The Billings herald. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1882-1885, 1883-02-22
OLA PODRIDA.

Henry Willard, tho Northern Pacific
millionaire, ran away from his fathers
home in Germany when a boy, and landed
at Castle Garden with no friends and but
little money.
A placard was posted few days ago in
a public garden at st. Petersburg, cnjoin-
ing the people to avoid places frequcnted
by the court, lest they should be hurt by
anything that might happen.
Recently stick of timber came into
Olympia, W. T., on the railroad from
Fosters camp, which was l2O feet in length
and SO inches in diameter at the top end.
The stick measured 1000 feet.
The Colorado legislature appropriated
S2l 900 for the entertainment of the grand
army Of the republic to hold national en-
campment there the coming summer. The
city of Denver devotes ZOO more
The Colorado legislature is composed of
twelve lawyers twcnty-onc miners, one
druggist, seven merchants, one editor,
three hotcl-keepcrs, twenty-five farmers
and stockmen, two physicians, one barber
and one liveryman.
Miss Montague, the $40, 900 beauty, willie
on the witness stand the other day in her
suit against Forepaugh, confessed that she
was he proprietor of a saloon kept in the
name of 4 man who lives with her but is
not her husband.
| A realistic idea Of the growth Of New
| York city is given in the fact that the other
day there died at the age of 95 Miss
| Sproull, who was one of three ladies whose
| residence 15 years ago gave to Maiden
| Lane its name.
| This country has by no means a monop
oily of the remarkable winter weather. All
Europe is shivering with cold, and Madrid
has been enjoying the unprecedented
pleasure of s,eighing in six inches Of snow.
The fact in which everyone finds consola-
is that lit can't last always"
Joseph Davis the cattle king of Eastern
TIE Xas, sold 3, 900 cattle while smoking one
5-ccnt cigar III Austin the other night.
Pat CaringIc a ranchman in the Indian
Territory, who was the purchaser, paid
cash down in British gold, for he acted in
behalf of London men af money.
\ York county, Ncb, family consisting
of an old man named Wheeler, his three
sons and son-in-law, arrived at the pen
tentiary last week for stealing hogs. One
brother escaped by turning States witness
but the mother is after him for stealing POO
bushels of corn, and he will probably join |
the majority.
General Grant. in discussing al objection
to the ratification of his treaty with Mexi- !
co. claims that it is most violently opposed |
by European merchants or agents residing |
in the sister republic. Crude sugar and |
leaf tobacco are the only articles produced
in tic United States which are admitted
free by the new treaty.
\ San francisco man hypothccated a
block of cheap stock for a small loan. The |
stock took 4 jump and the holder sold. |,
Subsequently it tumbled and he bought !
back again clearing S295, 900 in the opera !
ton. The original owner sued, and the
supreme court has recently awarded him |
Judgment for $205, 900 and interest.
W. S. Walcott finished his sixty quails in
thirty days, won his 500, and announces !
himself ready to eat ninety quails in the |
next month. \ tramp comes nobly to the |!
front with an offer to eat whole turkey |
every day for thirty days provided some
one will back him and supply the fowls. |
He thinks it would be winning game
even if he lost.
A man in Boise City, l. r., proposes that
if he is given the exclusive right to sell
spirituous liquors in that town he will |
agree to pay the Indebtedness Of that city |
and school district, and for ever keep up
first class public school, sufficient to cdu-
cate all the children, pay good liberal
salary to every preacher for every church !
in the city, and build new church every |
live years.
With that quiet and seemingly un-
conscious eifrontry which constitutes the
perfection of art i'll the invention Of fabu !
lous stories the San Francisco Chronicle re- /
marks: ',rlle Truckec river is now frozen to |
the bottom. III passing along over the
CLASSY surface of the stream whole schools ,
of trout are seen firmly fixed just where ;
the cold wave struck them. The ranch |
men living along the river now go fishing
with axes
\ Bristol farmer has tried feeding hen
on red pepper to make her lay eggs. She |
went at once to the barn and began scratch
ing in pile Of sawdust which had lain on !
the barn floor for some years. The hen
dug up a hatchet and whiskey bottle and ,
then laid an egg and went off cackling.
The Bristol man can account for the
hatchet, but the whisky bottle-ncvcr. He
has been heard to remark, Let the did
hen cacklc she won't get any more red /
pepper"
The Prince of Vale. is ~cported to have
decided to make one Of his sons parson.
The young man, whose name is Albert
Victor, has recently returned from tour
around the world on a naval vessel, and |
now goes to Oxford University to matricu-
late at Christ church. The idea is said to
have originated with the Queen, who want
ed one Of her own boys, the Duke of Con-
paught, to enter the church, but he OBJ |
iected to the plans of his royal mother and
went into the army instead.
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The first gold found in Colorado was