The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-11-02
PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.

PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.
Irrcvcrent youngsters at his New Jersey
home call Italian Count Thonias A. Edi-
son ''Old Macaroni."
whitelaw Reid. minister at Paris,
speaks very good Frenci,. yet he prefers tn
Use his native tongue Iva France. He re-
Gently said: ''You'Ii never each ma trying
Frs'nc', when can make the Ohio dialect
serve my purpose"
Elizabeth Liskr, IL Russian II years old,
already q feet q inches i'm height, 3 feet IL
inchcs around the waist. and 3 feet IL
inches round the chest. il the latest thing
out i'm giants. The doctors say she will
continue To grow i'm every way for some
years yet.
Walt Whitman, the good gray poet, has
"a hoy about ~ years of age to drive him
around. The hoy is clever. He recently
said: II think u great deal at w. w. i
keep u notebook and ] put down all he
says Into the notebook and after he's dead
I'm going to Y" round lccturing about
him."
Victoria has lost Francis Drmond. it's
educational p~lilanthropist. Toward the
cost of the DrinoIud college,, Melbourne.
he contributed nearly Ei6,OJJ pounds. He
gave 900 to the Mclbournc university
for the establishment of a chair of music,
and il was through his in~trumcntality
that the WorkinRmen's college. which
numbers 2.GD students, was established.
Speaking of Queen Sictoria's literary
tastes "a recent writer says: "Shc stills
finds pleasur. i'm Trollope's novels.
Tcnnyson is her living idol, Walter Be-
SAINT is another writer whose works stir
the AGED monarch, and Mrs. Humpl,ry
Wards Robert Elsmcrc' was read not
once but twice 10y the queen of England.
She has met many American writers i'm
her day, but is not acquainted to amy cx-
tint with their works."
Mary Anderson has won " high posi-
ton AS u maker of bread. Size writes to
the London Times giving her recipe for the
staff of lie. She is cosmopolitan In her
tastes, being au American who makes
English bread out of Hungarian flour and
French yeast. She says; ''Brcad. IL made
as i have described, will not turn sour,
and will he sweet md moist for at least
eight ar ten days il kept i'm II PAM" II is
said that William Winter. the critic, con-
sidcrs Mary u great genius IA hrcad-makcr.
kemmier. the sentenced murderer
whose life is prolonged ny he quibblcs
over the electrical mode of execution. is
very low In the moral scale. A lady who
has made him some visits i'm his cell mt
Auburn has been trying tn teach him some
religious truths. The other day she said
to him, ID you know that the Son of
God came down from heaven to save such
as your 'No, l never heard of him."
said Kcmmlcr. "WlIat! yon have never
heard of Jesus Christi" ~ never have,''
said the murderer. positively. 1t is
thought that no decision will be reached
i'm this mans case for more han "a year.
A New York letter to the BOSTON Traa-
script, speaking of the deserted Mrs.
James &. Blaine, jr., and her infant son,
says: This 2Imonths-old baby, by the
way. is the living image Of his grand
father. His eyes now arSs as keen i'm their
expression and his spsssch Is so prccocious
that those who hear him stand amazed.
James &. Blaine III, does not talk 'baby
talk lie speaks as distinctly as q child
nf d nn61 with much rpnnrxs kIl0N-1SflOa Of
the world than some children of that age.
The story that younf Mrs. Blaine is very
i'll is no newspaper sensation. / doubt il
she ever will bc well enough to GO upon
the stage.
Says IL B~ostonian: ANY one who
watches the movements of the big iron
Jaws of General B. +. Butler as he sits in
court and manages an important case.
would infer that he was am inveterate to-
bacco chcwer 80 diligently does he masti-
cate. still the fat old general does not
smoke or chew. his jaws for the last
four years OF iiiore have been exercised
on the mild and exclusive bark OF the
rlippery elm, of which he always carries q
supply in his pockets. This is due to the
fact that his physician told him he must
give up smoking. Feeling the need Of
something tn take OF the 'hanker' for
tobacco, he resortcd Z" the elm bark and
chews IL constantly"
A gentleman who was on friendly terms
with Lady Holland and had the freedom
of her house, says the Critic. had the
pleasure of taking General Grant and
Mrs. Grant there during their visit to
England. He gave them IA quiet luncheon
first and then they strolled across the
lawn la tho house of historic memories.
.Bnt what did General Grant say to IL
all -" I asked. ale wakes with ms as far
as the door, was the reply, land seating
himself OH n convenient bench told me
that il l would take his wife i'm he would
stay where he WAS and smoke till we came
out" Mrs. Grant was quite shocked at
this display of Philistinism. hut I was not.
Holland house was n thing of the past.
while General Grant was ~ nan Of the
present. He felt no interest i'm il and he
was too honest tO assume any.