Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1880-08-12
No. SO
ALL SORES.

| late suppers.
| Robert Morris estate has been settled after
"A years OF legal proceedings.
The State of California has $4,000 people
less than the city of Philadelphia.
The estimated population OF California is
| 1862, 78O, gain of 302, 533 since 1870.
Take no man into your confidence whom
you would be unwilling to take into your
home
Paul Boynton's next trip is to be from Fort
Benton, on the Missouri river, to st. Louis,
nearly 5000 miles.
The census returns give Oregon a popula-
ton of about 10000. Portland, exclusive
of Chinese, has 16,500.
DEADwCoD is the metropolis of Dakota,
with population of 3,773. Yankton is next,
with population Of 3,44.
The Omaha Herald says drink of Council
Bluffs whisky will make man go off to some
secluded place and rob himself.
THE Syracuse Herald complains that LIE
Due neglects his business in not giving the
condition of hops at the seaside in his crop
reports.
DR.. HOLLAND says of New England that
there is no place on the face of the earth that
contains 80 much human comfort to the
square mile.
The question az to whether bona fide to-
bacco dealers can sell stamps to each other
has been decided by the Commissioner of In
ternal Revenue in the affirmative.
Lindsay Muss has been messenger at the
Office of the Secretary of the Navy for more
than half century, having been appointed
under John Quincy Adams, July 10, 1928.
THIS years rice crop of Louisiana will be
great one-at least $50. 600 barrels in the
| aggregate which will be double the produc-
ton of last year-and the quality also prom
ises to be good.
A paper house, equipped with paper furni-
ture, paper carpets and curtains, paper
stove and paper dishes, together with stylish
clothing for its occupants, is among the curl
osities of the Sydney, Australia, Exhibition.
William Mcdowell. the census enumerator
for the town of Clarno. Green county, Wis
consip, is 76 years old, and yet performed all
his duties on foot, visiting every family in the
| town, and doing all his writing without the
aid of glasses.
THE following is an extract from theatri-
cal advertisement in Leadville: "Uninter-
rupted, successful appearance of sixteen
beautiful dizzy blones. Scale of prices To
the near-sghted, 81; at an altitude, so cents;
to the far-off, 25 cents
Vicar O'ConDor, of Nebraska, says that
from 10, 900 to Is, 900 persons have been lost
to the Roman Catholic Church in that State.
and that the children of Catholic parents
make the bitterest enemies of the church
when they forsake its teachings.
GAMBETTA is said to be greatly annoyed by
the escapades of a man who so closely re-
sembles him that be Is in daily fear of hav-
ing set down to his account exploits which
would not be in the least creditable to the
President of the Chamber of Deputies.
Two bummers who were lately picked out
of Chicago gutter, and pulled into handy
| station house, were asked for their names.
Whereupon one Of them promptly spoke up
and said, with q merry twinkle in his eye,
'rm Moody, and my friends Sankey."
WHEN Macaulay was an undergraduate he
attended an election meeting in Cambridge,
and was rewarded by dead cat being thrown
in his face. The man who hurled the often
sive article apologized by saying that he had
no wish to bit Mr.. Macaulay, as he intended
it for Mr.. Adeane. II wish." replied Mr..
Macaulay, ''you had intended it for me and
hit Mr.. Adeane."
Watermelons are unusually plentiful and
cheap this year at Galveston, and the capac-
ity of the colored citizens for chambering
them seems to be absolutely unlimited.
gentleman called to a colored man and
asked him to 90 over to his house and split
up some wood. "How long is it gwine ter
take?' about an hour, Ireckon." Cant
do it, boss I could eat five watermelons in
de time I'd be foolin' away at de wood pile"
REV. FREEBoRN GARRETTsoN under date
of July %, 1889, wrote the following in his
journal concerning "Mr. o." who tasted
forty consecutive days and nights, during
which time she did not eat mouthful OF
yictuals, and only drank water and few
times little small beer" No solids passed
through his body during the forty days. He
continued his regular labors, and from the
tenth to the nineteenth days of his fast he
seemed somewhat feeble, but after that he
grew strong, and looked nearly as fresh and
well as he ever did. After the forty days
were ended he ate as heartily as usual, and
found no injury from it, though his physi-
clan warned him that in doing so he risked
bis lfe." .sA,l
A CHICAGO man, who claims to be dia-
mond expert, gives TO the Tribune of that
city the following information, which owners
of gems may be Interested in: ''Ihere are
a great many so-calied solitaires sold as sin~
gle stones, which, when put under the blow
pipe. will come apart in single pieces, pat
| together for the American market. l have
detected them and separated them. TheFe is
not one diamond in ten sold in our market
| but is the refuse of the London market Fhey
| are sold at fictitious value, so that not half
Of the selling price can be got when put on
| the market Nearly ali are off color. specked