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Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-01-18
The Way Girls Walk.
Louisville Courier.


The conventional girl has to bring her
adaptibility into play just as much when she
selects her style of walk as she does in de-
Gliding upon the style Of her hat or the stuff
for her gown Congruity, too, plays an i'm
portant part in her street appearance and is
an important factor in her success. The
plump girl, who is all rich, ripe, round
curves and massiveness, can bound along
with quick elastic step that would be
ridiculously out of place in her lank and
sweetly-asthetic sister. The first can travel
with that easy spring away that is as sug-
gestive of physical luxury and solid comfort
as pineapple fiber hammock under an apple
tree; the other must glide-her very ap-
pearance suggests the frailities of her struc-
ture and the possibilities of her being Jared
out of shape in the bounding process. Ev-
cry woman has popularity of gait that is
essentially her own. To one who watches
the crowd it became question whether,
with proper description of the steps and
motions of the body, it would not be pos
sible to classify each girl with proper de-
gree of accuracy. The matter of fact girl
brings down her feet with such prosaic force
that she is readily distinguished. So, too, is
the romantic young lady, whose step is in
itself suggestive of rope-ladders and myster-
ious moonlight. There is a gO-Out-among-
heather goodness of gait that will mark
the evangilistic damsel ten blocks from a
prayer meeting, and the "quadrup dante
putrem-sonitu-quatitu tungula-campum' step OF
the literary woman has an Onomatop9a
about it that proclaims her at once.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-01-18
A Victim of a Fur Cloak.
[Galignani's Messenger.


A French lady, calling herself the Baron
ess de Saint -Estrapade, who lately appeared
before the Correction Tribunal of the Seine
on a charge of "ivresse manifeste'-in brutal
English, drunk and disorderly in
convincing the President of that court that
the wearing of fur cloak may produce an
eccentricity of behavior as deceptive in its
way as that produced by too liberal con-
sumption of salmon. Some time ago, she in
formed the court, she read in journal that
the surest way of preserving furs from the
ravages of moths was to stow them away in
an empty spirit cask. She accordingly
bought one month or two ago and to its
safe keeping she confided her fur cloak.
week ago, having to breakfast at Noels, and
the day being very cold, she put on this gar
ment, when, as she declares, once out OF
doors the combined effect of the cold and the
alcoholic fumes emenating from the cloak
made her giddy and produced all the ap-
pearance of intoxication. "The agent" who
took her up deposed that "she smelt of alco-
hol at fifteen PAGES" piece of testimony
rather in her favor than otherwise; and her
bonne deposed to the purchase of the cask
and its employment as wardrobe. The
Judge, after remarking that if every lady
adopted this line Of defense to the particular
charge brought against the baroness convic-
tion would be impossible, and acquitted her.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-01-18
KEEPING TALLY OF KISSES.
A Maiden's Business-Like Prepare
tions for Breach of Promise Suit.
| Detroit Free Press.

Detroit Free Press.
! There is young man in this county OF
Wayne State of Michigan, ss., who is going
to be terribly astonished before the year 1883
is more than month old. The law will
reach out and clasp his throat just above the
Adams apple, and he will get such shak-
ing up and mopping around that he will
seem to feel his heels beating tattoo on the
back of the neck.
They were in to see lawyer yesterday
Mary Ann and her mother. Mary Ann was
little embarrassed but the old woman was
calmness itself When they spoke about a
breach of promise case the lawyer asked
What evidence have you got?"
Mary Ann, produce the letters" COM
manded the mother, and the girl took the
cover off willow basket, and remarked that
she thought 927 letters would do to-begin
with. The other 651 would be produced
as soon as the case was fairly before the
court.
and outside of these letters?" queried
the lawyer.
Mary Ann, produce your diary" said the
mother. 'Now, turn the heading of Prom
ises,' and tell him how mony times this mar
riage business was talked over"
"The footing is PA times, {" answered the
girl.
"Now turn to the heading of Darling and
give us the number of times he has applied
that to you"
IF have figured right, the total is 9,254
times"
Il guess you counted pretty straight, for
you are pretty good in arithmetic. Now
turn to the heading 'Woodbine Cottage and
tell us how many times he has talked of such
home for you after marriage"
"The footing is 1895 times"
VERY well. This lawyer wants to be
sure that we've got case. How many
times has Charles Henry said he would die
for your
"Three hundred and fifty" answered the
girl as she turned over leaf
How many times has he called you an
angelo"
'Over II 600, mamma"
How about squeezing hands,
"Over 1884, 900 squeezes."
"And kisses?"
Nearly 417,OOO"
There's our case," said the mother, as she
deposited basket and diary on the lawyers
table Look over the documents, and if
you want anything further, can bring in a
dozen neighbors to swear to facts. We sue
for 10000 damages, and we don't settle for
less than an SO-acre farm, with buildings in
good repair. Well call again next week.
Good day, sir"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-01-18
AThousand Million Suns.

