The Billings herald. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1882-1885, 1883-03-01
OLLA PoDR1DA.


\ paper called the Chinesc-Amcrican.
The Pall-Ute Indians III Nevada, VIII
some time ago refused to go upon reser
vation, are now reported to be starving an,
have appealed to the government for aid.
n Mile. Beatrix dc Rothchild, daughter O
Baron Alphonso, of Paris will be marriet
in April to her cousin, Baron Alfred d.
Rothchild of London, one of the wealth
: lest of the great family. The future bride
groom is 40 years of age. the bride IS.
In the dozen years since Dickens dice
over four million copies of his books have
been sold in Great Britain, and he is the
author of whom the elder Bennett once
asked: ''Who is Dickens: Nothing but a
reporter, and I've got plenty of better ones
on the Herald.
Prapers Ontario car works, London,
Ont, represent to the Dominion govern
!. ment that railway cars are being syste-
matically smugglcd into Canada from the
United States and allcgc that large num-
bcrs of cars are brought across the line
loaded and never returned.
Flour is selling in Boise City for Sl4 per
barrel. Wheat, barley and oats are scarce
at cents per pound. The cause of high
prices is that the railroad contractors Of the
Oregon Short Line have been buying up
hay and grain all up and down the valley.
Hay is bringing $40 per ton and will go up
higher before spring.
DIR. Marion Sims, who has special rcpu-
tation for treatment Of nervous dscacs, de-
clared in in Philadelphia the other day
that Horace Greeley suffered from cerebro-
spinal meningitis in his last illness, and
should no more have been sent to an in
sane asylum for treatment than should
dclirious typhoid fever patient"
1t is reported that the Massachusetts
| Legislature will adopt Governor Buffers
! recommendation that the experiment be
| tried of permitting women to participate in
municipal elections. The committee of
the House of Representatives which has
The subject in charge has reported favorably
and there is understood to be a majority in
both houses favorable to the proposition.
There is a watch in Swiss museum only !
thrce-siNtcenths of an inch in diamatcr in |
serted in the top of pencil case Its little !
dial not only indicates hours, minutes and |
seconds but also days of the month 1t is |
a relic of the time when watches were in
serted in snutf-boxes, shirt-studs, and |
finger rings. Some were iuntastic-oval,
octanSular, crucitorm, or in the shape of
pearls, tulips, etc.
The cul representing Scnator-clcct Sabin,
lately published i'll the big st. Paul paper
is spid to have done previous duty as a cor
rect likeness. of Frank James. 1t originally
represented d quack doctor over in Mime
apolis, whose soul must be rackcd with
conflicting emo tions, rs he witnesses this
utiiiza;;on Of his classical features, in the
cxiseneics Of metropolitan iournalism,-
Bismarck Tribune.
Mr.. Christian h. Ross will never allow
time or disappointed hope to weaken the
chain Of affection that binds him to his :
long lost boy. Only q few days ago he
wrote friend: l am still diligently max
ing every effort to unravel the mystery CON (
nccted with his continued abscficc. In :
our family the subject is often the theme ,
of conversation. Charlie is often spoken
of as living. and shall be until VIC know
the contrary. ,
Representative Phneas Jones, of New
Jersey, a child of his fathers old age, was ;
the son of a revolutionary soldier who Ell
tered the service of the last year of the war,
when 16 years old. He has beautiful lit !
daughter 2 years of age. When this child {
reaches the year Of womanhoOd, in 1900
she will probably be almost the only {
young lady of the period who will be able {
TO say that her own grandfather fought in t
.hc revolution. !
The Toronto Globe approves Of the sug- J
5estlon Of a correspondent that the United :,
States and Canada should have postage !
stamps and postal cards that would have
value on either side Of the border. The j,
mere mention Of such necessity proves :
hat the business interests of this country =
md the dominion are drawing them to-
scther day by day. The true solution of l
Ill such difficulties is the admission of '
,anala into the Union.
OF the 100000 volunteers in the Mexican L
var, $1,000 survive. Those survivors aver v
'gc up TO 60 years Of age. They have been a
lroppins off at the rate of 1000 year for Il
! 'ong time, and must continue to drop off
It about that rate until the end. These q
survivors, arc calling for pensions They
lid most effective and valuable service for :.
heir country, and their country is now in d
to render an aid that to MANY of n
hem is sorely needed.
1t is now claimed by many scientific mc,, \
hat coal oil, instead of being a preventa- i
i've of diphthcria, is the cause of it. In
he first place it is charged that before coal I
Ill lamps were introduced there were cases n
# sore throat but no diphtheria. and that o
here are no instances Of diphthcria in fam v
lies who do not use coal oil or use it but II
paringly. 1t is held by the converts to II
his theory that there are poisonous ec- "
nents in coal oil, and its combustion Gre .
tcs noxious gases which pcrmeatc the at d
nosphere and b1eel the disease known as 6
ipbthcria. In
\ Montana stock raiser was enjoying a
uccnlcnt steak at the Sheridan last night, II
;hen fellow traveller asked him where all VI