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The Billings herald. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1882-1885, 1884-12-27

joymcnt, I noticed scores of young
women sitting arou d on the benches,
skating only now and then with a
chance male companion or gliding along
the smooth floor in lonely grandeur
Fully as many young men, too, skated
by themselves or sat staring at the girls.
why don't some of those fellows
summon up courage and assist the
ladies9' asked my companion.
''Oh, he answered with an astonished
look, shat wouldn't do in Boston, A
young man would be put from the build
ing if he spoke to lady without an in
PRODUCTION"
1t was actually forbidden in the printed
rules. Fancy the condition of affairs
in the big rink at Coney island. The
particular set of New York maidens who
60 to places of that kind without. an es-
cort are quite sharp enough to skate with
susceptible young man without per-
mittihg him to cause them any annoy
ing or inconvenicnt recognition after
ward. After all, New York girls are a
little hardened and blinded by custom.
They are always in for lively time, but
the Boston girl can swamp them with
'book larnin'." Even the shop girls and
the walters in ice-cream saloons keep
books with the leaves turned down, and
store their minds with knowledge which
they hope 10 make useful during lull
in trade.
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THE BOSTON GIRL.
Matters Wherein She DiHers from
the New York Girl.

Matters Wherein She Differ. from
the New York Girl.
New York Mail and Express.]
| know plenty of young men who con-
trive to have great deal of cheap fun
at the expense of the average Boston
girl. The newspapers, pictorial week
lies and even the magazines foster them
in it. Some of the girls, to be sure, are
curious creatures, but many whom the
New Yorker in Boston has met are re-
markably nice and frst-rate people to
know. To bc sure, they are wholly diff
ferent from the young ladies he is ac-
customed TO meet at home. They have
more substance, but less sparkle. A New
Yorker feels constrained to be careful
what Ee says and how he says it. After
an hours chat he goes away feeling very
tired, and his heart doesn't boand with
delight at an invitation to call again.
He doesn't feel half so sorry to go as he
docs after little witch in his own city
has been entertaining him. He feels a
strong desire to go home and read up.
For the street the Boston girl dresses
plainly but eXpensiycly, and with an Mt
ter disregard of what in New York is
called style. She neither seems to
know nor to care how to put on her
clothes to the best effect. A female rela-
tive OF the New Yorker tells him that
they are very thorough: that beneath
HE plain skirt of Boston damsel you
will never soc cheap or soiled linen
underskirt, but clean and costly as her
purse will allow. This female relative
asserts, moreover, that with many New
York maidens who make considerable
outward display, the reverse is the case.
Many an expensive silk raiment hides
from all but the critical of her own sex
shockingly untidy petticoat. AS this
is altogether out of my bailiwick, drop
it with mere statement of the facts.
The Boston girl won't flirt in the
street She comports herself as though
conscious that every one was looking at
her. She is not so hardened and indif-
ferent to the opinion of strangers by
constant contact with all phases of met
ropolitan life as New York girl is
This applies not only to young ladies
who have nothing in the world to do but
to dress, amuse themselves and find a
husband, but to the girls who must work
for living in the shops and Offices.
The rollicking army on Fourteenth street
any evening after o'clock would shock
and disgust them. They march along
home by twos and threes, looking
neither to the right nor left, with what
Howells has called the "sad pa
tience of uncourted women" They
are the perfection of all that
is demure and discreet. The young
men, on the other hand, pay no atten-
ton to them. They push on to their
homes with all haste, and hurry off to
spend the evenings among others of
their sex in one of the many gymna-
Sums, schools, reading rooms, billiard
parlors and like resorts which Boston
seems to have provided in abundance
for growing youth. At large seaside
skating rink last evening, where thou
sands Of young people ratified around on
rollers for an evenings fascinating en-
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He Had to Believe It.