But astronomers increased their estimates
of the suns distance, and as, observing more
and more carefully the stars positions. they
diminished the possible range of the yet un-
detected apparent motions, mems conception
of the grandeur of the material universe
increased. With Briarean arms science
thrust back the stars into the depth OF
space. until the glories of the nocturnal
heavens were changed from so many thous-
ands points of light to as many suns, many
as grand as our own, many far grander, some
like Sirius, Vega and Canopus, so much vast
er than he is, that by comparison with them
he seems the merest miniature OF sun.
But even this stupendous though it seems,
is little compared withe scene presented
when we rightly interpret what the tele-
scope reveals respecting the space beyond
the domains of the visible stars. For each
star we can see, thousands were made visible
by the telescope of Calico, in later times
tens of thousands, and in the days OF the
elder Herschel, hundreds of thousands.
with the best telescopes in our own time it
is probable that as many as thousand mil
lion stars could be seen in every part OF the
celestial sphere examined. thouand mil
lion suns. a thousand million repetitions of
the glories and the wonders which modern
science reveals in the central orb OF our sys-
tenn!
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-01-18

Industrial Virtues of the Plant AdOred
by Wild.


It may not be generally known that the
sunhower (Helianthus annuus,) which has
lately been brought into such notoriety by
the aesthetic" school, has considerable
claims to attention from an industrial point
of view. Its somewhat nutlike seeds-or, as
Baron Ferdinand Won Muller describes them,
'seedlike nutlets"-afford an excellent oil,
which is not only useful as lubricant for
machinery, but as one of the best table oils.
The seeds again, furnish an admirable food
for poultry; the stalk furnishes good tex
tile fibre, and the blossoms yields brilliant
lasting yellow dye. So highly does Baron
Won Muller think of the virtues of the plant
that he includes it in his list of selected
plants suitable for acclimation and indus
trial cultivation in the Colony of Victoria.
AS much as fifty bushels of seedlings have
been obtained from an acre Of ground under
favorable conditions and as much as fifty
gallons of oil can be pressed from such a
crop. When he states that about six pounds
of seed are required to SOW an acre, from
which such an enormous return is possible,
it isSscarcely surprising to be told that "the
retuxn from sunfOwer field is attained with
in few months"
The plants, the same authority states,
however, has not by any means exhausted
the list of virtues which this plant possesses
The Chinese, who have so far appreciated its
properties as to use its fbres in adulterating
and dying their silk fabrics, and its oils not
only as a lubricant, but as an illuminatOr,
state that it's flowers supply the best bee
food. and that the "cake" left after express
ing the oil is superior to linseed cake as food
for cattle The leaves are also employed as
q substitute for or for mixing with tobacco,
and as an ingredient in soap manufacture it
the oil is highly priced. In the face of such
testimony to it's good qualities says the Colo
mics and India, it is interesting to know that
several acres of land are to be sown with
sunfowers in the Thames valley next year.
Will the aesthetics discard the flower as
symbol of their faith when they find that
it is actually turned to commercial pur-
poses?
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-01-18
How Mines are Worked.

