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The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-04-11
Cleveland as n Tutor.

Mr.. James Dillon, quaint in character,
clerical in appearance and very reminis-
cent, told me a very interesting story re-
carding ex-President Cleveland yesterday,
saws the New York Star. I'm &C., said he
ST kept sort of country store. selling
everything, on Ninth avenue. between
Thirty-ffth and Thirtysixth street. Mr.
Cleveland was then tutor in the blind
asylum on Thirty fourth street, between
Eighth and Ninth avenues. He was
in the habit tout of pure kind
mess of heart, l then thought
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-04-11
Winter Excursions to California.

" W H11Ss
On the 18th day of every month the
Northern Pacific Railroad company will sell
excursion tickets to San Francisco and re-
turn at $75; to Los Angeles and return 1914.
These tickets have an extreme limit of six
months from date of issuance and can be
used gong any time time within sixty (60)
DAYS from date of sale. Stop-overs allowed
at any point desired-either going or re-
turning-withii limit Of ticket. Excursion
lists have choice of two routes from Port
landry steamer, or by rail, via the famous
Mount Shasta route.
Bear in mind that the Northern Pacific is
the only line running through sleeping and
dining cars to the Pacific coast.
A. d. EDGAR. General Agent.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-04-11

and now think), of bringing his pupils to
my place, leading them there. should say.
Crosber, Stanley ard Soper seemed to be
his favorites When he was elected presi-
dent, stopped Mr.. Mahoney, a blind man,
who was and may be yet the organist of the
asylum, as well as of some swell church.
and told him of the fact, telling him, of
course, my name. Well, we'll" said the
afflicted man, Steve Cleveland is president
is he? Well, all the boys at the asylum
who knew him will be glad to hear that
for there never was more kindly man
there"
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-04-11
Went After McGinty,

LONDON. April 10.-The steamer North
Cambria, from Baltimore. arrived this
morning from Dover with her bow stove
in and fire department. full of water. She
collided with the passenger steamer Avoca,
from London for Dublin. The Avoca sank.
No lives were lost. There were twelve pas
sengers and thirteen members of the crew.
Boats were lowered from the Cambria and
when the Avoca sank they were picked up.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-04-11
and International
Medical and Surgical Institute.
Kansas City, Mo-, San Francisco. Cal. and

Butte City, Montana.
DIR. STODDART, the specialift-in-chief of the
above named Medical and Surgical Association.
will visit Montcna and have offices for free con-
sultatioo and examination ut the Pacific Hotel,
Helena, for the purpose of contracting with all
d. string to b, cured of Chronic. Special; Private
ana Complicated diseases. Diseases of Men aud
Women, the Lungs. Heart, Throat, Head, Eyes,
Eass, Blood End Skin. Diseases specially treated
Limbs, Hand and Feet adjusted to the body. De-
formities of ev,rJ kind skillfully treated. Brac-
pGances adjusted to every form of n Attenuation
or ailment.
Remember the Special SURGEON and Physician
Surgical Ii s itute Of San Fl "a ,cisco i, the only
responsible Institute visiting Montana quaeterly.
Only one call necessary; balance of treatment,
until cured, by correspondence.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-03-01
DEAD MAIL MATTER.
Great Increase in the Quantity at t
New York ONCE.