"A Kaintucky man told me a curious
snake story wunst, remarked hoosier from
Southern Indiana. lit happened to hissclf.
he sed. He wuz out arter grounding for
dinner one day when suddenly he see a snake
lift its head above the high grass an hiss.
He got within few foot of the reptile an
wuz just on the point Of pullin' the trigger,
when the snake made clear jump an went
plump down the muzzle of his gun. So how
to get it out he didn't know. Hit finally oc-
CURED to him to shoot it out, which he did !;
GU, stranger, he swore to me by all that is
holy that he driv the head of that snake
right down through the whole length of it's
body, and jest turned it inside out"
"You didn't believe such an all-round
story as that, did ycus"
stranger. believed every word Of it.
had to. When q Kaintucky man who is
sweatin' big drops of whisky tells story
'tcut snakes that actooly cum within his own
experience, an swars to it, mind We, no citi
zen of Southern Indiany who has family tc
support ever is foolish enough as to go an
allow as what it amt So"
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ACCORDING TO pALMIsTRY
There Are NJ Least Seven Distinct
Types OF Hands.

u
Types OF Hands.
Detroit Free Presa]
There are seven distinct types Of
hands according to the science of palm
istry. They are as follows:
First the elementary hand. The char
acteristic features of this hand are thick,
stiff fingers, short thumbs, turned back,
large, broad, thick PLAN, very hard.
These are the hands of laborcrs, farmers
and fighting soldiers-men who work
laboriously, without thought or orig
inality. Are easily discouraged by ad-
vers circumstances which cannot be
overcome by brute force.
The spatulate hand has a big thumb,
and comes next On the list. This is a
good hand to have. The possessor is an
actualist and not an idealist, and sur
rounds himself with useful comforts.
The artistic hand, the third on the
list, is a flexible hand, with small thumb
and medium palm, indicating love OF
beauty. 1t has three distinct types, but
in each love of some kind predominates.
In the highest it is love of art.
The useful hand is of medium size,
with well jointcd fingers, palm followed
and firm; people who have this hand
are good organizers and disciplinarians.
The philosophic hand is medium
sized, pliable hand. It's motto is ''Mod-
Grafton in all things and truth in all.
The psychic hand is the rarcst and
most beautiful type OF all. It is small,
the fingers without knots, the third
pha!ange long and pointed, the thumb
small and well shaped. If tho hand is
large, and the joints well developed, it
has more force, but not SO much origi-
nality Such subjects are guided by the
ideal, the sublime and the spiritual.
The mixed hand has parts of all the
types. It is usual to find that the owner
Of such q hand is Jack Of all trades and
master of none" tits both perplex-
ing and amusing hand to read, as it lines
apparently contradict each other.
The characteristics Of all these types ap-
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THE HARLEM TRAMP.
Ec Entcrtains the Barl.ceper with Some
Original Sayings.


Ec Entertains the Barlsecper with Some
Original Sayings.
[Exchange.]
"That's what l like to see-a good Ere; it
looks like blooming hospitality. But it would
greatly add to my present hospitality II
lad littlo OF the stuff that breaks up
hcn.es"
II suppose" remarked the barkeeper, 'that
l must treat, but what O fool a man is to
put that in his mouth that steals away
his brains"
"Oh, let up on that stuff" growlcd the
tramp. "You never could put anything in
your mouth to steal away your brains. Just
shut of the morality lecture aid produce the
old stuff 1t makes me tired to hear lot OF
moral sayings: "A man is known by the COM
pany he keeps "a soft answer turneth away
wrath and hundreds of other chestnuts.
Why don't they get some new sayings"
'Where can they get 'ena" asked the bar
keeper.
why. let 'em so to q philosopher and
have 'em written; what's the matter with
thats While on the road l wrote lot my
self Talk about proverbs and old sayings,
you ought to hear mine"
"Let's hear 'em," sail the barkeeper.
"For notning?" said the tramp indig nantly.
"Not much. Just proceed to wet the interior
of the philosopher with another dose of ill.,
sanity"
"Ihe;e things I have written" said the
tramp, "may not bs put in choice language.
Tney are the spontaneous outpourings OF q
heart that b.eeds for humanity. Every one
of them is a gem, and deserves place in
history. make no claims o; being educated,
but there are no flies on mo when it comes to
sitting human nature down to the core. If
the audience is ready the philosopher will
gush.
"Now, gentlemen, listen. Here are the
proverbs and sayings l have invented, and
any infringement will be prosecuted accord
ing to law"
"A scent shave is better than dirty
face"
"Never Judge man by the clothes that he
wears. He may have borrowed them.
"A firm that pays its Office boy 50 week
deserves to have it; postage stamps stolen.
ut is better to be honest than be poor.
"Good clothes make q better impression on
society than good name.
"A poor mans evil deeds are crime:
rich mans mistake.
"a scent meal, with conten.ment, is bet
tor than Delmonico layout with a heavy
creditor.
"An honest politician is the noblest work OF
the Creator.
"a man who can be honest on an empty
stomach can be trusted with your POCKET
book.
"a dog mover gets drunk, and consequently
he is mans best friend.
"One half the world don't know how the
other half lives, and it don't care.
"Death must be happiness. Most Of living
faces are sad, but nothing grins like dead
mans skull
@Liars have their usefulness-they make
the truth appear more beautiful by contrast
shabby men have one consolation-p:ck.
pockets are we'll dressed.
"There, shouted tho tramp, as he brought
his fist down on the bar with bang, "thare
you have lot Of sayings that arc true, and
can warm the hide off the old saws in one
round. Now that have enlighteu,d your
minds what is my rewardF'
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A I4ive-Prescrvcr.
Merchant Traveler.1

