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Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1888-09-06
A Ballet Girls Preparation.

The process of preparing French ballet
girl for her debut has been divulged by a
lady who is professor of the art of
kalsomining, as it may be termed. The
danseuse. who is about to faire son mastic,
sits before her looking glass. and over
face, arms. neck, shoulders and bosom she
spreads coat of liquid white, which dries
and forms a sort Of varnish. This first
coat she greases with little cold cream
and perfumes it with dash Of poudre de
riz Then she touches up her cheeks with
vermilion, heightens the red of her lips
with carmine, magnifes the contour of
the eyes with kohl, paints her eyebrows
with Indian ink, picks out few veins,
and the mastic is complete This opera
ton requires at least half an hour Next
the dancer draws on her silk tights, and
next she dons her underskirt; then follows
the corsage, the five or ten gauze skirts,
or whatever more or less succinct costume
may be worn; and finally the bracelets,
earrings. and miscellaneous jewelry which
these young ladies will insist on wearing
Thus equipped she bounces on to the
stage. smiling fresh and gay, and fitting
with easy grace through her pas. ap-
plauded by the admiring audience. But
the moment that her back is turned to the
public the smile vanishes, her face be-
comes serious, her features are grimacing
and drawn with fatigue, and as she passes
US we see that she is painting for breath
and bathed in perspiration. And by the
time she has finished dancing she will be
so worn out that she will scarcely have
strength enough left to crawl upstairs to
her dressing room, where she will need to
be rubbed down and tended like an over
taxed racehorse. Home Journal
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1888-09-06
Getting Even at Last.

Our red headed girls have at last got
the joke on the public Every time a
pretty girl with red hair enters an ele-
waited train heads are stuck out of the
windows and necks are craned to see if
there isn't a white horse following the
train. If she gets on to ferryboat people
look as if they expected species of Per
seus of some kind to pass the boat She
has got tired of this and Of the miniature
white horse that the Broadway dude wears
on his watch chain and faunts insolently
in her face as she enters car She has
new scheme-a counter irritant. It's
white horse breastpin made of celluloid,
which she wears conspicuously at her
throat. Instead of staring at her and the
road alternately, people give her undi-
vided attention for q minute, and when
they discover the joke they smile and pass
on, glad for chance to attend to their
own business.-New York Telegram.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1888-09-06
Carbon for Electric Lighting.

1t may be imagined that carbon. being
made from the direct products of coal and
petroleum. is dirty material, offensive to
the smell and more so to the taste. 1t is
dirty. in the course of it's preparation. be-
cause the men working with it become as
dirty and greasy faced as if they were
working in a coal mine Completed it is
quite another matter, and the largest
piece of it may be handled with kid gloves
without soiling them Neither is it Of
fensive to the smell The ordinarily curl
Gus citizen can tell all that To secure
testimony as to taste. however, it is nec-
essary to go into the factory, by proxy Of
course because you can't go yourself
There you are ready for the explanation
that the carbon is submitted to such heat
that the taste is all gone. and you are
still reader to believe that this is true
The hour is one in which work is slack,
and the men and boys are taking it easy.
There's one who is smoking a peculiar
pipe. presenting an entirely novel appear
ance.
What it is you can see by the occupa-
tion of the man next to him He is whit
Ting piece of carbon into the shape of
pipe bowl, and now he has it done to his
satisfaction and is following out the
bowl. There's another man who seems to
be forcinga hole through piece of stick
carbon. and looking second time you see
that's exactly what he is doing, and a
second later you see him put it into car
bon pipe bowl as a stem, fill the bowl with
tobacco, light it up and commence to
smoke. Novel, isn't it? You don't
think you'd like it2 Of course not,
but the men who work in carbon and who
smoke out of carbon pipes say it makes
one of the most delightfully."- cool smokes
imaginable. and the material being so
porous. absorbs all of the nicotine before
it can possibly reach the mouth and sys-
tem.-Globe- Democrat.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1888-09-06
THE ALBATROSS.
Cruise of the Steamer of the United
States Fish Commission.


