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Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1878-02-21
A Romantic Wedding.

One can understand how, as Shenstone
says.
IA blockhead with melodious voice, in boarding
schools may have the choice;"
Or,
touch the heart;'
But it is not easy to find out how little,
lean, stunted rut of clerk can win the affec-
tons of country heiress over six feet tall,
and weighing 205 pounds. Her father, a
farmer hale and hearty and rich, living near
Indianapolis, and weighing 225 pounds, could
not understand it. ''Why, Sarah, he would
say, ''the leetle chap amt big enough to
sneeze." But Sarah liked her lover none the
less, and when he was forbidden to come
counting, rose at dead of night, joined him on
the road, and hastened to clergyman's house.
Ten minutes after they were married the
brides father burst into the room and draw
ing q revolver ordered his daughter to 60
home. The 'sleetle chap" touched the arm
of q stalwart friend and in the twinkling of
an eye shotgun was leveled at the stern
father. s'Guess not, dad!" said the blooming
bride, as the old gentleman dropped his re-
volver. III cut you off with dime" he
muttered as he went out to look for his horse
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1878-02-21
Helena, Montana, Thursday, February 21, 1878.
A Chapter of Interesting Facts.
Envelopes were first used in 1889.

Envelopes were first used in 1889.
The first air pump was made in 1864.
The first steel pen was made in 1880.
Anesthesia was first discovered in 1874.
The first balloon ascent was maGe IN 1888.
The first lucifer match was made in 1929
The entire Hebrew Bible was printed in
1888.
The first iron steamship was built in 1880.
Coaches were first used in England in 1869.
The first horse railroad was built in 1867.
Gold was first discovered in California in
1S48.
The first steamboat piled the Hudson in
1907.
The first watches were made at Nuremberg
in 1477.
Omnibuses were introduced in New York
in $780,
The first newspaper advertisements appear
ed in 1862.
The first copper cent was coined in New
Haven in 1857.
Kerosene was first used for lighting pur-
poses in 1926.
The first telegraph was probably used in
England in 1908.
The first use of a locomotive in the country
was in 1929.
The first almanac was printed by Geo. Won
Purback in l46O.
The first chimneys were introduced into
Rome from Padua in 1868.
The first steam engine on this continent
was brought from England in 1868.
The first complete sewing machine was
patented by Elias Howe, jr., in 1846.
Glass was early discovered. Glass beads
were found on mummies over 5000 years old.
The first algebra originated with Diophan-
tus about the third century B. q.
The first society for the promotion OF Chris
tian knowledge was organized in $685..
The first attempt to manufacture pins IN
this country was made soon after the war of
1912.
The first national bank in the United States
was incorporated by Congress, December 81,
1888.
Organs are said to have been first intro
duced into churches by Pope Vitallanus about
A. D. 1850.
The first glass factory in the United States
of which we have definite knowledge, was
built in 1880.
The first temperance society in this coun-
try was organized in Saratoga county, New
York, in March, 1903.
The first compass was used in France in
1850, though the Chinese are said to have en-
ployed the loadstone earlier.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1878-02-21
Real Ground for q Divorce.

An Irish matron enters lawyers Office :
''1s this the place, sur, where people git d.
vorces ?" eyes, occasionally we engage in
that kind of business, but we don't like it
much. What can we do for you, madam ?"
s.Faith, sur, loike to git divorce from me
husband Patrick" ''What is the matter with
Patrick, MADAME" ''Shure, and Patrick gifts
dhrune, sur" ''That's bad; but l hardly
think that alone will be a sufficient cause.
Have you no other complaint ?" ''lndade
have sur Patrick bates me-" eyes, yes, 1
see. That adds cruelty to drunkenness. But,
madam, you do not seem to suffer much in
your appearance from Patrick's cruelty. 1
think YOU must find stronger reason before
the court will grant you divorce" well.
sur, besides all that fear, sur. that Patrick
isn't true to me-" ''Ah! now, madam, you
begin to talk business. What reason have
you for thinking that Patrick is unfaithful to
you?' .'Well, sur, may say that it's meself
that has strong suspicion that Patrick is not
the father of me last child"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1878-02-21
Washingt0n's Opinion Of the slave
Traffic.

