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Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-03-29
Railroad Literature.

Gen. q. X. Barnes, the efficient head of the
passenger department ..of the Northern Pa
cific railroad, has recently issued folder
OF fifty-odd pages, tastily designed, replete
with interesting sketches of the country
reached by his road, of the principal cities
and towns along the line, of the National
Park, and containing other matter particu-
larly valuable to the tourist and traveller
over the Great Northern Short Line The
present publication is about the best and
most comprehensive of its kind that has
! come to our notice from any source, and in
contents and arrangements is creditable to
the talent and taste of Gen. Barnes. We
copy the following from the publication re-
lating to Montanas chief city:
Helena, the capital of Montana has a
population of 5000, which will without
doubt be increased to 10000 before the close
of the present year. Tt is the commercial
and financial centre of the Territory, where
all the stage, telegraph and express routes of
the country converge 1t has four national
banks, the individual deposits in which
amount to over $3,OOO,OOO, fine opera house,
with seating capacity for l 200 people, two
daily papers and U. S. assay Office. In the
number of hotels, churches and schools, fine
and tasty dwelling houses, general stores
and public buildings, Helena compares favor
able with other places of equal population.
Foundries, saw and grist and planning mills
wagon factories, etc. are located as required
in the vicinity of the city, and a telephone
exchange gives connection not only between
the various business houses, but with the
towns and mining camps within a distance
of fifty miles. The city is lighted by the
Brush electric light system, and we'll sup
piled with pure water from mountain
streams. 1t has also well organized and
equipped fire department. Helena is stu
ated in the centre of mineral region unsur-
passed either in Montana or elsewhere for
the number and richness Of it's gold and sill
yer bearing leads. The Drum Lummon mine
has recently been sold to English capitalists
for $1,500,O0O. Besides the gold and silver
lOdes, veins of galena, copper and iron are
found in great numbers, and with the compile
ton of the Northern Pacific railroad to the
center Of this vast mineral district, provid-
ing cheaper transportation to eastern markets
of ore and bullion, millions of dollars will be
invested in the construction of new mills
and smelters, thus giving employment to
thousands of men. Among the attractions
of Helena are the noted Hot Springs, situ-
ated in romantic glen four miles west of
the town, which are much resorted to by
persons afflicted with rheumatism and other
kindred diseases. The temperature of the
water as it bubbles up from the earth varies
from 1100 to 1902 Fahrenheit.
These "folders" are for free distribution,
ard can be had at the company's office in
this city
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-03-29
An Interesting Discovery.
London Jewish World

Among the Chaldean cylinders recently
discovered by Mr.. Rassam in the course of
his excavations in Babylonia, and upon which
Mr.. Theophilus G. Pinches read most in
teresting paper at the last meeting of the
Society of Biblical Archaeology, is one of the
most remarkable yet found, by reason of the
light it throws upon the ancient chronology
of the Chaldean empire. 1t dates from the
time of Nabonides and records, among other
things, that this sovereign, digging under the
foundations of the temple sun god at Sipara
forty-fve years after the death of King Ne
buchadnezzar, came upon cylinder OF Ma
ramsn, the son of Sargon, which no one had
seen for "3,200 years." This gives as the date
of the ancient sovereign named $3.50 B. c.
This, and the fact pointed out by Professor
Oppert, who was present, that there was in
those early days already "lively intercourse
between Chaldea and Egypt" will have to
be taken into account by future Bible critics.
1t is certain somewhat to modify the vulgar
conception-due in the first place to Dean
Stanly-of Abraham, the founder of the
Jews, as wandering Arab sheik, kind of
nOmad BedOuin as he exists in our day. The
existence more than 5000 years ago of two
highly civilized and highly cultured empires
in Egypt and Chaldea the fact that con-
stant intercourse was going on between
the two again, that the high road between
them led direct through Southern Palestine,
and that Abraham was native of the one
great empire and an honored visitor in
the other, cannot but serve to modify in no
slight degree our notions of the wandering
sheik to whom we owe our origin. That he
would haye been unaffected by the culture
in which he was born and the rival civiliza-
tions between which he lived, is hardly
likely.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-03-29
Lake Constance.

