Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1878-06-06
No. 20
ALL SORTS.

w. s. GEORGE, of the Lansing (Mich.)
Republican, recently completed his fortieth
wear of continuous editorial service on that
paper.
BRET HARrE aspired to the Chinese mis-
sion. but Secretary Evarts has given him
commercial agency at Crefeldt, Prussia, at q
salary of $4,000.
PROF. HENRY, II short time before his
death, was presented with purse of $1O,-
OOO The Professor devoted his whole life
to science and was always poor
The camels imported into Texas from
Africa in 1864 are said to be very useful.
Some of them will travel 100 miles in a day,
and one made $50 miles in "a hours.
SIR MOSES MoNTEF1oRE, the great Hebrew
philanthropist, is now 95 years old, but still
hale and vigorous and devoted to the great
object Of bis life, the restoration of Jerusa-
lem
THE Military Bill at last accounts was still
the subject of animated debate in the House
most of the Democrats favoring reduction
of the army and its pay, and the Republicans
solidly opposing.
SALMON P. CHASE used to wear a gold dol
lar on his watch chain, which he put on when
he issued the first greenback and which he
hoped to wear until the greenback was equal
to gold in value.
WHAT has become of that sweet boon,
Glover, the investigator? Isn't it about time
for his grappling-hook to bringup some fresh
Democratic delinquent by the seat of his
trousers? Or has the Democratic National
Committee bought Glover off?
The Cincinnati Gazette is in favor of in
vestigating, thoroughly and fairly, all the al
legged frauds in connection with the Presiden-
tial election, and believes the result will show
that Hayes was entitled to fifty more electoral
votes than were counted for him.
THE Boston TraueNer asks: ''Where is
| the enterprising newspaper that will give
daily list of the firms that have not failed!,
The New York Times responds that list OF
those firms is to be found in the advertising
columns of the substantial newspapers.
| IT is said that the modern sea steamer ply
ing between the United States and Europe
carries fifteen times as much freight as the
| old steamers of 1910, at nearly twice the rate
| of speed The consumption of coal was then
nearly eleven times as great as at present.
SECRETARY SHERMAN expresses his satisfac-
ton that the subject of his connection with
the Louisiana election had got beyond the
newspapers. Specific charges, he said, had
been made, and what he wanted was an open
hearing and no favor, and this he intended to
have.
AN engineer on the Central Pacific Rail-
road has invented an apparatus which. afhxed
to locomotives, acts as snow pl0w and clears
the flanges of the rails. A steel knife cuts
the snow and mould-board pushes it away
clear of the track. The experiment has
proved successful in practice.
EVEN Presidential candidates, like Peter
Cooper, have their troubles The venerable
gentleman gave Mr.. Groom $4,000 to be
used for election purposes. He believed that
Groom did not use the money Tor that pur-
pose, and said so. Groom sues Mr. Cooper
for $50, 900 damages for SANDER.
| IN introducing Blaine at the Philadelphia
Exposition the other day, Alex. Mcclure clo-
ouently said: HE is a son of Pennsylvania
who has made his adopted commonwealth
| illustrious by his record as {; leader OF the
! leaders of men. and is one of the few of our
day to whom the nation gives generous hon.
age"
THERE is a general improvement IN the
| trade of the country, as shown by the report
recently issued by the Bureau of Statistics.
The exports of domestic produce and foreign
merchandise during March last were valued
at $81, $50, ,498 against $45, 791, 1886 for March,
1877, exhibiting the extraordinary increase
of Sc per cent.
A DEMOCRATIC newspaper, published at
the National Capital, having asserted that
HAYES sits in the White House as ''the re-
ceiver of stolen goods" the Chicago 1smes
aptly inquiries, from whom Hayes obtained
the goods? Hayes received the goods OF
Democratic House; "apd it they were stolen.
pray who were the thieves:
ACCORDING to the celebrated German botan-
ist, Herr Schlieden, ''about $50 tons OF beet
root are annually, in Thuringia alone, trans
formed into tobacco" In no country IN tne
world are cigars sold at so cheap rate as IN
Germany, and the reason is obvious-by
means of her own ingenious products she is
enabled to beet all competitors.
A NOVEL offer has been made to light the
streets of Pittsburg with powerful rejecting
lanterns placed on three adjacent Nils. "A
COMPANY has heen formed for The purpose,
and the proposition is to charge the city moth
ing for the lighting, an income being derived
from the use of discarded lamp posts as
standards for revolving advertising drums.
The Rev. Mr.. -, after several years OF
married life, was at last blessed upon Sat
urday by the addition OF a tine BOY 10 ms
family circle, which had hitherto consisted
of only himself and wife Upon the same
dav the church at which he officiated, re-
ceived a timely and very much needed dona-
ton. over both of which events the reverend
gentleman was very much elated, as he COM
municated them to members of his congre-
CATION on his way to church on Sunday. 1t
chanced that in his prayer he alluded to the
financial event by returning thanks "for the
arrival of the little succor," and was conse-
quently much scandalized when couple of
students in his congregation asked him after
service whether he referred to the money or