your love?" inouireua
pathizing friend of young man who in
mated that he had some difficulty with his
veetheart. Eyes she returned it, and that
exactly what the trouble is. She said she
dnt want ii"
THE situation in Rhode Island is getting
ore embarrassing every day. One can't
owe aside few feet to avoid mingling in
owd at dog fight without having some
)dy in Massachusetts or Connecticut yell at
m to keep in his own State.
J JUDGE EMMoNs, of the United States Cir
1T Court, in charging a jury in Michigan
Gently, rebuked brow-beating lawyer, de-
arlng that the law does not license lawyers
assassinate the character of witnesses, and
at the trial Of cause should be confined to
at of the nerao,, occuced and oG