The shrinkage of Lake Constance, in
Switzerland, owing to the extraordinary dry
ness of the past winter, has brought to light
many interesting relics Among them there
are bone and flint implements, harpoons,
pottery, many specimens of which are in
tact, clubs, baskets, arrows, field tools and
animal remains. Among the latter are skel-
etons Of the bear, the bison and the moor
hen. The discovery also includes consid-
erable quantity of oats and wheat in good
state of preservation, and q remarkably per-
feet and artistically executed stag-horn har-
poon. The relics have all been removed to
Frauenfeld, and added to the collection of
the local historical and natural history.
society, which is now the richest in lacus-
trine objects id the Helvetic Confederation
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-03-29
An Enormous Lantern.

A remarkable lighthouse lantern was
placed in position at the National Exhibition
in Dublin, but owing to its size it had to be
removed to the open air. 1t is intended for
New Island, an important point near Bel
fast, and at its full capacity is expected to
give light equal to $500, 900 candles, WIS.,
ible at distance Of forty miles if placed at
the proper elevation The Illuminating
agent is gas, consumed in specially construct
ed ring burners without glass chimneys),
which are said to be so arranged that by the
aid Of lenses the power can be increased in
murky or foggy weather from an ordinary
light of the first class to the most penetrat-
ing beam that has ever been thrown from q
lighthouse tower. The light requires NO at
tentien, and the changes in its intensity
with the weather are made in the simplest
manner, without labor or trouble on the rart
of the lighthouse keeper
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-03-29
Stock Statistics.

1t appears from statistics which have re-
Gently been complied that the United States
possesses in round numbers 38, 900 cattle,
India 3O,OOO,0OO, and Russia 10000, 900,
Russia has 20,OOO.O0O horses, the United
States 10,5OO,OOO, and Austria B. 900. Aus
tralia possesses S0,OOO,OOO sheep, the Argen-
tine Republic 68OOO,OO0, and Russia 60, ,OOO-
600. The United States comes fourth in
this list with 36,OOOOOO, but in the matter
of swine she heads the world, having 49,
100000. The goat is an important animal
in many countries. India is credited with
no less than 20OOO,0OO, Africa with 15,OOO,-
coo, and Mexico with 100000. From the
above figures it will be seen that the United
States comes first in the list of nations with
the two most important articles Of flesh food
cattle and hogs she is second in
horses and fourth in sheep. In regard to the
latter two animals, however, she is making
rapid strides to . higher position.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-03-29
Eli Perkins Down in Kentucky.

A gentleman" is mysterious being down
in Kentucky I've often heard Kentuckians
say:
"By Cad, sab, I'm gentleman But
never knew what it meant till to-day. The
clerk of the Kentucky Hotel met the pas
sengers at the cars. He was solicitating GUS
toners for the hotel. He was ponderous
man, and handsome man. too, as well as a
Kentuckian. He did not shout rudely as do
Northern porters.
Burnett House! Carriagew
"Palmer House! Free buss J"
He simply walked up to you as if you We're
the guest of the city, and remarked:
"Sah, should be glad to show you to a
hotel, sab; the finest in the city-the Pal
ace, sab I'm gentleman, sab, and will
treat you right"
hesitated a little about handing my port
manteau to seedy-looking menial to carry,
when the landlord said:
"Let him carry it sab. He's gentleman.
He'll take good care of it, sab. Perfectly safe,
sah"
"Yes.n remarked the landlord, as we
walked up the hill, shat man carrying your
bag is a gentleman, sab. Why, sab, he was
once worth $500, ,OOO-had fifty niggers and
700 acres of the best blue grass land in Ken
tucky." R
:.What became of it, sir 2" I asked.
"Drank it all up sab. Fast horses and
whisky got away with it all, sab. And
noker had heap to do with it, too. That
man lost $4,000 and 200 horse in one night.
OF. sah, he's got gentlemanly instincts; he
has, sure's yer bone. He's poor and ragged
and dirty, and bloated all over with whisky
"a perfect wreck mentally, morally and
physically, but he's gentleman, sab. He
won't steal your carpet bag"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-03-29
No.. 49,.
The EuphOrbia Piiullfera.

