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Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-01-20
The American Tin Can.

An Idaho letter in the Cincinnati Comme,-
cidl has these bits:
Ofall the useful, beautiful, and ornamental
objects one sees in the Western country, the
great American Tin Can shines conspicuous
from atar as pre-eminently head and shoulders
above everything else. There are great dumps
of tomato cans, corn cans, jam cans, and all
varieties OF cans at every good camping place
in the hills, and each succeeding traveller adds
his contribution to the already monumental
piles have seen houses shingled with them,
glittering in the sunlight like mass Of
FURNISHED silver. OF course the bottoms and
tops of the cans were knocked out, and the
sides rolled out in sheets before being applied
to such use. Again, have seen these rolled
out tin cans nailed all along the cracks be-
tween the logs of a cabin, rendering the house
perfectly tight and warm, to say nothing of
the air of elegance such coating impaired.
One house of this kind had chimney COM
posed of a number of fsheet iron powder kegs.
set on end. While on our mountain trip we
our stove pipe and easily improvised
a new one from three or four tin cans which
we did not carry along with us, for we were
sure of finding material for a new chimney at
the next camping place. What would this
country be like with out our old familiar
friend, the tin can?
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-01-20
Thc .trt oI Conversation.

Now there is one way by which even the
stupiGcst of us may make his utteranceS IN
Variably interesting and often amusing, it is
here comes the great discOvery-by telling
the truth. The reason that the conversation
Of fools is 50 barren is, according to Il writer
in the Saturday RCricr, because it is never
their own; it is repetition of what they
havc heard or read last, and is always spoilt
in The retclling. they would only tell us
their own minds, their real thoughts and
opinions, their likes and dislikes, their prin-
ciplcS and their weaknesses, we should not
he left in such hopeless ignorance Of whittier
the world is tending; for, after all, the fools
are the most important class; the clever men
may preach and write and work, but with
all their effort, they can only slightly divert
the course Of the great solid block Of ignor-
Ynce and prejudice that rolls on so steadily
throughout the ages. If the wise could only
understand the foolish they might make the
world 90 their own way but the foolish
echo the words of the wise and keep their
thoughts to themselves. And how good
thing would it be if women wonld only
speak their minds! There is nothing that
honest men desire more than to understand
that mysterious race that is so like them and
yet so unlike, who share their homes but not
their thoughts, who are so shrewd. so prac-
ticable and SO irrational. The poor men
yearn to break down the invisible barrier
and see into the real life of those they love
so well; but the loved ones smile and chat
ter and say pretty things. and ingenious
things, and things they have borrowed from
men and improved in the borrowing, but |
never one word Of the real thoughts that are
working in their busy brains. So men fiat
ton, 1;,,
like it, and the women accept il because
they think it is mans nature; and the men
think the women are empty-headed angels;
and the women think the men are fine in
tclligent brutes; and the two classes 90 on
loving and despising one another accordingly,
and all for the want of a little truthfillness
IN conversation
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-01-20
Watch the Children'S Reading.

Parents should give the children the ad-
vantage of a good healthy library, and furnish
them with papers that respect the morals.
Select the matter for your children. Take
time, since the whole future of your son or
daughter may lie directly in the literature
which you place before them The writer
knows of eases that came under his own OBJ
servation which resulted in great harm, and
all the result OF reading filth You are in
terested in the future of your child; take
care of the reading matter. There is nothing
more injurious to the development of the
mind and the formation ofcharacter in Young
people than for them to form the habit of
reading corrupt literature, 1t is in such books
that the false side of life is given to the
young, and they will get the idea that life is
not the great, earnest battle which each must
fight for himself 1t is from what we read
that we derive many of our deeds and actions
in after life. If our reading is pure, the
thoughts obtained will likewise be pure; but
if it is degrading in its nature, it will pull us
down to level with itself
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-01-20
How to Hang Thermometers.

