The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-08-22
FLOATING FACTS AND FANCIES.

# is now that the angler goes out with the dawn,
With habilaments wrinkled and sadly forlorn:
And with wrinkleder visage and garments torlofner,
He sneaks in at eve round some desolate corner,
All fshless and cashless and trimming with beer,
And with lies enough, also, to last through the year.
A Miss Ella Green gets 81, 800 salary
as commercial traveller for a st. Louis
jobbing house.
Paddy Ryan says that SHADES crush
ing defeat by the Boston "strong boy"
makes him more anxious to meet Sulli-
van than ever. MI. Ryan has made
similar remarks before, but has carefully
forgot to issue a challenge to the cham-
pion.
Leadville parsons are too particular.
One Of them was to officiate at a funeral
the other day, when the master of cere-
monies notified him to begin by saying,
"Now, old boss, it's your play" the
reverend tainted. Now they are calling
him a divinity dude.
! When a Newark preacher wants any
none he pawns his gold watch, and
then on the following Sunday breaches
a sermon four hours long because he has
no time-piece to go by. The next morn
ing his congregation gets his watch out
of pawn and sends it to him.
It is not the "tonV among the exclus-
ives at Saratoga this year to wear dia-
monds except with full dress. They say
they leave all that to cheap clothing
people and the wives of gamblers and
horse Jockeys Washington Sunday
Herald. The same fashion prevails in
this office. We invariably leave our
diamonds at home in a receptacle pro-
vided for them in the immense chilled
steel, gold mounted, pearl inlaid vault
which protects the rest of the family
treasures.-Bismdrck tribune.
In Mexico nearly every one is q smok-
err. The school children who have done
we'll in their studies are rewarded by be-
ing allowed to smoke a cigar as they
stand or sta their lessons. The school
master is seldom without a cigar in his
mouth. In the law courts all persons
commonly enjoy their tobacco freely,
and even the accused in a criminal trial
is not denied this indulgence, but is
allowed, if his cigarette goes out in the
heat of the argument, to light it again
by borrowing that of the officer who
| stands at his side to guard him.
The centenary of the Bank of Ireland
| has lust been reached, but it has occu-
| pied its present INDUSTRIOUS quarters, IN
| College Green, Only since 1903. Its
| foundation stone was laid in February,
1923. 1T is said to have been designed
by an italian named Castelli, but Sir
Lovett Pearce, the Irish Surveyor-Gen-
eral Of the day, appears in the official
| document as director of the building,
and he was voted SIC, 900. It was notfully
completed until 1879, but the Irish Par
lament sat there a few years before.
| Its last meeting therein was held in 1880.
| IT was first intended to attach the build
ing to Trinity College, but finally the
government solid it to the Bank Of Ire
land for $500, 900, subject toa ground rent
Of $12 a year, and 1904, under the Vice
royalty Of the Earl of HardWicke, the
altering Of the interior for business pur-
poses was begun. A beautiful model OF
| the bank stands before the entrance OF
what was once the House of Lords.