Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-12-18
Helena, Montana Thursday, December 49, 1879
ALI SORTS.

-Leadville has three daily newspapers,
four churches, and public school system
but there are also 1O8 gambling houses.
1T is we'll for the country that all the Con-
federates did nOt fight as turiously with their
muskets as Bob Toombs does with his mouth.
The listed sales of mines in Colorado for
the week ending November 10 aggregate
nearly two millions of dollars, mostly East
ern capital.
-One-third more freight has been shipped
west by the Government over the Union and
Central Pacific roads this year than ever be-
fore in the same time.
GEN. GAR1BALDI does not receive his own
newspaper mall regularly, and has written a
note, in which he accuses the postottice en-
ployes or officials OF stealing it.
MIR. SETH GREEN, the fish culturist, says
that the attempt 10 dOmesticate the shad IN
Lake Ontario, thus making it altogether
fresh water shad, has been successful.
STURGEON says: II care not where man
goes at night after hearing my sermon in the
morning. Ii cannot impress his mind and
keep him from evil it is my fault and not
his"
THE greatest taxpayer in the United
States is Mr.. Blackwell the North Carolina
tobacco manufacturer, who pays tax of
$500, 600 a year, $40, 900 week, or over 81
428 per day.
! THE Rev. Berry Little, Baptist preacher
in Georgia, has the care of five churches,
breaches all day on Sunday, and cuts wood
for living during the week. He is seventy
one years old.
"THERE was never any situation so bad
| that it could not be worse, " says an American
philosopher. For instance, man on the gal
| lows might he lost in the woods without even
a dog for company.
CASTELAR,, hearing some one animadvert
| upon the tendency of his countrymen to pro-
lixity in speech, replied: ''True, gentlemen;
but you don't know how hard it is to hold
ones tongue in Spanish"
HERE'S the boom in another shape. The
Iowa City Republican presents the fact that a
generous Mrs. MOriarty presented her lord
with q baby boy weighing seventeen and
three-quarter pounds, and no smouging.
A pair of rats produces, as rule, thirtenn
litters of eight young ones in three years,
and the young ones do the same after six
months old. The grand total from a single
pair at the end of three years is 656, ,8O8
An immense tide of immigration is pourino
into the Red river valley, and Fargo. Dakota.
is booming. Over $50 buildings have been
erected this season, and 14O-room hotel and
5O business houses are to 60 up next spring.
In November the mint at San Francisco
coined $4,000 double eagles, so. 600 eagles.
$4,000 half eagles, and 100000 standard
dollars, making total of /, ,198, 900 pieces,
of the value of 100000.
The ordinary expenses of the government
for the year 1800-1 will be $146,347, ,129.
which includes the cost of taking the census
ana considerably less, with the cost of the
census added, than any other year since the
war.
The New Orleans Times thinks that zone
cannot look upon the features of Mr.. Jaw
Gould, as represented in the many wood-cuts
of him printed In the picture papers, without
being convinced that as angel he is profound
y disguised. er5.
The Northern Pacific Railroad Company
las now 720 miles of completed road, exclu-
i've OF siding BY the summer of 1880 the
eastern end of the road will be completed to
he Yellowstone river, and work is being
pushed at the Pacific end. .
Ex-Gov. E.. D. MORGAN has recently dis
'ensed 800, 600 in gifts to churches and hos
'itals. The Eye and Ear Hospital, of New
lork City, got $25 900, and the debt ($11,-
)OO) of the old brick church near his house
n Filth avenue was paid.
THE late William n. Hunt is said to have
egun his artistic career at 10 years of age
y cutting medallion portraits from hard,
ellowish substance obtained from the bleach.
g vats at Lowell. His sister still wears one
these, mounted as brooch.
ONE of Chicogo's ex-prominent society
elles, who married an alleged German noble
ian last year, writes to her father from New
ork that business with the Count is fair,
Though the close of the hair-cutting season
ecessarily causes decrease of revenue.
The Egyptians built the pyramids, the
reeks created the parthenon, Christianity
Used the gothic cathedrals, some uncertain
'chitect gave Ireland the round towers, and
e people of the United States have enriched
e earth with great hotels-so says the Lon
IN Daily Ness.
hat the terms 'fourpenny," sixpenny," and
means four pounds to the
ousand, and SO on. 1t is an old English
rm, and meant at first ''ten pound nails
he thousand being unde.stood), but the old
'glish clipped it to ''tenpun, and from that
generated until ''penny" was substituted for
,ound." When thousand nails weigh
's than one pound they are called tacks,
ads, etc., and are reckoned by ounces.
The discovery by explorers in Alaska that
e Yukon River is navigable for steamers
500 miles is important, and places that
cam among the largest rivers in the world.
bout 500 miles from its mouth it receives q
~ large Davigable tributary. The basin
rmed by the confluence is twenty -four miles
de. The Yukon Is nearly as large ss our II
ssissippi. There is snow for six months,
d without roads, dog sledees find good
'veling. Game abounds, and Indians have