Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-10-30
No. 50
ALL SORTS.
Turkeys are almost ripe.

ALL OONAO
Turkeys are almost ripe.
A stuck-up- -thing-A poster.
The arch young woman with bow be-
| comes archer
Boston, this season, has eaten 23S, ,296 bas-
kets of peaches.
One must have tremendous voice to kill
two birds with ones tone.
Whom the gods wish to destroy they first.
induce to wear tight boots.
One hundred and five pounds is the weight
of champion Florida watermelon.
Look out for severe winter. The fur on
the peaches is unusually long and thick.
The population of Dakota as given by
counties in the Deadwood Times is 130, ,415.
The most useful pedestrian is the man who
walks up and down all night with the baby.
''Pll join you presently" said the minister
to the young couple, as he went for the
church key.
The hieroglyphics on Chinese tea-box are
often mistaken for Philadelphia lawyers
handwriting.
The Municipal Council of Berlin recon-
mends the universal adoption of the practice
of cremation.
A Vermont editor claims to have seen a
rainbow at night and the temperance people
despair of him.
THE Pope has sent {, 1000 francs for the re-
lief of the sufferers by the floods in the pro-
vince of Murcia, Spain.
When Christian ladies will send bouquets to
murderers, the laws of this country ought to
be patched in several places.
I.so I'll %o oko
Springs, Tenn, hereafter, under the impress
sion that they can get Beersheba there.
Six of the most eminent physicians in Lon
don have signed a paper to the effect that the
music of brass bands may cause nervous few
ers.
Says the Whitehall Times: "Sleep is the
great leveler of mankind" 1t does appear
to be sort of an evening arrangement, it's
true.
Bring him into the house, now, girls, it is
too chilly to loaf around on the front stoop
you can make the gas bill light by keeping
the parlor dark.
LARAMIE Times, 10th: 1t looked refresh
ing this morning to see the overland tourist
in his linen duster as he gazed across 90, 900
acres of clear. white snow.
Byron once said of q lady whose tongue
suggested perpetual motion to every visitor,
that she had been dangerously ill, but was
now dangerously well again.
The late Mr.. Lewis Lawson, who owned
half of the London Telegraph, died worth
$5, 100000. His share of the revenue of the
paper was about $500, 1000 year, and his
whole income $500, 900.
THE Philadelphia Bulletin thinks that the
best kind of an Indian uprising is when the
redskins have hemp around their necks and
are ascending skyward on the end of rope
hung over the limb of tree.
BLAINE and Chandler and Logan were the
kind of men who did the work in Ohio. AT
an early stage in the canvass it was discover
ed that the people required stronger meat
than was afforded by financial discussions,
and Foster himself was the first man to call
for the Old Guard.
THE favorite daughter of General Sher-
man is engaged to be married to a Lieutenant
in the navy. She is Catholic of the very
liberal kind, and so good horsewoman is
'he that in jaunt of thirty-two miles she
has been known to come back fresh, while
he half-d0zen young officers who escorted
ler were entirely used up.
BUSINESS in Philadelphia is prosperous,
ays the Record. The empty houses are fill
ng up. Staple articles of manufacture are
advancing in price. There is work for will
ng hands. Politics are at q stand-still. There
8 nothing to attract the minds of men from
heir legitimate business. The next Thanks
living day will be day for thanksgiving,
indeed. ....'
FARM laborers in Canada receive from 500
rom 81. 40 to $1.e0 per day; house painters
IT'S per day; blacksmiths "a cents per hour;
rinters from % to SO per week; ordinary
,illers from % TO $12 per week masons
rom $3.50 to $2t0 per day, and plasterers
1.75. There is very little difference in the
ages paid at different places. The cost of
wing is about ene-fourth less than it was
We years ago.
In an article on hwnessness in some of the
outhern States the st. Louis Republican
Democracy says: 1.-THE only way to deal
ith this state Of things is to send an army
to the lawless region to protect the inhabi-
nts and either kill the outlaws or drive them
,t-and this the State authorities are pre-
ring to do. 1t is strange that such reign
terror could be maintained almost in the
art of the State, and within thirty miles of
illedgeville. The history of the Lowery
ng in North Carolina, of the Breathitt
unity disorder in Kentucky and the train
bbers in Texas and Missouri shows that the
uthern States are favorite field for organ
ID criminals who dwell in forests, or live on
rseback, and make both robbery their busi-
ss. Whatever be the cause of this, it's
ii time that the legislators In the Southern
ates were directing their efforts to the re-