Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-12-06
ALL SORTS.

BOsrON girls are not so we'll educated as
the boys, but they know more.
The most dminutive and weakest partci-
pant in the Eastern struggle, Montenegro, is
the one which can count the most victories
thus far.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS is occasionally
right. He don't want one set of honest poll
ticians in New York removed to make room
for another set, because the latter happened
to be at one end of the machine while the
former are at the other end.
PROFESSOR CUNNING has been lecturing in
the West on the glacial epoch. He says that
in a million years the glaciers will be at
work again in New England, but that, after
1000 years of possession by the ice, she
will come out again as good as new.
Mr.. w. w. CoRcoRAN, the generous Wash
ington banker, has informed the vestry OF
the Protestant Episcopal church OF the Ascen-
sion, in Washington, that he will give &c.
600 toward paying the debt of the church.
This amount makes Mr.. Corcoran's entire.
gift to the church $4,000.
AN old time regular army recruiting poster
reads: "Wanted, so able-bodied unmarried
men for the United States army. An excel
lent opportunity for travel, recreation ana
study" The opportunity for travel S}vesrt0
the soldiers in Montana has been very treat
of late years, but recreation and study have
been limited.
Gov. PREscoT1> aroused by the statement
that New Hampshire had no boulders as large
as those of Vermont and MASSACHUSETTS, has
been hunting them through his State, and
has found one in Nottingham 81 feet long,
40 feet wide and so feet high. 1t is said to
weigh 5000 tons and is surrounded by others
almost as large.
The finest plantation in Guatemala belongs
to Mr. William Nelson, an American, of
Scotch origin. Although Guatemala is re-
public, the government is despotic in charac-
ter. The laborers, by being always in debt
to the planters, become practically their
slaves, the law demanding work until the
debt be Cancelled.
ACCORDING to the Rochester Democrat,
Henry Watterson was SO reJoiced over the
Presidential visit that his paper was without
editorial two days. All he could do was to
tighten the handkerchief around his head,
tendant of the establishment: 'Fetchez on
mother, ol fel. thames las"
SEVENTEEN nephews and nieces, constitut-
ing the next of kin to Mrs. Caroline Augusta
Merrill, of New York, who willed the bulk
of her property to Cardinal McCloskey,
amounting to nearly half million have taken
steps to contest the will on the ground that
the testator was irresponsible, of unsound
mind. and under the influence of emissaries
of the Catholic Church.
Gov. YOU'VE, of Ohio, has had talk with
correspondent of the Boston Globe. In re-
Az hot think
Hayes Southern policy p, he said: 81 like
it. / approve of it. He has correct view
of the matter, and think it will have the
effect of making the Southern States Repub-
lican. But his Northern policy look upon
as great mistake"
The Commissioner of Customs at Ottawa,
Canada. has furnished statement showing
that the provinces of Quebec, Ontario and
Manitoba imported from the United States,
during the fiscal year ended June 80, 1877,
commodities amounting in value to $13, ,O51,-
998 in excess of the amount shown in the
returns of exports made by United States
collectors of customs.
II DECLARE, Lam glad to get home." said
Mrs. HAYES, as the President put his latch
kew in the front door of the White House.
'Now, Rutherford, you just slip down to
the butchers and get good slice OF steak
stop at the bakers and get fresh loaf OF
bread, and drop into the confectioner's and
buy a cream pie, while put on the Kettle
and start fire in the range, and we WILL SIT
down to good lunch. / am tired to death
of Georgia bacon and Massachusetts pork and
beans"
The hanging of Carl Strahl, at Columbia,
ILL.,. by mob, for the murder OF young
farmer and his wife, is attributed to the un-
certainties of the law in Illinois, and to the
number of pardons issued to murderers IN
that State. The people everywhere are ma
turally inclined to rely upon the law for the
punishment of crime, and it is only where 1t
has been found in numberless instances that
it is a ''broken reed," that popular vengeance
seeks to do substantial justice.
A GRATIFYING rumor has recently gained
circulation that the inventor of the telephone
is at work upon new instrument 1t IS
contrivance which can be applied to street
organs, hurdygurdies, German bands, and
pianos out of tune It will collect the sounds
and convex them noiselessly away to COM
mons and other waste places, or out to sea;
and there the Objectionable music will dis
perse harmlessly. This is better idea than
the telephone, and as soon as the inventor
can get it to work he ought to secure large
sale.
IT is stated that short walking dresses are
now the mode in Paris, and as American wo-
men are the slaves of the fashions set in that
fine city. it would be we'll that they be not
too long in finding out the facts about the
short dresses. Let US congratulate the STAIR
that between the practices of dragging their
dresses through the mud and this other ex-
treme OF carrying the long skirt in the hand,
Paris has at last hit the true average hy in