Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1880-04-22
ALL SORTS.

many cattle are dying.
GEN. SHERIDAN was 80 seasick on his gulf
trip that he almost threw up his commission.
GEN GARFIELD is building himself ahand-
some and picturesque new house at Mentor,
Ohio, having torn down the old one.
SRNAToR-ELECr MALONE, of Virginia,
weighs only ninety pounds, beating Hon.
Alexander Stephens by few ounces.
NEW English racing rules: In all cases
the horse that comes in first shall be declared
the winner, provided he is not bloody
Hamerican.
There is terrible famine at Mosul. Tur-
ksh- Koordistan. Four thousand of the in
are on the road.
VIM. Steadman, law student at Marshall,
Texas, killed himself, assigning as the cause
the rel jection of his application for admission
to West Point two years ago.
In publ shed letter President Woolsey,
of Yale, argues strongly against the breaking
of the national habit restricting the incum-
bency of one man in the presidency to two
terms.
Tucson, little place of 5000 inhabit-
ants in Arizona Territory, which the South
ern Pacific Railroad has just reached, dis
putes with st. Augustine, Fla, the honor of
being the Oldest city in the United States.
-Deadwood has an extensive water suit,
and it is said that it is terrible hard work to
find anyone who knows anything about the
element. They are perfectly at home on
whiskey.
The Chicago Tribune receives $35, 600
column one year; the New York sun and
Herald each receives $50, 723 year for their
cheapest column, and the price for preferred
position is three times that the New YORK
Tri6uue receives for its lowest column, $37,-
794, and for its hig hest $45, ,94S, and these
papers are never at lOss for an ADVERTISE
ment to fill their columns. Their patronage
comes not from any desire to assist their re-
spective papers, but from business men VINO
find it profitable 10 advertise.-Chseogo 1rs-
bune. -- r.
Bill Nye. in writing TO the Denver 2aS-
bune. has this to cay of some poems written
by Michigan girl: my idea would be to
take these poems snd remove the crown
sheet, then put in new running gear, upset
and brush the pitman, kalsomine the boiler
plate, drill new holes in the eccentric, raise
the posterior eccentric to a level with the
gang plank, slide the ash pan forward OF the
monkey wrench, securing it by draw-bars to
the top. gallant mizzen mast. Then, throw
ing open the condenser, and allowing the
cerrebullum to rest firmly against the vicar
ious whippety- -whop, fair time may be made
on gentle grade"
The Sumner monument has been placed IN
Mount Auburn cemetery, near Boston. II Is
in form of a sarcophagus, built in three
sections, and issseven feet long, four feet
four inches wide and four feet six inches
high. The base is well moulded, and the
die finely polished, having columns
with Ionic capitals and polished at the
corners. On the die is inscribed "Charles
Sumner" and on the reverse side, born
January z, 1911. Died March II 1874,
while the monogram is chiselled, having its
mouldings enriched with architectural foll-
age. The material ia fine white granite
THE arithmetic men out West are getting
in training for the next election. The Chicago
Times computes that If Mr.. Vanderbilt should
constantly reinvest and compound his income
from his present vast investments in Govern
ment bonds, he might, without living to be
very old man, come to have the whole ma
tional debt owing to him. This seems
startling predction-but the Buffalo E1pTeSs
pushes it step further: ''Suppose that MI.
Vanderbilt, having acquired the whole OF our
national mortgage, should take 1t into MS
head to foreclose Then, it is to be presum-
ed. he would bid in and own the whole United
States" ...taI
Norway must bea sort of sportsman's
paradise. Among the game which his gun
can bring down are the tydder, roer, ryper
and jerper, which are sufficiently outlandish
to English ears. The tydder is the bird
known of old in Scotland by the name of
capercailzie. The cock is q noble bird OF
the size of a turkeycock, with bill and
claws of great strength. The roer is the fe-
male. and in size, plumage and appearance
different from the male that it has received
different name. The ryper is the
Scottish ptarmigaD, but large and better
clothed. The jerper is delicate bird for
the table, of the grouse species, and ABOUT
the size of fullgrown pigeon. wood
cocks are also abundannt and OF delicious
favor. fat tr .'@t5
Clarence King, the head of the Geolog-
ical survey, makes a request of Cong
which the rapid iucrease in mining invest
ments throuohoL, the country will cause to
be received with general interest. Mr.. King
points out the fact that only portion of our
great mineral deposits are to be found on the
public lands, to which the survey is restrict
ed. An accurate and exhaustive presentation
of the mineral resources and products of the
country cannot be made unless the jurisdic-
ton is extended, as he proposes shall be done
by joint resolution, to the whole territory OF
the United States. His idea would be, he
states, to issue an annual volume of statistics
on the subject. 1t Is needless to say that such
volume would be sought by the public with
greater interest than usually attaches to Gov
ernment publications. Mr.. King predicts
for some time In the future an annual miner
'al yield of $1,000, ,000, ,000.-N p. Tribune.