The Billings herald. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1882-1885, 1883-02-15
OLA PODRIDA.

several valuable horses are reported to hav
succumbcd to the disease.
Sir Edward NJ. Archibald, the retiring
British consul general at New York, say
ne will pass the remainder of his days il
America.
Josh Billings has found one thing tina
money cannot buy, and that is the wag o
dogs tail. 1t is an honest expression 0
opinion on the part Of the dog.
From ten to twelve thousand tons of sal
have been gathered along the shores of tht
Great Salt lake this season. There is ;
large surplus of common salt over from
last year, and this caused a gathering of &
less amount than usual.
A western preacher, whose congregation
had began to fall off somewhat, had it in.
tima:ed that he would discuss family
scandal the following Sunday. AS a con,
sequence the church was crowded. The
minister's subject was Adam VS.. Eve
England pays S46, coo 600 for pensions and
America 500, 900, 900, but they do not use
the same kind of mathematics and book
keeping that we do hence the number of
crippled soldics diminishes with them and
increases with lis the farther we get from
war.
Madagascar is rather larger than France.
4 belt of almost virgin forest runs around
the island. The population is about four
millions, and the soil will easily support
thirty millions Indian rubber is the
chief export The mineral wealth is enor-
nous.
Science is continually shattering our
idols. An Australian naturalist has con-
clusively established that the kangaroo
does not boost himself with his tail when
he leaps. Thus another prop is knocked
from under our pet thcorcs-also from
undor the kangaroo.
For more than year the New York fire
department and the police have been an
noyed by false fire alarms. Two months
ago the matter was placed in the hauds of
Inspector Byrnes, and yesterday his detcc-
tives captured nine young men, whose
confessions show them to be not only
senders out of false alarms, but burglars as
we'll. The prisoners with the exception of
one, reside in the city.
Queee Victoria has her own pariamcn-
tary reporter, and whether she is at Wind
sor, Balmoral. or in the Isle Wight, she is
acquainted with the proceedings of both
houses long before any of her subjects.
On ordinary occasions brief abstracts Of the
debate are telegraphed to her majesty: but
should the discussion be of exceptional
fuller reports are sent and con-
tinued down to the close Inf the debate and
the taking of the division.
An exchange says: ''An interesting con-
test is going on in California, viz, whether
instinct is better than science and engineer
ing sla:ii. The miners on Feather river
have repeatedly tried to dam that stream,
but the raril lcurrent during the floods in
variably has swept away every vestige of
the dam. a colony of beavers have now
engaged iu building a dam, and the miners
are protecting them from molestation.
old hunters say one of their dams was
never known to wash ont"
A new style of nickel which Just issued
from the mint about two weeks ago is thus
described. The coin is slightly heavier
than the ordinary nickel, is thinner and
little larger. On the face is woman's
Liberty" and surrounded by thirteen
stars. Upon the other side is wreath sur
large Roman V, Over the
is the inscription, United States
of America" and under it "E Pluribus
Unurn." The new coin is much handsomer
than the old ones
Chicago Intcr-Ocean: The Colorado leg
islat,lre elected two senator's last week
One is worth 80 ZOO, 900 and the other is
worth $5,O0O,000 There already eleven
in the senate. Davis of Hi
nOis, Brown of Georgia, Camden of West
Virginia, Cameron, of Pennsylvania, Davis
of West Virginia, Hale of Maine, Hill of
Colorado, Miller Of California, Pcndleton
of Ohio, Sawyer, of Wisconsin, Fair of
Nevada, and it will soon be as difficult for
u poor man to 90 there as it is for a rich
man to 90 to another place
Governor Hamilton, of Illinois, it is said,
owes much, if not all. of his success in life
to great ambition of his wife, who is an in-
telligcnt and lovely woman. She was en-
gagged to be married to the youthful GOV
crnor while both were attending the same
future for her bctrothcd. and persuaded
him to read law. In all his political bat
ties Mr. Hamilton has been guided by the
wisdom and good sense of his wife, who.
like General Logan's wife, is thoroughly
conversant with the shoals and shadows of
political life.
A Long Beanch correspondent Of the
Cincinnati Enquirer, describing scene at
a juvenile hotel ball, says: Il saw young
lady watching one of the little misses
whose plump legs were covered with light
blue stockings, with elaborate embroidery
at the insteps and delicate vine trailing
over the ankles. and there was unmstak-
able envy in the expression of her face as
she said: 'Heigho, I wish ] was little
girl again. The truth was, you see, that
she had on as fine stockings as the young
stcr, but could not show them"
Fashionable women who are addicted to
dogs now make their little darlings' robes
Of the same material as their own dresses,
so the pair are exactly matched intellectu-
all, aIl son;ull,r A 1rl.o ;c Lal.