The Billings herald. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1882-1885, 1883-03-29
OLA PODRIDA.

A Touring mill with the capacity t o make
! ZOO barrels of flour per day, is to be built
on the banks of the Willamette, below
Portland this year
Eyes" said the wood dealer II prefer to
sell wood to men who do their own saving,
You can't convince man who has worked
all day at wood pile that there isn't full
cord Of it.
snuff and smoking and manufactured to-
bacco will be eight cents per pound, and
not eighty cents, as reported in several
newspapers.
A recent snow storm in Rome, the eter-
nal city, was as much an astonisher as was
snow storm the past winter in San Fran
cisco. Snow is very seldom seen on the
banks Of the Tiber.
One of the youngest married couples on
record was seen at Castle Garden few days
ago. The husband was II and and the
wife 1G years of age, and they had two
children of their own. They are from
Hamburg.
1t is rumored that the larger part of Gen.
tral New York will be set out in hops this
year. Thousands upon thousands of hop
poles are now passing over the railroads
| leading from the region of northern New
York and Canada.
Georgia claims to have contributed the
word "bogus" to the American vocabulary,
the adjective having its origin in a land
lottery conducted by William a Bogus
who succeeded in swindling nearly every
body in Augusta before he decamped to
Arkansas.
A well clad and respectable man recently
created great stir in London by prone
nading the streets sandwiched between two
boards which bore these placards: "Gener-
al postoffice. Discharged for not saluting
clerk Twenty-Five years her majesty's
servant.
A lady of experience observes that good
| way to pick up husband is to see how
patiently the man waits for dinner when it
is behind time. If he doesn't do anything
more violent than kick the furniture and
blaspheme he is mighty patient and good
natured man.
A Cleveland young man came to grief
when he attempted filtration in a street
car with the wife Of fireman. The wo-
man was accompanied by her husband,
who noticed the impudent attempt and re-
sented the insult by threshing the heart
crusher then and there.
A Georgia court has decided that man
has no right to take off his coat and sit in
his shirt sleeves in railway car. The
drummer who did so and refused either to
go into the smoking car or put his coat on
again, and was put off in consequence at
the first station, has lost the suit which he
brought for damages.
\ few years ago the legislature Of Arkan-
sas changed the name of Clayton county to
to Clay county. \ bill has just passed the
senate of that State to transform Dorsey
county !I.,o Desoto county. Ex-Senators
Clayton and Dorsey are no longer names
To bc honored.
= son of George Francis Train is to be
married shortly to Charles Thornc'5 daugh-
ter. The union Of the children of two
notahles is quite social event in New
York and will create sensation. Miss
Thorn has proved herself clever actress,
with not little of the talent of her father.
Mrs Jesse James and Mrs. Zerelda Sam
uels arc about to begin suit for breach of
contract against Chambers, the publisher
of the Life of the James Boys" The cx-
act cause of the action is not stated but,
it is supposed to be the omission Of one or
two murders and half-scorc of train rob-
berries.
The question as to whether husband
has right to exact that his better half
shall build the fire is to be settled in Indi-
| ana. A minister's wife has raised the issue
in suit for divorce. The jury in the case
have solemn duty to perform. This is a
time when married men should stand to-
gether.
| Fear of assassination does not exist
among the high officials of Russia alone.
in, hnr
high magistrates are guarded by special de-
| tectives, some of the detectives living even
in the houses of the assumed to be en-
dangered lords. All this since the assas-
sinalion of Lord Caycndish.
Colonel 1ngersoll says: IF the Missis-
| sippi and it's tributaries were filled with
pure whiskey; if the bands were loaf sugar,
and all the low lands covered with mint,
| there would be no more drunkenness than
there is to-day" Perhaps not; but therc'd
be hades of an emigration to the West
| [Boston Post.
A new use for paper has just been patent
ed, II is to make panels for doors, as a
substitute for wood, which warps and
shrinks, and Of iron, which is too heavy.
The patent claims to make doors of every
variety and kind, more solid, more durable
and better than wood. There seems to be
no end to the use of paper,
The way Michiganders are rejoicing over
the immense quantity Of pine lumber pro-
duced in that State last year, and which
forms large part of their business, re-
minds one Of the fable Of the goose tha!
laid the golden egg. At the rate at which
their forests are being cut away, there will
soon be none left, and Michigan, without