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The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1877-11-01
WORK FOR. AII,
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The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1877-11-01
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Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-01-18
Living in Ice for q Year.

The Newark Advertiser has this story {:
Fish are cold-blooded creatures, as every one
knows, but the proprietor of the Fourteenth
Ward House. on Murray street, has sample
of the piscatorial tribe which tor co91ness IS
eoualed only in scientific annals. He is OF
diminutive size, minnow in fact, and was
brought to the establishment embedded in a
block of ice, some two inches below the sur
face. He had evidently been frozen in when
The ice " as formed last winter, and has been
living comfortable though inactive existence
ever since. That he was alive, has been alive,
and is alive at present, is demonstrated by
the fact that when removed from his icy
home yesterday morning and placed in water
he padded off comfortably and easily, evl-
IDENTIFY enjoying a release from his long inn
prisonment. The little fellow has been liv-
ing life of suspended animation for nearly
a Year at least. but though it has retarded his
growth, he is evidently in healthy condl-
fiOn
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-01-18
Great Mems Drinks.
[Pall Mall GaZette.l

Frederick the Great, like good many
other persons, had particular affection for
Tokay. Napoleon preferred Chambertin,
but liked black coffee better. Peter the
Great thought Madeira the best OF wines, but
regarded brandy as superior to all other
drinks. Marshal Richelieu held Medoc in
the highest honor, and Rubens had the
strange taste to esteem Marsala the finest OF
wines. John Bart, whom the French per-
sist in imagining to have been great admiral
drank confusion to the English in bumpers
of Beaune. Rabelais thought. that ''the divine
bottle" never looked more admirable than
when filled with Chablis. Marshal SAKE had
a decided prediction for champagne, while
the severity of Cromwells countenance is
said to have occasionally relaxed at the sight
of pipe of Malmsey. The Emperor Charles
", would plan his champagnes and devise
more stringent laws for the repression of
heresy over flagon of good Alicante wine.
His rival, Francis l, consoled himself for
the loss of everything but honor with cup OF
Xeres, or as we should say, glass of sherry.
Henry w.. whether Catholic or Protes-
tant, was faithful to the vintage of Suresnes.
In more recent times the genius of Goethe was
often fred with bottle of Johannisberg.
Humboldt studied and wrote unpleasant
things about his friends under the gentle in
fluence OF Sauterne. Talleyrand often owed
an hour of good nature to Chateau -Margaux.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-01-18
Washington Journalism.

[From the Washington Telegram.l
The new Democratic daily will not make
its appearance till Wednesday morning. The
name originally determined upon. The Con-
stitutionai Union, is regarded as too heavy,
and will be curtailed to simply The Union.
simultaneously with the advent of the new
Democratic daily may be expected the demise
of The Chronicle, the administration organ.
Its Indebtedness exceeds 0,OOO, and for
some time past strikes have been OF frequent
occurrence in the composing room. Recently
the news and city editor deserted the paper,
and since that time it has been run by boys:
The Chronicle is q joint stock company. and
has been peculiarly managed. About two
years ago a dividend of 500, 900 was declared
on a nominal capital stock of $1OO, 900 and
paid the stockholders, while at the same time
the liabilities of the concern were fully $780,
000 Every piece of machinery in the
building is mortgaged, and large number of
judgments, varying from 1926 to 81 800 have
been filed against the company. Ex-senator
Harlan still holds some stock in the company,
but has had no hand in the management OF
the paper for over year.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-01-18
Terrible DestitutfOn in brooklyn.

The suffering among the poor in Brooklyn
this winter is likely to be very great: Mayor
Schroeder is of the opinion that, incluoing
the relief that will be needed for those lett
destitute by the great fire, there will be needed
from $500, 1000 to $4OO, 900 to keep the peo-
pie from actual starvation: Large numbers
of men are out of employment and have
pawned or sold everything that they could
spare, and must be dependent in great
measure upon the generosity of their more
favored townsmen. In the course OF his re-
marks Mayor Schroeder says that he knows
of one widow, with four little children, who
live in tenement house with not enough
clothes to cover their nakedness and with
hardly any furniture. Yesterday there was
not morsel of anything to eat in the house.
"a man that helped last winter" continues
the mayor, "writes letter to me saying that
he had to send his children to school without
any food yesterday. He says that his family,
consisting of four children, himself and his
wife, must perish unless something is done
for them"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-01-18