In Scribner's Monthly for February, there
is a paper on "Washington's Only Sister, -
Mrs. Betty Lewis, and among the family let
ters printed is one from Washington to his
nephew, Robert Lewis, hitherto unpublished.
The subject of the letter was business mat
ter, and the interest it has now lies in the ex-
preston of opinion respecting slavery, con-
tanned in the following paragraph:
''It is demonstratively clear that on this es-
tate Mount Vernon,) have more working
negroes by full moiety than can be en-
ployed to any advantage in the farming sys-
tenn; and shall never turn planter thereon.
To sell the overplus cannot, because am
principled against this kind of traffic in the
human species. To hire them out is almost
as bad, because they could not be disposed
in families to any advantage, and to disperse
the families have an aversion"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1878-02-21
An Alphabet OF Good Counsel.

Attend carefully to the details of your
business.
Be prompt in all things.
Consider well, then decide positively.
Dare to do right; fear to do wrong.
Endure your trials patiently. ass
5 Fight life's battle bravely, manfully.
Go not in the society of the vicious.
Hold your integrity sacred.
lnjure not another's reputation or business.
Join hands only with the virtuous.
Keep your mind from evil thoughts.
Lie not for any consideration.
Make few acquaintances.
Never try to appear what you are not.
Observe the Sabbath day.
Pay your honest debts promptly.
Question not the veracity of friend.
Respect the counsel of your parents.
Sacrifice money rather than principle.
Touch not, taste not, handle not intoxicat-
ing drinks.
Use your leisure time for improvement.
Venture not upon the threshold of sin.
Watch carefully over your passions.
'Xtend to every one kindly salutation.
Yield not to encouragement.
Zealously labor for the right,
And success is certain.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1878-02-21
Better Writer'S Tn0u Speakers.

[London Correspondence New York Timesl
It is q common thing, on this side OF the
Atlantic, for journalists or literateurs, past
and present to fail as speakers. Forbes, at
the dinner given to him by the press. made
miserable blunder of an attempt to acknoWl-
edge the compliment he had received. He
said he never was a good speaker, and ne
would sooner stand to be shot at tor half an
hour than stand and speak for the same length
of time. He only spoke few words, and he
spoke them in tone of hesitancy and con-
fusion. Thackeray couldn't speak impromptu.
Douglas Jerrold. so witty when sitting at
table. was an idiot on his legs. Once, at
Sheffield, when suddenly presented with some
memento of his visit by deputation of work.
ing men, he couldn't find six words in all his
vocabulary to acknowledge the gift. Years
ago, when lot of the Punch men went down
to Boston, in Lincolnshire, to help their
friend Ingram at his election, the whole
town was covered with astonishment to find
that Mark Lemon and his humorous COL
leagues couldn't make speech among them.
l once sat by the side of Dallas, of the Times,
when his health was proposed, in the COM
pany of Shirley Brooks, Tom Taylor, Bur-
nand, Lemon, Tenniel and others. He could
only say, ''Thank you" Ihsve seen the most
brilliant men look like fools when called upon
10 speak. Among modern writers, Sala and
Tom Taylor are notable exceptions. Among
those of the past, Dickens was another. He
liked to have q chance of thinking out q
speech, but it was not necessary to him.
Sala is fluent and charming talker. He
thinks and speaks on his legs as felicitousfy
as he writes.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1878-02-21

{"0livia' in the Washington National Union.]
Hat off! This is Senator Ferry, who for
so many years was adorned with the vice
presidents crown, one of the most fearful
yet toothsome bachelors to be found in the
Senate, as proved by the counting of the
scalps he has taken. But the Senator should
not be impeached because his heart is cem-
etary where innumerable sweet memories lie
buried. If women will rush on to their fate
some one must pick up the pieces, and why
not precious Senator Ferry! In all his trials
with his cruel antagonists, he has never been
known to neglect his official duties, whilst his
sufferings were such q warning to Senator
Christiancy that the latter made haste to rob
the treasury department of one of its fairest
ornaments to prevent the same misfortune
from being laid ct his door. In person Sen
ator Ferry has all the graces of one of Mich
igan's stately pines, yellow-bearded, blue of
eye-a magnificent specimen of Anglo-Saxon
Of purest type. AS yet he is in the hey-day
of manly mischief. and the damage he may
do in the future can only be estimated BY inn
partial posterity.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1878-02-21

The Boston Herald has been struggling to
frame definition for a ''tramp," which
should not include too many people. After
long deliberation. it proposes the following
for the dictionary of the future: Tramp-An
impecunious gentleman of superabounding
leisure, who perambulates the country osten-
sibly in search of employment, but in reality
q vagabond, demanding money and food. and
giving no recompense, either in money, labor
or ideas therefor. An unauthorized forager
on the country at large. 6ynonyms-Beat,
dead-beat, hummer, swingers around the cir
Gle, etc.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1878-02-21
The Grocer's Gift 20 his Preacher.