II wish you would tell me about how men
get gold and silver out of mines, my dear,
said lady in East Laramie, the other even
! ing to her husband as he peeled off his coat
and sat down in three chairs for the evening.
"Well, what kind of mine do you wish
| to hear about-gold or silver, quartz or pla-
Ger, deposit or refined lead"
well, all of them briefly. l want to
know whether they scrape off the gold from
the under side of the ground, and wash the
dirt off in the creek, or how it is"
"Well, they don't scrape off the under side
of the ground exactly. There you are in
error. In placer mining they have to collect
the dust and pan it out in a gold-pan."
ooh! they have to use a gold pan, do
they? That must be what makes mining
so expensive. Does the pan have to be solid
gold? 2"
"No it isn't made of gold; it is simply to
pan gold, hence the name. In quartz min
ing the prospector finds first the float, and,
tracing it to the head, he begins to dig for
the purpose of ascertaining how extensive it
is, and what it will assay"
"Oh, that's it. thought they first bored
into the ground with pay streak until they
found the shaft, and then they drifted for
the assessment and when they found that,
they Just put blast in the indications and
salted the dump Now, it seems that you
don't do that way. You follow up the mica
cous salt until you strike the bias fold
Then you see if you can find a color that
matches with the copper-stained tribolites
that you can prospect and you"
mo, must stop you there; you are get
ting little off the vein. You probably
have the right idea, but you are using terms
that are not correct. After they get the wall
of the rock on the dump and pitch out the
night shift, they salt the contract and blast
the vertical chilblain. Then they drift for
the blossom rock, baled hay and poverty till
they strike the varicose vein. After that it
is a short job to put on the bias folds and
sample the stockholders, where the bitumi-
minOus duplex bisects the brocaded pOr-
phyry, and scallops the gauge with cross
eyed shirrings and bicarbonate of bilious
collie interlaced with MORE antique wads of
gray copper and tree milling erysipelas 1t
is not always the case, however, for Indirect
ly or inversely, perhaps more, or sometimes,
less, as the case may be, and still we might
or might not, and also beside, if not always,
as already described, perhaps, yet wouldn't
be positive of anything which might or
might not be doubtful"
Then he laughed cold, hard laugh and
went to bed If husbands would always ex-
plain these things to their wives, how much
pleasanter our homes would be-
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-01-18

A late number of well-known fashion
| journal says: Annie of Austria cOllarets
are suitable only for matinee jackets Turk
ish fur caps are worn only as breakfast
caps" Apropos of these edicts of fashion an
incident:
Seated near couple of ladies at the Grand
the other night we overheard a portion of
their conversation. Said one:
"You notice that have on an Annie OF
Austria collaret?"
YES" responded the other. What could
you have been thinking about, my dear
You know they are only worn at matinees
"Of course do, and l feel so mortified
don't see how l came to make such an awful
blunder What in the world will people
think But / am always doing something
dreadful The other day l went down to
dinner with my fez cap on. Just think OF
it-wearing breakfast-cap to dinner! Did
you ever hear of anything SO ridiculous in
your life"
And the other lady avowed that she never
had.
A brutal fellow next to us, who had been
listening to this conversation, turned to us,
and in a voice distinctly audible to the
ladies, said:
Queer what funny mistakes man will
make about his toilet You wouldn't be-
lieve it, now, but it's fact that have come
here tonight with my suspenders on wrong
side out"
Good gracious. is that SO ?" we ejacu-
| lated
"Yes," said he, "and | never felt so darned
ashamed in my life. But I've done worse
things than that"
impossible"
"Yes, sir; only last Sunday l went to
church with my opera hat on, and the next
night took in a variety show in my Sunday
boots"
And then the horrid thing went out to get
drink.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-01-18

