Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-06-26
ALL SORTS.

| ~ III luo SoCoACy Souoc" ~ tho uoalA VI
Rush Clark.
THE poisoned brook horror in Vermont as
sumes another phase. Medical men declare
that the children died of diphtheria, superin-
duced by the pools of stagnant water under
and about the school house.
The comedy of "Our Boys" has been play
ed 1850 times consecutiv,ly at a London
theatre, and will soon be followed by ''Our
Girls" 1t is different in this country. Here
our girls are followed by our boys. But per-
haps it is leap year in England.
! Julia A. Moore, the sweet singer of Michi-
gan, was nearly paralyzed with establishment
| when recently informed that "eclat" didn't
rhyme with che cat She has not sufficiently
recovered to finish her half-completed poem
''On the Birth of a New Spring.
MANY of the present holders of the lands
in New Orleans conceded to Mrs. Myra Clark
Gaines by the decision of the United States
Circuit Court have petitioned the city author
tiles to attempt settlement of the judgments
| against them
THE wonderful gown, woven from spider
webs, which the Empress of Brazil presented
| to Queen Victoria, is very beautiful, and ex-
ceeds in fneness any silk gown. 1t is esti-
mated that 1000 spidtr-webs would be re-
quired tor forty yards of such cloth.
A pickpocket taken with his hand in some
one elses pocket endeayored to invent all
manner of impossible explanations of the
phenomenon. whats the use of your try
ing to lie about it 80 clumsily ?" said the ma
gistrate, benevolently; ''havent you law
ytr?"
IT is said that Emperor William of Ger
many is drawing near his end. He is quite
feeble. This is no more than would be ex-
pected regarding man eighty-two years old,
especially after bis life had been thrice at
| tempted within few months, saying nothing
| of two recent falls.
THE Rev. Olympia Brown Willis, pastor
! of the Church of the Good Shepherd at Ra-
cine, Wisconsin,, has received vote of
thanks from the church for the manner in
which she has performed her duties during
| the last year, and an invitation to act as pas
| tor for another year; with an increased salary.
THE Rev. Barnas Sears, general agent of
! the Peabody southern Educational Fund, has
| informed Il. N. Lasher, superintendent of
public education in Louisiana, that should
the constitutional convention in that State
abolish the Office of State superintendent it
will give fatal blow to the public schools,
and the aid of the Peabody fund wi lat once
be withdrawn;
1t is stated that the legal-tender test case
tenden and Butler to United States District
Judge B!atchford at New York. has been
decided pro forma in favor of the validity of
the legal-tender law. This will take the case
before the United States supreme court at the
October term, and the final decision may be
expected by January or February next.
A new form of disease has become appar-
ent in the heart of very crowded portion
of London. 1t is new form of cyprus fever,
and diagnosis of recent malignant case
shows the patient to be suffering from hallu-
cination and lowered vitality. The Faculty
ascribe the disease to impure water, and have
given it the name of detephobia, and though
it is seldom fatal, the sufferer remains but a
shadow of his former self.
At the State farm at Monson, Mass, the
COWS are MIXED precisely at 5 a. m. and 5p.
M, and each cows milk is weighed and the
weight recorded. The records show that
ffty.fve cows gave, in one week in June, q
tons of milk, and in one week in December,
q tons of milk. The whole amount of milk
produced during last year was little over
100 tons. Seven cows have given an aver
age of about twenty quarts each per day.
The use of cows milk in nervous disorders
is very highly recommended by the best ply
sicians. Tley prescribe it to be used at all
hours, and recommend the patient to drink as
much as four qnarts per day if agreeable.
The constant and exclusive use of this article
after time becomes very tiresome, and the
milk acquires an unpleasant TASTE 1t may in
degree be avoided by heating the milk and
adding enough salt to flavor It, in this form
doing as much good as in any other.
NoRR1srowN Herald: A lady in Portland,
Maine, called at jewelry store, and after
mo kinO y,,1rchooo uudnf homo Two hOnrS
later q messenger called at her house and in
formed her that she had left something at
the jewelers.. ''NoW, let me see," she
mused, 'what can it be2 Here is my pocket
book, and there on the sofa Is my fan, and
have my gold watch here, and my bonnet.
why, where is my bonnet 2-oh, there it is
on the floor; it fell off the table-and really
can't think what have forgotte-. Why.
to be surel Hsw absent-minded am! l
declare it l haven't forgotten my darling,
prec1us little babel" And 30 she had-only
that. and nothing more.
The fremen Of Leavenworth, Kansas,
mourn the recent death of ''OId Jack,
horse twenty-five years old. Of him the
Times says: "For about ten years he be-
longed to the Fire Department, and the de-
partment never had truer, more faithful an
imal. He seemed to instinctively scent fires,
and has been Known, Dy nls planclng eHnrts
to get out Of his stall, to give an alarm be-
fore any person Aad become cognizant OF
fire. And when snce attached to the engine,
nothing could stop hum until the vicinity OF
the fire was reached, and be bore down upon
II with the speed Of 3 whirlwind. the driver
permitting bim to control the direction OF
the engine, trussieg to the instinct 80 strong
within him, which never failed. to designate
the precise location Of the flames