Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1878-07-04
No. 3 3
Ell SORTS.

OioaAi-Nf> "lS tADSen 10 pTeSl0e over the
Peace Congress.
Our in the Black Hills jack habits are
called narrow-gause mules.
IT is estimated that American tourists Will
leave 10000, 900 in Europe this year.
Ir is estimated that the appropriations by
congress for the year ending June, 1879. will
amountto $170,OO 600.
The wheat crop of the United States this
wear is estimated by the Agricultural Depart
ment as likely to reach 100000 600 bushels.
THE sundry civil bill appropriates $50, 900
each for the Wheeler and Powell surveys of
the territories, and $4,000 for the Hayden
surveys.
| DIR. CARVER, the wonderful rifle shot, has
had the powers of bis right ear seriously i'm
paired by the repeated noise of the rifle ex-
| plosions.
| THERE arc 1900 Union soldiers, who per-
| ished during the late rebellion, buried in other
| than the national cemeta1ies So saws the
! Quartermaster-Gene
Mrs MARY ELLEN CHASE informs the
| world, through the New York SIN, that there
are three times as many women in Heaven as
men, and vice versa in hell.
GOVERNMENT is down for $465, 600, voted
by Congress at the recent session, in aid of
the construction of the bridge across the Mis-
sissippi river at Ft. Smelling.
DOM PIATT defines interviewing as ''put-
ting your own language end opinions in the
mouth of the interviewed, and trusting to
Providence to escape sudden DEATH"
The Senate committee on privileges and
elections reported adversely upon the joint
resolution proposing constitutional amend
ment to provide for woman suffrage
THERE is general rejoicing in Washington
because, with $4, 100000 available for i'm
proyement of the public grounds. A great
amount of work is to be done next year.
IT IS stated that there are 100000 pupils
enrolled in the public schools of the United
States. The average daily attendance is
4,500,000. The estimated population be-
tween q and 1e years of age is 1O,500,000.
GEN. B. L. Bonneville, the oldest officer on
the retired list in the United States army,
died at Fort Smith, Arkansas, June 13. He
was eighty-tive years old. Washington Iry-
ing made his name famous many years ago.
EDWARD KING writes from Paris that a
copy of the famous Nazarine Bible is about
TO be sold at the Hotel Drouot This edition
dates from the fifteenth century, is printed
on parchment, only seven were ever made,
and the last copy discovered sold for $17,-
600.
SOMEBODY in the Louisville Couqier-Jour
nal wildly suggests that since most of the
writing in newspaper offices is done with
lead-pencils, it would be well to construct
Richelieu's aphorism thus: 1.-The pencil
called the Faber's more potent than the
saber."
THE following actors will he seen in New
York next season: Modjeska, Ed win Booth,
Mary Anderson John McCu|lO,1gh SOuthrOn
Baucicault, Geneiyeye Ward, Ada Cavendish,
Mr.. and Mrs. Florence, George Fawcett,
Rowe, Chanfrau, John Gilbert, Robson and
Crane, Miss Lotta, and probably Jefferson.
TIE foot-hi Of California are attracting
unusual attention, and many are thinking OF
settling there in preference to the valley.
The climate, freedom from freshets and
malaria, the abundance of wood, the purity
of the water, and the superior quality of
grapes and other inducements, are beginning
to be appreciated.