Great Increase in the Quantity at tbs
New York ONCE.
The New York branch of the Dead
Letter Office has had its business in
creased very rapidly of late. In one
week recently and it was not an extra
ordinary -ninety-five bundles. con-
tanning 25. 092 pieces of all sorts, were
sent from here to the Dead Letter Office.
''Most of our increased work is due to
foreigners said an official yesterday.
Newspapers and packages are wrapped
in the fiimsiest paper that is made
abroad, | guess, and fastened often with
sealing wax. The packages are tossed
into mail bags on the other side, and
partly in consequence of friction and
moisture from the air the wax is broken
and the wrappers are torn off. On the
arrival of the mail bags in the New
York post-office, nearly nine-tenths of
the newspapers are without superscrip-
tions.
Stronger and thicker paper should be
used for wrappers, and mucilage is a
better gum than sealing wax. With
Americans there is little fault to find
in this respect. The best way, how
ever, to insure newspaper reaching its
destination is to put the superscription
on the newspaper itself as well as on the
wrapper. In fact, this course has been
recommended by the International Post
al Congress, and the English, Scotch and
Irish often comply with the rule. The
French, German and Russian mails are
a terror to us.
"A million pieces a year have been
sent to the Washington Dead Letter Of
fee from the New York office, but this
year there will be 1880, 900 pieces. We
have about 200 inquiries day for the
whereabouts of letters or packages that
have not been received, and in nine
cases out of ten it is impossible to make
people who complain of the loss of let
tiers believe that they have probably
misdirected them. Some of the most
picturesque language l ever heard in my
life has poured through that little COM
plant window"
'Do people report back to you after
they have found that letters were re-
ceived which were supposed to be lost?'
''Rarely; but we learn from the post
masters where the letters or packages
were sent whether they were received
and called for With their answers we
have often to be content"
''Do the postmasters reply to inquir-
ies?"
at is test Of patience to get some of
them to reply. We write to them
again and again, in many instances, be-
fore we get an answer. The system is
not perfected yet, but it is constantly
improving. IN. Y. Letter.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-03-01
WHO MGINTY WAS.
Very Important Point is Settled Oncefos
ALL


All.
'Papa, who's McGinty?"
She is but four years of age and ex-
ceedingly inquisitive. She will not
take Il don't know, dear" for an an
swer-she wants satisfaction of some
sort. In moment of abstraction her
papa had warbled the lines about the
unfortunate McGinty's descent into the
coal hole. She had heard it, hence the
question. n
''McGinty was man who fell into q
coal hole in the sidewalk, dear"
Didn't he see the hOle?''
"No, he was loaded"
when the coal fell on him?''
eyes, he had jag, dear"
What is a jag, papa?"
"a sort of tide, pet.
sDid Mr.. McGinty get out OF the
hole?" /
sit took his friends some time to dig
him out.
''Why did he wear his best suit Oh
clothes? 1t couldn't have been Sunday,
because the man was delivering coal" /
II guess his best suit was his worst
one, too, darling" and the little ones
papa hummed another chorus.
Il thought you said he went to tns
bottom of the hole?"
II did, little one"
well, just now you said he went "
the bottom of the sea?"
HE went there, too, dear"
off in
clothes?''
Yes" desperately.
Haven't they found him yet, papsy
Il hope not" savagely.
"His clothes won't be worth much
when they do find him."
81 should think not.
Ibid he have any little girls Like
me?"
Shouldn't wonder
Then why should he fall into the
seaY'
Maybe they drove him to it, dear
by asking questions"
'Ohr'-Chicaco Herald.
Origin OF the Word Chestnut"
Mr.. Joseph jefferson some time aga
gave this as the origin of the WON
chestnut" I'm an old melodrama oI
William Dillon, called The Broksn
Sword, are two parts-Count Xavla
and his servant Pablo. The Count Isl
sort of Munchausen, fond of telling
stories of his exploits. He tells one
Once l entered the forests of Collowsl
when suddenly from the boughs OF
cork tree Chestnut, Count, inter
rupted Pablo. Cork tree said the
Count. "A chestnut reiterated Pablo
Il should know as we'll as you, for'
have heard you tell the story twenty
seven times. The late William war
rem, who had played Pablo often, was =
a mems dinner once, when agentlemaS
told story whose age and originanH
were far beyond any doubt. Chestnut
murmured Warren; i should know
we'll as you, for have heard you tell
twenty-seven times The guests too,
up the expression, and from that" ssy.
Mr.. Jefferson, II believe the expressa0s
really comes. IN. Y. Sun.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-03-01
PuNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