A Covington, Ky., correspondent tells this:
"a country merchant visited the city few
days ago, and, going to Cincinnati, purchased
from dollar store table caster, which he
took home with him, and after putting tag
on it marked '$14, made it present to .
Methodist preacher, whose church his family
attended. The reverend gentleman took the
package home, opened it, and examined the
contents. The next day he brought the cas-
ter with tag attached) back to the grocery
man, and said to him: 4 am too poor in this
worlds goods to afford to display 50 valuable
q caster on my table, and if You have no OBJ
lection should like to return it and take &14
worth Of groceries for my family in it's stead.
The merchant could donothing but acquiece,
but fancy his feelings"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1878-02-21
Effect Of wrapping Papers en- Dyes.

It has been found that woolen fabrics dyed
in aniline colors, particularly magenta. have
faded or changed color when wrapped in
white paper. Investigation has shown that
white paper prepared from rags straw brother
materials that have been preached with chlo-
rine, retains q portion of the chlorine for
some time after it is made. Aniline colors
are susceptible to the influence of chlorine,
and change their shade when in contact with
it; and even the exceedingly small quantity
of chlorine in sheet of wrapping paper is
reported to be sufficient to change the shade
of dyed fabrics so that the colors are disfig-
ured and spoiled. To avoid this difficulty it
is recommended to use blue wrapping papers
for such goods, and these papers are colored
with ultramarine, which tends to neutralize
the effects of the chlorine.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1878-02-21

s.Why don't you buy power pkess, Cook"
inquired several enthusiastic Democrats, as
We take our locked up pages of type through
the streets on wheelbarrow to q steam print
ing press owned by rich printing firm. Why
don't we buy the Boardman House, Wood
bury block and the public square Why
don't we raise h--lon four dollars and 9 half?
Il is easy to do all these things provided You
have the collaterals, but at thepresent writing
we confess that we have not enough money
to buy cheese press. Printing democratic
newspapers in Iowa is like peddling peanuts
in graveyard. Aarshastoscn (lossa) s6tates
man.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1878-02-21
BARNUM AND SANKEY,
The SfiOWman'y Views OfFuture Punish.
mGOt.
Hartford Evening Post. ]


At the meeting Ia the South Baptist church
Thursday night, Mr.. Moody approached Mr..
P. T. Barnum with the usual question, care
you Christian?"
Il think man is very unwise who don't
believe in Christ and the principles of Chris
tianity," replied Mr.. Barnum.
MoOdy-You believe that is the only true
road to salvation?
Barnum-Yes, believe that no man can
be saved from sin except by turning away
from it and practicing the precepts of Christ,
and nobody can cheat the Almighty. The
fulflment of his laws brings peace, while
the infringement of them brings trouble and
sorrow.
''That is what believe" said Mr.. Moody,
and he passed on.
Soon afterward Mr.. Sankey asked young
lady sitting next to Mr.. Barnum whether she
thought her works would save her. She re-
piled that she thought good works would
count some toward her salvation.
Sankey-There is where you are mistaken.
If your works were piled as high as this church
they would be of no service to you. Here is
my Bible! Just show me, if you can, where
works are ever counted as of any avail.
''Every man shall be rewarded according
tobhis works." said Mr.. Barnum.
sankey-He that believeth not is condemned
already"
Barnum-'' this is the condemnation,
that light hath entered into the world, anG
men choose darkness rather than light"
Sankey-Do you believe all sinners will be
saved?
Barnum-Dare you pray that any shall be
damned?
Sankey--I pray that all may repent and be
saved.
Barnum-Do the angels rejoice over the
salvation of that very last lost sheep that you
sing so sweetly about in ''Ninety and Miner"
Sankey--Of course they do.
Barnum--W Well, if you and the angels and
all good people pray for the ultimate repent
ancc and salvation from sin Of all sinners,
will not their prayers be answered? Do you
not ''pray in faith" without ''doubting," as
you are commanded?
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1878-02-21
Improved on Acquaintance.