"Old Weathercock' writes to the St. Paul
Pioneer Press: There seems to be so many
erroneous notions among the many amateur
meteOrologists of the city about the mini
mum temperature OF the twenty-four hours,
and how to obtain it correctly, that a few
lines from an old Weathercock,' trust will
not be altogether lost. In the first place,
then, the temperature Of the wall of any
building at any hour of the night or day is
not the true temperature of the circulating
air, and is of no use to science A wood wall
radiates its heat more rapidly than a brick
or stone, and the amateur scientist who
hangs his thermometer on a wood wall can
force his mercury down below the amateur
who selects a brick wall. The proper way to
expose your thermometer is to surround it
with light wood frame covered with Stats
like shutter work, and rooted over This
will protect it from the direct rays of the
sun and reflected heat Run a light wood
bar across the center OF your instrument
shelter, to which you can attach thermome-
ters, which would be when properly exposed,
on the north side of the building, and the
thermometer at least one foot from all sur
objects. If these directions are fol-
lowed, erroneous reports of extreme cold
weather will not find their way into print 50
often. 1t is not a very funny thing for the
press to report 25o below zero, when 15o re-
presented the true temperature of the circu-
lating air. 1t gives persons abroad wrong
of your climate.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-01-20
H I'm General Grant,.
New York Herald.


Mr.. Warburton, the stenographer was
vending his way along the snowy and dirty
streets adjoining 9th avenue and 41st street,
on Wednesday evening, when he was stopped
by stranger, wearing heavy ulster and a
slouched hat, who inquired the way to the
Metropolitan Concert Hall.
% Pm going there myself" replied Mr.War-
burton, land shall be glad to show you the
way"
The two then walked ON together, and Mr..
Warburton opened the conversation by re-
marking that he supposed his companion
was going to the New England dinner. Re
ceiving reply in the affirmative, Mr.. War
burton said:
Il understand that was very enjoyable
dinner in Brooklyn last night ?"
Yes, was there" replied the stranger
That seemed to be very good speech
of President Hayes" pursued the steno-
grapher.
"Yes," was the response, Il thought he
spoke better than / had ever heard him
speak before" -
And" said Mr. Warburton, General
Grant seems to haye talkedn eiA-f@
"I'm General Grant interrupted the man
in the ulster. sl3ftss 4g.sfs,.,s
Mr.. Warburton stood still, mutual recog7
milton followed and the two went laghing to-
gether into the hall. .o ata
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-01-20
Elegant Bridal Costume.

Miss Flora Sharon, daughter of United
States Senator Sharon of California, who was
recently married to Sir Thomas Henry
Husketh, was on the occasion Of the ceremony
magnifcently attired. A San Francisco
paper says:
1.-THE bridal robe was one fit for queen
and never before was such costume
seen in this country. The gown was new
style of silk known as grOs de tour, the skirt
was one solid mass of embroidery wrought
upon white satin with beads, crystal and
pearls of the very best description, the pat
tern for which was copied from painting of
an old court robe now hanging in the gallery
of the Louvre, Paris. Down the sides of this
embroidered front piece were panels of point
dAngletere lace, fifteen inches wide with
reverse of the pearl embroidery that Joined
the under train over which fell second
train of the same magnificent silk, and which
is known as the Manteau de COur or. to put
it in English, the same style of court train
train that is worn at a presentation to the
English queen of to-day. 1t was put in deep
plaits on a band and joined to the waist un-
der the body, which was cut in points both
front and back, with bands of the same en-
broidery around the square-cut neck, down
the front and around the side and laced in
the back. The demi-sleeves were finished
with a fall of the same rich lace, about TWO
and half inches wide, and above it a band
of the embroidery, but the crowning feature
of the robe was the rich piece Of lace (also
point dAngleterre and the same width as the
panels) which commenced at the point of the
body in front, was carried gracefully over the
hips and met in the back, falling over the ell
tire train and reaching to the bottom Of it in
two broad waves, being caught to the gown
with bunches of white flowers of an indie
scribable style. A drapery of point dAngle-
terre Lace fell over the shoulders, meeting in
the front, and was held together by bunch
If arbepine flowers The ornaments were
most magnificent diamonds that once be-
Onged to her mother
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-01-20
The Greatest Volcano in the World.