Most READERS have heard of Euphorbia
pilulifera, Queensland plant known as the
asthma herb, that has recently become popu-
lar on account of it's medicinal qualities.
Cashiers Monthly and Rural australian, a
journal treating of agriculture, horticulture
and kindred subjects, contains letter on
this Euphorbia from T. W. Shepherd, a cele-
brated writer on gardening and botany, in
which he gives the following account OF the
benefits to be derived from its use, the means
of preparing the medicine, and its effect
upon complaint from which he himself
was suffering. He remarks that the herb,
which is only of annual DURATION belongs to
genus or family of plants furnishing more
potent and perhaps more important and
more useful medicinal remedies than any
other genus or family of plants in the
whole realm of vegetable organization
Mr.. Shepherd having obtained parcel of
the herb, Immediately made decoction
which he distributed to several persons who
were suffering from bronchial affections, and
within week every case was reported cured.
He himself was subject to attacks of bron-
chitis, which came on after every little ex-
posure to cold or wet, and of course tried the
medicine upon himself, of which he took a
wineglass four times day for five days. and
was completely cured. He makes the tea,
or decoction, with one ounce of the herb,
simmered for three or four hours in water,
kept up to about three quarts by adding as
required until at the end allowing the water
to evaporate down to quart. 1t is then
strained and bottled for use. Though, he
says that is stronger than he would recon-
mend for the first trial, as he considers it
best to commence with weak tea, and grad
ually increase the strength as may be found
necessary.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-03-29
Some New Geography.

OF what is the surface of the earth COM
posed?
Of corner lots, mighty poor roads, railroad
tracks, base ball grounds, cricket fields and
skating rinks.
What portion of the globe is water?
About three-fourths. Sometimes they add
little gin and nutmeg to it.
What is a town? ...
A town is considerable collection of
houses and inhabitants, with four or five
men who run the party" and lend money at
fifteen per cent. interest.
What is city?
A city is an incorporated town with a
a mayor who believes that the world shakes
when he happens to fall fiat on cross-walk.
What is commerce?
Borrowing two dollars for a day or two
and lodging the lender for year or two.
Name the different races.
Horse race, boat race, bicycle race, and race
round to find a man to endorse your note.
Into how many classes is mankind di-
vided?
Six; being enlightened, civilized, half civil
iZed, savage too utter, not worth cent, and
Indian agent.
What nations are called enlightened
Those which have had the most wars and
worst laws, and produce the worst criminals.
How many motions has the earth?
That's according to how you mix your
drinks and which way you 60 home
What is the earth's axis?
The line passing between New York and
Chicago.
What causes day and night?
Day is caused by night getting tired out
Night is caused by everybody taking the
street car and going home to supper.
What is a map?
A map is a drawing to show the jury
where Smith stood when Jones gave
him lift under the eye.
What is mariners compass?
A jug holding four gallons
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-03-29
MY HUSBAND.

Who took me from my childhoods s home,
And said he'd love me all alone,
And for my sacrifice atone?
My husband.
Who grumbled at the poor beefsteak,
And bade me better coffee make,
And told me greater care to take?
My husband.
And to the spare room quickly HE'D
While | to quiet vainly tried?
MY husband.
Who tears the butt ons off his shirt,
And said i could those ills avert
If was more on the alert?
My husband.
Who bade me rise the fire to make,
While he another nap should take,
Although I'd been all night awake
My husband.
Who, when / ask for half crown,
Knits up his brow into frown
And asks me, where's the other gone?"
My husband.
And when see my mother dear,
Who tries my lonely lot to cheer
Who says she's dreadful, dreadful queer.
My husband.
Who stays away till late at night,
And then comes home so very tight
That nearly expire of fright?
My husband.
Who breaks the china, slams the door,
Leaves his clothes all over the floor,
And swears its all dreadful bore?
Ny husband.
And who DO l, for his dear sake
OF every sacrifice partake,
Lest his confidence should shake"
My husband.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-03-29
WE ARE NOT MISSED.