States Fish Commission.
The cruise of the United States fish
commission steamer Albatross to the
northern waters is onS of great import
ance and interest, and it is predicted that
not only will it prove of considerable value
to the cause of science, but may perhaps
be the means Of enrichment for a great
many people from the discovery of here
tofore unknown fishing banks off the
coast of Alaska and in other parts of the
northern seas.
The vessel left the Washington navy
yard some time ago ON the three years
voyage. and spent considerable time in
the South Pacific ocean gathering speci-
mems of fish, fowl and fora, which were
sent from San Francisco to the National
museum at Washington. The vessel has
now proceeded on the lengthy part of her
voyage.
The Albatross, under command of Capt.
Tanner, United States navy, has shown
excellent sailing qualities If her equip
ment has been perfect in a material
sense; she carries on board staff of ap-
proved scientific and practical ability. It
is not alone sufficient to catch fish so as
to determine its kind, but if it enters
into use, as do cod and halibut, a great
deal more than that must be learned 1t
is necessary to know, not alone exact
depths of water, but the confguraton of
the banks as well. Besides that, temper
ature of the water must be ascertained,
character of the sea bottom and the exact
kind of food the fish require. All the ap-
proved methods in use by the Gloucester
fishermen have to be tried, and even the
New England ways of curing the fish will
be eyDerimented with
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1888-09-06
It Was the Property of Whitelaw Reid
When Burned and Had History.
OPHIR CASTLE.

sibly not dreamed Of established stage
coach line from Omaha to Denver, Salt
Lake and Sacramento. He made an i'm
mense fortune, and returned to his native
place to build home whose beauty and
dimensions should be marvel to behold
1t proved his ruin. 1t required eight
years to erect the cast wing and the main
building. Meanwhile his family went
ahead. The two daughters were beauti-
full women. They were taken to Paris by
their mother when Mr.. Halliday was a
very rich man. The elder married the
Comte de Pourtales, a member of a dis
tinguished French family and few
years afterward Pauline the younger,
married the young Baron de Bussiere,
whose father was and still is q rich
banker in the French capital. Mr.. and
Mrs. Halliday were said to have opposed
both marriages, but the girls persisted.
The lives of both were very unhappy
so much so that when their mother died
she stipulated in her will that, if any of
her grandchildren married foreigner,
the property left to him or to her should
be forfeited to the estate. Nine. de
Pourtales died in sleeping car some ten
or twelve years ago while on her way to
New York from California. Her death
was very sudden, and many stories were
current at the time concerning it. She
left two or three children, who are with
their fathers family in France.
The unhappy result Of Miss Pauline's
marriage to De Bussiere was a matter of
current report long before her death at
the New York hotel, which occurred some
eight or ten years ago. She had been that
summer with her husband at ~Trouville,
and after more serious quarrel than the
ordinary took passage for home on a
French steamer and died within two days
after reaching this port. Her body was
placed beside that of her mother, sister
and brother in the chapel at Ophir farm
Mr.. Halliday, the elder, married second
time. The Baroness de Bussiere left one
child, Paul, boy He is living with his
grandfather at the chateau in France.
Benjamin Halliday, Jr., married in Cali
fornia some ten years ago. His wife OBJ
tanned divorce from him in 1880.
After the elder Ben Halliday's death
the fact transpired that his costly place
at Ophir farm had ruined him. 1t was
sold out under mortgage to John Roach
for 100000. Young Ben for time pre-
vented the requirement of clear title.
When this was granted Garnet Roach
went there to live. While Roach resided
there young Ben died, and after some re-
luctance Roach consented that his re-
mains should rest in the chapel beside
the other members of his family. Then
Garnet Roach died and the place was
sold to Whitelaw Reid.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1888-09-06
Women Who Sell Newspapers.

The number of grown women who sell
newspapers on the streets is constantly
increasing, and today there are eight of
them. between 30 and 80 years of age,
vending papers at the big bridge entrance
and the immediate neighborhood. Some
of them are assisted by little sons and
daughters. and one has buxom girl of II
or 1S. whose raven hair and ruddy cheeks
attract great deal if not always respect
full attention There is not much chivalry
in the newsboys who do not hesitate to
mob man or haze boy who intrudes on
their posts; but they do not interfere with
these women. no matter how many cut up
their business. New York Sun.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1888-09-06
4 Natural Lamn.