IT is not we'll to believe all you hear;
but it is well to appear to believe 1T
when YOUR wife is doing the talking
Somerville Journal.
Husband during a quarrel 1--WE
shall never meet in heaven WIFE
80. YES. we may, There is plenty Of
time for you to reform yet" y ankee
Blade.
MANY man confesses in the prayer
meeting that he is full OF sin, who woul1
be very sorry to have his customers ad-
nit that he is right.-Texas Siftings.
81 suppose you still dabble in art?"
'Dabble! Why, my dear boy, pictures
from my brush are on exhibition all over
the city.'' ''You don't say! For what
firm of billposters do you work?'-Bos-
ton Herald.
Rev. DIR. Primrose-"l had most
pleasant time in Paris this summer but
it didn't rest me as much as | thought.
Merrit-Yet it should be some consoia-
ton to you to know that your congrega-
ton got the rest. Life.
Colonel Blaze-"Sah, l am a Ken
tucklan. There is my cahd, sab! 'Billus
u don't want it. I'm no fighter.
Colonel Blaze-''Sah, you are coward!
Billus-'I know it, and so do you, or you
wouldn't have challenged me. Time,
For remembrance.-Mrs Gayboy-
tom, YOU really must have some pho
tographs taken" Mr.. Gayboy-''What
for?" Mrs. Gayboy-"Form me. You are
home SO seldom that l am afraid | will
forget how you look. "-Terre Haute Elk
press.
You see | have some reputation as
painter. Even the bank director,
Kripfer. has ordered his portrait from
me-" Slv old fellow-"When he runs
away and they send out his likeness,
from your picture, he knows he will be
perfectly safe. "-F*iegende Batter.
Gifted young man-''DOn't talk to
me of religion or philosophy. What
light do they throw on the problem of
existence? Why do l live? What is
the object of my being?" Venerable
sage contemplating him mildly)-'My
young friend. am sorry to say can not
see any good reason for it. Chicago
Mr.. Highup-''I don't see why
Brother William doesn't prosper. He
has as good a business as mine and an
excellent location, but he is constantly
having reverses. No matter what he
attempts, he seems to blunder." Mrs.
Hignup-"But you must remember, my
dear your brother William has no wife
to advise him. N. Y. Weekly.
Why" said a travelling man to
Willie Washington, will men put an
enemy into their mouths to steal away
their brains?" ''Idon't know, you know,
said Willie. I'm suah | nevah did. :"
No" said the traveller patronizingly,
''and l don't believe you ever will. If
you do it will be horse on the enemy"
Merchant Traveller.
A worthy deacon in Vermont cOun
try town was discovered by his pastor
oae Sunday morning saving an armful
of wood for the kitchen stove. The sur
prise of the discovery caused the deacon
to drop his saw in CONSERVATION. 4
didn't suppose you'd see me, parsonr' he
faltered All" replied the good man,
severely, you must remember, deacon,
that there is One higher than |, who
sees every evil act you commit" Yes.
parson," assented the deacon; but then
He doesn't make such an awful fuss
about il -Burlington Free Press.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-03-01
FAMOUS sNuEE-TAkERs.
Anecdotes of Great Men Who Were Fond
of a Pinch or Two.


When snuff-taking was fashionable an
English nobleman calculated that per-
son addicted to the habit wasted upon
his nose thirty-six and half days in the
year. A snuff-taker took one pinch
every ten minutes, and each pinch, with
it's accomplishments occupied minute
and half. Allowing sixteen hours to
the day, he would be busy two hours
and tWenty-four minutes every day, or
thirty-six and a half days in the year
Talleyrand insisted that diplomatists,
at least, did not waste time by snuff
taking 1t afforded them, he said, an
opportunity of delaying and thus OF
gaining time for framing reply which
was not ready at hand. 1t also allowed
the removal of ones eyes from those of
the uuestioner, and occupied the hands
whose fidgeting might beUray nervous
ness that had better be concealed.
Arch bishop Whately acted upon Tai
leyrands hint while an Oxford profess
sor When he had put pithy question
to a student, who delayed answering
until he had unraveled it, the professor
found it convenient to take pinch OF
snuff, as it helped him to allay his i'm
patience.
A sketch drawn of him represents the
logic class assembled, and Whately,
while yet in the doorway, calling out:
''Mr. Johnson. explain the nature of
the third operation of the mind.
Then he filings himself in the chair.
crosses the calf of one leg over the knee
of the other, and. balancing himself on
the two hind legs of the chair, he shows
signs of Impotence before Mr.. johnson
has gathered his wits together. Out
comes his huge snuff-box, from which a
handful of snuff is administered to his
nose and sprinkled upon his waistcoat.
It soothes him so that, when johnson
answers in the words of the textbook,
he is calm enough to give luminous
exposition of the subject.
Darwin. the naturalist, used snuff to
stimulate his mind during working
hours. That he might not take too many
pinches. he kept jar of snuff on the
hall table. The distance between the
hall and his study acted as check upon
over-indulgence.
But the chlnk of the lid OF the snuff
jar was a familiar sound in the family.
Sometimes. when in the drawing-roOm,
Darwin would suggest that the study
fire must be burning low. The family
smiled as he went out ostensibly to re-
plenish it, but really to get pinch Of
snuff.
An eloquent preacher of Glasgow, the
Rev. William Anderson, was so addicted
to snuff that he would take pinch in
the pulpit Once, while uttering the
words, MY soul cleaveth to the dust"
he took pinch of snuff. He lamented
the mastery which the habit had gained
over him, and once, while preaching
from the text, ''All is vanity" treated
his nose to snuff and then said, And
hisalsois vanity. Youth Companion.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-03-01
TENACITY OF LIFE.
The Contrast Existing Between the Male
and Female Sexes.