Enoch Emery is editor of the Peoria Qll.)
TRANSCRIPT A few months ago he married
Miss Mary Whitestead, who atthe time was
superintendent of the schools in that county.
In the course of time the election season
rolled around and the lady aspired for re-
nomination before the Republican County
Convention. Her husband was delegate,
and the following account of how he pre-
sented her to the convention is given in an
Illinois paper "When Enoch Emery arose
in the Peoria County Convention to nominate
the candidate for county superintendent of
schools there came sudden lull in the pro-
ceedings. Every one became interested, and
the delegates leaned forward in bresthless at
tention. One could have heard q horse cough
in that awful stiffness. The emotion extended
even to the good Enoch himself. He arose
dif1dently toying with his spectacles, first
cleaning them with q new cambric handker-
chief, and then, placing them on his fore
head, said: i put in nomination for the
Office of County Superintendent of schools
Mrs. Mary Whitestead q long pause) Emery.
Fluttering among the delegates. nomine-
ted her four years ago (sensation,) and as l
was in some sense responsible for her as an
official, got to watching her. [Cheers.
watched her close and saw her real worth.
Encouraging cheers Twas drawn nearer
and nearer to her (cries of good! Go on y
and the closer got to her the better l liked
her. [Storm of cheers and yells and cries Of
sWhoopee!'] She was nominated without a
dissenting voice"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1878-02-21
No. IA
Personal.

Gail is an artful Dodger. - -Courier-Journal
The Congo-ring hero-Henry NJ. Stanley.
-LoaoeU Courier.
Mrs. Joseph Cook writes all her husbands
letters-and reads them.-B0st0n Paper.
knob yet.-B0st0n Post.
There" gasps John Bull, wiping his heat
ed brow, than 'eaven that hold hobelisk his
landed hat last.-Puck.
A sheepskin coat saved Gen. Skobeleff's
life at Plevna. A kind of buck-ram suit prob
ably.-Boston Post.
1t cost Mr.. Hinckly $4,000 to recover $780,
900 from the Northampton bank robbers, set
Hinckley lachrym@. - Commercial AdUer-
tiser.
No Congressman from Illinois has ever
been so full, but what there's one from Indi-
ana who's Ber. Fuller Commercial Adver-
tiser.
Somebody thinks DR.. Hollands last poem
is ''aimost intoxicating in it its beauty" A
sort of Holland gin, we suppose LoaoeD
Courier.
The Detroit Free Press is telling ''The
Secrets of Millionaire. I'VE object to hav-
ing private affairs pried into in this way
laadianola, loaca, Tribune.
Jack Kehoe, the Molly Mcguire, ''spends
hours in the Pottsville Jail in cracking his
finger joints" He was probably q cracks
man before he went there.--PhiladelphiG
Bulletin.
The Chicago papers are discussing the
question. Ibid Socrates 60 to help" Prob&-
bly, not, if Eternal justice took into account
what he went through with Xantippe.
York Star.
There was an old duffer named Blair,
Who with tootings filled all the air;
But the people cried: "'Gummery,
This noise is all f1ummery,
And you don't get cents worth of scare"
- Washington Capital.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1878-02-21

An Irishman this morning was evidently
in earnest when he said: ssBy Gorrah, niver
yea noind. If the Quane takes all the peo-
pie out NV England to foight wild the Russians
BY the great COB the Fanians will wade across
the creek and appoint thimselves Mayor af
London; so they will.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1878-02-21

BY A.. C. NORELAND.

