The Billings herald. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1882-1885, 1883-02-08
OLA PODRIDA.


few more presidential candidates ar
marched into line in Indiana, the womc
will have to hoe the corn, dig the pota
toes, and run the farms generally.
Florida fruit growers are beginning +
cultivate the lemon with great deal O
care, and with such good results that it i
believed that in little while longer thi
will furnish almost as many lemons to tn
trade as she now docs oranges.
The Yankton correspondent of th
Grand Forks News, says of the capital:
It's nickel-cigar old town,
A -for-a-quarter old town,
\ highly sOporitic
Not very terrific,
But helty on office old town.
Miss Mary Dickens, nd-daughtcr 0
the great novelist, has decided to adopt the
stage as a profession, and will make hel
Taylor's play, "A Sheep in Woifs Cloth
ing" She is said to have much dramatic
talent
1t is stated that there arc strong iIdica
tons that petroleum will be discovered il
Mexico. Capitalists from the United
States have sunk well to the depth of 47(
feet, at which point a heavy pressure ol
gas was encountered, and borings will be
continued as soon as more tubing can be
obtained.
! One of the wealthicst Of United States
senators is Geo. II. Pendleton. 1t would
take at least 100000 year to maintain
his several places Of rcsidencc--his elegant
winter home in Washington, his large city
home in Cincinnati, his cottage at Conway,
New Hampshire, and his villa at Mt. Des-
crt Maine
Oscar Wilde has very poor opinion OF
| American journals and journalists This
is unkind. The raillery they flung at him
! during his American tour was the cause of
his OVERLOOKING audiences, and his plethor-
ic pockets. But Oscars opinion will not
be apt TO drive any of the papers into
bankruptcy.
Missoua is the porkopolis of Montana
The county pays taxes on 1913 hogs
which is the largest number taxed in any
one county in the Territory. If one-half
the deviltry lying around loose in the vi
cinity of Wccksvillc was to enter into that
drove of swine, there wouldn't be porkcr
left in the county.
Mrs y Dona,d broke her legs so badly
while alone in her home at Mineral Point,
Wis, that she could not make her way out,
and lay hc. ts>s the whole day, and had Il
prospect of starving, when ncighbor's
dog stTayed in. She caught him, tied a
note to lis tail, and sent him home. He
brought assistance.
In coming go, 100000 in silver and SO, :
600, 900 in gold at the San Francisco mint
in 1879 there were lost only $50 The car
pet, which had been down five years, was
taken up last spring, cut into small pieces
aud burned in pans The debris was put
through the same process as mining dust,
and yielded $500.
Maine, after long trial of the law abol-
ishing capital punishment, has concluded
it to be a failure, and the legislature will
probably restore the death penalty. An
effort will also be made to pass at the
present session of the Minnesota legisla-
turc bill restoring capital punishment. in
that State and including other hcinous
crimes than murder in the list of tho Sc
punishable with death.
China is ahead on bridges, the largest in
the world, being her structure at T.agang,
over an arm Of the China sea. 1t is five
miles long. built entirely of stone, has 800
arches 7S feet high and q roadway 20 feet
wide. The parapct is a balustrade, and
each of the pillars, which are IS feet apart,
support a pedestal on which is placed a
lion q feet long, made Of ono block of
marble.
Red Cloud, the Sionx chief, has a passion
for cigars, apparently. On his way to
Washington few days ago he stopped at
New Haven, where citizen held out a
box Of cigars to him, saying, Take one"
Red Cloud helped himself to bunch.
.Will you have onc?" continued the en-
tcrtainer addressing the chiefs compan-.
ion, and the other Indian slipped the other
bunch from the box into his ulster pocket.
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art has been opened in Aberdeen, Scotland,
and i. the first of its kind. Among the cx
hibitions are specimens of darning and
patching. and some Of the competitors are
described as having raised these homcy
exercises to such a state of perfection, in
deed, that even the superior class would
not scorn to wear q coat that had under
gone the artistic renovation. This is the
thrift that has made Scotland.
A correspondent of an English paper at
COnstantinOple asserts that Arab Pasha
owes his acGuittal and rescue from death
to being Mason. The Masonic order, cs-
pccially the Scottish Rite of Free Masonry,
Is strong in the Mohalnmcdan countries,
and particularly in Egypt and British India,
and Arab being Mason in good standing,
was rescued from the local tribunals in
Egypt that were bent upon his destruction
and treated with surprising clcmency.
The ease Of George Leppctt, young
man OF Port Jcrvis, n. T., who claims To
have had his lower limbs paralyzed by be-
ing struck by a projecting piece of timber
Oh q HAT car in the Erie yard four weeks,
ago, is exciting much interest i'll accident
insurance circles. lie holds accident pol
ices in half dozen companies, in all ag-
grcgating s32, 900, which yield him an in
come of $lGO week, or $500 year dur
ing his disability. Many efforts have been