Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1880-03-04
No. IS
ALL SORTS.


paid 800, 900 for new picture by celebrat-
| ed artist.
THE ex-Khedive has tried in vain to get
| Neapelitan bank to advance $40, 900 on some
jewels.
THE Colorado papers claim that 100000
votes will be cast in that State at the next
election. ..s.
THE Japanese government is laying sub
marine cable to connect the different islands
of the Empire.
DURING October last over 35, 900, 600 postal
cards were sent from the factory-the largest
months business ever done.
BLAINE AND WAsHBURNE is the ticket
stoutly called for by the Republican press and
people of Pennsylvania.
WHEN standing army of 500, 900 men is
not sufficient, it looks as if Germany was de-
termined to have peace if she had to fight
for it.
The Republican Central Committees both
of Arizona and Washington elected Blaine
men to represent their respective Territories
in the Republican National Convention.
Two THOUSAND Republicans of Central
Ohio, many of whom are said to be the ablest
and most skilful workers in the party, signed
the call for the enthusiastic Blaine meeting
held at Columbus on the 10th.
The Rockford QlL) Register says that in
vitation to wedding, not thousand miles
from that city, are made to read, through the
error of the printer: ''Mr. and Mrs. re-
quest your presents at the marriage of their
daughter"
WENDELL PHILLIPS in one of his lectures
illustrates the precocious talent of Young
America by saying that of two babies placed
in their cradles, side by side, one will design
an automatic rocking attachment and the
other compose politicsl speech.
BEN HILL is as good lawyer as there is
in the South, and would be in easy circum-
stances if he only had cheek enough to
charge good fees. In the Metcalf case he
only charged $4,000, and then allowed
them to cut him down to 100000 Accumu-
lating fortune is uphill work with Hill.
SAM WARD the only man on this terres-
trial ball who knows how TO cook ham, has
got beneath The insular crust Of London ar
istocracy, and they like him 80 we'll that
they are bound to hold on to him. The next
thing they know Mr.. Ward will be manag-
ing the third house of Parliament
The New York Tribune says: The State
of Maine is to be congratulated. Pillsbury,
the originator of the late unsuccessful bur-
glary, has decided to take up his abode in
Boston, "to practice his profession. Every
holder of burglar alarm patent, with an eye
to business, will food Boston with agents i'm
mediately.
SENATOR PENDLETON is described as living
in stately and magnificent manner in Wash
iDgton-which undoubtedly he has right to
do-and the Dayton Journal says pleasantly
that he 'may be Democratic in politics, but
he is not so in his personal habits, for he is
as hard to reach as an oyster in the soup.
bowl of a charity entertainment
NEW YORK Mail: The fool-kler has been
very negligent in the performance of his ar
duous duties, or be would have attended to
the idiot who set aaOar the rumor that Mr..
Blaine would take the, nominati on for the
Vice Presidency on the same ticket with
Grant. There isn't enough substance in this
silly attempt to introduce practical jokes into
the campaign to entitle it to denial.
A PENNSYLVANIA farmer vigorously de-
fends Gen. William g. LIE Due in the Phila-
delphia Times, and asserts that the depart
ment of agriculture under his management,
has become. for the first time in its history,
of great value to cultivators of the soil, be-
cause it is the first time that practical. edu-
Gated farmer has been placed at its head.
MATTHIAS POWERS, a miserly old man OF
Philadelphia, whose estate is valued at
quarter of million dollars, has been ordered
to pay fifteen dollars week for his wife's
support. She brought suit, complaining
that she had been compelled to live on pota-
toes, mush and sour milk, and was ill-tIeated
by her husband and daughters. She de-
manded comfortable subsistence out Of the
estate, as she had helped in its accumulation
by attending market for years, rain or shine,
and selling the produce of farm.
"UNoLE DIoK," the biggest locomotive in
tn e world, weighs si4ty-fve tons, and Is
ninety feet long from headlight to rear of
tender. The boiler is twenty-one feet long,
cylinders 20x26 inches, and there are eight
torty-two inch driving wheels, against which
a break pressure of seventy-five tons can be
applied. The grades of the Atchison, Tope-
ka & Santa Fe road, where this monster To-
comotive is used, are SO heavy in some places
that one end of "Uncle Dick" will often stand
three feet higher than the other. And yet
this monster will rush up the Rocky Noun
tains with ten loaded cars behind it.
BENJAMIN FISH, of Trenton, n j., has
rounded up ninety-four years of remarkable
existence. BE loaned Commodore Wander
bilt 81, 600 when the Commodore first started
in his career; brought down the first anthra-
cite coal that descended the Delaware in 1885,
the old stage line and steamboat
company between New York and Philadel-
phia ifty-fve years ago; was one OF the first
Directors of the Camden & Amboy Railroad
in 1880, and has been elected every year since.
In 1888 he drove the first freight car that
moved over the road between South Amboy
and Bordentown. Horses were used that