Mr.. CONWAY, in his London letter to the
Cincinnati Commercial, relates an annecdote
of Richard Grant White. Mr.. White was re-
ceived in England warmly by all ranks of
society, by scholars, artists, musicians, but
Conway leaves receptions and toastings for
this: ''He visited his friend Julian Haw-
thorne, who lives at Twickenham on the
Thames, which even American readers will
remember as the site of Pope's villa; and
while there, having his violoncello, he used
to 20 into the nursery and play for the little
Hawthornes, to their great delight. When
he went away one of them asked her mother
if he would ever cone again. Mrs. Haw-
thorne said she hoped he would. oh, that's
nice, was the reply, for he's better than the
organ man he makes the music and you
don't have to give him a penny'-rather
doubtful compliment in return for The lofty
musicians good nature. But Grant White
fddling to the grandchildren of Nathaniel
Hawthorne is not bad picture.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-01-18
silver as an Unlimited Aesal Tender.
From the San Francisco Chronicle.]

from the San Francisco Chronicle.]
Most of the enthusiastic supporters OF the
Bland Silver bill were ardent friends OF that
measure because they believed that silver was
bound to become cheaper than greenbacks,
and expected. when the bill became law, to
be able to pay off their creditors in debased
currency The learned and enlightened
Franklin Landers did not, indeed present this
view Of the matter in advocating his bill. Un
the contrary, he enlarged on the happy effect
which the :sdouble standard would have in
preventing fluctuations in silver. But all the
same-his followers wanted silver as IN un-
limited legal tender because they thought 1t
would be ''cheap money" NJ. Cernuschi is
one of the stanchest and most consistent ad-
vocates of the double standard, and yet be
admits that it would be disastrous tor the
United States to set up silver as an unlimited
legal tender unless majority OF the great
commercial nations would cooperate IN the
movement. He evidently perceives that such
individual and isolated action on our part
would simply cause the nations having COM
mercial transactions with US to send SILVER
here to exchange for goods which could be
sold in other countries for gold. There is a
prodigious amount of available silver which
would promptly respond to such an invita-
ton. In England, Germany and france
there is not less than 5000, ,000, 900 OF silver
ready to be precipitated upon us the moment
we declare it a legal tender alternative with
gold. At present the discussion OF the theo-
retical advantages of the double standard III
Congress is utterly Improbable. because we
can do nothing in this matter alone. England
Germany, Holland and the scandinavian
countries have virtually abandoned the silver
standard, and we cannot set ourselves up
against the whole world.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-01-18
The Boy and the hot Chestn uts.

A small urchin just large enough to wear
pants, and probably with his first pants on
with pockets, stepped up to street stand
and purchased five cents worth of hot roast
ed chestnuts. The chestnut-vender, plying
his tender years, assisted his customer to
empty the measure into his little pocket.
Soon the nuts began to feel warm-they be-
came uncomfortable-they burned, and the
little fellow could stand it no longer, and
commenced to dance up and down with pain.
The chestnut-yender tried to extract the nuts,
but his hand was too large to get into the
pockets. The cries and antics of the sufferer
increased. The Italian became excited, and
with commendable ingenuity, seized him by
the heel and shook him, head down, until the
chestnuts rolled on the sidewalk. With tears
of Joy the boy went in search of his mother.
-Hudson Republican.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-01-18
The Romance Of Claude Burroughs.
New York Letter to Washington Capital.1

New York Letter to Washington Capital
One figure among the mourners attracted
the attention of all who knew Claude Bur-
roughs. Scarcely more than week ago
this actor, dressed in the height of fashion,
might have been seen any pleasant afternoon
ON Broadway or the avenue in the company
of young lady to whom he was understood
to be engaged. She, too, was always attired
in the extreme of fashion and in the pictur-
esQue dress which it is the privilege and the
pleasure of the elegantes of the period to array
themselves, and looked half like some Wat
teau shepherdess who had stepped from
some Dresden bit in which she had been i'm
prisoned to seek her mate like another Gala
thea. Her tete r0usse was crowned by a
couuettish hat. her petite form was clothed in
a dress that fitted to perfection, and her
dainty boots went tic-a-toc as she walked on
by the side of her companion. Who would
have recognized in the suffering girl, yelled
in Grape and bowed down with grief at the
solemn services of Sunday, the animated
BELLE all life and gayety, who was wont to
turn all heads as she passed! The watchers
who sat all Saturday night beside the cofins
of Murdoch and Burroug hs as they laid IN
state in Irving Hall, opened in the wee sma'
hours the casket that contained all that was
left of the latter to place in it some flowers
from the tribute of the poor bereaved father.
And then some kind soul who knew the ro-
nance Of the dead actors life, and remem-
bered it, plucked few violets from simple
cross that bore the words, ''Dear Claude, "
and put the flowers gently with the poor
disfgured body.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-01-18
A Boston Boy Ola Hens.