The eruption of the volcano Mauna Loa,
on the Island of Hawaii, Sandwich Islands,
which began on the evening of November 5,
furnished a grand sight to the 18th Two
streams of lava ran beside each other for a
considerable distance. From both rivers of
red-hot matter there ascended dense columns
of steam and smoke, and these, as they went
on and united for time, formed an arch-like
avenue, through which there could be seen
for miles the dull glare of the boiling and
bubbling mass which steadily moved on its
way. Suddenly, here and there, great cones
would be thrown up, and again streams of
Java, as if unable to find a vent in any other
direction, were forced up in columns to the
height Of scores of feet. For more than thirty
miles from the outlet the liquid fire rolled
on, the width of the streams being from 100
to 200 yards, and their depth varying from
six and eight to twenty and thirty feet, ac-
cOrding to the nature of the ground over
which they made their way In places, too,
their front edge rose to a height of thirty
feet, presenting the appearance of an advanc-
ing wall of fire. From this mass great blocks
of matter continually crumbled and broke
of, falling with dull crash
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-01-20
America VS.. Europe.

The Indianapolis MechaaicM Journal has
the following in regard to the irrepressible
travelling Comstocker:
"A vell-known Comstock engineer. after
havingmade tour of inspection through
the mining districts of Germany, has report
ed his Onvictions that there is no engineer
ing in hat country to be compared with
that on he COmstock lode, and no mines in
which tae mechanical art is so ingenious and
effective His account of the crude and
primitive methods in many localities is
very gnphic. He reports for example, that
in certain deep mines in Bohemia, the hoist
ing apparatus consisted merely of open tubs.
and this the operating machinery was SO
poorly constructed that he dared not de-
cend. h most of the German mines. he
adds, th' men were compelled to walk up
and down to the scene of their labors, either
by an ncline or using long parallel stills.
which nDye up and down alternately about
six feet It a time The mode of ascending
and deciding on these is two steps from one
to the fther, as each ascends or decends.
where a mis-step would be certain death.
His remark that in the Comstock the men
went uI and down to and from the lowest
levels il two minutes, was received with
polite iniredulity. He refers to the mining
tools employed in the same uncomplimen-
tary terms and asserts that an average davis
work onthe COmstock would seem incredible |
to the miners of continental Europe"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-01-20
Trees in the West.

Probably fifty years hence there will be
abundance Of trees in the West. Agricul-
turists are rapidly awaking to the necessity
of planting them. The Fort Scott and Gulf
Railroad Company has begun the planting of
hundreds of acres of trees ON its lands. A
Boston capitalist has engaged company of
raisers of forest seedlings in Illinois to break
and plough q large area in Kansas, and plant
no less than 2,720 trees to the acre, and cult
vate these until they shade the ground. At
the end of that time-say ten years-the
plantations will be delivered over to the
owner. No trees less than six feet high are
to be counted. The Fort Scott Railroad has
adopted this plan, one advantage of which is
that the tree enterprise will be attended to
by experienced men, whose interest it will
be to make rs much of success of it as
DOSSihle
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-01-20
Helena, Montana, Thursday, January 20, 1881.
Beauty i'm Dress.

I Mrs. Hawels, in a volume entitled THE
Art OF Beauty" makes the following points
with regard to beauty in dress:
The reason that an ordinary low neck
with short sleeves looks worse in black than
III any other color is because the hard lines
about the bust and arms is too great a con-
trast to the skin. A low neck always les
sens the height, and black dress thus made
lessons still more, and it strikes the artistic
eye as cutting the body to pieces, in this
way; IT, you sec fair person dressed in a
low dark dress standing against the light
background some way off, the effect will be
that OF an empty dress hung up, the face.
neck and arms being scarcely discernble.
On the other hand against a dark back
ground the head and bust will be thrown up
sharply, and the whole dress and body will
disappear This effect common enough. is
eXcrably bad. If you must wear low.
Dlack bodice, let 1t be cut square, giving the
height OF the shoulders Cor, better, with the
angles rounded, for corners are very trying),
and have plenty of white or pale gauze or
thin black net to soften the harsh line be-
tween the skin and the dress at the edge of
the bodice, and thin black stuff has an equal
ly good effect, as it shades the whiteness of
'AA~ ioi>iAi ihio tilC tdtlk COlOI Ol lIt GOWN.
Only under these conditions does the sudden
contrast enhance, as some persons suppose,
the fairness of the complexion.
Short women should never wear double
skirts Or tunics-they decrease the height so
indeed, the trlnic is very
short and the skirt very long. So also do
large, sprawling pattens used for trimmings
let these be left to women tall enough to
carry them off. Neither let a very little
woman wear her hair half way down her
back; let her lift it clear up as high as pos
,ible.
Large feet should never be cased in kid
east of all white kid slippers-for kid re-
'eals so clearly the form and movements of
he feet, and stretches so easily that few feet |
nave chance in them !
Those who are very stout should wear
lothing but black; those who are very thin
hould put a little padding in their gowns;
nd neither should be in the least dccoNetee.
stripes in dresses give height
nd increase fullness, and therefore particu-
arly suited to very slight, small people, and
unsuited for stout figures
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-01-20
What il Costs to be Bridesmaid.

