The Great Falls leader. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1888-1900, 1889-03-19
rUEsDAY MORNINGS MELANaE.

The debauched London Times refers I
the admission of four new States into til
Union in y manner characteristic of til
organ Of an e6ete aristocracy. Montan
alone, says the Helena Herald, has /
larger area than all the British island
combined; has more gold and silver il
her mines thaa England has amasse
through ceaturies Of conquest aud rob
berry; and in future ages when that typi
cal New Zealander stands on Londol
bridge surveying the ruins of the ono
proud English empire, Montana will b.
In the prime OF her strength and glory
surveying from her perch on the crest
the Rocky Mountains continental re
public without peer in the world.
"Are you the superintendent of thi
railway?" Yes, sir, why" II want .
pass.' "Are you employed by this road?'
eyes sir" "In what capacity?" .I'm a
member of the legislature"
The Brazil coffee crop of 1889 will be
over 7,cOO,0O0 bags.
world Is 7,20O, 900 tons. 7
The greatest evil of adulteration is no,
In the fact that the goods are adulterated,
for the sophisticatfon may be harmless
but In the misrepresentation of the adul.
terated article as being pure.
The only oolored man in the next Con
gress will be Fl, P, Cheatham, from the
Second North Carolina district.
At the Inauguration ball Mrs. Harrison
wore democratic hustle patented by Mrs.
James Hendricks, wife Of the brother of
the late vice president. Democracy, YOU
see, is In the rear now.
In Washington the night after the In
! augural ball, to the inquiry, "What's the
! matter with the republican partyi" the
only jubilant cry of the democrats was.
while they shivered out in the cold,
20, they're all tightv'
The Milwaukee journal SAYS the pro-
hibitionist Is either monomaniac or II
person who thinks the rest of mankind
are AZ weak as himself.
Goodyear of the Minstrel Monarchs,
being asked what marriage Is, replied,
"The insane desire of man to pay some
woman's board bill"
UAkld6t
that keeps the ship steady.
The Russian empire, with population
almost twice that Of the United States
has but four citfes navfng population Of
over 200, 900 inhabitants. ~0
After drinking what many of our gro
| GERS call coffee, sweetened with what
many call sugar, says DIR. Talmage, and
eating what many of our butchers call
meat, and chewing what many of our
bakers call bread, many of our laboring
classes feel 40 miserable they are tempt
ed to put into their nasty pipes what the
tobacconist calls tobacco, or go into the
drinking saloons for what the rum sellers
call beer. Good coffee would do much
to drive out bad rum. Adulteration of
food has got to he an evil against which
all the hea It'll officers and all the doctors
ers and all the Christians need to set
themselves in battle array. .......
The New York Press Says A real
American novel, with u purpose, will he
published soon by Belford, Clark and Co.
1tis the work Of J. A. Mcknight, a young
New York newspaper man. LIS title,
"Hagar," naturally suggests the discarded
woman; but when it IL known that the
I ~ u udClVc VI ShlG lIhhc NJGys u tHlI
q blood relative of the late Mormon
story is, in part, a picture of Mormon life
more clear. The hero is Jealous young
Mormon missionary, and "Ilagar" IL one
of the converts he makes in Ohio. The
book was written at the island of St.
Helena, while Its author WAS stationed
there us Consul of the United States, aud
critic, who has read the manuscript
says it will do for ''the saints" what Uncle
TOMS Cabin did for the institution Of
slavery.
AtSydney, New South Wales, Mr.. Ry,
land Of the firm OF Ryland and Morse,
who built the great Hawkesbury bridge
there, while walking on one OF the string
pieces, lost his balance, fell into the water
and was carried off by an inlmcnse shark
He was ono Of the most prominent citi
zens Of Tpwanda, Bradford county, Pa.
and leaves wife and five children.
The Senate leader Of the Dominion
Parliament,a a few days ago stated tina,
negotiations between the Imperial and
Canadian governments respecting the pro
sitions Of armalnents were confidential
and they were proceeding satisfactorily
which Is unquestiouNhly true. Other
points aleaY the Pacific coast are also re
! ceiving tho attention of Great Britain
Our Pacific harbors and shipping will
soon have ample protection-from British
guns.
The recent city election in Los An
gelos, Cal, resulted In complete
republican victory the mayors
plurality being 2,537. At the previous
election the democrats had Il plurality o.
1,1OO; and now they don't know what hi
them.
Lawyer And SO you really think, Bob
by, of becoming lawyer when you grow
up! l'obby-Yes, sir; my Uncle Jame
thinks ought to be IL lawyer. Lawyer
Does he, indeed! And why does you
Uncle James think so: Because YOU ar,
bright and smart; lsahby-No, sir; be
cause ask sp many fool questions.
A lady writer gives her experience il
poultry raising from March 81 to Decem
ber 81, 1888. The product from 70 hen
WAS 5,lo7 eggs which I sold at from 10 t.
20 cents per ozen, aggregating $6s.ss, o
u little over VI cents per hen. Beside
this raised 100 chickens, worth at leas
20 cents each. have one turkey he
that layed 40 eggs last summer iron
which raised 36 turkeys. Most of tn
feed was waste grain on the farm. Wha
other industry is there that will nay 40
per cent on the amount invested!
Grass seeds Of all kinds ut Lapeyr
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