One of the steamers of the Pacific Mail
Company, while off the coast of Guatemala
had the rare experience of being pursued by
waterspout 1t suddenly appeared near
the ship. In the midst of the consterna-
ton the captain ordered the course reversed
and soon the steamer was driving along with
the waterspout in pursuit.
Its crest was hidden in a dark mass OF
cloud, its base seeming to operate like an
immense revolving cullender, while the en-
tire external periphery formed cushion OF
foam, over which the sea-bird screamed, oc-
casionally seizing upon the dead fish which
came within reach.
The spout itself formed a sort of spiral
cylinder, streaked with Opaque parallel lines
through its whole length, from the surface
of the sea upward.
These lines were evidently ascending col
umns of water, for afterwards, when the up
per and lower sections became detached, the
accumulated volume of water overhead i'm
mediately began its descent within the body
of the spout, as though it had been the valve
of an immense syringe.
The water thus released must have been
equal to several tons, as it was solid and al
most black, and returned to the sea with a
loud roar, all the other parts of the ;erial
structure gradually dissipating.
Perhaps the most singular of all was the
serpentine form assumed by the section near
est the Clouds which moved off at first al
most horizontally and then turned upon it
self in perfect coil, so that for moment,
with the end of the aqueous rOpe-or what
ever it was-switchrd around squarely to
the eye of the observer, showing section, it
resembled ball of ink.
When the spout was in its finest condition
lightning several times flew through the pc
numbra in zigzag courses, making specta-
Gle not only terrible in the manifestation OF
mower. but sublime and beautiful.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-01-18
All Ashame ed to Pick 1t Up.

Every seat in the cabin of a Fulton ferry
boat was occupied, and many persons stood
in the narrow passageway. Fifty persons
must have seen the bright, new nickel that
lay very invitingly in the middle of the floor,
but nobody picked it up. A young woman
would have done so, but her companion
whispered to her, and she blushed and pre-
tended not to have seen it. 1t could hardly
have escaped the eye of a small boy who
whistled all the way across the river, but he
was bashful, or else feared that it was nailed
to the floor. When the boat entered the New
York slip the passengers walked over the
nickel as they went out. Some had yearn-
ing expression of countenance, but they did
not yield. Two men remained in the cabin.
One stopped, picked up the nickel and de-
posted it in his vest pecket.
II told you how it would be, F" he said to
the other, II knew no one would touch it,
Drinks on you.'
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-01-18
No. g..
GILDED YOUTH OF GOTHAM.
Masculine Extravagances that Lay
Those of Women in the Shade.

New York Letter in the Albany Journal
Men are becoming very luxurious, and
their dressing rooms, sitting rooms, wardrobes,
and repositories for personal belongings dis
play tastes more costly than those of women.
Underwear of the softest, richest,
knitted silk dozens of South American pam
.jamas, for night and dressing room wear, of
China crepe, soft twilled Chinese silk, cash
mere, flannel bound with satin and en-
broidered, and all in the daintiest, most deli
cate tints and cOlors, such as ivory, pale
blue, pink, buff, or violet The panjama con-
sists of drawers and loose blouse jacket with
sailor color When made in ivory they are
often faced with collar and embroidered
with ivory silk in little vine or in the corn
ers of collars and cuffs. If the panama is in
colors it will, perhaps, be embroidered with
white or have appliques cut out of white
satin cloth or velvet embroidered on The
daintiest of all is an all white panama of
ivory Chinese crepe or silk enriched with
hand embroidery, and these are made for the
wedding outfits of fashionable men, who will
have a dozen Of white, a dozen trimmed
with color, and dozen in various delicate
colOrs embroidered in white.
These elegant gentlemen have for smoking
companions the gate of a country house in
mcKel OF silver, Wltn cnaln rings, lnsteau vi
bars to hold cigars upright and side lights
representing gate lamps, but holding can
dies, and post pedesta]s to form matchhold
ers. These cost from $3.50 to $3.50, and are
sometimes ornamented with bird or a roos-
ter in the act of growing Another recently
imported piece of masculine extravaganza is
a lamp, the lower part of which forms tri-
pod set upon a double hoof decorated with
natural hair. There are two burners repre-
senting wax candles under tinted and deco
rated glass; and the cost for lamp Of this
kind is about $3.50. Another lamp has for
its standard horseshoe, with stirrup and
riding whip crossed and twisted.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-01-18
Saved by a Little Girl.

