Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-04-24
ALL SORTS.

ALL SORTS.
England has declined to accede to any pro-
posals for the extradition of Nlhilists.
THERE are 10 convicts in the Oregon pen
itentiary. Every cell in the prison is full.
If man bigger than you says you are q
liar, do not resent it. He Lay be mistaken.
THE new pension bill should have provided
that man shot in the back should not re-
ceive his back pension money.
WESTINGHOUSE, the air brake inventor, last
week, on the seventeen anniversary of his
fathers birthday, sent him check for FL 600
from London.
A SOCIETY for the prevention of crime has
been formed at New Haven, Conn. President
Porter of Yale, countenances its objects,
which are principally to close up the gam
bling houses and low variety theatres.
Bob INaERsoLL presented Joe Jefferson a
book the other day. On the fy-leaf was the
following: ITO Joseph Jefferson, king of
the enchanted realm where comedy and pa
thos dwell, where laughter touches tears and
sadness blossoms into mirth."
IT is calculated by DR.. Thornton, manager
of the Haggin and Carr ranches, in Kern
county, CAL, that his alfalfa fields, if watered,
will carry all their stock through
the season. The stock consists OF 1000 cat
tie, 200 horses and $4,000 sheep.
A SON of Thomas Jefferson, author of the
Declaration of Independence, is alive and
we'll at Indianapolis, Indiana. He is the
color of squash in September. His mothers
name was Millie Reddiford, and belonged to
Mr.. Christian, of Charleston, Virginia.
MRS. JOHN BAPTIST ToL1vER, of Oldtown,
Me-, is seventy three, and the mother of sew
enteen children. Within the last year she
has cut nine new teeth, and with the appear
ance of each tooth has experienced slight
sickness similar to the teething of children.
SAN FRANCISCO Argonont: Mrs. Julia A.
Moore, the Sweet Singer of Michigan, says
she has not suffered flattery to turn her head,
for she knows that the critics which praises
her the loudest is the same ones as praises
Longfellow; and 'taint likely there is two
poets TO once.
SWELL, how is the spring trader" said
gentleman to friend the other day. "Dry
goods never brisker," was the reply my
wife shops all day, every chair in the house
is covered with bundles, and think of send
ing my pucket-book out of town for change of
air-it's so thin.
THE disbanded Maine Legislature were
more Jealous than competent. The careless
wording af the bill passed for the purpose of
reducing the governors salary to 81, 500 in
creased his pay to $4,000 instead of cutting
it down, as he is now empowered to draw
1900 quarterly. And there are other laws
of doubtful meaning on the State statute
books.
In connection with the recent Hartford
elOpement the story of Ex-Governor Hub
bard's early life is being told. He was an
humble East Hartford farmers son, and
often drove wagon loads of farm produce
and even charcoal to the city for sale and
barter. Wishing an education, he worked
his way into and through Yale College, and
then studied law at Hartford
A FEMALE book agent caused the publica-
ton in the Sacramento Bee of the death of
one George w. Bruf, Now, Bruff was not
dead, and appealed to the Bee t" restore him
to lite The Bee found the woman, who ex-
planned that Bruff owed her and had fixed
day when he would pay if he was alive; as
he did not pay she concluded he was dead,
and so published him in the Bee. Bruff and
the Bee people are angry; everybody else
laughs.
Rhode Island is so surely Republican State
that little significance is usually attached to
it's elections. The notable gain in the size of
the Republican majority this year, however,
is of value in showing the growing solidity
of the Northern States. The kepublian ranks
are fuller than they have been for years,
and they will be even fuller yet by the time
this adjourned session of the late Confeder-
ate Congress comes to an end
BURLINGTON Haokeye: The recent in
carceration of the editor of the ThomastoWn
Vidette in the insane asylum, hopeless
maniac, has sad, sad history. People who
recently saw an article in his paper entitled
"Death of an Angle Worm, and did not
read beyond the heading, were not aware that
the article was an obituary Of the editors
aunt. who had just left him all her money,
and that as the article went to the printer it
was headed, death of an Aged Woman"
In our labors we are apt to be mmoderate.
We work too ferociou>Iy " in nearly every
hing we undertake, and live in hopes of en-
Toying repose at some future day but if to-
tai repose were desirable or attalnable in this
world of unrest, where employment seems to
be the condition of content, the capacity OF
enjoyment is gone when the overworked
tOler reaches the limit he has set to labor.
The remainder of his existence must be de-
voted to patching up his invalid frame. Let
US be moderate in our labors MS in our pleas
ures. since to make haste slowly is the true
way of accomplishing long, successful and
prosperous journey.
In an editorial on the recent Louisville
murder the Courier-journal says ''Murder
is on the increase in Kentucky, and the State
are afraid to ;nterpose. The worst
feature of this is that it is not the hardened
criminal classes which are chargcabe with
this blood. euiltiness, those of recognized So
cial standing. belonging to what they term
the fret families. All through The South II IS
thought to be fine thing to '"ke human life
where there has been an insult. real or imag-