The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-12-07
TOPICS.

81 AINDNND IofISS.
Ninety-cight thousand two hundred and
sixty-seven questions were asked i'm the
Parneli case. And there was no woman
i'm the case, either.
The increasing respect shown tn Chris
tianity is n hcalthful sign Of American
life. In u Colorado town "A Grand Sa-
cred Dog Fight was advertised for last
Sunday evening.
Not To be utdon in enterise by those
newspapers which have started reporters
aoInd the, world i'm AN attempt to lower
the record of eighty days, the Washington
Post has given IL dime to q red-nosed
journalist who applied for n position the
other day, and instructed him tn set ont
i'm n due northerly course and see how
much time he could consume before get
ting around the globe to the office again.
OF the times i'm journalistic enterprise II il
robs the staff of the Intoxicating pleas
,rc of thism mans society during the rest
Of their natural existence.
A GOODNESS has sprung up between Mrs.
Cudahy and Mrs. Powell Of Chicago. Mrs.
C,ndahy lost u $1,000 camel's hair shawl
while going tn "a ball. A few days after
she saw Mrs. Powell promenading the
streets with the shawl on her hack. Mrs.
C,Hlahy thereupon caused the arrest of
Mrs. Powell, and that worthy lady was
thrown into Jail. But on the trial Mrs.
ftOwGll DrDSefI SATISFACTORILY that her Mus
hand had found the shawl I'm the street.
Then Mrs. Powell turned around and OBJ
tanned ~ verdict of x1,OOO against Mrs.
Cudahy for false imprisonment. slanter
and all that sort Of thing. This illustfate
the aphorissm that ID is easier to get into a
first-class law suit than for the wife Of a
rich man to wear the hair Of n camel.
The services at Grace Episcopal church,
Chicago, last Sunday. were pleasantly
varied by the presentation of three prizes,
for which the choir boys had been striv-
ing for some time. One was for 'neat-
ness,' one for "manlincss," and the third
for reverence" We can conceive how
the good musical director, who acted as
the Judge, could reach IL conclusion as to
ncatness, and could even render an
impartial decision in n well-matched
set-to OF manliness. But how the
tllcc h. kept score i'm the game of rover
erence, we confess our inability to see. 1t
would seem thai that verdict could only Inc
rendered by n higher Judge. How does
the professor know hut that the little
fellow who bowed his head mt the proper
moments and otherwise behaved himself
i'm such an exemplary and devout manner
while i'm the choir. was not all the while
studying new combinations Of dogs tails
and tin cans, ar craftily plotting fresh
raids upou his mothers raspberry jam?
Abstraction at church by no means inn
plies that the individual distracted has
fixed his thoughts Oh high; and with due
respect tn Grace church we submit that
reverence contests are the height of irrcv-
erence.
Bishop Stenhouse. leader of the Nor
mon colony in the Canadian Northwest,
claims tn have discovered n way to make
bigamy perfectly legal under the laws of
the country. He adduces the case of a
bachelor bridegroom with two brides, and
assumes that both ladies are married at
one and the same instant. SO that neither
- sl,o ~..iuns shall prspnsln tho nfhsr T6,
good bishop adds:
I still think that such "A marriage IL registered
wonld satisfy all the technical conditions of val
idity: and. further, that IL the registrar were tO
refuse registration he would be- liable tai damages
to the bride and groom. In any ease the husband
would have to he adjudicated to one or the other
which would he the victim Of bigamy.
This hypothetical state Of affairs opens
up n variety Of interesting questions. Ii
strikes n layInan that such u wedding
would bc prima facie evidence OF violated
law, and that the courts would rule that
the had man could he a~djuLicated to
neither lady since neither lady had been
lawfully married to him. Still Bishop
Stenhouse knows N great deal more about
bigamy and such things than we do, and
his construction of the law in the absence
of any precedent may he assumed tn he
correct. Now, of course, IL the marriage
of two ladies To one groom can he per-
formed at the same instant. Il follows that
under this plan tho number OF legal
brides can he multiplied indefinitely. the
sclf-samc doing for all. by
this means ~ Mormon young man could
build himself u large and tiourishing
household i'm u single hour. He could. as
il were, lay in u stock of goods sufficient
to last him u life time. He would rest i'm
the comforting assurance that he was
not liable tn attack and prosecution 10y the
state, since he was legally as well as
morally married to his entire collection.
Under these circumstances one can imag-
inc the rare and diligence which ~ judi
cious man, with II proper view to his
future happiness. would exercise
i'm making up n choice assortment. His
chief concern would be variety, for how
ever much his predictions might lie in
i'm favor of a particular type, u sensible