lMorCl6nt 1Tavol0r.j
Mr.. and Mrs. Lovgin went to Louisville
recently by boat, and in the morning. when
Mrs. L. aroce, she looked susp;ciously at kaf
husband and said:
@Were you up during the night"
ayes, DEAR" he responded gently.
"What was the matter"
"Why, my dear, woke up in the night
little nervous, and got up to see il the hfs-
preserver was in good condition in case Of
accident"
"Did you find its"
eyes, my dear"
$50 should say" she replied, with /: disa-
greeable rasp in her voice, @and you left The
cork on the shelf. Possibly, my darling, you
had better put it back in the life preserves,
so it will be all right for the next passengers
who may occupy this state-room."
Mr. Lovgin took the cork and didn't Goa.
tnue the conversation.
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A Delicate Question.
brakes Magazine.l

One afternoon as the Hon. w. c. Raines,
a lawyer well known is western New York,
was travelling over the Central, he was ap-
preached by the conductor who was one Of
his innumerable friends, and who announced
that he wanted his advice on rather deli
cate matter.
"We.l, what is itl" said the lawyer.
swell, Mr. Raines, tho fact is, there's q
big, fs.ed fellow forward in the smoker
that won't pay his fare"
"Wellr
swell, what I want to ask you IS: Had !
better let him ride fres, or take lickingr
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hlnGb 4uTHeu OuC'
[Chicago Helald.1

The Springfield armory shops will turn ous
more rifles this year than ever before since
the war, the averaging being 40 a day.
Last years produce was $4,000 ami the pro-
duct Of the year before was BIC Tie
amount of works depends on the amount of
the appropriation, which is about s4O0,0D0 a
year.
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ply to women as well as to men, but are
less pronounced, as man creates, woman
develops. The female hand may be di.
vided into two classes, those with large
thumbs and those with small thumbs.
English women usually have
the exterior phalange delicately squared,
consequent on their willingness to adopt
household cares. The luxurious women
of the east, devoted unto death, have
slim hands with small thumbs. The
woman with square fingers and small
thumbs will have neat, orderly house.
A woman with spatulate fingers and
small thumbs will love horses and dogs.
Comic fingers and small thumb indi-
cate fondness for being loved. One
docs not need to be gypsy queen in
order to read the lines of the hand with
such instructions as these and predict
fortunes for the owner.
Bamboo Farms.
The Edison Electric Light company
has three farms in northern Japan COM
prising 800 acres, devoted to raising tho
bamboo, which, splintered and carbon
lied, arc used in the incandescent
lamps.
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The Era Of "Syndicates."
[Pittsburg Chronicle

ma, there's syndicate of La l boys punch
ng brother Johnnie's head at the corner!"
"The little Williams! Mary Catherine, tell
the syndicate of policemen st the beer saloon
forninst the letther box, en- I'll get syndi-
cate OF the neighbors and 60 to his rescue
immeejetly. Where's Johnnie's own syndi-
cate that they amt ON hand to help bim"
They're gone with baseball syndicate
to the corner-lot, an there's syndicate Of
fsh-peddlers fighting them there now, an
their hands is full. You'll have to get syn
diceta Of neighbors to help"
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He Appreciated Poetry.
fNow Yorlr 9,,a