The light of the firefies Of tropical
America seems to be dependent upon the
will, as when feeding or asleep it is not
seen, attaining its greatest brilliancy dur
ing activity and flight. The color of the
light is rich green, but the eggs omit a
light of a blush tint, according to Dubois.
This naturalist has made extremely inter-
esting experiments with the pyrophorus.
The eggs which he dried retained their
luminosity for week, the light reappear-
ing when they were placed in water. He
ground the luminosity organs in mortar,
after having dried them in vacuum,
and then mixed them in boiled water, the
latter Immediately becoming luminous.
DR.. Dubois concluded that the light of
the pyrophorus is intended as illumina-
ton for itself alone. To prove this he
covered one of the upper lights with wax
and the animal moved in curve; when
both spots were covered the beetle soon
stopped and then moved in an uncertain
manner, carefully feeling the ground with
his antenna. The spectrum of the light
was extremely beautiful, being continu-
Gus, without dark or brilliant rays
Christian at Work.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1888-09-06
A Lesson in Natural History.

A city man who has gone to the country
had his curiosity awakened the other day
by the shrill and vociferous piping Of
some creatures IN the neighhorhood that
the country folk said was tree toads.
Probably everybody who has been in the
country knows this high key chorus,
formed of two notes necessarily repeated.
The city man traced the noise to a grove
of trees, and spent ten minutes standing
beneath one tree after another and look
ing up along the trunks and branches to
discover one of the loud choristers He
had no success whatever. The noise
filled the air, and seemed as likely to pro-
ceed from one tree as another, and more
likely to proceed from all. Just as he
was about to give up the quest he came
to little dent or hollow in the ground,
and his ears were smote by such close
and loud volume of the singing that he
knew he was on the right trail. There
was little water in the hollow, full of
leaves, black in the middle, and scummed
with green at the edges He took one
step nearer to it, and the noise ceased
He stopped down and mimicked the frog
chorus pretty closely by whistling. In
stantly the air was filed anew with the
strange melody.
The capture was an easy matter after
that. Every time he advanced toward
the water the noise ceased, and he stirred
it up again by whistling Finally he
found himself bent directly over the pool
and engaged in close and sympathetic con-
versation with it's denizens Under one
leaf, by narrow scanning, he perceived a
throbbing or palpitation of the water.
The noise proceeding directly from that
spot was so loud and acute that it pierced
his ear. 1t seemed that the musician
must be of large size. He plunged in his
hand and drew out-what does everybody
suppose? frog but as small a one as
nature could well build-a little black OBJ
ject that would scarcely cover quarter
of dollar 1t was not one-twelfth the
size of canary bird. and yet in voice was
quite as loud as any canary can boast
New York Sun.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1888-09-06
A Simple. Convenient Summer Retreat.
A respected citizen residing on North

A Simple, Convenient Summer Retreat.
avenue has peculiar way Of seeking re-
lief from the heat of summer. which is,
perhaps worth mentioning before the an
nual exodus to fashionable watering
places The apparent advantages of his
plan are its cheapness and homely sim
plicity He does not bother his head lay
ing out routes of travel among mountains,
and lakes. and along the sea shore Each
summer is spent at the same place.
At the approach of extreme heat he hies
himself at once to his retreat. There are
no mosquitoes there, no brass bands, no
crowds. no noise He enjoys genuine re-
pose and quiet. His life in the summer
may be compared to that of those hermits
who occasionally take up their abodes in
caves and recesses under the earth's sur
face The Rochesterian' cave is the eel
lar under his residence This he furnishes
with rugs, an easy chair, couch and a
table. He passes his time pleasantly,
taking huge enjoyment out of an old fash
ioned, long stemmed pipe, and some
books and papers. The air is quite as cool
as can be desired, and the cellar being
dry, he does not fear rheumatism or ma
laria
This peculiar gentleman does not choose
to sojourn in his cellar in the summer be-
cause he cannot afford to go elsewhere.
He is. in fact. in comfortable circlim-
stances. retired from business. and living
on neat yearly income from his prop
erty. Being of quite an advanced age he
dislikes travelling any distance. He
thinks that his plan is the best for keep
ing cool in summer without going away
from home. He is not the only one who
has adopted this plan. A Baltimore man
who passes his summers in cellar was
described in one of the papers of that
city some years ago. Which of the two
first conceived the idea is not certain
The Rochesterian has had the plan in
working order for three or four years.
Rochester Union.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1888-09-06
THE PRODlGAL DAUGHTER.

