Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1880-06-17
ALI SORTS.

No one cares to see the point of bent pin
jokes.
The man who hesitates is often lost-for
words
Two heads are better than one, bat not on
the same pin.
Proctor says the ocean contains about g.
SOC, 900 tons of water.
VENNoR. the weather expert, predicts that
July will be month of terrible storms.
"What do you most like, next to yourself"
asks an exchange. A gauze silk uNdershirt,
If the weather is very hot
An old woman in New York predicts that
a tidal wave ten feet high will sweep over
Coney Island on the 22d OF July.
IT is asserted that the loss by fires in the
United States during the past five years has
amounted to the sum of 1858, ,O1S, 255.
In Prussia one person to every 45O is in
sane. A Berlin scientist attributes this large
proportion to intemperance and educational
cramming.
Swiss journals estimate that the use of the
st. Gothard tunnel will take annually $780,
900, 900 worth of freight business from the
French railways.
THE Crown Prince of Denmark never
makes a speech. lie rises, bows and says:
Il don't to-day well feel,' and sits down
amidst long continued applause.
Professor Cook believes the Hessian fly
will be ultimately exterminated by the para
sites preying upon it. He affirms that the
potatoe beetle IS being greatly reduced in
number from like cause.
THIRTY miles of sewer pipe have been laid
in the city of Memphis, and the city is clean
or fhon II hos haop hofOro for tvpo fU
Will it require an epidemic to make this city
obey necessary sanitary laws?
A doctor has discovered that chewing gum
is made of myrospermuE taluefernum. We
we're posted on the taluefernum, but the my
rospermum staggers us. Perhaps this dis
covery will account for the Wideopenum con-
dition of the Packer Institute girls topand-
bottc M awnum.
PAULINE LUCCA, according to French
newspaper, cares but little for money. Late
ly an American impresario offered her ST.
900, 900 to make tour of Australia But the
diva refused, saying that she had enough to
live on, that she liked to sing for the love of
art and that she had no need of Australian
gold.
The largest sapphire in the world is owned
by member of the Polytechnic Society of
Berlin. 1t weighs nearly fifteen ounces, and
were it of the first water would be worth no
less than 81, 500, ,O0O But it is not absolutely
free from impurities, which materially dimin-
ishes its value. Still, enormous bids have
been made for it by German princes and
wealthy mineralogists, without avail.
A German at Stuttgart has patented pro-
cess for taking photographs on leather. A
coating of copal varnish is put upon the
leather and well dried; then second coating
is placed over it. composed of albumen and
white lead. When this is dry the faced
leather is ready for the silver bath, which
forms the sensitive surface. The compost
lion of the albumen and white lead varnish
need not be very definite. so long as the
stratum of lead deposited is thin and uniform.
The Thomaston (Ga.) Times thus describes
Zachary Gaultney, of Taylor county. in that
State, curiously deformed dwarf: "He is
twenty-f five years old and only forty. six inches
high. His general weight is 105 pounds, of
which his hands and feet will weigh half His
little finger is fourteen inches in circumfer-
snce, which will give some idea of the enor-
nous proportions of his hands and feet. One
If his hands will weigh at least twelve or
fifteen pounds. He converses fuently, and
seems to be well informed
Col. INGERsoIL closed lecture recently
n these words: II, too, believe-in the gos-
pei of happiness, in the gos~el of justice in the
gospel of liberty, snd in tue gospel of intel
ect. l do not take away hope, wish only
o destroy hell. would rather think of the
lead as growing in the grass or gurgling in
he stream than as suffering the :ortures of
he vengeance of On infinite God. There is
10 sorrow in the grave. Next to eternal Joy
s to be wrapped in the dreamless drapery of
everlasting peace. The honest man and the
owing woman have nothing to fear of the
uture. Upon this rock stand"