1t appears from the gathered statistics
OF the world that women have greater
tenacity of life than men. Nature wor-
ships the female in all its varieties.
Among insects the male perishes at
relatively earlier period. In plants the
seminate blossoms die earliest and are
produced on the weaker limbs. Female
quadrupeds have more endurance than
males In the human race, despite the
intellectual and physical strength of the
man, the woman endures longest and
will bear pain to which the strong man
succum5s Zymotic diseases are more
fatal to males, and more male children
die than females.
Doverga asserts that the proportion
dying suddenly is about one hundred
women to seven hundred and eighty
men; one thousand and eighty men in
the United States in 1870 committed
suicide. to two hundred and eighty-hve
women. Intemperance, apoplexy, govt,
hydrocephalus, affections of the heart
and liver. scrofula and paralysis are far
more fatal to males than females. Put
monary consumption, on the other hand,
is more deadly to the latter. females
in cities are more prone to consumption
than in the country. All old countries
not disturbed by emigration have great
majority of females in the population.
In royal families the statistics show
more daughters than sons. The Hebrew
woman is exceptionally long-lived; the
colored man is exceptionally short
lived. The married state is favorable
to prolongation Of life among women.
DR.. Hugh proclaims that there are from
two to six per cent. more males born
than females in the living population.
From which statistics we conclude that
all women ought to marry, and that as
men are likely to become so scarce, they
can not be sufficiently priced by the
other sex.-N. y. Ledger.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-03-01
IN TRlPOLrS STREETS.
The Variegated Human Panorama Visible
in Every Thoroughfare.

The Nariegated Human Panorama visible
in Every Thoroughfare.
In the variegated crowd filling the
streets scores of types may be distin-
guished: Arabs of the town, draped in
their blankets like Romans in their
togas, and in fact, the ''jaram' is the
direct descendant of the toga, and, judg-
ing from its looks, seems to have re-
tanned all the dirt of those intervening
centuries; others, whose costume con-
sists simply of flowing robe, generally
white, or, to be precise, which was once
white! Sometimes this robe is of silk of
vivid hue, and the effect of that gay
note in a bit of street is like poppy in
a wheat field. Bedouins, whose limbs,
wiry and strongly muscled, shine a
superb bronze color through their s2anty
coverings, elbow Jews in ridiculous cos
tunes, half native and half European.
In few moments one has met with an
infinite variety of negroes, from the
pure type, almost without nose and
with enormous jaw bones and huge lips,
to those whose lineaments are absolute
ly Caucasian. Porters, in simple tunics
y
swinging bales on long poles rest
ing on their shoulders. cheering their
progress the while with an invocation
to Allah and his innumerable prophets,
chanted by an old man and repeated by
the chorus; true song of savages, burst
ing forth like fanfare of trumpets.
Yelled women, unanimously wrapped,
pass by like ambling bundles of clothes.
Officers by scores, those Of the new
school, stiff but neat, trying to resemble
their German confreres, since the fash
ion in Turkish circles is to initiate the
liens of the day; the older officers kindly
looking enough, but in what miserable
costumes! Moorish dandies stroll and
pose languidly about, seemingly alb
sorbed in preserving their immaculate
patent-leather slippers from any i'm
pertinent fieck of dirt. Crafty-featured
Greeks and Levantines thread their in
sinuating way among the molly groups.
At each step it is new tableau, and the
desire seizes you to stop while the eyes
follow curious type, and turning from
it with regret you see ten as interesting.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-03-01
A ROUGH DIAMOND.
,od Advice for Persons Who Have the
Western Fever,