1T is no tritling expense to be bridesmaid
AT fashionable wedding" says Washington
correspondent to the Hartford Conn., Ere
ming Post. Lately a lady hearing another
ask her daughter if she was to be an at
tendant at certain wedding, promptly an
Swered No am tired of paying at least 500
for the dress she wears wherever she is a
bridesmaid. She has bought dresses for that
purpose seven times, and that is enough
OF course Il handsome present is always
given by the bridesmaid to the bride, which
adds considerable to the cost of her at
tendance on her friend. The best man" at
some weddings is forced to pay out good
round sum for bouquets for the bridesmaid.
know of one instance where young gentle
man, who could i'll afford it, was told that
he would be expected to present each of
twelve bridesmaids with bouquet of rose
buds. There were no groomsmen at that
wedding, and only six ushers, so the I'M
fortunate best man, after he had accepted
the post, was coolly toll that he would be re-
quired TO provide the round dozen of
bOuQuetS.'
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-01-20
The Felicity of Being an Editor.

III an editor omits anything he is lazy. If
he speaks of things as they are people get
angry. If he CLOSES over or smooths down
the rough points he is bribed If he calls
things by their proper names he is unfit for
the position of an editor. If he does not fur
nish readers with jokes he is an idiot If he
does he is a rattle-head, lacking stability.
If he condemns the wrong he is a good fellow
but lacks discretion. If he lets wrongs and
injuries so unmentioned he is q coward. If
he exposes public man he does it to crafty
spite, is the !ool of a clique, Or belongs to the
"outs.p, Ifhe indnlges in personalities he is
a blaekguaN If he does not his paper is dull
and insipid. a@ .-f
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-01-20
Warm Water the Proper Treatment for
hA Small POx.

An e4hange says: ''The late DR.. Charles
S. Woofuf wrote treatise upon small pox.
which gives several well-considered propo-
sitions. Dne of his ideas was that the disease
should h treated at the homes of the affiict-
ed persds by liberal use of warm water /:
that SUD o use of water would prevent the
incrustaion which usually follows the pres
ent mop OF treating the disease; that as
nature gradually threw off the effete matter
from thfskin, the pores should be kept clean
with walm' water. His idea was that the
disease fas purely a cutaneous one, and that
by the pocess ofwashing the skin constantly
with wanawater it is kept free from fever
ish feelil There is much in his treatise of
the disese that will command the attention
of the prhsicp f5 8r
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-01-20
Swift Sailing.

From the log of the ship Storm King is
OBTAINED an account of fast sailing, which is
probably the best on record. Leaving Rio
on October 26th, latitude 500 south in the
:. Atlantic was reached in thirteen days and
cape Horn was passed November 11th. On
the 24th day out latitude 500 south in the
faclflc, longitude 800 west reached, being
Just eleven days from latitude so to so. The
Equator was crossed in longitude 112o west.
forty-fTe days out, and the trip to the gate
made in exactly sixty-fve days The dis
tance is nearly ten thousand miles, and the
voyage is probably the shortest on record,
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-01-20
wonderful Things at which No One
Wonders.

we omit to admire, because things which
are full OF marvels for an investigation deem
er than we can reach have become chean
from custom in the eyes of man. Because
quo men were filed with five loaves all
men We're astonished every day the grains
Vi seed that are soWn are multiplied in a
1ullness OF ears and no man wonders. All
men wondered to see the water turned into
VINE. Every day the earth's moisture, being
Drawn INTO the root of the vine, is turned bV
the grape into the wine, and no man wonders
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-01-20
The Apprenticeship of the Future.

