The Helena independent., 1889-04-13
PERSONS AND THINGS.

Gen. Fremont is 70 years old and enjoy
excellent health.
Wisconsin and Rhode Island have adopt
ed electionref0rm laws.
McClellan's monument at Trenton, ".
j., will dedicated May 80 next
Hon. Frederick Billings and family. of
Woodstock, VT, have been spending the
winter at Aiken, 5, g.
Warner Miller, the martyr, begins to
show signs of his recent dlsappoinlments.
His hair has grown very gray Of late.
Pasadena property owners are appealed
10 10 subscribe 100000 In property as an
endowment for the Wilson's Peak obserya.
tory.
Gas has been struck In well at Fair
view, Los Angeles county. In the same
well, at 420 feet, redwood tree was bored
through.
The New York state labor appropriation
OF this year allows 900 for the loard of
arbitration, $4,000 Tor factory inspection
and SO, 900 for labor statistics.
A small bug has made il appearance In
the vineyards near Snnoma, Cal, attacking
early varieties OF grapes near the bud.
Over forty holes were discovered In one
blossom.
The largest taxpayer In Germany Is Herr
krupp, OF Essen, who pays S32, 400 ON an
income OF Sl,095,0OO Next comes Baron
Willy de ROthschild, OF frankfOrt-on-the
Main, with an income of sl.025, 900 and a
tax OF 500, 100.
John Field, the postmaster generals 8
choice for postmaster OF Philadelphia was
offered salary two years ago OF SIS, 900 to
take charge Of Wanamaker's wholesale
business. He declined the honor because
he did not care 10 sink his personality in
another mans business.
Two Scotch tramps, man and wife, make
good living OF Of the baby. "We Just
gets i'm chrlst-ned," explains the old man.
I'm all the towns we passes, aud then, you
see, parsOn makes us all comfortable WI
summat 10 eat and money for beds. on
days orful bad We has 10 do i'm twice"
The British government has bestowed a
pension OF flO0 per annum from the civil
list fund upon the widow OF Prot. X A.
Proctor, the astronomer who died of yellow
fever az New York last fall. Mrs Proctor
Is an American, and formerly resided at ST.
Joseph, Mo. AT present she Is In Florida.
The police are exerting extraordinary
vigilance To prevent emigration from Hun
gary, and women and children who seek 10
escape from the country 10 join husbands
and fathers already In America have tO
submit TO great hardships, and often are
unable TO get away ut all. The authorities
profess to fear dtarth of farm laborers.
Rev. Phillips Brooks, OF Boston. is hay.
ing lively time over his recent remarks
antaRonistic To prohibition. He has In hi.
congregation anumber of enthusiastic pro
hloltlonists who are startled and annoyed
~ hls radical doctrines. But Phillips
Brooks Is a man not easily scared and be
takes the situation philosOphically.
The "mOrphomaniacal general'' is the
latest eplthet applied TO Boulanger. This
comes from the rumor that, in order "a
smile his captivating smile eighteen hours
day, the general has recourse % hypO.
dermic Injections OF morphine. There Is
much joy over the matter In government
circles, and no little CONSERVATION In the
Boulangist camp.
William J. Arkell. the owner Of Judge
and Frank Leslie's Illustrated Weekly, has
disposed of his interest In the Albany Jour
nal 10 William Barnes, the owner OF the
Albany Express. BY this transfer the Al