The Billings herald. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1882-1885, 1883-02-01
OLA poDRIDA.

James, has been WITHDRAWN.
The New York Tribune has recently de
clarcd a dividend of 25 per cent.
Oregon gets $4,000 and California $i4,
600 for suppressing the Modoc war.
Smallpox is raging in nearly all of tn,
towns in southern New Mexico and ole
Mexico.
John T. Cough, the great temperance
orator, has declared against the prohibi
tionists.
The daughters of eX-Presidcnt Hayes
and the late President Garfield, are school.
mates, at Cleveland.
ID. NJ. Bennett, editor of the Truth
Seeker, paper devoted to atheistic prin-
ciplcs published in New York City, died
Wednesday, aged 81.
! The ice crop is immense and the country
is interested in trying to discover what ex-
cusc will be offered by dealers next sum
mer for putting up prices.
I. S. Cowles, night editor Of the Chicago
Tribune has resigned his position and
taken the presidency Of a newly incorpor-
atcd sporting periodical The American
Sports.
Within the last three years two thousand
IN the State of Maine Upon this basis it
is calculated that one out of every ten mar
riagcs in that State results in divorce.
They don't mince matters down in Ala
bama. a young man at Tuskekec went to
see his lady love the other night and stay
cd 50 late that the girls mother brought i'll
dozen eggs and asked him to hatch them
for her.
The Cicincinnati Commercial Gazette
prophcsies that the breeding of great men
will yet become science, and that brains
will be inherited with the rest of the patri-
mony. Then we shall look out for fewer
consultations of newspapers than there are
BOW.
OF the 10000 inhabitants Of Portland,
Oregon, 1900 arc Cinnamon and about the
same proportion live in the smaller towns
along the Pacific coast. There are 10000
Cinnamon employed Oh the various rail
roads in course of construction north of
California and west of the mountains.
The word ''blizzar,I" has rcdccning
fcaturc--it does not lend itself easily to the
rhymstcr. 1t is a very difficult word to
handle, and ''gizzard'' anh ''wizzard," "
which would fit it tolerably well as far as
sound goes, cannot, as rule, be appro-
priatcly be used in verse on the weather.
\ livery man was sued for damages at
Nebraska City because the horse which he
had hired ont to a young couple for drive
ran away and threw them out of the sleigh;
but lie proved by the plaintiffs own testi-
mony that struggle for a kiss was the
cause of the accident, and the jury acluit-
| ted the !.urse Of all blame
A fire insurance man writing to q st.
Louis new "cr, declares that the bust
ness in which he is engaged has for the
last ten years been improbable to the
companies. We have vet to find news
| paper reader who ever saw letter to the
editor" from an insurance agent saying
! that his business was profitable.
Owing to the smallpox epidemic in
Baltimore, the health inspectors have been
placed in the dcpots, and passengers are
closely scrutinized, while each turnpike
leading into the city is watched by the
police Two thousand cases are reported
| in Baltimore, and Of these only 800 wcrt
reported to the Health Department.
The first poem written by W. D. How
! ellis, for which he received compensation,
wa. eight lines in length, and was publish
! ed in the Atlantic Monthly, some years be
| fore he became the editor of that magazine
or had any lame as writer and an author
He was paid twenty-five dollars for the
poem, a little over three dollars line.
1t is said to be fact that certain New
, York man is so absent minded or stupid OF
forgetful-the terms are synonomous-tha
he cannot, without consulting card tel
his own name and address. The person
who can tell how the said man remember
tha: he carries such card can doubtless
convince Others of the truth of the story.
San Francisco has just bad its frs
sleighing in twenty years, as the result Q
the only heavy snow-storm i'll that period
Thousands of young folks Saw snow fo
the first time in their lives. Sleighs ,wer
hurridly constructed, both for coasting ant
driving. One of the city's millionaires wa
seen in a plain box, under Which wcr
runners made of planks with the end
rounded off.
/ The statement that all trains cnterin
Houston, Texas are covered with snow
, gives some idea Of the magnitude OF the RI
cent storm. An Italian was frozen t
death in attempting to walk a few miles t
station near Victoria, and it is fcare
that large numbers of Texas cattle wi
perish for lack of food. The ponds in Nc
yada are frozen solid, and live stock hav
. no place to quench their thirst.
A paper read before the New y ork Hi:
torical Society recently discussed the que
ton. "Whcre is Columbus bO6y?' 1t al
pears that his body was buried in onl
, four different places when the last return
came in, and if one Of these spots was IL
Lebanon Cemetery in Philadelphia, it
pretty difficult to tell where the body
now. His friends should investigate tt
matter, and let no guilty man escape
TNorristown Herald.
When the Prince of Wales was in Ric'
mond, Va, he drank what he had tastt
never before-a mint julcp. The glass