If you or L
To-day should die,
The birds would sing the same tomorrow
The vernal Spring
Her flowers bring,
And few would think of us with sorrow.
Yes he is dead,
Would tnen be said
The corn would floss, the grass yield hay,
The cattle low,
And Summers go.
And few would heed us pass away.
How soon we pass!
How few, alas.
Remember those who turn to mold;
Whose faces fade
With Autumn's shade
Beneath the sodden churchyard cold!
Yes, it is So
We come and go!
They hail our birth, they mourn us dead;
A day or more
The Winter DER,
Another takes our place instead.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-03-29
A MODERN PROPOSAL.

You wish an answer" she softly said,
Then turned away her graceful head,
You wish an answer. Well, dear Fred,
I've always liked you, and guess
II will be safe to answer yes.
You're rather handsome, and not poor,
I've seen girls do much worse, I'm sure.
One kiss? Well, take it, so it cure
Your nonsense. Such actions are pure
And downright silly. What, one more?
Not now there's some one at the door.
"Oh, dear; how could you be so rough?
One kiss, now Fred, it's quite enough,
At least at first. There, don't talk stuff.
You'll find papa. dear, home at eight.
Oh yes, of course; an early date,
Lengthy engagements are a bore.
Another kiss? There-stop-no more!
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-03-29
"Patience," as Played by a Clerk.
Hartford Journal


A lady, stepping into gentleman's furn
ishing store on Broad street last week, asked
the clerk to show her some ties.
"What style Of tie do you want ?" politely
asked the clerk
"Oh, don't know" answered the lady
"show me something NICE"
"How do you like these ?" asked the clerk
showing her some 100 different patterns OF
fiat scarfs.
II don't see anything that suits" answered
the lady, after. giving the clerk about an
hours work to straighten the ties she had
looked over.
The clerk showed the lady twenty-on
boxes of long, narrow ties, which did not
strike her favorably.
What have you in the way of bows ?'
asked the lady.
The obiging clerk, with the patience
worthy of Job, pulled out thirty-two dozen
of bows. Running through these at the
rate of sixty miles an hour, the lady sweetly
said
Nothing there like"
Madame" then said the clerk, 'here is
the latest thing in gents neckwear," show
ing her about gross of loud and stylish puff
scarfs.
"No," said the lady, "my husband does
not like anything loud he likes nice, neat
figure. What else have you?"
The clerk, still emulating the example of
Job, showed the customer dozen different
shapes, and after looking these over she in
nocently asked
'Is that all you have?"
eyes, ma'am," said the clerk, losing faith
in Job
The lady turned to 60, when she espied
tie in the showcase that the clerk had failed
to show her, and which had neat dot about
the size of a trade dollar.
"Here, young man." she snapped, "why
didn't you show me that tie? That is just
what want. l will take that"
"How much is it ?" she asked, after the
clerk had wrapped it up.
Zone dollar and twenty-one CENTS" an
swered the clerk blandly.
What! One dollar and twenty-one
cents w repeated the lady. why used to
get very nice ones for twenty-five cents
guess will let my husband get his own
les"
Exit lady, followed by hearty Lord
bless herw from the clerk.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-03-29
KITTY,S PRAYERS.

Sweet little darling runs into my room
Red lips parted and cheeks aglow;
Fresh and rare as the apple-bloom,
Brighter far than the roses blow.
oh sister, come, and see" she cries.
AS she smooths from her brow the tangled hairs
While wonder speaks through her violet eyes
MY little kitty is saying her prayers!
Come, and look thro the nursery door!
We won't frighten her where she lies,
In the streak of sunlight on the floor,
Folding her white paws over her eyes
Il wonder, threading with light football,
And daintily lifting the frock she wears,
AS she trots before me across the hail.
II wonder if God hears kitty's prayers"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-04-16
&eli9iuas department.
oUNDERTAKE FOR ME-"

