Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-03-22
ALL SORTS.

ALL SORTS.
GENERAL BANKS is the father of two
daughters who are said to be as lovely as
dreams and graceful as lilies.
"A blue-glass scoffer compares Pleason-
toms theory thusly: Positive blue, compare
tive blown, superlative ''be-blowed."
AT an antiquarian meeting in Oxford,
Me-, it is stated that lady of 102 years took
part and spun. This looks like yarn.
JOHN MCCALL, who murdered wild Bill'
in the Black Hills on the I'd of August last,
was hung on the I'd of March at Yankton.
London snobs, it is said, wear collar
so high IN the nape of the neck that they
have to wear their hats on the bridge of the
nose.
Santa Barbara, California, must be a
paradise for invalids. There were but fifteen
days last year sick man could not be out OF
doors.
The Grand Dukes OF Russia g alternate y
between the church and the theater, thus
spicing life with variety of pulpit and
stage.
On the 10Th inst, Gov Hartranft officially
notified the Legislature of Pennsylvania that
Simon Cameron had resigned the L. S. Sen
atorship.
s CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS joins the solemn
procession of disappointed candid dates that is
moving on to Europe. 1t will be a fearful
meeting over there.
FRANCIS MURPHY, the temperance revival
ist in Pittsburg who lately induced sixty thou
sand people to sign the pledge, used to be
rum-seller in Portland, Maine.
A New Hampshire man having spoken
disrespectfully of venerable Sucker as an
''Illinoyster," the latter retorts by calling his
defamer ''New Hamshyster."
New YORK Times ''If Talmage were to
have both his legs tattooed blue, his elo~
Quence would become so vigorous that moth
ing but cast-iron pul pit could withstand
RANDALL says:
Arbitration is vexation,
Filibustering is as bad;
The rule of eight sternly hate,
And Bradley drives me mad.
ENGLAND feels easier now that the French
army organization has been completed, for
the reason that, should she become involved
in war with Russia, Germany will have to
be cautious.
COLONEL MoCooK, Democratic candidate
for Governor of Ohio in 1871, is telling his
Democratic friends that Hayes will make
to beat in 1880.
"A colored servant girl in Baltimore 60
''mad' because she was scolded by her mis-
tress, and proceeded to mix some phosphorus
in the bread. The family is doing as well
as could be expected under the circumstances.
According to New Hampshire paper,
this is the way death visits that State: "Death
has again turned t1ip-fap and come down
f7off in mic cnAfohQ0 from
among US one of the best advertisers and
subscribers we ever had"
A MAN named Roach proposes to sail from
San Francisco around Cape Horn to New
York in q three-ton boat. twenty feet long.
He wants man and boy to go with him SO
that the chances of there being survivor
may be greater.
THE New York Tribune says MIR. TIL
den's letter of acceptance was buried out of
sight three days after it appeared. The letter
of Governor Hayes remains to-day one of
the most pithy and sententious political docu-
ments ever written"
TIE British Parliament now proposes to
adopt the American meteorological system,
and in report setting forth the perfection of
the weather mean in the United States, ad-
mits that we are ahead of all the rest of the
world in the accuracy of our predictions.
CHIEF-JusuCE MOSES of South Carolina is
completely prostrated by a severe attack of
paralysis. He has no control of the limbs on
his left side, and even the muscles OF his face
are affected. His mental faculties, however,
were unimpaired at the latest accounts.
Judge Moses is 70 years of age.
Invest cautiously in blue glass. If you
feel particularly poorly, however, take $5,
look in the directory for a reputable GLACIERS,
start out resolutely, 60 down street, and give
the $5 to poor family who don't know
where their next coal is coming FROM You
will feel better all the afternOOn.-Neu Y0rE
Graphic.
THE father of Weldon, the man who at
tempted to assassinate Gov. Packard of Louisi-
ana, has visited his son in New Orleans and
told him that when he chose to return home
the fatted calf would be killed. The meeting
between the venerable clergyman and his
wayward son is said to have been very affec-
ting.
1T is said that a man named Louis Cohen,
formerly of New York city, is travelling
through the United States protesting to be a
from Jerusalem and deputed to
collect money for the poor of Palestine. The
Jews are advised to be on their guard, as the
man is fraud and has no authority to act in
such a capacity.
"A Texas newspaper informs it's readers
what kind of people they want in that State.
They have twice too many doctors, and nine
times too many lawyers. In fact they pro-
pose to "swap off, lawyers at the rate of