Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1878-12-26
No. 6
Helena, Montana, Thursday, December IS, 1873.
ALL SORTS.


REPRESENTATIVE WILLIAMS, the only Dem
ocrat in Congress from Michigan. is fatally
i'll
A FIRE yesterday in Cincinnati destroyed
the Hoffman tobacco warehouse. Loss $780,
900. Insured.
Women will not hold offices in the Episco-
pal church hereafter, rs they must be twenty
years old before they are allowed to do so.
A woman in Baltimore committed suicide
the other day, leaving letter to her husband
asking him to let her be buried in her blue
suit
WITH the end of Gov. Hoyt's term the Re.
publicans of Pennsylvania will have had an
unbroken line of governors tor twenty-five
years.
One of the vilest deceptions of the day is
the small fried oyster, which is made to ap-
pear large by means of huge Indian meal
epidermis.
If you want to have man for your friend,
never get the ill-will of his wife. Public
opinion is made up of the average prejudice
of womankind.
We lose confidence in the woman, be she
ever so amiable, who celebrats the anniver-
sary of her wedding regularly, but disregards
the anniversary of her birthday.
In Italy $1,000, 900 people can't write. But
they can play a hand-Organ, and this Is
talent in which to succeed and embark, for
the United States doesn't require knowledge
of penmanship.
DENNIS KEARNEY has finally struck sensi-
| BILE idea. He says there is no over production
in this country except fools and jackasses.
''The force of this observations lies in the
application OF it,
1t is remarkable, now, come to think of it,
that of all the men who know more about
how to run newspaper than any editor on
the face of the globe, not one has ever got
into the business.
| An intelligent and sensitive journal imparts
this bit of delicate and useful informotion to
its fourteen million readers 'It is not polite
to bite corn from the cob in the presence of
people who have false teeth.
| ALL the shoes for the use of our army are
now made at the military prison at Fort
Leavenworth, Kansas, by military convcts,
with the aid of modern machinery. Last
ear 80, $50 pairs were made.
| J. e.. FLOOD, John Mackey ct al, pleaded
the statute of Limitations inthe suits
brought by Burke ct al, stockholders in the
California and Consolidated Virginia mines,
for accounting for $35,0OO,O00.
''SKY FARM" the residence of the Goodale
sisters-the child poets-was sold by fore
closure: by the Great harrington Savings
bank, but bought in by the grandfather of the
children. The claim was $4,000.
A FRIEND of Bayard Taylor writes from
Gresden that Taylor is hopelessly sick with
dropsy. He says fortnight ago fifteen
quarts of water was taken from him and the
operation was subsequently repeated.
The Boston Sunday Times publishes the
statement as coming from Butler himself that
he made $4,000 above expenses out of the
recent election by sending money to his agent
in New York to be bet against himself.
The Boise Statesman says: "The increased
vote of the Territory over the election two
years ago is 981 votes, or one-ffth on the
population of at least 5000 in two years"
THERE is considerable excitement at James
town, Dak.. on the line of the Northern Pa
cifie, half way between Fergo and Bismarck,
arising from the discovery of veins of btu
minuous coal by persons engaged in digging
wells.
A BRIDGEPORT cat was in the cellar one
day, and seeing crab went up to examine
it, A moment later the cat was helping the
crab up stairs at the rate of mile minute.
To crab such rate of speed must have ap-
peared extremely unique.
The Mexican excursion party leave Chica-
90 under the management of the Illinois Gen.
tral railway January 4th. Advices state that
the Mexican Government has appropriated
$50, 900 for their entertainment, and the funds
have been placed in the hands of reception
committee.
A young man hired as clerk was told by
his employer that all the clerks slept at the
house, and that it was closed punctual]y at
ten o'clock every night. ''Oh, don't apollo
gize'' said the youth Il don't care what time
it is closed if it is only open early enough in
the morning."
A CLEVELAND man claims he has invented
| perpetual motion machine that will pro-
duce as much power as steam, consumes no
fuel, and needs no assistance whatever"
This Ohio man offers to sell forty shares in
the machine at the ridiculously small sum of
100000 apiece.
A Chicago lady of thirty-eight years is the
mother of twenty children. She was married
to her second husband lately In these days
of private hardships and national peril it is
brave man who will place himself at the head
of so numerous tribe and step out boldly
into the unknown future.
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The Army.
[Philadel phia North Americana
The exnensea nf the army have heen steadily