9Is thore anybody, around this estabaisA-
ment who loves poettyP he said a. -
opened the door an. glared around tho edI-
tcrial-rcom with doubtful loox.
Certainly there S, said the editor; have
you got somsr
Eyes, four POEMS. oil Of 'em on spring"
aGood: That's just what we want John,
sprinkle u little sauce on these and take sm
downstairs"
.tvLa. l,r!' demsndel the pce..
"For thu goat. He is the only one about !
The estat shmont who loves poetry. But he /,
won't ca. spring poetry without mint SAUCE :.
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Did Not Work.
ph;laflolnhia C.All1

Mrs. A.-Wen, I tried your plan fof
making the kitchen girl contented, but It b
perfect failure.
Mrz. B.-A failure! NY plan Of giving
presents a failurea Oh. there must be soms
mistake.
tiful present costing nearly SO, and she did
going to leave"
aDear me! That's strange. What did you
give herg"
can elegant gilt and ebony alarm clock"
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Ham, boo Farms.
A Solemn Warning,
lPh;ladalDhia CALL

A California dog who was in the habit Of
catching crackers in his mouth recently
swallowed twenty dollar gold piece and
,oon nfterward died. Moral.-Keep your
rick dogs out of editorial rooms
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-06-06

Two high-bred women-one from
New York, the other from Boston
happened to meet in what the Boston
Traveller ironically calls a social"
circle. Both were rich and accomplished,
and both claimed to have ancestors.
Boston in the course of a little eenser-
sation between the two, alluded in the
most seemingly unpretentious way, to
the trivial circumstance that her ances-
tors came over IN the Maydower. "Ahls
replied New York, with little lift of
her eyebrows expressive of innocent sur
prise, II did not know before that the
Mayfowers brought over any Storage
passengers"
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Papillon Skin Cure.


An external means of curing skin diseate.
There is scarcely any eruption but viii yield to
Papillon Skin Cure. Ordinary pimples, red
ness, blotches, scurf, r~oughness, vanish as if
by magic; while enduring skin diseases, that
have plagued the sufferers for years, however
deeply rooted, Papillon Skin Cure will success
fully cure. 1t destroys the animalculae which
cause these unsightly, irritable, painful affec-
tons, and produces a clear, healthy skin.
1t is a specific cure for SALT RHEuM, EcZE-
MA, ERYsIPELAs, SCRoFULA, ScALDHEAD, let
TER, HIVES, Rash, DANDRUFF, BARRIERS ITcH,
PMPLEs, Strikes, ITCH, PLANT POISONING,
M POISONED MOUNDS, RNG-woRM, SUN
BURN, N ERUPTIoNs OF THE SKIN. FoR
PILES, INTERNAL ITCHING, OR BLEEDING, and
for all diseases Of the skin, this remedy is a
positive cure.
Price, $1.00 per bottle, six for $500. Dlrec-
tons in ten languages accompany every bottle:
For sale by ali druggists.
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Southwark ROW Of Capital.

The flow of capital into the southern
states continues at a tremendous rate,
and if there is no check to the move
ment the next census will reveal some
wonderful changes in that section of the
republic. According to the Baltimore
Manufacturers Record, the money in
vested in new mining and manufacture
ing enterprises in the south since the
1st of January this year amounts to the
great sum of $50, 504, 600. The most of
this has gone in the states of Alabama,
Virginia, Kentucky, Texas, Tennessee.
and Florida, in the order named. The
heaviest investments of capital have been
in coal mining and iron manufacturing
companies, though a considerable por-
ton of this capital has, of course, gone
into various other industries, such as
cotton and wollen mills, flour mills, saw
mills, machine shops, sc. In Alabama,
more than in any other State, mining
and iron making have been the favorite
investments. The apparent fondness
of North CaroliniaGs for small enter
prises is remarkable. There are more
cotton mills In that State then in any
other in the South, and yet, with two ex-
ceptions, they are small as compared with
Georgia and South Carolina mills; and
30 tits in other branches of manufac-
lures. Factories are increasing by the
dozen, but most of them are of moder-
ate dcapacity.
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Here y extracts from letters writ