To the home of his father returning
The Prodigal, weary and worn,
Is greeted with joy and thanksgiving,
As when on his first natal morn;
A "robe" and ring is his portion,
The servants as supplialts bow,
He is clad in fine linen and purple,
In return for his penitent vow.
But. ah, for the Prodigal Daughter,
Who hes wandered away from her home
Her feet must still press the dark valley
And through the wild wilderness roam;
Alone on the bleak, barren mountains
Tho mountains so dreary and cold
No hand is outstretched in fond pity
To welcome her back to the fold.
But thanks to the Shepherd, whose mercy
Still follows his sheep, though they stray,
The weakest, and cen the forsaken,
He bears in his bosom alway;
And in the brighs mansions of glory,
Which the blood of his sacrifice won,
There is room for the Prodigal Daughter
As well as the Prodigal Son.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1888-09-06
Definition of Male Beauty.

10 call man charming in face, OF
lovely, or beautiful or pretty, is to mini
mize-almost TO insult him. A man can
only be called handsome, and very, very
few men can be called that.
A handsome man must be manly in
figure, conveying the idea of strength and
energy under the most repOseful exterior.
He must have the shapely hands, feet anc
ears that tell of good blood and cultivated
progenitors; he must have his head well
shaped well set and well carried he
must have deep, broad chest and a
straight back, .and long shapely limbs;
his features must be regularly formed,
and yet full of expression, and the kingly
power that great sculptors try to give to
Jupiter
Coloring does not much matter, so that
there be no red upon the cheeks and not
too much in the lips, and, perhaps, the
meZZo tintS lend themselves most salts
factorily to manly beauty, but, above all,
the handsome man must never be stout.
The heavy throat which overflows the
shirt collar never carries with it an air of
refinement, whatever it may do Of
strength. A blonde man runs the risk of
weakness and insipidity, and black
be trifle melodramatic, but still golden
haired and black haired men have been
very attractive the world over.
OF course below this grand climacteric
in the thoroughly handsome man there
are ranks after ranks of good looking,
attractive, pleasant faced men-some
upon whom one loves to look and find
sweet content in contemplating faces and
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satisfactory. And here we come upon
one of the most strange and almost cruel
conditions of our being. A man may or
may not be handsome, he may or may
not have any physical attractiveness what
ever, but nobody likes him the less for the
deficiency, he never finds it a barrier in
his career, a source of failure in his life;
women love him and men approve of him
just as readily as if he is handsome; in
fact, the woman or women who love him
set him down as handsome in serene de-
fiance of the rules of beauty or the Opin-
ion of the world.-Mrs. Frank Leslie.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1888-09-06
IN BONDAGE.

You NAV W, ep, my Lii. above the page
That tells tie ancient wrong
OF captivcs tears aud " rants rage,
Ana weak oppressed by s;ToLg.
Your poet knows a stcrner thrall,
4 harder yoke he sings
The bondage Of the Very small,
Ihe Tyranny Of Things.
And truly ours is hardest fate,
our lot more hopeless far,
Who scarcely fegl our lost estate,
Or know what slaves we are.
Slaves to life's thousand small demands,
toll its fret, its care;
Slaves TO cur homes. our goods, our lands,
slaves to the clothes we W ar.
Slaves to the cherished things we fold
In careful closets ut.
The plate we store, the books we hold
Too choice to read-or cat!
Slave-ah, to what host Of things!
Poor Gullivers y ould quake
Beneath a web of threads aud strings
We know not how to break
Give place. o Tau erlane the Great !"
Sesostris, Ptolemy!
sing the bond to y hose hard weight
Your chains were liberty.
The yoke more strict than despots thrall,
More stern than rule of kings
The hardest tyranny of all,
The tyranny Of things.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1888-09-06
THE ALBATROSS.

