Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1880-01-22
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THE Tichborne claimant has seven years
yet to serve.
''THE Lecture Field" is generally supposed
to mean Kate.
CHINA has started for our shores the Won
derful giant Uu Shan.
THE Surgeon General on Gov. Cornells
staff is homeopathic.
WHEN you purchase fish by the pound the
scales are always thrown in.
"A young lady Calls her beau spark from
the wire, because he is a telegraph operator.
PRINCE BIsMARCK's 8 first grandson, the lit
tie Count RantZau, was baptized on Christmas
day.
The Bostonese are about to establish new
club on the plan of the Century Club of New
York.
Some students think it necessary to be
behind in their lessons in order to pursue
their studies.
The New York correspondent of the Hart
ford B0en5ng Post says Jay Gould is sixty
five years old.
GEN FIrz-J JOHN PORTER asks $685. ,879 back
pay and $5,625 a year for life as Major
General on the retired list.
THE London Academy speaks of E. G.
Stedman as the ''most distinguished poet born
in the United States since 1920"
We saw girl the other day who was
''just as pretty as she could be-" but, poor
thing, she could not be very pretty.
Miss MARY ANDERSON received from the
company acting with her Christmas gift of
very beautiful diamond horseshoe.
| ATHANAssIN, a prominent Greek, died re-
Gently in his 13Oth year. He had enjoyed
good health until the day of his death.
Mr.. DILLON, who accompanies Parnell to
this country, is prominent Dublin barrister,
and son of John B. Dillon, the patriot of
1S4S.
THE English army is out on go-as-you-
please expedition capturing small African
towns and not knowing what to do with
| them.
STATISTICS prove that women's teeth decay
at an earlier age than mems, which conclu-
sively proves that gum is more I'M urious than
tobacco.
Mr. P. #. BARNUM has presented the city
of Bridgeport with a 81, 600 bronze fountain.
Barnum has long been known as a cold
water man.
MEssRs KIDDER, PEABODY & Co., Boston,
generously distributed Christmas gifts in
money among all their clerks to the amount
of $500
MRS. NELLIE GRANT SARToRls wears a
miniature of Queen Victoria set in precious
stones, gift from the royal dame at their
first meeting.
A CITIZEN of Chicago started with 500
and in three weeks made $22, 1000. He did it
with faro and bunko and cheat-o, and he is
now in jail-o.
THE statistics of the Postofice Department
in New York City show that the increase in
letters collected and delivered in 1879 over
1878 is 81, 218, ,405.
The boy who hasn't gone through both
heads of his Christmas drum by this time has
at least set his old grandmother crazy and
driven away the cook.
A LONDON journalist wrote up an interview
with Eugene without having been within
800 miles OF her, and it read better than the
accounts of those oD the spot.
A ST. LOUIS furrier who knowns his busi-
ness can take in a coon skin and turn out any
sort of fur you want from it, from the mild
eye beaver to the roaring grizzly.
FEBRUARY will have five Sundays, short as
the month is. The thing only happens once
in twenty-eight years, and those who pass the
contribution boxes must make the most of it.
THE Cincinnati ENQUIRER admires the Bold
Garcelon stands firmly upon the Constitution
and the laws" He does-tramples on them,
in fact.
The Prince Napoleon Memorial craze in
England has quickly exhausted itself. The
national memorial project is abandoned, and
the Westminster Abbey statue is also relin-
quished
THERE are eighty. one gold mines in opera
ton in North Carolina, and yet the greater
part of the population of that State feeds on
hog and hominy. They are not proud if they
are wealthy.
THE statistician of the Agricultural Depart
ment has made an estimate OF the value OF
the past years crops. He puts the increase
in value over the crops of 1878 at more than
$4OO, 100000.
GEN. SHERMAN received telegram Christ
mas day announcing that his daughter, Mrs.
Fitch, had added another daughter to her
family. She now has four children-two
oys and two girls.
PpTIIP DoNAHUE died some time ago in
California, leaving $1,000, 600 to brother
and sister. They have been found, after
long search, and met few days ago in New
York for the first time In thirty years.
AT social reunion few evenings ago
the question was asked, "Of what sort OF
1rulI 90 q Qu8TrcSOLDe udu duu WAIc iCIniuu
you ?" The young lady who promptly an
swered "a prickly pair" got the medal.
A GOOD Rochester pastor, a widower, pro-
posed to young lady short time since, but
was rejected. His feelings had the second
severe test yesterday, when widow neigh
Dor sent him the following text to preach
from: "You ask and receive not because
v on ask miss. s."-James w., 8.