Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1878-03-28
No. 10
ALL SORTS.

ALL SORTS.
To KEEP your friends treat them kindly;
to kill them, treat them often.
-''Captain John" says that so Nez Perce
women were killed during the retreat of
Joseph.
MEN should not think too much of them
selves and yet a man should be careful not
to forget himself.
CALIFORNIA produced last year 1000, 600
gallons of wine. 1t is estimated that the yield
this year will lie fully 100000 gallons.
-'Can l 90 into your show without pay
ing ?" once asked female of A. Ward.
NO." said n. w., ''but you can pay without
going in.
The Nashville american says that Gen.
Robert Toombs has about $1OO, 600 invested
in property and bonds in Atlanta. Bonds!
What kind of bonds can those be?
The report of the adjutant general OF
Texas shows that there are over four thou
sand fugitives from justice of the Lone Star
State, and forty counties to hear from.
NoRR1srowN Herald: Rev. Joseph Cook
says that ''Darwin's hypothesis of pangen-
eses involves several untenable subsidiary
hypothesis" Very few people supposed it
was as bad as that.
THE young Miss Sherman, who is about TO-
marry Senator Cameron, has, it is SAID,
fresh, blush-rose face, sparkling dark eyes
and brown locks. She is twenty-five years
old. Mr.. Cameron is forty-five.
THE Duke of Wellington said, fifty years
ago: "There is no doubt it would have been
more fortunate and better for the world if the
treaty of Adrianople had not been signed,
and If the Russians had entered Constanti-
nople, and if the Turkish empire had been
dissolved
LAST year the State tax in New Jersey for
general purposes was mills, and the aver
age rate of taxation throughout the State for
county purposes (including the taxes levied
to pay off the war debD was A mills. Thus
the State and county taxes amount to 81 mills,
or So, 304, 112.
The Mississippi river is open from Lake
Pepin to New Orleans, and navigation is be-
ing gradually resumed, though the water in
the upper river is too low for the largest
boats. There being no snow in the country,
the river business of the summer will greatly
depend on the water fall.
CAPTAIN BoYNToN arrived at Lisbon on his
swim down the Tagus from Toledo-a dis
tance of seven hundred miles-on February
10. Tho Geographical Society sent special
steamer to meet him. He was much hurt by
numerous rocks, and said he never encoun-
tered more dangerous or difficult river.
A D1sooNsoLATE Virginian writes that
money is scare and taxes devour everything
the poor farmer makes. "Why, man can
not take drink" he says, ''without having
it dashed with two and half cents on the
State debt, and undergoing at the same time
solo serenade from Moffett punch bell.'
PRESIDENT CLARK, of the Agriculture
College, Amherst, when he was in Japan ar
ranged for some seeds of the umbrella
pine" large tree that does not produce seed
till it is 100 years old, and which is largely
used for ornamenting the ground around
japanese temples. The seeds cost 81
apiece, and are now on the way to this
country.
Miss Lotta M. Crabtree, the actress, gen.
orally known simply as Lotta, is evidently
in no immediate need of q testimonial benefit.
She has loaned on bond and mortgage to
William B. Astor and wife, $68, ,534.26 on
property on Madison avenue, Fourth avenue,
and Eighth avenue, between One-hundred-
fifth and ne-hundred- d-and-twen-
ty-ninth streets, New York City. The pa
pers were recorded in the Registers office
yesterday.
THE wealth of the late Pope is said to
reach, in the aggregate, 12O,0OO,0OO lire
(about 1924, 900, 900, the most of which is in
the hands of the Rotbschilds at Paris. 1fthis
statement is true, his savings must have
reached the respectable sum of $750,OOO O
year. All things considered, it is not SO
strange that there are Cardinals who are will
ling to take the place of the lonely prisoner
of the Vatican.
RECORDER Hackett, of New York, occa-
sionaly makes some rather blunt remarks on
the bench, as he said when sentencing o pick
pocket the other day: The city is full of
they are in every street. 1t some
one should shoot down one of these fellows,
when caught in the act, it would be doing the
public service. I would not hesitate, judge
as am, to kill such man on the spot l
want you and your friends to understand
this"
KANSAS is seventeen years old. Her popu-
|ation numbers 100000; she has property
valued at $229, ,OO0, 600; she raised last year
S66, ,OOO, 900 in farm products: she has 2,31O
miles of railroad, 1885, 900 school children,
zoos school houses; her territory is not yet
one fourth developed; she gives>a Republi-
can majority of 10000. Her citizens may
well feel proud of such a record of good soil,
good people, and good sense.
Western Timber. ~
The t~,1nk of a tree 900 foet hich or a Sec