Hens is curious animals. They don't have
no nose, nor ND teeth, nor no ears. They
swallow their wittles whole and chaw 1t up
in their crops inside of 'em. The outside OF
hens is generally put inter pillers and made
inter feather busters. The inside OF hen is
sometimes filled up with marbles and shirt
buttons and sich. A hen is very much small
ler than a good many other animals, but
they'll dig up more tomato plants than any
thing that amt hen. Hens is very useful
to lay eggs for plum pudding. Bet yer life l
like plum pudding. Skinny Bates eat so
much plum pudding once that it set him into
the collery Hens has got wings and can tly
when they are skart. cut my Uncle Wl!-
Iiams hens neck off with a hatchet and it
skart her to DEATH Hens sometimes makes
very fine spring chickens
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-01-18
John Ran0Olph's Impotence.

The current talk concerning the disQuali'
fication of electors recalls the manner in
which John Randolph asserted his right to
a seat in Congress to which he was not ELI
gible. When he was elected for his first
term, he was under the age of twenty-five.
and Henry Clay knew the fact. When he
made his appearance in the House he was
interrogated by Mr.. Clay as to his years. The
gentleman from Roanoke, naughty and i'm
patient then as in later years, simply
answered: II refer you to my constituents
for reply" The impudence of the man
closed the mouths of all the members. Mr..
Clay did hot push his inquiry, and John Ran
dOlph held his seat undisturbed.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-01-18
ALL SORTS.

A FAIR count-Vassar has 1856 girls.
SWEAR not at all, except to swear off.
SENATOR CoNKL1NG can repeat whole
poems from memory.
"A TRIPPING down Broadway" is usually
followed by trip-up.
FREEMEN's writes-Signatures to the De-
claration of Independence
A MARYLAND jury declared that man had
come to his death ''by an unknown wagon"
A YOUNG lady who took to tight lacing
some years ago says she is gradually wasting
away.
Mrs. SECRETARY FISH is not the only fash
iOnable woman in America who is wearing
her last years bonnet.
THE Boston Bulletin suggests ''Mated and
Cremated" as an appropriate head for the
Marriage and Death" column of the
future.
WE hope the ladies will SO much regard
the public veal as to discard the 'pull-
back for the next forty days. 1t impedes
g-islation.
MIR. DARwlN's last book seems to be an
able book, but the author does not satisfac-
torily explain the connecting link between
bay horse and bay window.
The time is here when the man who scat
ters the contents of his ash barrel on the
sidewalk is more charitable than he who
shares his greenbacks with the poor
Mrs. A. T. STEWART has bought the chimes
which rung in Machinery Hall at the Gen.
tennial Exhibition. She intends the bells for
the Episcopal church at Garden City, New
Jersey.
THE Toledo Blade says: ''The battle
field of Tippecanoe has been closed It's
about time. We believe the line of de fence
was marked out there by Gen. Harrison
nearly half century ago.
PRESIDENT SMITH of Dartmouth College
rendered his resignation to the Board OF Trus-
tees last Friday. The board declined to ac-
cept it, and voted him vacation. President
Smith is about 70 years of age, and has pre-
sided over the college for nearly 13 years.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-01-18
A Literary Curiosity.

What strange infatuation rules mankind,- -
Chatterton.
What different spheres to human bliss as
signed. Rogers.
TO loftier things your finer pulses burn,-
Sprague.
If man would but his finer nature learn;--
Dana.
What several ways men to their calling
have,-Ben. johnson.
And grasp at life though sinking to the
grave.-FalcOner.
Ask what is human life! the sage replies,
Cooper.
Wealth, pomp, and honor, are but empty
toys Ferguson.
We trudge, we travel, but from pain to
pain,-Quarles.
Weak, timid landsmen on life's stormy
main Burns.
We only toll who are the first of things
Tennyson.
From labor health, from health content
ment springs ;-Beattie
Fame runs before us as the morning star,
Dryden.
How little do we know that which we are !;
Byron.
Let none then here his certain knowledge
boast-Pomfret.
OF tleeting joys too certain to be lost ;-Wal-
ler
For over all there hangs cloud of fear,-
Hood.
All is but change and separation here
Steel.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-01-18

THE merry jingle of the sleigh bells, the
sparkle of the crystal snow in the lambent
light of the moon, and the confiding creature
that nesties closely TO him beneath the buffalo
robes, tenderly clasping his left hand in hers
while his right holds the reins. constitute the
winter nights poem that is floating through
the doting lovers soul, and leave him in
doubt whether to let 60 long enough to get
his handkerchief out, or draw his coat sleeve
across his nose.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-01-18
A Smart Young Man and q Smarter
Father.