The work the Albatross will accom-
plish is expected to be very valuable, as
it will undoubtedly lead to the future de-
velopment of deep sea fishing on the Pa
cific coast. 1t is from the shallow seas of
Alaska that the cured fish supplies for
Western South America are to be derived.
These fisheries must build up in time an
important export trade, and as there can
be no business which is not based on the
spirit of exchange, San Francisco is likely
to see, in few years, her imports vastly
increased.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1888-09-06

Ioosened lay heaped in confusion by the
opening. So shattered had it been by the
explosion that it could easily be broken
by q pickaxe into size convenient for
handling. Nothing then remained but
for the laborer to shovel it all. large and
small Jumps and even the dust. into car.
that was hoisted into the breaker.-"F
w. g." in Albany Argus.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1888-09-06
Cleaning Linen Without SoaD.

According to L'Industrie Parisienne, a
laundryman in the vicinity of Paris has
discovered a very ingenious method of
cleaning linen without soap. He uses no
soap or lye, nor chlorine, but replaces
these substances by boiled potatoes, with
which he rubs the linen. This curious
process it appears, is much superior to
those hitherto employed, and the worst
soied cotton, linen or silk, cleaned by
this method, are made whittier than they
could be by the use of an alkali. Besides,
the method has the advantage that brushes
can be dispensed with and well water be
sed.-Frank Leslie's.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1888-09-06
"A Curious Phenomenon

we e@enItleman-ls that the dog you've al.
sorau munt Dinah-Yes, sab; he am de sef-
ws oawg. When we fust got him he
an, ah bright yaller, but me an Rastus
be-" "eLIy ,,i oak complected, sab, an he has
yaIIe, WI ~ US SO long, dat OBJ late yeahs dat
blaclt nqe IS kinder turnin' into er rusty
FpocII, FI, but he am de same dawg.-The
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1888-09-06
PhraseS of the NoYeliSfS.

London Truth is in state of mind be-
cause novelists will never refer to a hand
pure and simple; it always must be a
...gloved hand" or an ''ungloved hand" Z"
Truth says, and intimates that the next
thing IN order is to find the boys of fiction
bathing with ''unshod feet" and playing
football with "shod" ones, while the dy.
inS heroine in the last chapter may be ex.
pected to turn her "lovely, unbonneted
mead on the snowy pillow" and the hero to
walk down Pail Mall with his intellectual
mead magnifcently hated. New York
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1888-09-06
Helena Montana. Thursday, September 6, 1888.

the cneap libraries cheaper still" the
speaker continued. eve buy back books
which are not damaged in reading at half
price, so that even people who read eight
or ten books week are in no danger of
bankrupting themselves by indulging in
this form of dissipation. 1t isn't an ex-
pensive vice nowadays, at least in its i'm
mediate consequences. - Washington
SAar
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1888-09-06
Chapter in Locust Lore,

). omaha Boy-Oh, Pap, here's a 17-year
Ipcust' an it's got w on its wings. Aunt
Jane says that means war.
rap-There won't be any war in this
..ITu1H,ry .I except political war. guess
'ne stands for "wrangle."
d. maybe so. Grandma says it isn't w,
'-ougn. She says it's an NJ upside down. ="
e.. All the same. If it's an M it stands
'o' mud. Omaha World.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1888-09-06

Things grow worse and worse in Russia,
The latest outrage was at concert in st.
Petersburg, where two selections were
played by forty eight pianists upon
tweny four grand pianos.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1888-09-06
Only Temporarily Eluent.

1t Is not true that Demosthenes perma.
nently cured himself of stammering by
stepping on piece of soap one night as
he was going down the cellar stairs to fix
the furnace in the dark. 1t afforded him
only temporary relef.-Somerville Jour.
nal
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1888-09-06

The word Birmingham. SO common in
naming town and cities. is composed of
three words, which together mean "the
bill which is. the home of the broom. a
small English trea
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1888-09-06

The only way for young man to get
married comfortably on $500 year is to
throw himself on the generosity of his
father-in-l law.