Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1878-08-22
ALL SORTS.


Dom PEDRO says that America is twenty
years in advance Of Europe in civilization.
THE Swiss National Council has voted
81 300, 900 towards completing the st. Got
hard tunnel.
THERE was time in this country when the
man who was sunstruck would strike back.
but Americans are losing their taste for war.
SIX years ago the Springfield (Mass.) Re-
publican establishment was valued at $780,
000 Last week the appraised value of this
property was 100000.
DAVID DAVIS announces that he is the hap
piest man in America He has found Just
such another nose as his after forty.two
years of vigorous searching.
GEN. SCHENCK and daughter are ''doing"
Vermont in a carriage, sensibly following
the old wagon roads among the beautiful
hills and valleys of that State.
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT held that where
one man kicked another on the street by mis-
take, the kicker must apologize, and the
kicked was entitled to the soda water.
The Virginian who blew himself up by
means of a keg of po ~der, didn't leave any
pieces behind to hold funeral over. A
three days hunt developed nothing but one
boot heel.
JUDGE Brady T. johnson argues, in an
elaborate paper in the american Lao Revieao
for July, that the States of the Union can be
compelled by judgment of the Supreme Court,
supported by the force of the Union, to pay
their debts when they have practically repu-
dated them.
It has been said that diamond might be
laid on al anvil and struck with hammer,
and. instead of breaking, it would be driven
into the solid body beneath it. This is not
true, for the jewel is very easily broken, and
the thin layers of which it is composed can
be divided with renknife.
A GREAT deal about everything can be
found in an enterprising journal. and the
student who carefully reads one day by day
will find himself better capable of under
standing the exactions of the world into
which he is about to be thrown and of fight
ing his battles than if he followed too exclu-
sively the pages of ancient history. The
newspaper is the educator of our day.
The costly fashion of making the accesso-
ries of each toilet to match is gaining ground.
The bonnet, gloves, dress. and shoes are alike
and a parasol, if possible. matches it. The
new batiste dresses have bonnet, the crown
of which is batiste; these bonnets are usually
in the bebe style. Fashion now gives her
preference to checked batists, but the squares
are irregular, as seen in plaids.
Peroration of able counsel's remarks: 81
hope, gentlemen of the jury, that you will
not regard the case for the prosecution as
having been made out. But if to suppose an
impossibility, you should condemn my client,
let me beseech you to have what mercy you
may upon this unhappy man who has never
yet strayed from the paths of rectitude. and
only asks your assistance to enable him to
return to it."
An English scientist asserts that flies have a
speech of their own and are not limited to
the irritating buzz for which they are chiefly
distinguished. By the assistance OF the mic
rophone, an instrument which magnlhes
sound, this fly language can be heard, and
the etramp of fly across box is saldto sound'
almost as loud as that of horse across
wooden bridge. A curious sound accompanied
the tramp of the fly, which, it was suggested,
was caused by the neighing of its proboscis
A gentleman writing from Paris say that
after visiting Norway, Sweden and Russia,
General Grant will 20 in the fall to Spain and
Portugal. and next year home by way of the
East. taking in the Indies, China and Japan,
and finally landing on American soil again
at San Francisco If this be the Generals
correct programme, it follows that San Fran
cisco will have the honor of first welcoming
the next President home from his splendid
tour of the Old World.
One of Faheys mules came into camp
during the engagement and laid down, evil
dentlv we'll pleased with it's change of mas
tiers. 1t was packed with camp kettles,
complete cooking outfit, frying pan, etc..
lot of cooked beans, coffee, tea, rice, sugar
(about thirty pounds, which was. recognized
as having been stolen from Brigham Blodgett
1T was in seamless sack), some raw beet
and fresh fish. It was also laden with good
tent, q piece of lead, shells. bullet-moulds,
ladle, lot of Spencer rifle cartridges, some
tin cups, salt and q good axe. Meantime,
This is the reason st. Louis suffered so
much from the heat during the late warmth.
The city is situated upon lime rock, and dense
" built. The rock and the bricks get heated
and make the air hot. Now, in dry air the
perspiration from the skin will evaporate
But there the air is continually moist, and
therefore does not carry off the surplus heat
which comes as perspiration from the body.
Besides, hot, damp air is very unhealthy to
| breathe. Then, again. st. Louis is situatrd
where there is very little wind to carry away
this fatal atmosphere.
An observing writer in the New York Times
has noticed that the young ladfes at Long
Branch and Saratoga have fashion OF IRE.
| ouently raising themselves on tiptoe. Several
married ladies' also assumed this unnatural
position. It was remarked that these fair
creatures generally had certain old number
of Harper's Ma gazine with them. in which IS
All article by VIM Blake, the oarsman, rec
ommending his fellow boatrnen to constantly
practice rising on their toes it they wish 10