Not long since the Jefferson City passen-
ger train on the Missouri Pacific railroad
was rushed at full speed through the cut on
the road between Glendale and Webster
Stations, when the engineer noticed little
girl on the track waving her apron wildly
and making other gestures, signifying that
the train should stop. The engineer was
undecided for a moment believing that the
child was at play. He looked again and
saw the little maid still holding her position
and still waving aloft her signal of distress.
The engine was reversed and the steam brakes
applied, the train coming to halt almost in
the middle of the curve. Looking down the
road piece the trainmen were Mortified to
see the Washington express coming down
upon it and the little one still On the track
waving her apron. The engineer of the in
coming train saw the child's signal, and the
engine was stopped within one hundred feet
OF the Jefferson City train. Both trains
were ON the same track.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-01-18
AmusemenDs Forbidden to Priests.
IN. Y. Sun, Dec. 6.


The DEGREES of the Ecclesiastical Synod,
which closed its deliberations in st. Patrick's
Cathedral on November 9th, are in the hands
of the printer, and will, it is expected, be
ready for publication about December 18th.
There was an erroneous idea that they were
to be sent to Rome for ratification but they
are concerned with matters of morals. and
not faith, and do not need Roman affirma-
tion The most interesting to the public
are; decree forbidding priests to attend
dramatic or Operftic performances in thea
ters: one forbidding clerical attendance at
race courses, and one making the wearing OF
the Rabbs, or Roman collar, obligatory on
priests. There is also a decree prohibiting
the use of flowers at funerals, except in the
case of young children, when they may be
appropriately used as typifying the inno-
cence and purity of the dead. None of the
DEGREES deal with the amusements Of the
laity, as has been incorrectly stated
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-01-18
THE TRANSIT OF VENUS.

Now, tell me. tell me- Lady Venus,
What unkind thought has slept between us,
That you should seek To cross lie so.
In face of all the world below ="
No unkind thought has slept between us,
Softly answered Lady Venus,
But those dear spots upon your face
Are watched by all the human race.
And this for years has been my dream
moment ON your cheek to CLEAN,
That i'm your glory men might see
More beauty than before in me-"
''You touch my heart. o Lady Venus
And though the space is great between us,
MY beams shall kiss you as yon go,
And men shall ever after know
That Venus richer beauty won
BY having dared to cross the sun.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-01-18
THE NEW BABY.

There came to port, last Sunday night,
The queerest little craft,
Without an inch Of riggin' on;
looked, and looked, and laughed.
Ii seemed SO curious that she
Should cross the Unknown water
And moor herself right in my room.
My daughter, o my daughter!
She has no manifest but this,
No flag floats DER the water,
She's too new for the British Lioyds-
My daughter, . my daughter!
Ring out, wild bells. and tame ones, too,
Ring out the lovers moon
Ring in the little worsted socks,
Ring in the bib and spoon!
Ring out the muse, ring in the nurse,
Ring in the milk and water!
Away with paper. pen ard ink
My daughter, o my daughter!
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-01-18
Ten Thousand Acres of Oystersr
IPall Mall Gazette.

The joy caused in gastromic epicurean
circles by Nj. Olsen's paper on The North
Sea Fisheries" and the great oyster discover
les there will be shared by the whole oyster
eating world. Two hundred miles of oyster
beds, thirty to seventy miles wide, that is to
say 100000 acres of splendid oysters
within easy distance of the British coast, it
is discovery to which all those of Stanley
and Livingston sink into insigni6cance One
curious feature about it is that the oysters
lie at a depth of twenty -one fathoms, thus
disposing summarily of the prevalent idea
that oysters can only be raised successfully
in shallow water. The man who invents q
new dish, according to some, the man who
plants tree, according to the Mohamme-
dams, deserves well of mankind but what
is the reward OF man who discovers TO-
O0OO0 acres of oysters?
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1883-01-18
Vital Statistics.

An English writer on vital statistics calcu'
lates that of ten children born in Norway
little over seven reach their twentieth year
that in Englend and the United State some
what less than seven reach that age; while
in France only five reach it, and In Ireland
less than five. 1t is also ascertained that in
Norway out of ten thousand born rather
more than one out of three reaches the age
of seventy in England. one out OF four; Iii
the United States if both sexes be com puted,
less than one out of four IN France, less
than one out of eight: IN Ireland, less
than one ont of eleven Further. it appears
that in Norway the overage length of lie, OF
the effective population, is thirty nine; in
England, thirty-fye and half In France,
not quite thirty-three years, and in Ireland
not quite twenty nine