Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1880-04-08
No. II
ALK. SOkSTN.

altering 1t over INTO Inc game OF nlleen.
GOVERNOR TABOR, of Colorado, is going
| to use part of his large fortune in building
handsome opera house in Denver.
"A brickmaker> at Walla Walla has con-
traced to furnish 750, 0O0 bricks this season.
A circumstance suggestive of prosperity.
1t is said that recent count shows that
10, 600 persons passed out of the doors of u
leading hotel in New York city in one day.
The Sutro tunnel has so far cost about
"a, O9O, ,O0c The company has $3.50 acres
of mineral land thought to be valuable, and
$494, 1874 SO in other property.
There is one virtue possessed by the coored
people of this continent which does not pre-
vail among the whites. If you tell them
secret they are sure TO keep dark about it.
When we are out of sympathy with the
young, then our work in this world is over.
That is sign that the heart has begun to
wither, and that is dreadful kind of old age.
OHIO robbers bavn't quit the grave-rob-
bing business, as newspaper readers may
| have been led to believe. They have simply
gone over into Indiana, where the soil is
more sandy.
THE steady and able manner in which the
Democratic msjority in Congress continues
to accumulate campaign ammunition for the
Republican party is one of the most convinc-
ing assurances of the perpetuity Of the re-
public.
Alexandria, Va, boasts of a colored lodge.
part of whose title is 1.-THE Grand Council
of the Grand Council of the Grand and An
cient Order of the Sons and Daughters,
Brothers and Sisters of Moses of the United
States and of the World at large"
Girls are just what they always were, for
an old song says that young ladies are made
up of
Dresses and bonnets, ribbons and sonnets;
Boarding-sch gracee, fonnces and laces;
And sweet pretty faces.
Mr.. r. II. DANA I'LL, the youn gentle
man recently married to MIR. Longfellow's
daughter, was the most noted athlete in his
class at Harvard. Since leaving college be
has broken down physically, and has just
made journey round Cape Horn for the re-
coyery of his health.
In order to refresh the minds of our read
ers we give the list of wedding celebrations:
Three days, sugar; sixty days. vinegar; first
anniversary, iron fifth, wooden tenth, tin;
fifteenth, crystal; twentieth, china twenty
| fifth, linen fortieth, woolen; forty-htth,
silk fiftieth, gold seventy fifth, diamond.
In sterile tract of country between Dares-
Salaam and Nyswasswa, the elephants at
tached to the Belgium elephant expedition
marched uninterruptedly without food for
FIVE hours, each animal carrying at the time
burdens weighing twelve hundred weight.
MIR. P. B. Cogswell of Concord, N. H., is
endeavoring to raise funds for monument
to mark the grave of N. P. Rogers, the anti
slavery advocate, who died thir.y-three years
ago. There is q tradition that Mr.. Rogers
oI frionHo
while single slave remained in the United
States
1t is proposed to build in certain districts
on the western frontier of Kansas churches
made of sods A tew such already exist.
The walls are of soda, and the floors are of
earth. A church can be built, in size about
26 by &c. for an outlay in money of only $40,
and this has already been, done In at least one
instance. A wall ot Gods, if properly built
and protected, win last hundred years.
Roofs of shingles and floors of wood are
greatly to be desired, but, of course they add
very much to the cost of church.
A three-year old child in Cleveland is
slowly petrifying The flesh is as cold and
almost as hard as marble, and it can only
move it's lips and eyes. It sleeps with its eyes
open, presenting most singular spectacle.
The disease is one of the connective tissues
between the outer skin and the flesh, whose
origin is unknown, bot -is supposed to be
caused by perverted nutrition. The child
must die, as complete petrifaction will ensue.
Until six months ago it was in perfect health.
A GEORGIA lawyer defending handsome
young lady charged with larceny closed his
appeal to the jury thus: "Gentlemen! you
may hang the ocean on grapevine to dry,
lasso an avalanche, pin napkin to the mouth
of q volcano, skim the clouds from the sky
with teaspoon, throw salt on the tail of our
noble American eagle, whose sleepless eye
watches over the welfare of the nation;
paste For Rent on the moon and stars but
never for a. moment delude yourselves
with the idea that this charming girl is guilty
of the charge preferred against her," The
jury acquitted her without leaving their seats.
AssIsTANT-SEoRErARY-oF OF STATE John Hay
is quoted by the Leader, of Cleveland, as say
ing that at dinner not long ago with Senator
Blaine, he felt more than ever that he had
never seen man with such universal and
exact knowledge. Blaine was at home on
every subject of conversation; :,'', whether Of q
naturalist he could discourse minutely and
intelligently on the most abstract theories
of evolution. With physicians he could dis
cuss the latest theories of disease, while his
knowledge Of mechanics apd chemistry was
such that he could explain the newest dis
coveries In electricity ind the application of
steam. OF wit; be was overfowiDg. In liter.
ature he was c0pious with criticisms and me-
moirs of the best authors. AS story-teller
nobodv at the table conld approach the
perfection of Blaine. In Colonel Hays
estimation not only was the Senator the prince
of politicians, but he was the king Of good
fellows.