Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-10-04
No. 46
ALL SORTS.

''SPENCER's Philosophy" as developed In
Chicago. conslsts mostly of distractions.
LEVI COFFIN, a we'll known anti.slavery
apostle, died at Avandale, Ohio, Sept. 18th,
aged Is years.
KENTUCKY squirrels are swimming tbs
Ohio river in great droves, and finding law,
order and safety in Indiana.
THE Yankton Herald says that the price
of sQuaw had advanced to seven dollars and
blanket, and hard winter is predicted.
GENERAL ULYSSES s. GRANT, ex-President
U. s. A. LII. d., D. G. t., Burgess of Edin-
burgh, etc. Gracious! Wen hardly know
him when he comes home.
SCIENCE says that it took millions of years
to evolve man from the clam; observation
shows that it takes less than minute to
transfer a clam into man.
''How is it that you have never kindled
flame in any mans heart?' asked rich lady
of her portionless niece. II suppose, aunt,
it is because I'm not good match, meekly
replied the poor niece.
AT the government telegraph Office in Lon
don eight hundred women telegraph clerks
work in one room. Of course the machines
there make great clatter, but not so much
as is audible at the lunch hour.
DANIEL WEBSTER: "A paper currency
not convertible into gold or silver was the
most ingenious device ever invented by the
wit of man to fertiliZe the rich mans field
with the sweat of the poor mans brow"
THE Treasury Department had upon the
Union Pacific railroad train, recently robbed
in Wyoming, 800, ,OC0 ounces of silver bullion.
This was in large bars, and so heavy the rob-
bers were unable to carry it with them, and
not ounce was lost.
THE Wisconsin Republican convention ap-
pears to have been very harmonious, and the
nominations are certainly excellent. The
Hon. VIM. E. Smith, candidate for Governor,
is spoken of on every side as just the man to
bring out full Republican vote, and that is
an important thing this year.
THERE is trouble in Quebec hotel be-
tween an American and an alleged count.
They are both in love with the same girl
an American girl, and very rich. They
The ''cOunt' threatens to explode s'ze first
time re 'Merican lays Won finger on me-"
A BALTIMORE millionaire, Frank Richard
son by name, has invented new dessert
which should be beloved of gods and men.
into it bottle of champagne and then has it
chilled over night. This is a kind Of frappe
that should make mortals cease to sigh for
the ambrosia of Olympus.
JOAQUIN MILLER preserves his eccentric
ity He paid twenty-five cents the other
night and took his seat among the ''gallery
gods in order to witness his own play, but
none of the writer's tell how Miller forgot
himself after the play was over, and going to
the box. office demanded his money back
again, saying the blamed play wasn't worth
seeing, any how"
LETTERS of coincidence addressed to Mrs.
Brigham Young are invariably worn out by
the time No. 80 has finished her perusal.
Sympathizing correspondents should select
good quality of shingle and use indelible ink,
as ordinary letter paper is too ephemeral to
Withstand the onset of forty-four grief
stricken perusals.
THE Cincinnati papers have adopted new
method of ridiculing their respective editors,
which is better than the use OF types. The
Times has a large picture representing the
''Basbi Bazourk of the Commercial in the
tasteful court costume of Turkish field
marshal, which he had provided for the an
ticipated ambassadorship to Constantinople.
The Commercial retorts with a comical carlo
ature of the Times editor in very ridiculous
postures.
THE women in Wyoming now have sep
arate voting place in hotel reading room,
and on election day the entire male popula-
ton gather about to see how they vote.
There is popular impression that the mus
cular organization of the sex require women
to deposit ballot in peculiar way of her
own, just as she exerts something like
horsepower to throw small stone but be-
yond folding the ballots in three-cOrnered
shapes, and marking small hearts transfixed
with arrows opposite the names of favorite
candidates, no eccentricities are observed.
MEMBERS of the Syndicate were in consul
tation recently with the Secretary OF the
Treasury and other officers Of the Depart
ment. The accounts of the a per cent. loan
were closed. The whole amount is $780,
OOO. 900, of which $185, 100000 are for re-
funding purposes and $15, 600, 900 for resump
ton purposes, and will appear in the next
debt statement. The four per cent loan is
being rapidly paid for and adjusted, and will
be settled during the next month as calls
mature, the first call maturing on the 9Th of
October and the last on November 3Oth, and
five millions each for the months of August,
September and October will be applied for
resumption purposes.
GRACE GREENWOOD to New York Times
IL have long since forgiven that ,lnfriendly
comp0sitor of the Times, who, in setting up
my last Washington letter, spoiled my little
story of certain Secretary of the Navy,
who, while inspecting the Brooklyn navy
yard, and seeing some men engaged in pick
ing oakum, as punishment tor insubordi-
nation, suggested that that sort OF work could
be done more cheaply outside by contract
That preposterous compositor actually made
it out that they were milking cow!' Yet,
1 forgive him, and only wish him better
acquaintance with oakum and the process of
picking it."