The Billings herald. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1882-1885, 1883-01-18
OLA PoDRIDA.

! "Whiskey killed him"
Buffalo meat has been SO plentiful a
Deadwood, Dakota, of late, as to become
almost unstable at any price
According to the Grass Valley (Cal) It'd
ings, there is dissatisfaction that the Sunday
schools do not let out in time for base bal
games.
Miss Alice S. Blaine, the eldest daughter
of cx-secrctary Blaine, is to be married in
February, as rumor has it, to- Col. John
J. Coppinger of the army.
Montreal is preparing for grand winter
carnival, for which a veritable palace OF
ice will be constructed with a tower 12O
feet high, the whole to be illuminated with
electric lights.
A merchant saved about dollar at
Quincy, ILL.,, by using cancelled postage
stamps and has already paid lawyer 500
for defending him, without as yet being
sure of escaping imprisonment.
st. Julien is reported by the California
papers to have entirely recovered his health
and is taking strong work again. He will
go East with the other horses in HickOk' 5
stable about the first of May next.
Prince Bismarck again wants to retire
from public life, and thinks the present
favorable position of politics such an
emergency that it would be no misfortune
to the country if he gave place to other
men.
A father and son named Bagley, farmers
of Pontville, KY, went to New York and
paid $500 for what they supposed to be
$5, 900 in counterfeit money. The conf
dence man who victimized them was
arrested
! Red Cloud is modest Indian, and is en-
titled to place in history alongside DR..
Bliss and the Garfield physicians. He
wants 5000 for 100 head of horses al
legged to have been taken from him by
Gen. Crook.
W. c. Anderson, young telegraph op-
orator at Lacklute, Canada, who recently
fell heirto $3.50, 900 blythe death of an uncle
in Scotland, has been notified of the be-
quest of another 100000 by the deceasc of
another uncle.
A man desires to bury his amputated leg
in Dubuque cemetery, but the superinten-
dent refused to allow it on the ground that
burial permit was necessary for every in
termcnt, and such document could only
be procIred for an entire body
The froth was blown from $3.50, 900, 900
worth of beer, being $4,000, 900 gallons, in
this country, last ysar, and the probabli-
ties point strongly toward the belief that
an equal amount was snugly slowed away
beneath the jackets of thirsty Americans.
The old year closed in San Francisco
with snow storm that gave them five or
or more inches, and the first sleighing ever
seen in the city. The storm was general
throughout the state. Such falls were
scarcely ever known i'll the history of the
state.
The editor of Dublin newspaper has
framed and hung in his Office a unique
memorial of reporters forethought. 1t
is a telegram which he received a few
weeks ago, and it reads please keep
column open for dastardly outrage to be
committed at II o'clock tonight
Ex-Governor Stanford has offered to pur-
chase the entire town of Vina, Cal, and
then sell it back again to the owners, after
making certain Improvements. The only
condition he makes is that the return
deed shall contain clause preventing the
sale Of intoxicating liquors in the corporate
limits.
We notice by a Montreal paper that a
little boy was injured seriously as he was
returning from Sunday school. This is
very strange and it must be that there is
some mistake about it. 1t is only the bad
little boy who goes fishing on Sunday who
get into trouble. Still it may be that this
is one of the preternaturally good boys who
all die young.
We arc tired of hearing about what a
genius certain man would be if he would
only keep sober. There are many men
who have reputation for brilliancy that is
evolved only when under the influence of
liquor. When sober they are dull and
commonplace. Really, they have no
genius-for genius on drunk is stupid
and digusting.
Scene in a Colorado newspaper office
Managing editor to the telegraph editor:
"Anything newsy in the State specials to-
night? Telegraph editor to managing
editor "No, nothing Notwithstanding
at Leadville, railroad accident at Bonanza,
fire at Durango, poisoning case at Pueblo.
shooting affair at Boulder, but no lynching
or understanding important"
Mention was made some time ago of the
discovery of traces of a prehistoric circus
in the deepest shaft of Colorado mine.
Deeper digging has discovered the remains
of a man with the stains of burnt cork OH
his face smashed tamborine in his flesh
less fingers, with note pinned to a striped
shirt stating the he was executed for per-
petrating stale joke.-[ boomerang
a foolish Snowman once advertised for
the following curiosities: A printer who
carried tobacco, Negro minstrel who did
not wear plug hat, woman who did not
wash her face with rag, an editor who
had ten dollars in his pocket, dog whose
hind legs were in plumb with his front
legs, business manager who did not con-
slider the editors robbers and pair of
shoes that were too small for the lady that
wore them. The foolish Snowman died a
death of bitter disappointment.