Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1880-05-27
No. 28
AL. SORTS. /

VANDERBILT has gone to Europe for three
months.
BORDEAUX expects large yield of wine
this year.
IT costs the Harpers $5, 900 per month for
magazine engraving.
THERE are in Paris 760 buildings devoted
to public use and owned by the city.
GLADSTONE has one son in Parliament, and
another whom he wants to get there.
SToNEMAN is likely to be no better than
wooden man on the Railroad Commission.
The Countess of Lonsdale, of the dark
Jewish type, is the English beauty just now.
WENDELL PHILLIPS never goes to church
and takes no part in religious worship any
where.
GENERAL SHERMAN says he can forgive
his enemies, for he is more than even with
most of them.
THE Supreme Court of Illinois has de-
cided that the reading of the Scripture in the
public schools may be enforced
COMMODORE MUTT, the wellknown dwarf,
is keeping the ''Arion" Saloon in New York
City. He is said to have kissed more girls
than any man in America.
CANADA bounces the Monroe Doctrine.
This beats US. The New York Herald re-
| Gently said that Canada can whip the Uni
| versal Yankee Nation, and the Herald knows
| it all. .ts ...
A MASSACHUSETTS legislator is told of who
| said privately: Il am warm supporter OF
the woman suffrage movement, but my wife
is dead set against it," and then voted against
the bill.
The Supreme Court of Iowa has decided
that the offer of candidate for office to re-
| fund part of his salary to the public Treas
ury is an act of bribery, and inValidates the
election. r ,.
THE postage stamp fend may be saddened
to know that the different kinds of postage
stamps which have been hitherto issued all
over the world is estimated, in round num-
bers, at 5000.
NINETY children, grand children and great
grand children met at the house OF Mrs VAL
orous Kibbe, in Ellington, Connecticut,
few days ago, to rejoice with her upon the
completion Of her ninetieth year.
CONGRESSMAN Richard w. Townshend, of
Illinois. the champion of cheap paper, cheap
books and untaxed education, was page on
the floor of the House of Representatives
during the sessions of 1867 and 1878.
DENVER has ten Chinese opium dens which
are patronized by American men and women,
and require 800, 600 worth of opium per an
mum. The Asiatic scourge is steadily moving
eastward, blighting and destroying as it pro-
crosses.
Brown, the valet of Queen Victoria, ad-
vances steadily up in his designation. A lew
wears ago he was called "John Brown" in the
| lists; presently it was altered by the Queen
to 'Mr.," and subsequently Her Majesty
struck this out and substituted "EsQulre."
| THE total value of church property in the
country is placed at $500, ,0OO, 600, and 1t Is
estimated that its value in 1900 will reach
5000, ,000, 900, one-third more than the a.
tional debt. The ecclesiastical property IN
New York exempt from taxation is valued at
$11O, ,OOO,O00
THE calculations of the engineer of The
new Alpine tunnel under Mount st. Gothard,
were marvelous]y accurate, the actuai po'hs
where the two portions met one another be-
ing only thirteen metres from that fixed on
beforehand. The directions of their axes
were absolutely coincident.
Rev. BEECuER gets salary of $780, 600;
DR.. John Hall, s150O and stylish house
free of rent: DR.. Potter, of Grace Church,
gets S12, 600 and house DR.. Dix, OF Trinl.
~. $4,000, and the pastor of st. Thomas
Church $4,000. Other New York ministers
range from $4,000 to $10,0 900, but most are
under 5000.
THOSE parents who allow their children to
desert the school room on the first appear
ance of fine weather, are certainly practlclng
An unkindnees and an extravaganza that they
neither realize or can afford. The chances
70 get an education are not SO abundant IN
this country yet, that any Of them can be
missed without grievous loss
The Los Angeles Journal states that
sheep man of that county was offered 3d.
600 for his wool clip, the purchaser offering
to paw the expenses of the clipping and sack.
ing, He refused the offer, and as wool fell
since, he will realize only $15, 900 and have to
nav all expenses. Another sheep owner sold
bis wool clip for $43, 1000. He could not sign
his own name, and few weeks ago ne was
not worth dollar.
THE recently published statistics OF the
Post Office Department show that 5,OO0,OoO
letters are sent every year to the Dead Let
ter Office on account of bad directions, con-
tanning on an average $35, goo in cash ana
81, 500, 900 in drafts. Besides these, some
so, 900 packages OF merchandise 60 estray
eyery wear. The Cincinnati Commercial is
surnrised to find that New England, which
has reputation for the most comprehensive
system of public schools, furnishes the larg-
est proportion of misdirected letters.
NEW York, Star, 5th: 'Immigration
from Europe has received so abrupt and stu
pendous an impetus that the steamship lines
are unable to carry away the throngs which
crowd upon them. Under these circum-
stances it is scarcely to be wondered at that
some of the vessels cannot accommodate
their facilities to the sudden and unusual de-
mand, and that complaints are consequently
rife. Several of our steamship companies
avoid all occasion for grumbling by positively
declining to admit more passengers than they
can carry with cleanliness and comfort"