The slow decrease in numbers of trained
workmen, tho disappearance Of apprentices,
habit of attributing to republican institutions
and the American common school system
1t would be fairer, since like condition of
affairs exists in England, France and Ger
many, to find cause in the great industrial
enterprises of the day which have destroyed
the small shop with its apprentices and done
nothing to replace its training; while the
public schools have simply received boys and
girls for whom there was no practical oppor-
tunity to learn trade, the regular wages of
their parents enabling them to keep their
children at school past the age which was
customary century or two ago. .t..t..
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-01-20
Learn to be Short.

Long visits, long stories, long exhortatious,
seldom profit those who have to do with
them. Life is short; time is short moments
are precious. Learn to condense. abridge
@ anu intensity. mt We can endure many an ache
ana Ill if it it is soon over, while even
pleasures s grow insipid, and pain intole,able
Il they are protracted beyond the limits of
7 reason and convenience. Learn to be short
Lop OF branches stick to the main facts in
your case Boil down two words into one
short ~ 'o
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-01-20
A Patriotic Timepiece.

One can see at No. 958 Broadway, N. Y, a
ciock which cost eight years of j. c. Tauber,s
time to make. 1t shows, besides the ordin-
ary time, the revolution of the earth upon
It's axis, Its revolution around the sun. and
tn the position of all the planets in the zodiac
Inc clock is l8 feet in height and II feet
VIDE, and the woodwork, which was all
carved by Mr. Tauber, contains many repre-
sentatlons OF scenes from American history
the chief points being the signing of the De,
claratlon OF Independence, and of Lincoln's
of the slaves.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-01-20
A Solid Family.

Ihere is family ofeight in Wasco county.
oregon, whose aggregate weight is laos
pounds average, 163 pounds. The mother
Ieads , OFT with 225 pounds; the father fol-
lows with 200; the Oldest girl, 100; the sec
ond daughter, aged 18, already rivals the
mother, weighing 225; the third, aged Is, is
coming mp to the notch in grand style, and
welgns 2i0; the fourth weighs 100, bow,
Q years old, weighs so; and year old baby,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-05-23
APPENDIX.

The property OF the Trinity Mining Company situated IN
Mountain d trttt Lander County, Nevada, near
nrnl about fourteen miles from Battle Mountain station on
Central PIcnc Railroad. and about six miles nom the Ne
vada Central Railroad. which runs 10 Ansuu ami comprises
claims obtained by purchase, vi tie Trinity aud butte
each 1000 feet IN length along the lode by goo fret ia "i
The title n lndisputahle.
The trinity Mine l. largo ard wcldeGned mineral body
The consist OF argentcrous Rana ana the products OF
lis decomposition, these being oxides chlordes and car
and the Gaena containing from ~ 70 Oo per cent OF
lead, a being about 80 cent
mine capable OF supplying vast quantity OF ore io
concentration well armuneTauNc quantity OF ass
rrady for shipment and sale 10 snetoS without urthc
The Butte situated about mile from the Trinity
The vein matter II similar 10 that Of the Trinity.
will furnish large quantity uf ore ot very go
Grade VIII Increase this nj least two fod
while the grade wall be vastly more benencd
doubt that the Trinity and BUTTE Mines VIII
prove "A remunerauve investment 10 the owners
workings the Trinity Nine consist or Two
the OF the vein. The lower uin j.
upwa 800 feet In length The upper tunnel upM Al d.
OF 100 feet In length.
In addition there cutA, WINES and uprascA
The has been opened by tunnel upwards OF $40 fe'
length and two wines foryhye feet deep below the -
The development these mlnos establishes
their and pemancnce beyond all reasonable douuL
The company valuable min sits, water rights and
ample buildngs for dwellings shops stables, &C. anl tram
cars loading pockets, aud Toais aro already con.
structed.
best prices obtained for those already slipped
much sought for the being rich In lead easily worked
and valuable Tor their nuKing qualities shipment an
CITY per ton the full value they enabled
the sncers 70 work large quantity OF low grade ores poor
Eew.YorE. May 81, 1851