Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1880-08-26
NO. Al
ALL SORTS.

Coney Island makes more money in one
day than all other seaside places combined do
in week.
1t is wise mother at the watering places
who knows her own child after she is
''dressed up"
Women of England have formed Wo-
mans Prayer Union to pray daily for the
200, ,OOO, 900 women of China.
'You never saw my hands as dirty as that"
said petulant mother to her little girl. "No,
but your ma did, was the reply.
-Civiize and make an agricultural citizen
| of the Indian and he will soon learn to distill
whisky from the grown by himself.
-"Counterfeiting." remarks the Danbury
Neecs, ''has finally got down to where it real
ly concerns US. Bogus 10 cent pieces are
afoat."
Children will ask questions that wise
men cannot answer and men claiming to be
scientific will answer questions no wise man
would ever ask.
One of the great social events in Washing
ton next winter will be the weddings of the
two young and talented daughters of Hon.
VIM. NJ. Evarts, the Secretary of State.
"A young man who does little now and
then in politics, and has occasion to mix with
the mixers, says no one can know how many
friends he has until he enters bar-room.
The Episcopal Church is said to have
more rapid rate of increase than any other in
the country. Its communicants number 322,-
713, an increase of 2,713 in the past year.
When young man says he is going out
riding, his sweetheart naturally wants to 60
along too but when she finds he is 10 ride
bicycle she concludes she will take walk
instead.
Arrangements for the great Presbyterian
Council to be held in Philadelphia during
September are nearly complete. A reception
will be held On the 23d, and the regular ses-
sions will begin the next day.
DR.. Germaine is blind physician of West
field, Mass, who has practised continuously
for three years without his sight. His wife
makes calls With him, and describes to him
the visible symptoms - his patients.
THE Boston Globe is of the opinion that q
well-cooked breakfast will do more toward
preserving peace in the family than will seven
notices ON the wall, even though they be
framed in the most elaborate of gilt mould
ings.
Col. Bodine, of the American rifle team,
endeavored to smuggle lot of valuable goods
in his rifle case. Smuggling is crime only
when you are caught at it, and is practiced
by great many high.toned and respectable
people.
''THEN, Adelgitha, thou whist be mine?''
Eyes, Ferdinand, if pa is willing. l al
ways do what he wants me to-"
''But darling will he give his consent?"
''He will. Pa always does what want
him to-"
The late Judge Kerr once saw Judge Dill
lard on q second-class car Hi - said Kerr,
show comes it that man of your cloth is
caught in second class carr" Because
there is no third class" quietly replied Judge
d., and asked for match to light his pipe
A sanitary journal recommends walking on
stills for children as peculiarly effective for
correcting defects of carriage resulting from
weakness of the upper dorsal muscles, such
as STOPPING of the shoulders and turning the
toes inward.
GEORGE ". CHILDs is building handsome =.
summer residence at Bryan Mawr. His new
grounds embrace fifty-seven acres, upon
which landscape gardeners are at work.
The building will be of pressed brick, laid in
black mortar, will be two stories high, with
Swiss cottage roof
The Rev. Mr.. W paid his devoirs to
lady who was prepossessed in favor of
Mr.. Psalter. Her partiality being very evil
dent, the former took occasion to ask in
room full of company. ''Pray, miss, how
far have you got in your Psalter?" The lady
archly replied, "As far as, Blessed is the
man.
A single Omaha bookseller has sold within
the last year over eight thousand copies of
Ingersoll's lectures, and he says the demand
for them is largely on the increase. With
such wholesale distribution as this of the
teachings of the ''bold infidel" among our
people, it will keep the pulpits pretty busy to
counte-act the ''hurtful impressions"
1t is good thing for Noah that he had the
only ark afost in the universe at the time of
The flood. If there had just been one more
ark there would have been collision the
third day out unless those things were man.
aged better than they are now. And prob
ably they were not, as it seemed to be consid-
cred dangerous to send out more than one
ark at a time.
The greatest hailstorm ever known prevailed
1t Stevens Point. Wis, on July Goth. Hail
from six to ten inches in size fell and cov-
cred the ground from four to eight inches
leep, killing thousands of sheep and other
animals, and turkeys, geese and prairie chick
Ems. Three of the hailstones were found to
weigh one pound. Several farms had all the
wheat, corn and hay destroyed.
Early cut grass is the BEST According to
he average of thirteen analyses made by
Prof. Emile Wolf, of Germany, green grass
contains SO per cent of nutrition. If cut
when in bloom, it will contain but 62 per
,ent., whereas if not cut until the seeds are
ully formed or ripe it will contain only 81
,er cent of nutrition. Grass land should be
n sufficiently good condition to produce two
rood crops year. and then the owner could
Ifford to cut it early, when it contains the
argest per cent. of nutriment.