Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1880-02-12
ALL SORTS.

still alive, aged 9o years.
This is leap year, girls, but it is just
we'll to look before you leap.
PROF. PRocroR guesses that the earth is
| 100, coo, 900 years old at least.
The ''best boy in school, occasionally
! bankers to throw paper wad.
| PARNELL has about $500, 900 in Irish real
estate and $150,000 IN Americfin securities.
| Mr.. CHARLES E. CORNELL, son of Gov.
Cornell, has entered the Albany law school
The skins and cores of bushel of apples
amount to almost peck. Gnaw 'em close.
HARVARD University has in its library
set of Goethe's works which he himself pre-
sented.
SENATOR SHARON has taken the pains to
deny that he has drawn cent of his pay for
the present Congress.
-''Who will write the music of the fu-
ture?" asks New York paper. What troubles
us is to know who will have. patience to listen
to it.
SPEAKING of Senator Bayard's boom, the
Chicago Tribune chidingly remarks that little
States like Delaware should be seen and not
heard.
Mr.. STURGEON writes from MentOne that
England should listen to Mr. Gladstone, cease
clustering, and make righteousness and peace
their guide.
THE profit on wine is not so very great
only about sixty per cent. Compare this
with the twenty-five cents profit made on
box of twenty y-tive-cent pills.
THE New Orleans Picayune has observed
that Latin inscriptions on tombstones give
the most general satisf action. What can't be
translated is taken for granted.
GEN. GRANT, when asked which city among
all he had visited he liked best, answered
quickly: "Washington; | think it is the
handsomest city in the world"
ONE of the notable weddings of the pres
ent season will be that of Mr.. Frelinghuysen,
son of the ex-senator from New Jersey, to
Miss Ballatine, of Washington, d. Q.
GOULD is said to be worth $65, 900, 900 and
gold is pouring into his Golfers at the rate of
$500, 900 month. He will probably become
rich in the course of an extended life time.
THE Indians with Ouray eat six square
meals day, first eating all the meat, then all
the bread, then all the butter, and so on down
until it comes to horse-radish, where they
stop.
In Eastern Siberia it is not an uncommon
thing for the ground to freeze to the depth of
300 feet in winter, and there is no danger of
fat girl breaking through the side of hill
in climbing up it.
EX-SENATOR DORSEY, of Arkansas, is using
the 81, ,03O, 900 he made in mining operations
to carry on sheep raising on grand scale in
New Mexico. He was nearly bankrupt when
he left the Senate.
GEN. GIBSON, of Louisiana, has just re-
ceived from number of distinguished citi-
zens of New Orleans gift of the first silver
dollar coined in the mint of that city since
its establishment.
To GIVE an idea of the ravages of diph-
iberia in southern Russia, it may be men
toned that in one pro vince of Pultava about
1000 persons have died of the disease in each
of the last three years.
THERE are now in San Francisco under en-
gagement to load wheat, eighteen vessels OF
%, 13O tons burden with carrying capacity
of 600, 900 centals. The are "a, 600 tons Of
disengaged tonnage in port.
The Chicago Neaos has looked the field
over, and come to the conclusion that: "Ihe
meanest little thing that the human eye can
behold, even with the aid of a powerful mag
nifying glass, is the American snob."
"A tramp sat himself down in farmers
house, saving, ''Tm a rootabaga, and this is
the way plant myself" I'VE bile ourn,''
said the farmers wife, as she calmly took
the kettle of boiling water off the fire. He
was gone before the cooking began.-Es-
change.
SALT LAKE Tribune: AS goes Pennsyl-
vania, so goes the Union, is an old political
saying. The old Keystone State is now de-
cidedly in favor of its former son, James G..
Blaine, and the indications are that he will be
the nominee of the Republican party for the
Presidency.
THE present Parliament in England was
for the 4th of March, 1874, and
assembled on that day. If it should only sur
vive until the 18th of April next, it will not
only have run into q seventh session, but it
will have exceeded in duration any previous
Parliament summoned since the Union, and
will have been the longest lived Parliament
for century.
PRINTING paper has recently advanced
hree cents q pound and the increased cost
las forced the Eastern papers to raise the
)rice to city subscribers, delivered by carrier,
md also to news agents. The Chicago and
IT. Louis journals have advanced their rates
o thirty cents per week, and in Cincinnati,
Cleveland and elsewhere, publishers are fol-
owing suit. .uea a...
By the death of Thomas Adds Emmett,
lis cousin, bearing the historic name of Rob-
rt Emmett, comes into possession of an
merald ring used as seal by the United
in 1798 1t has engraved on it the
ecret arms of the insurrection-a harp and
lasped hands-and was used on the wax
hat sealed the letters Of the leaders to their
ssociates. AT one tune the English govern
lent offered reward of $500 for its pos
essiOn