Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1878-03-14
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ALFONSO married well-th.
A LECTURE Field that no man has yet ta-
ken-Kate Field.
RuBENs has $50 Observation-Disclosures
in more senses than one.
YOU'VE CORN is cadet at West Point. He
will probably be kernel.
Yale fellows we'll met--college boys in
New Haven. .-Saturday Night.
SENATOR JONES, of Nevada, has in his
house at Washington, silver and plate glass
model of palace car
THAT $40, 900 verdict against T. T. Barnum
at Cincinnati has rather a depressing effect
on the old man. Give him a show.
ssI'H1RTERN" is considered such an unluckY
number that in some streets in Florence there
is no house numbered i3, but 123 has been
substituted - 4-ss%-
Col. JOHN w. FoRNEY writes from Lon-
don that he does not anticipate general
European war because ''Russia is too strong,
Turkey too weak, England too prudent.
THE public school teachers of New York
have life insurance company among them
selves, that gives to the next of kin of
member who dies check for $500.
THE largest oyster on record in the United
bay in 1910. 1t measured feet and l inch in
length and 235 inches in breadth across the
widest part
A Hoboken person, evidently a very young
lady. writes ''Where does the fire 60 when
YOU put out the candle?" We don no. 1t
must light out somewhere. You're up to snuff
now, ain't you, dear ?-N. Y. Herald.
Colorado IS still ahead. Not content with
having brought up by hand petrified man,
she now thrusts upon the world a skeleton of
serpent. Admission 25 nts.--Sdgln0p
Courier. +
A. LAKE" Michigan steamer having been
AIMED the Bret Harte, the Philadelphia BuI-
1etin remarks: 'We foresee, as the Bret
Hart Harte puffs herself across the lake, the intro
duction of standard pun about, AS pants
the Harte,' etc.
The Grand Jury at Maysville, KY, has in
dicted Judge Sands, who some time ago
made public confession of his inability to
keep sober. for becoming drunk and failing
to hold court why he should be condemned
for not holding court when drunk is not
clear. .....
Mr.. DRLANE, so long the editor OF the
London Times, has been so thoroughly pros
trated by paralysis thathe has to be supported.
bv two men when he moves. The falling OFT
alike in circulation and in authority of the
great journal sincehe was compelled to aban-
don the helm is attracting general attention in
England.
LEBBErs GURNER, aged seventy -four, and
Melvin Reed. aged seventy-one, were par
ticipants in plowing match at South Aolng-
ton. Mass, on the Goth of December. The
= o..oo mood 1uoro rosnective1v twentv-fOur
and twenty-six years Of age, and the pl0w
was made forty years ago.
SENATOR THURMAN wants to hear from
Secretary Schurz what he is doing in re-
ference to the Montana timber depredatlons.
Let the Secretary speak out. The people here
want to hear what he has to offer about the
se;znre business and the oncrous wood and
timber tax imposed by order OF the Depart
Ment. ti a
Ir is asserted that the most eloquent man
in the Virginia Senate is colored man, MP.
w. N. Stevens. He made very brilliant
speech the other day. Senator stevens was
born slave, and is now about thirty years
old. He has been graduated by two colleges
one at Richmondand the other at Philadel-
phia. a.s.
IT is understood that the relations of all the
members of the bonanza firm are pleasant,
but that Mr.. Mackay wants to retire from
active business He may become the 1gure
head of an immense banking house in Lon
don, founded with bonanza capital, but moth
ing further. Another story Is to the effect that
MI. Mackay has been informed that IT ne re-
news his native allegiance, and carries MS
immense wealth to England, a baronetcy at
least-and not improbably, an Irish earld0m
may he DlaceA at his disposal.