This was the prayer of Hezekiah
when he was oppressed" For all
oppressed with trouble it is a very
proper prayer to offer. 1t is as good
for the Christian now as it was for
the king centuries ago.
Every one who desires to be saved
must engage Christ to undertake for
him. The sinner is not to apply to
Christ for help in the work of saliva
ton. Salvation is not the joint work
of the sinner and the Saviour. Sal
walton is not the result of ones right
eousness supplemented and made
perfect by the righteousness of
Christ. Salvation work must be
undertaken by Christ, the only being
who has power to accomplish it. If
he under takes for one, salvation is
sure.
He is willing to undertake the
most desperate cases. In fact, he
will undertake no cases except des-
perate ones. He came to save the
lost-those who are convinced that
they are lost and helpless. Those
who are convinced that by nature and
practice they are lost sinners, and
are convinced that they can do moth
inc toward their salvation, but utter
the cry, 'sSave, Lord. or we perish, y
he will save. His word is pledged to
this effect: heaven and earth shall
pass away sooner than his word shall
fail.
The Christian needs Christ to un-
dertake for him as much as does the
sinner. The Christian is often sop
pressed with sins. He repents and
resolves to sin no more. His resoiu-
tions prove Intellectual. Sin easily
besets him. He strives more earn
estly, but often in vain. His only
hope of deliverance from sin lies IL
getting Christ to undertake for him
Christ is not only faithful to forgive
sins, but also to cleanse from all un
righteousness. The Christian need:
Christ as much to keep him from sill
as to atone for and to forgive hi
sins.
At all times, and under all circum
stances, the Christian prayer shoul(
be, Undertake for me-" Happy i
he who has learned the lesson Of en-
fire dependence upon Christ.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-04-16
THE COLUGO.

In the forests of the islands con-
shutting the Indian Archipelago is
found curious flying animal that
forms the connecting link between the
lemur and the bat. The natives call
it the ''fying-fox," but it is more
like a fying-monkey, as the lemurs
are cousins of the monkeys. Like
the bats, these animals sleep in the
daytime, hanging from the limbs
and branches of trees, head down
ward but as evening comes on, they
sally forth, often doing great harm
to the fruit of neighboring planta->
tons. In some parts of Java they
are so numerous that it is found nee
essary to protect the fruit trees with
huge nets. The extent of their fight
through the air is something astonish-
ing. They sometimes drop to the
ground and hop along with shuffling
kind of leap. but if they are alarmed,
they spring to the nearest tree and in
a moment reach its top by series of
bounds. Out upon the branches they
dart, and with a rush are off into
space. Sailing through the air like a
great bird, down they 60 obliquely,
swift as an arrow, hundred feet OF
more, rising again in a graceful curve
and alighting safely on a distant
tree. In these great leaps they carry
their young, which cling to them, OIL
sometimes follow them in their head.
long fight, uttering hoarse and pierre
ING cries. The colugos live almost
exclusively on fruit, preferring plan
tains and the young and tender leaves
of the cocoa-palm, though some
writer's aver that they have seen then
dart into the air and actually catcl
birds. The fying-lemurs are per
fectly harmless and so gentle as to b.
easily tanned. They have lovely darl
eyes and very intelligent and know
ing faces.-Ln st. Nicholas for April
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-04-16
Preston's Spoonies and
Olden Times,

The boss cigar six for % CENTS and forty
other brands AS have these goods of the manufac-
give you best goods for the least money Of
any one in the state can sell you best
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-04-16
HONEST FRANK.

What boy would not like to merit
such a title as that? '.Honest p
you can trust him, he will never de-
ceive you; he will always speak and
act the truth. Such was Frank. He
was honest; he loved truth so much
he would not part with it for any
consideration.
Frank was clerk in the office of a
rich merchant in New York. One
day this merchant received from a
customer in another city an order for
large and valuable lot of goods.
The next day another letter came
from the same customer, recalling the
order, and saying they need not send
the goods. The merchant handed
the note to Frank, with pleasing
smile, saying:
"Frank, | want you to answer this
note. Please say that the goods were
shipped before the letter recalling the
order was received"
Frank looked into his employers
face with a sad but firm glance, and
said:
''Pm very sorry, sir, but 1 can't
do it,
Cant do it! And pray, why
not?" asked the merchant angrily.
because, sir, the goods are in the
yard now, and it would be telling {
lie"
II hope you may always be so par
ticular,'' said the merchant, as b.
turned and went away. Homes
Frank did bold but a right thing
when he took that stand. What wa
the result? Did he lose his place
Not at all. The merchant was to-
wise to turn away a clerk who was s.
honest that he would not write a ly
ing letter. He knew how valuabl
such young man was, and SO, in
stead of turning him off, he mad
him his confidential clerk.