Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1880-11-04
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1t is difficult to become familiar with the
wheels of q watch, so many of them travel
incog.
The Triennial Conclave of Knights Temp
lar at Chicago cost $93, ,173, but the receipts
were $685.
Talmage says that "the nearer man comes
to taking solid comfort on earth, the nearer
he is living to heaven"
Question for country debating society:
Which most needs shinglingtthe long haired
man or the bald headed one?
An exchange says, 'Good wives are wanted
in the Northwest" Surely this is not strange.
Is there any place where they are not wan
ted?
The leader of the classes at Vassar College
is a Japanese girl. She is from the elite of
japanese society, and is both stylish and
popular.
| President Walker, of the Toledo Produce
Exchange, sent his unruly son to reform
school. The boy felt the disgrace keenly,
and ON being released committed suicide.
Apple trees raised from seed brought to
Alpowa, w. T., in 1885, by Spaulding, the
missionary, still bear splendid fruit. One of
the trees measures 26 inches in diameter.
| The boy who can't chop stick of wood
| because he has pain in his joints, will step
| boldly to the front to break a yearling colt,
at the imminent hazard of breaking his neck.
Ex-Governor Hubbard of Connecticut, after
years Of close and successful practice of the
| law intends shortly to retire from business
and spend several years abroad with his
| family.
Oil City Derrick BjornsOn, the Norwegian
| novelist and poet, HAS arrived jim this
| cjountry, creating quite ain excitement i'm
| Literary circles, ajnd ijs anxious ito inject
Wilhemji, bjingo.
Mr.. U. S. Grant, Jr. sent to Mrs. Jesse r.
| Grant as wedding present, conveyance OF
the furniture, tapestry, and works of art of
his elegant suite of rooms near Madison
Square, New York city. ...
The women are always looking under the
| bed for a man. No man ever thought Of
looking for woman under such circum-
stance. He always scans the mirror when he
is in search of the female.
1t is unnecessary to debate so obvious a
question as to which side a man and woman
should respectively take. 1t is always right
for the gentleman to take the left, and it is
then left for the lady to take the right
There are now is use in New leland, which
not so very long ago, was the subject of Sgd
ney Smiths familiar joke about cold curate
on the sideboard, 5000 reaping machines and
more than 1000 threshing machines, ofwhich
374 are worked by steam power.
A gentlemanly young oyster-opener asked
a rural customer if he would take his raw
oysters Oh the halt-shell. The customer
seemed to think there might be something
mean and small about that style, and said
Half OF the shell be hanged! Set up the
whole thing"
There are 10 railroads in this country ON
which track-laying is in progress whose esti-
mated amount is over 5000 miles, and there
are 40 projected enterprises whose track
reaches 1O95O miles. The track actually
laid during the first half of the year on G7
roads reporting was 100.
1t is estimated that of the horses in the
world Russia has 81 100000; America, 9,5O4,-
OOO Argentine Republic, 100000 Germany,
1852 900: France, 100000; Canada, 1884
600: Great Britain and Ireland, 2,255.OOO;
Hungary, 2179,OOO; Uruguay, 100000:
Austria, 1867, 600; Turkey, 100000
There died recently at the Jay homestead
in Bedford, Weschester county, n. Y, Joseph
Cuzno, a Sicilian, who entered the service of
lived in his household for sixteen wears and
1929 Joseph Cuzno had lived with one OF
another member of the Jay family, until he
has now passed away at the same age at
which his first employer died-s4 years.
Promotion of q storm is often given in the
falling OF branch from tree. During a
camp meeting service at Hannibal Missouri,
w hnoo Il, l. eli
when the sky was clear and there was no
wind, but heavy storm soon followed Far
mers tell of numerous falls of trees and limbs
in the stiffness that precedes great storms of
wind and rain.
Nearly 20O, 900 bushels of apples had been
shipped to Europe from New York, Boston
and Montreal the 1st. of October. 1t is esti-
mated that the apple crop of the United States
will reach 2OO, ,00O, 600 bushels this year. The
markets are glutted with the fruit. and
prices are so low that inferior grades are
hardly worth shipment. Thousands of
bushels OF apples are wasting, and many
farmers will be unable to dispose of all their
fruit by feeding it to cattle and hogs
A juvenile negro thief was detected at
Raleigh, n. C., in a singular way the other
day. He went out to the range where
gun club was shooting at new patent balls.
which exploded with any amount of fame
and noise when struck violently, and the
yOungster stole a ball and hid it in the ton
OF his hat. Along came another negro. and
ignorant of the theft of the ball, and in a
spirit Of banter, struck his companion on the
head. There was an explosion, and the
darkeys hat went up in a column of flame
and smoke. The negro thought his time had
come and sank to the earth senseless. but he
was soon revived, and was found to have
uttered nothing save having all the wool
urned Oft the top Of his skull.