Behold the mansion reared by doedal Jack,
See the malt stored in many pethOric sack,
In the proud cirque of Ivaus bvOuac,
Mark how the rats felonious fangs invade
The golden stores in Johns pavilion laid,
Anon, with velvet foot and Tarquin strides,
Subtle Grmalkin to his quarry glides-
Grimalkn grim, that slew the fierce rodent,
Whose teeth insidious Jshann's sackcloth rent.
LO! now the deep-mOuthed canine foes assault,
That vexed the avenger Of the stolen malt,
Stored in the halOwed precincts OF the hall
That rose complete at Jacks creative call.
Here stalks the impetuous cow, with crumpled horn
Whereon the exacerbating hound was torn,
Who bayed the refine slaughter-beast, that slew
The rat predacious. whose keen fangs ran through
The textile fbres that involved the grain
That lay in Hans invioate domain
Here walks forlorn the damsel crowned with rue,
Lactiferous spois from vaccine dugs who drew,
Of that cOrniculate beast whose tortuous horn
Tossed to the Clouds In fierce vndictive scorn,
S s%na bark and stir
OF puss, that with vermincidal claw
Struck the weird rat in whose insatiate nav
Lay reeking malt that erst in 1van's courts we saw
ROBBED in senscent garb, that seemed in sooth,
Too long prey to Chrones' iron tooth.
Behold the man whose amorons lips incline
Full with young Eros 0sculstive sign,
To the lorn maiden, whose lact-albic hands
Drew a!bu-lactic wealth from tactical glands
OF the immortal bovine, by whose horn
Dist0rt, to realm ethereal was borne,
The best catuelean, vexer of that sly
Ulysses quadrupedal why made die
The old mordacious rat, that dared devour
Antecedaneous ale in Johns domestic bower.
LO! here with hirsute honors doffed, succinct
OF saponaceous locks, the priest who linked
In Hymens golden bands the torn unthrift
Whose means exigi0us stared from many rift,
Even az he kissed the virgin all forlorn,
Who milked the cow with implicated horn,
Who in fine wrath the canine torturer skied,
That dared to vex the insidious murricide,
Who let the auroral effiuence through the pelt
Of the sly rat that robbed the palace Jack had built
The loud cantankerous Shanghai comes at last
Whose shouts aroused the ehOrl ecclesiast
Who sealed the vows of Hymens sacrament
10 him who, robed in garments INDECENT,
ExOsculates the damsel lachrymOse,
The emulgator of that horned brute morose
Inat tossed the dog that worried the cat that Kilt
Inc raj that ate the malt that lay In the house that
Jack built.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1878-02-21
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.
MOTHER SHIPTON.

For centuries the pc ople of England have been +.
niliar with the fame of Mother Shlpton,' who, a.
:ording to rumor lived in the Fifteenth Century, an
made many wonderful predictions. The epitaph upo
her tomb at Clifton, in Yorkshire, says: "Her proph
cies shall still survive, and keep her name alive
The London Globe of February 18th, 1877, publishe
the following some of her prophecies copied from
da> 144S, A. d., in the British Museum
. Carriages without horses shall 60,
And accidents fill the world with wee;
Primrose Hill in London shall be,
And in its center Bishops See.
Around the world thoughts shall fly
Ia the rwinkling of an eye.
Water shall yet more wonders do,
How strange, yet shall be true,
The world upside down shall be;
And gold found at the root of tree,
Through hills men shall ride,
and no hOrs, or ass be by their side.
Under water men shall walk.
Shall ride, shall sleep and talk;
In the air men shall be seen,
In white in black, and in green.
\ great man shall come and co.
Three times three shall lovely France
Be led to play bloody dance;
Before her people shall be free.
Three Tyrant Rulers shall she see
Three times the peoples hope is gone;
Three Rulers in succession see,
Each springing from different dynasty,
Then shall the worser fight be done,
England and France shall be
The British olive next shall twine,
In marriage with the German Vine.
Men shall walk over rivers and under rivers
ron in the water shall float
AS easy ss wooden boat.
Gold shall be found, and found
In land that's not now known.
Fire and water shall more wonders do,
England shall at last admit Jew.
The Jew that was held in scOrn,
Shall OF Christian be born and born.
A house of glass shall come to pass
In England-but alas!
War will follow with the work,
In the land of the Pagan and Turk;
And State and State in fierce strife
VIII seek each others life.
But when the North shall divide the South,
An Eagle shall build in the Lions Mouth.
Taxes for blood and for war
Will come to every door.
All Englands sons that plow the land,
Shall be seen book in hand
Learning shall 20 ebb and flow,
The poor shall most wisdom know.
Waters shall flow where corn shall grow;
Corn shall grow where waters doth flow.
Houses shall appear in the wales below,
And covered by hail and snow.
The world then to an end shall come
In Eighteen Hundred and Eighty-one.