The Billings herald. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1882-1885, 1884-01-12
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5 has been filled by the appointment
t of Sir Edward Sullivan.
The cellars under Philadelphia;
, city hall are the largest in America
7 having an area Of four acres and {
3 half.
J An international gas exhibition
} will open at Middleburgh. Holland
on July 9th, and will last for Il
days.
The first Jewish settlers in New
York city were 27 refugees banished
, from Bahia, in Brazil, in the ycal
1854. The Jewish population Is
now $4,000.
With great ceremony, the last
stone was laid in the harbor g,
Trieste on Dec. 49, The work has
taken 15 years and has cost ever
100000.
| A genuine Rembrandt has ar
rived in Paris, and is pronounced
to be superior to the one in the
one in the Louvre, valued at 800.
1000 francs.
| a New Hampshire coon club.
that is ten years old, has just killed
its first coon. An ill-natured local
ipaper suggests that the coon must
have been sick.
| Guiteau's skeleton. which is
hidden in private room Of the Ar
my Medical Museum, has been pol
ished and bleached until it looks
like an ivory figure.
Dwight NJ. Sabin of Minnesota,
the new Chairman of the Rcpubli-
can National Committee, has an in
come of 100000, derived mainly
from prison contracts.
Virginia capitalists have paid
100000 for $4,000 acres near Great
Bend, Kansas, intending to found
a colony of those belonging to the
society Of Dunkards there.
Delegations of wealthy propsrt,
owncrs in Chicago have repeatedly
asked Mayor Harrison to desist from
prosecuting the gamblers whose
places are either on or near tn sir
lots.
Two hundred German cmigrants,
who recently went to America, ac- |
cording to the st. James Gazette, !
returned to Berlin the other day, !
itterly disappointed in their ex-
pectations.
a prisoner in the state prison
tells the San Francisco Call that !
money will procure whatever the,
convlcts may want and that whis-
key selling forms a lucrative trade
in the prison,
A grandchild of Ger. Turner Of
Memphis was about to be buried,
when some one insisted that it
should be bathcl and slapped on
the back. The child is now alive
and doing well.
A caterer in Buffalo, n. y, cooks
ang lc worms. He feeds thenl with
milk for IL few days, dusts them
with -four, and drops them into a
pan of burning oil or fat. They are
served in drawn butter with lemon
Juice and Worcester sauce.
At a recent dinner of the Scot
tish Corporation in London on St.
Andrews Day, over which the Mar
quis of l.orne presided, everything
suggestive Of degenerative Saxon
dom was carefully suppressed.
There were only two pairs 0: t:ow-
sers present.
Prof. Leopold Won Rankc, who
celebrated his SSth birthday on 3iss
OF December, has just completed
the fourth volume of his universal
history, entitled "The Empire in
Constantinople, and the Origin of
the Germano-Romance Kingdoms"
They have begun to enforce the
-four mile law in Tenn essec. 1t
is virtual prohibition. As a result,
the river steamers are now freighte
with cargocs of whiskey fur priva'e
consumers. One Stca 'iler lately left
Paducah with 500 jugs for distriba-
ton to consignees along the river
bank.
A letter mailed in Sault Ste. Ma-
rie, Mich, for the village on the op-
posite side OF the river, about mile |
distant, goes through Detroit to
WiNdroe where It enters the Cana
dian mails. Thence, it is sent over
the Canadian routes to the Sault.
Ii a man is in a hurry, he crosses
over and talks.
1t has now become the regular re-
source of the i,npscunious English
noh.eman to ''go in for" the direct
ofship of companies. Thus the
name of Lord Churston, whe was
ruined by gambling !. few yes.rs
ago, appears as director of one com
pany and trustee Of another-~a New
Brunswick railroad: :
The War Cry, the official gazette
OF Gen. Booths Sal, alton Army, IS
published in English, French and
several other languages. Trey sci
out 250,OOO,0Q0 copies and sS5,OW
worth Of musical instruments, un-
forms, badge, etc. The Gran,l Az
my nn,,,,pic., cpD .nn,,, 100 nf