From the Virginia, New, Evening Chronicle
Some weeks ago young scapegrace in
this CITY, who had left his parental roof in
New York under cloud in 1865, concluded
to put up job on the old gentleman and
make a raise He accordingly telegraphed
to his father in New York:
Mr.: Your son Walter was killed in
the Con- Virginia this morning by a falling
cage. What shall we do with his remains?
NJ. L. BARKER.
Almost Immediately a telegraphic order
came for $3.50 and the laconic reply: "Bury
them"
The fictitious NJ. L. Barker frOZe to the
$3.50 and went on royal spree. and few
weeks afterward wrote to his father over his
real name as follows:
DEAR FATHER: have just learned that an
Infamous scoundrel named Barker sent you
fictitious account of my death and swindled
YOU out of $3.50. He also borrowed $S5
from me and left the country. write to IN
form you that am yet alive, and long to see
the old parental roof again. am in some-
what reduced circumstances: the accumu-
lation of the last FIVE years having been lost
"a disastrous stock Operation-and IT you
would spare me 5000 will be ever thankful
for your favor. Give my love to all.
Your affectionate son, WALTER.
A few days later the young man received
the following:
MY DEAR Son: 1 have buried you once,
Ond t|'''s an end of It,
decline having any more transactions
with corpse.
Yours in the flesh, FAIHFt.
The old man evidently knew whereof he
smoke
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-01-18
THE MINUET.

Mrs. Mary Mapes Dodge, St. Nicholas, January. J
Grandma told me all about it,
Told me- so couldn't doubt 1t,
How she danced-my grandma danced
Long ago.
How she held her pretty head.
How her dainty skirt she spread,
How she turned her little toes
Smiling little human rOse!-
Long age.
Grandma's hair was bright and sunny;
Dimpled cheeks tOo-ah. how funny!
Really quite pretty girl,
Long ago.
Bless her. why, she wears cap,
Grandma does, and takes nap
Every single day; and yet
Grandma danced the minuet
Long ago.
Now she sits there, rocking, rocking,
Always knitting grandpa's stocking
every girl was taught to knit,
Long ago.
Yet her figure il so neat.
And her way so stald and sweet,
| can almost see her now
Bending to her partners DOW,
Long ago.
Grandma says our modern jumping,
Hopping. rushing, whirling, humping,
Would have shocked the gentle folk
Long ago.
No-they moved with stately grace,
Everything in proper place,
Gliding slowly forward, then
Slowly courtseying back again,
Long ago.
Modern ways are quite alarming,
Grandma says; but boys were charming
Girls and boys, mean, of course
Long ago.
Brayely modest, prandly shy
What if all of us should try
just to feel like those who met
In the graceful minuet
Long ago?
With the minuet in fashion.
Who could fly into passion?
All would wear the calm they wore
Long ago.
In time to come, If l, perchance,
Should tell my grandchild of our dance,
should really like to say,
1--WE did 1t, dear, in some such way,
Long ago.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-01-18

A MEMENTo of the Granger movement in
Illinois came into court at Springfield in that
State, last week, in the shape of verdict Tor
81, $50 damages against the Toledo, wabash
and Western Railroad Company for charging
more than the legal rate. This is the nrst
verdict that has ever been obtained IN the
State against a railroad company for violation
of the - Granger law,
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-01-18

A NEW counterfeit $1,000 grcenback has
come into the possession of the Treasury
detectives. The note was discovered recently
and the plate upon which it was printed is
said to have been in existence for two or three
years, and is believed to be the work of the
notorious Tom Ballard, now undergoing 30
years sentence of Imprisonment for counter
feiting. The counterfeit is an excellent once
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-01-18
River and HarbOr Expenditures.


WASHINGTON, January lathe Presidents
message to the House concerning the river
and harbor expenditures, closes with the
report Of the Secretary of War, which recalls
the Presidents message on the subject last
August, declaring that no money should be
spent on any work not purely national, etc.
This principle governed the action of the
chief engineer, who asked the engineers in
charge of the various works what works
could be postponed for the present. Their
answersindicate that about 81, 500, 900 would
be required. This was not great saving,
and consequently the Secretary, under orders
of the President. directed the chief engineer,
who was we'll able 30 judge OF the require
ments. to make allotments from the appro-
priations aggregating not over $2,OOOOOo,
taking care that no new works should be
begun and none continued not purely national
in character. The $2,000,0O0 proved too
little, and the President, after long inter-
view. authorized the chief engineer to in
crease the amount to $2,237, 900, to which
sum there have been small additions since,
and there may be a few more yet. The Sec
retarv defends the Presidents action, which
is authorized in the bill itself which was not
mandatory, and he used his discretion to
meet The condition of the treasury.
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DQafn Of am Actress.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-01-18

A SCIENTIFIC paper tries to show that the
dark spots on the moon are simply great
grazing pastures. We have poor opinion
of the man who explores in that direction for
stock ranges. Montana and not the moon is
the place to look for the succulent bunch
grass upon which sleek cattle feed and fatten
and chew the cud of plenty in solid salts
faction the year round.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-01-18

BosroN JOKE: The following conversation
took place recently in hotel: "Waiter ?
Yes, sir" ''What's this?" ''I'ts bean soup,
cir" mo matter what it has been, the
question is-what is it now?"