The Billings herald. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1882-1885, 1883-03-22
OLA PODRIDA.

! II has been asserted that opium eater:
are comparatively exempt from malaria
and in the East are quite sure to escape thu
cholera epidemic The opium habit il
itself, however, a disease hardly less SC
| rious than malaria or cholera.
Rev. Russell Jennings, Of Connecticut
| who amassed fortune half century age
| by manufacturing augers was married 1
few weeks since at the ago Of 50 to bride
of %. He celebrated the event by pre-
sentins s., 1000 tc each of seven churches.
The winter in England has been very
| mild, and already the trees are in bud. Ir
many parts of the country primroscs arr
already over, although they are still solo
| about the streets of London, and have beer
together with violcts, ever since Christmas
Nebraska has passed law requiring
press news associations and telegraph com.
panies doing business in Nebraska to de-
liver news dispatches to any paper apply.
ing for them, and paying for them at the
established price, whether such paper be.
longs to the press association or not
The murders committed in the United
States in 1882 averaged two day, and the
| executions Of convicted murderers hardly
two a week. New York State had one
four executions. In the Southern States
there were two hundred and twelve lnur.
ders, and only fifty-threc executions.
at is true father" said q young Jackson
ian, Slancing up from Philadelphia pa
per- that the Democratic party once took
out a patent for being fools and is now at
Washington trying to get reissue?" II
can't answer positively" returned the old
man, but my impression is that they sold
that patent to the Republicans some time
ago"
A Washington correspondent has just
given the public the result of his investiga-
tons concerning the condition of draw
poker at the nations capital He finds
that the hcalthful recreation is exceedingly
popular there, and that it is hugely en-
joyed and played with great skill by some
Of the most distinguished statesmen in the
land.
The body Of handsome young girl has
been found on the railroad track near the
city of Taganrog, in the department of
Jekaterinoslaw, in southern Russia. Be
side the body lay paper on which was
written that the girl had been member of
the revolutionary party and had turned
traitor. For this she had been condemned
to death by the revolutionary committee.
An Editor once Owned three Hundred
thousand dollars worth of Railroad stock,
twenty One Thousand dollar Government
bonds. six white Shirts, a country Resi-
dence on the Hudson, farm in Illinois, q
span of Horses and q Wagon. two suits of
Clothes and Plug hat. This Fable teaches
that all the liars are not dead yet.-IDen.
yer Tribune.
In mining coal in England cartridges of
powdered quick-lime, strongly compressed
have been used with good results in blast
ing. These cartridges are about three
inches IN liameter, and each has running
through it a perforated iron tube, through
winch water can be forced. The swelling
of the lime rcnds the solid mass of coal
quietly bnt effectively, without danger and
without smoke.
If the guests whom the car has invited
to his coronation should happen to be
present, the nihilists would have an OPP
portunity to blow up at one fell blow two
emporcr., ten kings, one queen and one
president. Unfortunately for the nilhilists,
who might thus be spared good deal of
expense, trouble and inconvenience, the
cars invitations are generally declined.
Vice President Oakcs has sent forth the
cdict directing the iiapres of all the towns
west of the Missouri to be changed from
the cognOmens given them by the engineer
Department, and in future the names OF
towns along the line Of the Northern Pa
cific will bedesignated by the land depart
ment. under the direction of Colonel San
born. The town Of Clark, just east OF
Bismarck has been changed TO Manton.
''How to keep the boys at home" is a
conundrum that is agitating the parents O!
the land. 1t depends on the kind of a boy
Some boys could be kept at home by es.
tablishing beer saloon in the basement,
Others need ball room in the paror; but
the best way to keep boy at home is to
tell him to stay there, and make it pon!
to have him obey you. Begin early and
You have the problem solved.
4 Boston woman, the daughter Of a once
wealthy man. being reduced to the neccs.
sity Of providing for her own wants, re-
solved to manufacture pickles and pre-.
serves for the market. She told her friends
and they promised to become customers
Found no difficulty in selling all that she
could make with her own hands. The
| next year she enlarged the business, and
the third she expanded it still further, hel
condiments having by this time acquired 9
reputation in the market. Now she is
making a net profit of about SIC, 900 year
In New York it is given out by the pow
crs of the Northern Pacific railroad thai
the booming influence of the organization
will be thrown to the aid of but thre,
towns this season. These are Mandan
Richardson, in Dakota, and Livingston, il
Montana. While railroad company car
do much, if it will, to build up town, il
is not always wise to rely too much on ex
pectations or seeming favors. Equal,
significant with the announcement in New
/ Ynrk 10 tho ia RI fhaf tht, raiIrno6 co,,,pop,