Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1885-1890, 1886-05-01

Mexicans have a passion form IL
rors, and a traveller says that the in
teriors of some Of the city houses lool
like steamboat cabins. He remarks
also, that mirrors I among the com
monest objects in the pawnshop:
there.
Michigan assessors think they have
! found a law under which they can ia,
mortgages held by non-residents
There is about $40, 0O0, 900 Of outside
money in the state, the owners Of
which have hitherto excaped payina
taxation.
The indianapolis Tentinel Of the
inst. says: Teaching the doctrines O.
Mormonism, or persuading and per
son or persons to spouse it, in Miss
issippi, has been made a crime pun
ishable by a fine of $500 and impris,
onment, by a bill passed last week.
The Rev. George Thomas Bowling
pastor Of the Euclid Avenue Baptist
Church, Cleveland, is the author of a
new novel called The Wreckers,'
which is said te be & social study after
the style of "Breadwinners."
What is said to be the largest bea-
yer ever caught in the Northwest was
trapped last month near Port Arthur
Lake Superior. It weighed sixty
pounds and measured thirty-fve and
one-half inches from the nose to the
tail.
All Mugwumps appear to be in the
habit of writing their names out in
full. Perhaps it does not follow from
this that all men who write their
names SO are Mugwumps; still, we ad-
wise all the George Van der Heyded
Smiths to be careful.
Two well known society ladies of
Wheeling, ". Va. learning that Their
husbands were basking in the smiles
Of younger persons, armed themselves
with cowhides and visited the ques-
tionable resorts at midnight. Their
search was without results.
In all human probability the 100000
wal pensioners now on the Washing
ton roll will be increased to over
100000 in the coming half century.
The 1924 men engaged in the war
Of 1872, left 1892 widows, and they
increase yearly.
A daughter Of the late Valentine
Brobst Of Reading, Pa, c~onfesses she
allowed important papers to be alb
stracted from her fathers desk right
after his death. The heirs are now
suing to recover certain coal lands
valued at millions Of dollar.
Christopher Columbus is teaching
school in Michigan, and William
Shakespeare is expounding law in
Iowa. Within the last few years
James K. Polk, George Washington,
Henry Clay, John G. Calhoun and
Daniel Webster have served terms in
the penitentiary. George Washing
ton is there now.
John Ruskin is outspoken in con-
demning some of the unhealthy "isms''
Of the day. In a recent letter he say
agely says: Il know OF nothing that
has been taught the youth our time
except that their fathers were apes
and their mothers wrinkles; that the
world began in accident and will end
IN darkness; that honor is a folly, am
bition q virtue, charity a vice, poverty
a crime and rascaiity the NEAR Of all
W6dltu anu tuo Suu VI dll WlStlCn-
The Bell people pose as victims Of
p%ersection. Their dividends last year
amounted to S1,5oo,o 00. OF the $40
100000 capital Of the company, about
s., 0oo, 900 was paid in cash For the
rest stock was issued. The previous
dividends, added to last years snug
sum, give them already a good return
for their investment. On their active
capital they get about forty per cent,
and of course are not willing that
their monopoly should be interfered
with.