Here are extracts from letters writ
ten by people iii dfTerent narfs
of the country who have nct the
shadow Of a reason to make misstate.
ments. They have not been bribed or
bought. They speak right up. briefly
and to the point.
used Thomas Electric eli -tarnaI-
Iy for a kidney difficulty with splendid
effect. 1t makes pain hum. / buy
it in dozen lots.-Thomas G.. Read. IS
East Swan ST., Buffalo, N. Y.
do think there is nothing like
Thomas Eclectric Oil. For a cold OF q
hoarseness it works like a charm.-Mrs.
M. j. Fellows, Burr Oak, st. Joseph
Co., Mich.
Of rheumatism nothing gave me- re-
lief quicker than Thomas Electric Oil
remarks r. G. Joiner of Allen P. o..
Hillsdale Co.. Mich.
Worth five times it's prizes. B.
Durfey, second mate steamer Arizona. on
the great lakes, cured of bad jam on
foot.
As a remedy for catarrh it stands at
the top.-Edward S. Rowley, 90 w.
Twelfth St, Davenport, Iowa.
Has magical pain-killing and healing
properties-C. j. Doesbury, proprietor
News, Holland Mich.
Had catarrh. Thomas Eclectric Oil
relieved me-the first dose.-George III.
Dart, Sac City, Iowa.
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signor Jannotta to Nathan Ford.

ST.. PAUL, MINI, Dec. 14th, 1888.
M In NATHAN FORD, St Paul, Mimi.
DEAR Sm:-The magnificent Parlor Grand
Knabe Piano selected especially for me by
Mr.. Knabe, at the factory, has arrived and
gives me great satisfaction. 1t is with great
pleasure that / express my highest admira-
action. It is, without exception, the finest
instrument / have ever examined, and COM
Dimes the elements of a perfect piano in the
highest degree. All the best musicians OF
this city who have examined this piano, unite
with me in admiration OF its superb qualities.
Let me thank youfor your courtesy and kind
" assistance in arranging for the purchase of
this piano. Iremain very respectfully,
SIGNoR A. JANNoTTA.
For list of purchasers Of these celebrated pi-
amos and prices, terms, &c, address or call OF
NATHAN FORD,
SO e. Third st, st. Paul, MINI.
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Prof. aarratt to nathan FORD.

ST. PAUL, May 2Sth, 1884
NATHAN Ford, ESQ:
DEAR SIR:-I cannot help writing you to ex-
press the pleasure gwen me by using the
"knabe Upright Piano" furnished by you at
my Organ Concert on the 27th inst. l was
very much delighted With the purity of tone,
and the beautiful singing quality, the admirable
manner In which the instrument blended with
the tones of the organ. / think great praise is
hrstly due othe makers, and secondly to your
self, for having secnredth agency for such in
struments. With compliments, / remain yours
truly.
CHARLES A. GARRATT,
Organist House of Hope Church, St Paul.
For list of purchasers of these celebrated pian-
os, and prices, terms, &c, address or cali on
TIA FoRD,
8E. Third St., St Paul, MINI.
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A New York observer who has stud
led types Of feminine beauty during a
long course of years says that the blonde
is gradually disappearing in this
try-or, at least. in New York. He
begun his observations in 1889 or 1910,
when he found that the proportion of
blondes among 100 women was Az, the
brunettes numbering 80, and those who
We're not decidedly one or the other 81.
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Fortify fhe system.
All who have expert
enced and Witnessed
the effect of H0~tet-
ter's stomach Bitters
upon the weak. brok-
en- down, responding
victims of dyspepsia,
liver complaint, fever
and ootfa ~ke4aaa4
ism, nervous de-
bility, or premature
decay, know that in
this supreme tonic
and Alternative there
exists q specific prin-
ciple which reaches
the very source OF the
trouble, and effects an
absolute and perma-
nent cure. For sale
by all Druggists and
Dealers generally.
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The trite saying of good Bishop Berkeley.

The trite saying of good Bishop Berkeley,
Westward the course of Empire takes its
way" is daily verified by events.
Not least significant among these is
the fact that the state department at
Washington has Just purchased q number of
Rockford Quick Train Railroad watches to be
given by President Arthur to Captains of for
eign vessels in testimony of our Governments
appreciation of their gallantry in saving the
lives of American seamen. A few years ago
Geneva watches only would have been con-
sidered good enough for such a purpose; now,
among many competitors. the movements made
at this far Western factory are selected as being
the best examples of human skill in delicate
nandiwork.
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Pending and Rejected Claims.

We make a speciality Of this class Of
claims. If you have no attorney to rep
resent you, send to us for blanks andin-
structions. Stoddart & CO., Alb G
Street, Washington, d. G..