Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1880-09-23
ALL SORTS.

The man who has corner in pork should
be made to squeal.
Never bother q taylor long at time. He
| may have pressing business to attend to.
A Chicago man married his mother-in-law
so that he could live with his wife in peace.
No man, while board-fence advertising is
| popular, will ever be allowed to forget that he
has liver.
We presume the catfish is so called because
no one was ever lucky enough to kill one
with boot jack.
A lady for the first time listening to tele-
phone remarked. Good gracious 1t sounds
like ones conscience!
The Philadelphia young man may not be
plucking the fairest flower of England by
marrying Coutts, but he secures the biggest
plum.
Two urchins who played ''escaping from
the wreck" by using their mothers holiday
dough trough for a boat, were lashed to-
gether.
A LITTLE girl, noticing the glittering gold
filling in her aunts mouth, exclaimed, Aunt
Mary, l wish ! had copper-toed teeth like
yours.
Mr.. JOSEPH JEFFERSON, the actor, has
bought twelve shOrt-hOrned cattle in Ver-
Iberia, La.
ST.. JULIEN is expected next year to attain
a speed SO terrific that track will be neces-
sary to prevent his running into the rear of
his own sulky.
The Ukah (Cal } Press says that DR.. Clan
son, of that place, recommends common bak-
for rattlesnake bites.
With ST. Julien having 2:114 to boast of, it
is now matter none dare lay wager that
Gil, or 2:10a will not be made, or 2:1O re-
corded within the next five years.
John Barnhalt Sheifey, Limerick Square,
Montgomery county, Pa, has been married
for seventy one years. 1 he husband is eighty
nine and the wife eighty Eight years old.
MRS JOHN JACOB AsroR drives the other
women at Newport wild by wearing $780,
900 worth of diamonds when she goes out
with her knitting to spend the afternoon.
Several wealthy gentlemen of New York
city contemplate the erection of a magnifi-
cent hotel on upper Fifth avenue, which is to
surpass all others of this country or Europe.
At Oglethorpe, Ga, two large trees have
grown up like pillars under a rock shelf, in
which they are imbedded. The rock is loose,
and can be made to sway. 1t is called the
shaking granite.
1t is estimated that there are 400 expert
cigar makers in New York city who are en-
ployed in factories, and it is said that their
wages amount to the large sum of from $35
to $40 week each.
THE terrible power of early education to
shape mans life is illustrated by this pro-
verb taken from the Spanish: "What is
sucked in with the mothers milk stays until
it runs out in the shroud."
The Pittsburg Christian Advocate says:
"One of our reverend and valued cOntribu-
ut RS sends us an article and makes the fol-
lowing startling request: please omit the
D. ID. 1t is too blasted common"
The total electoral vote of the United States
is 368 Of this the States south of Mason and
Dxon's line have 1873, and the States north
$50. An addition of forty-s seven votes to the
1873 which the South has makes a majority
of one.
A good mother, telling to her little three
year. old the story of Samuel-how the Lord
called him and all that, asked the child what
she would do if the Lord should call her.
Say amt here; don't want to co." was the
immediate answer.
l. speer, of New Orleans, has exhibited
fine specimens of fiber from the banana plant.
He estimates that an acre will yield 10, $40
pounds of fiber, worth $3.50; this added to
the fruit, will make the cultivation of this
splendid plant very profitable
According to a German authority the re-
moval of grease spots from marble, though
always difficult, may be most rapidly accom-
plished by covering them with a thin dough
formed of benzole or petroleum naptha and
whitening to the depth of three-fourths of an
inch, and then laying wet cloth on top
The operation must be repeated several times
before the spots will be removed permanently.
The Downieville (Cal) Messenger of Aug
ust % says: There are still several snow
arches on the East Fork, about five miles
above. The largest is several hundred feet
long, spanning the river and completely cover
ing it with depth of solid snow to height
of nearly 100 feet Under these arches the
water drips down in q steady shower. Our
fishermen walk under these arches and find
excellent fishing.