The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-12-17
STANDARD TOPICS.
Sing a song OF HoOtloOs,
Pockets full of schemes;
Great big heads chock full OF
Senatorial dreams.
Strange that Mister Sanders
Wonder never ceases
Always got Just pull enough
To get pulled to pieces.

The Polk county, Ore. Observer says 10
took 10i men to work up an oak tree that
stood just west OF the Observer ofilce-one
man to do the work and 1O3 to look on
md express am opinion as to how the
work should he done.
Canadian papers are complaining of q
soothing syrup, an analysis of which
shows 40 per cent. of the liquid extract of
opium. A large number of children, It
Seems, have been SO e~ffectually soothed
by II that they will never give their parents
any more trouble. In the words of Shakes
peare, the mixture In too swift for sooth.
An exchange reports a sapient Justice
Of the peace, who found n man guilty of
vaRrancy, sentenced him to hard labor,
set him to work on his own place., and
whenever he refused to work, or was inn
pudent. fined him for contempt of court,
he fine payable i'm labor, and thus kept
the poor fellow work for more than a year.
In the new Washington house OF repre-
sentatives n bill has been introduced pre-
venting the acceptance Of railroad passes
by public officers. The ofYense il made
n m~isdeneanor, and La offender shall
noon conviction he deprived OF his office
and he ineligible to office for four years.
IT'S passing strange, but tits feared the
bill itself will not he passed.
Tacoma il very angry at the Northern
Pacific railroad, declaring that nm giving
hthN NIL NV W. - ~
IL makes a discrimination against Taco
ma, since Seattle is the longer haul. II
the old rates are not reestablished, the
Neics of that city urges all Tacomans to
boycott the Northern Pacific. Tacoma
seems to he disposed to break all the ties
that bind her to her sister city.
All the available forces OF the municip-
ality of Seattle were called some time ago
tn subdue n one-leGGed man who took
refuge in n cellar, barred the door and de-
fed the whole police force. The fire de
partment was called out and the cellar
pumped full of water. When IL got To the
mans chin he Since then
he has escaped three times from Jail. II
he had both his legs he would he apt to
make the town considerable trouble.
The public will syinpathize with Mr.. J.
X. Tobin, n Tacoma contractor, who il
asking the Western Union Telegraph
company for 500 damages for the great
mental nguis he sustained by reason OF
N bull of that company. Last June his
cousin te~leRrapbed him from San Fran
cisco that his wife. Sallie, whom he was
expecting, had sailed on the preceding
Saturday morning. When the message
reached him il read "Sallie died Satur.
day morning." Mr.. Tobin at once SUE
pended all business and went into pro-
found morning for Sallie. When Sallie
arrived his nervous system was again
shaken to it's foundations.a AS he imagined,
hso oeAo sahAsh sS "NS ~
from the Vastly deep, although on this
point the complaint is silent. At any
rate Mr.. Tobin says he suffered 5000
worth of grief during the time he believed
Sallie was dead, and il will not do for the
telegraph company to set mp i'm defense
the allegation that he experienced $1,000
worth of joy on the discovery that Sallic
was again in his own alley. However the
case be adjudicated i'm the courts, the
world rejoices that the lady is alive and
well, and trusts that there will he no occa-
sion tn admonish Sallic to reduce the
length Of her hair.
The womnn's National Industrial
League of America. using the Inflated Sill
colt as a text, has adopted n set of resolu-
tions deplorinR 'the many and great temp
tations which men entrusted with public
funds have to contend against and inn
plorinR congress To lake such action i'm
the premises AS will entirely do away with
"the opportunity being offered other good