The Billings herald. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1882-1885, 1883-01-25
OLA PODRIDA.

1t is calculated that no fewer than three
hundred and sixty different dialects ar,
spoken in China.
A Georgia infidel recently sold his ''in
terest i'll heaven" for fifty cents. The pur
chaser no doubt was cheated
Gordon Brown rctires from the editorial
management of the Toronto Globe, to be
succeeded by ]. Taylor, paper manufac.
turer
The Cheyenne Leader chuckles over the
fact that there is not a variety show or q
concert hall now running in Wyoming
! Territory.
The wife OF Senator Logan has brilliant
complexion, black eyes and snow-white
hair, She is reported more beautiful now
than in her youth.
In well informed circles a story is now
circulating to the effect that Emperor
Wilhelm, on the 23d of March, which is
his eighty-sixth birth day. will abdicate in
favor of the crown prince.
No man living walks in straight line.
The squarest footed walker walks to the
right or left a distance of th!rty-six feet in
mile. In case there is a saloon on the
way he may dvergc as much as 15O feet.
The ex-Empress Eugenie has bought a
chateau and park in Syria for $500, 900,
and it is no secret that she quits England
in anger at the attensions shown to Cete-
wayo, whom she hate for tho death of her
son in Africa.
British India has more states and more
languages, with more population than ALL
western nations Of Europe combined In
1861 there were in Europe 50 states, IS Ian
guagcs, 19S,0l4, 432 population, while in
British India there are 374 states % Ian
guages and 2l2, 4S3, 257 people.
An exchange says: Having lost all of
his money playing frro, a Wyoming man
put down package of porterhouse steak
which he had bought for the family. The
turn resulted in split" and the fresh
rueat gambler was given round of steak
for his share of the bet
A matchmaker of Middlebury, Conn,
has manufactured clock, which. at strik-
ing, carries out a representation of Gar
fields assassination. Giteau fires: the
president falls. The scene shifts. A fun
eral service is represented suddenly a
door opens and reveals Guiteau on the gal
lows.
Iorkey Pete, the famous St. Louis boot
black, who founded boys home in that
city, and was for years regarded as a model
leader of the wielders of the brush. has
gone wrong, While on trip farther West
he boarded train at Truckcc, CAL, robbed
the passengers of sleeping car, and has
been sent to prison for two years
Six years ago man came to Wyoming
from New England and started in the cat
tie business on the Laramie plains with
one solitary Texas steer and a good serv-
feeble branding iron. He now has over
600 head Of stock, the multiplied increase
of that one critter. Who says there is no
money in tl,c :,ock business?-f Boomg.
Some astoniShment has been created in
England by The discovery that beverage
extensively sold as Good Templar' cham
pagnc, and consumed as temperance bev-
erage contains alcohol equivalent to % per
cent. of proof spirit, which is considerably
in excess Of the Intoxicating qualities of
real champagne. 4 chemical ANALYSIS re-
vealed the secret.
A man named Jack Smith accidentally
perforated woman's arm at Fort Fctter-
man on Christmas night. A dance was in
progress at what is known as the '.hos
ranch" disraputable dive, and Smith
proposed that one of the girls stand at
one end of the room and let him take his
revolver and see how close he could come
to her without hitting her. The third shot
went through her arm.
The Deseret News seems to stand in with
Prof. i. Stone Wigging in his prediction Of
great storm in March, basing its belief OH
the scriptures, corrOborated in the book
Of Mormon, and iterated in the revela-
tions of God contained in the Doctrines
and Covenants. 1t is to be presumed that
the members of the Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter Day Sain1s will fix themselves for
this storm:
"A boy who had no string to his kite
went into drug store and bought a pen
ny's worth of licorice. While the druggist
was'scrying him he tied an end of the
string from the druggists ball of twine to
his dogs tail and then kicked the dog,
droye him out of the shop. After.the dog
had unreeled all that the boy thought that
he needed, he cut the string, took his lico-
rice and walked out of the apothecary's
shop without that PERSONS even suspecting
the trick.
Here is chalcc for Bob Ingcrsoll to offset
the miracle of the feeding multitude
from five loaves and three fishes and having
twelve basketsful. of fragments left. 1t is
said that Lieut.. Creel Of Crcelsburg, on the
north coast of Devils Lake, filled his
pockets with bologna sausage as he started
from Larimore few weeks ago and on his
way came upon 100 passengers who were
snow bound and that he actually fed that
multitude for five days from his pocket
cargo of sausage Lieut. Crecl ought to be
canonizcd in revised translation contain
ing an appendix.
A gentleman who has recently
been to Maiden, states that cave
which was found a short time since,
in that vicinity is creating a good
deal of excitement. While sinking
a shaft on one of the leads of the
district, the workmen came to, a
"hole in the ground" which upon
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