Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-02-24
ALL SORTS,

cific road at Powder river.
Kisses are the right kind of smacks to
sail down the stream of life.
Man wants but little here below, but he
prefers that little abore Zero
The Legislative Assembly of Idaho will
adjourn on the 22d Of this month.
During the past week the losses by fire
in the United States aggregate S653,OOO.
The Deadwood post Office did a money
order business of $279 2243.62 during the past
year.
Mountain lions are giving good deal
Of trouble to the ranchmen of the Black
Hills.
The ditferen ce between woman and all
umbrella is that there are times when you
can shut up an umbrella.
A man never looks so much like red
handed villain as when he is told by the pho
tographer to "look pleasant"
-Justus Ramsey, Brother of the Secretary
Of War, who suicided sh Ort time since, left
a fortune amounting to upwards of 100000
Senator Hannibal Hamlin wears no over
coat, even in the coolest weather of winter.
One old swallow-tail with him makes contin-
ual summer.
The DeadwOod Pioneer says recent run
on the faro banks resulted in their suspen-
sion. One lucky individual carried away
$4,000 OF the wealth.
Go thou not unprepared to thy prairie
home, but fold closely thy raiment about
thee lest the tongue of the northwest wind
lap thee into eternity.
The Homestake Company begins 1881
with their twenty ninth dividend of tn irty
cents per share, aggregating $4,000. Total
of twenty-nine dividends, S97OO0O.
The Baltimore Ecery Saturday commen-
ces an item with "An old woman died in the
west end last week." 1t is supposed the re-
suit was just as fatal as if she had died all
over.
H. H. Warner, of Rochester, n Y, of
fered prize of 5000 for the discovery OF any
comet during the year. If the young man
comes home -lasen now, YOU know, he has
good excuse. sfs.. "a
The fashionable spring bonnet for 1881
is to be profusely decorated with flowers, and
provided in the rear with fire-escape, so that
the wearer's friends can climb to the top and
see the trimmings.
A California exchange says: The west
ern slope of the Sierra Nevadas contains to-
day more abandoned timber slowly decaying
than would be required to furnish fuel for
every home in the State for the next five
years.
Fashionable young women wear small
at the end of their chatelaines
now. A pig, a sheep, an elephant and liz
ard make neat group, and the addition of
silver mouse and golden calf causes the wearer
to be the envy of her sex.
king Kalakaua threatens to sell the
Sandwich Islands to the emperor of China.
The king wants to make another American
tour and have some more fun with the boys,
and it will require money to meet the tinan-
cial issue which the trip will raise.
When the Lords Prayer was offered up
by the chaplain in the Nevada Senate, it is
reported that Legislator Doolin remarked to
Legislator Hammond: HE stole that prayer,
III bet. / heard something like that at a
funeral more than two years ago.
There was a fight imminent between
two boys the other evening One of them
larkly limited that he was bigger than the
other. The smaller who is the son of dea-
con, defantly retOrted: II don't care if you're
IS big as church debt; you can't scare me-"
-" What does the Winter Bring 2" is the
title OF poem about yard long, which has
recently been inflicted upon an innocent and
ong suffering public After carefully con-
'idering the matter, we are of the opinion
hat the principal things that winter brings
ire swear words and cold feet.
In some of the Islands of the South Pa
citic, where the clam attains great size, div
ng for clans is one of the occu pations of the
natives. At some of the church fairs in the
United States the oysters are usually of small
ize, and diving for oysters is one of the
of the natives.
The Homestake Company advertise for
OO0O cords of wood and 100000 feet of
nine timbers for the year 1881 The amount
# timbers required to fill this contract would
make over $4,000 cords of wood and the
ther mills at Terraville and Central will
Onsume about the same quantity, which
makes an aggregate of over 900 cords of
VOOd needed for fuel next seasOn.-Black
ILLS Pioneer
The reported appearance Of several well
efned cases of pleuro-pneumonio amonga a
ot of calves shipped from New York to Iowa
creating CONSERVATION among cattle men
the West. This disease has proved dis
strOus in Europe, and the fear is that it may
ain fOOt-hOld ON western SOIL Immedi-
te legislation upon the subject is asked of
congress. IT,
-Tennyson had his hair cut by Sauerwein,
London barber, the other day, and the
night of the scissors made quite specula-
on by disposing of the locks One enter
rising American offered handsome sum
II the entire CROP ald enthusiastic women
imirers were persistent in their demands
# a few hairs to work into rings and breaches
souvenirs
The Inyan Kara mountains, about forty
lies from Deadwood, are said to be nnde-
elOped bOnan zas-that oil flows from them
which is gathered up by rude
'ocesses, and sold to the mills for lubricat-
g purposes. The Deadwood Times believes
at the erection of first-class oil refinery
the Hills during the present OF coming
ar is not at all improbable.
Before marriage, :.
With wondrOus care,
She seeks the mirror
saifiss And bangs her hair.
me After marriage,
With angry glare la}
s She grabs her slipper
And bangs her heir.