Good Advice for Persons Who Have the
Western Fever.
We are asked many times in year;
Would you advise me to go West? We
can not answer the question. We can
not give advice upon such a matter.
There is the West, many parts of 1T as
splendid land as the sun ever shone
upon, and destined sometime to be as
thickly settled as Illinois. Much of 1t
is wild now. There is no civilization.
little government except of the crudest
kind. plenty of rum-shops, and the usual
rough crowd that first finds the frontier.
A mans life and property are safe, how
ever. if he behaves himself, and in time
he will have all the civilization he needs
and wants. Now if the man has the
pluck and industry to take the rough
diamond that is offered him as free
gift and cut it and polish it, he will
likely become the possersor of some
thing worth having. That is all we can
say.
People are going to Dakota, Montana
and Washington, and some OF them seem
to be surprised when they get there to
find that all is rough and wild. What
else can be expected? The prairies are
untouched and the towns are primitive.
If this was not the case the land could
not be had for nothing. Nobody can 60
West and find developed farms lying
around loose or cities and towns with
magnificent architecture. building them
selves. Everybody must turn in, in
new country, and help make it, and out
side of the natural fertility and other
advantages. the community will be just
what the people choose to make 1t. The
West is rough diamond.-Western
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-03-01
LAZY AND CUNNING.
How an English Girl wounded Herself to
Shirl< Work.

NJ. c.. aged seventeen. a plump
healthy-looking country girl, in service
in MINISTER'S family, was brought to
me by her mistress about the end OF
March last complaining of severe prick
ing pains on the dorsal surface of the
left hand. Her mistress informed me
that the girl was not at all fond OF work.
and that she had deal of trouble to get
her to do it; that since the hand had
been bad she would do nothing but sit
down and cry. On examination of the
hand found it puffy and inflamed. and
on asking if she felt the pricl1ing sensa-
ton at any particular point was re-
ferred to spot in the center of the
hand. On touching this with my finger
l distinctly felt something sharp and
pointed. ! used pair of dressing
forceps and extracted a full-sized
sewing-needle, which had been pushed
obliquely into the flesh until the
whole of it was out of sight. She could
give no account of how it got there.
Three evenings afterward she was again
brought in, and from the same place
and in the same manner | extracted arp
other needle. About week after She
came again, and this time | withdrew a
pin (Which had been pushed in until the
head was cOvrredl from the same place.
A few days after She came again, with
her hand (of course previously infiamed
from her treatment of it, very uedema-
tous and of bright-blue color which |
found she had produced by a liberal use
Of the blue-bag and vinegar. | felt 50
disguised with her that | advised her
mistress to get rid of her at once, which
was done, and the girl returned TO the
country. 1t seems hardly credible that
a person of her age could be so cunning.
and would infiict SO much pain upon her
self to avoid Work.-London Lancet
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-03-01
WHAT SHE SAID.
1t Was Practical Remark, But Rather
Unexpected.

1t Was Practical Remark, DuI manner
Unexpected.
He was San Franciscan in the played
out CITY of London. He came from the
West, where he had developed that in
dependence and self-reliance which,
combined with good looks and twenty
dollar gold pieces, made man superior
to all Europe. He strolled with graceful
dignity into gilded bar, over which
presided a divinity of superb physical
form, but still a woman, with that air
which only an English barmaid can pos
sibly put on-an air of mingled conceit,
pride, coquetry and humility. She
awaited his order.
He was dressed in the latest fashion.
He threw the lapel of his coat back with
a proud gesture, and fixing his fascinat-
ing eye on the bar beauty he said
''Tell me, my pretty maid, what can
you suggest for man who ate Welsh
rabbit last night and does not feel well
this morning?"
She did not smile: she did not appear
to be affected by the appearance of his
swelling chest or his wicked eye; she
simply said:
''Why didn't you heat two Welsh rab-
bits and let 'em chase beach hother?'-
San Francisco Chronicle.