The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-11-20
STAND TOPICS,

STAND ARD TOPICS.
sight at last. il is time 10 speculate ON the
verdict.
MIR. Miratsu. the public inspector of
Toxic. Japan. and Sansuke Hayashi, i'm
spcctor general of police of Toxic. arc
now i'm New York investigating the police
methods of that city. II they will kindly
skip Chicago while making their tour, the
country will feel obliged to them.
Should the fast mail frcm Chicago to
New York run over a man in dia and
another man in Ohio. and "a third man In
Albany. they NIGH agree that their calan-
tiles spranR from ''lo<al causes,' but il
would he generally understood that the
great and primary cause was the failure
tn get out of the way of the train, says the
Kansas City Star. IL they were i'm condi-
tion To agree tn anything. they would agree
that they were in too fast oInpany, and
were OH the whole too uuder-traiued to
stand up another second.
The kcely motor is again coming to
the front. Ii was exhibited last Saturday
to- three learned scientists of Philadcl-
phia. who in interviews acknowledged
that the motor NOTED To their complete
surprise and satisfaction. ~ caunot see
how the dis~integration of n himbleful of
water i'm his 'disintegrator,' :" says one of
the savants, 'can produce such u force,
tptlt ~ - thhtnss tfINt III III HIS OIIVVGlIIylAS
is, I believe, that this force is SO great
that il is hard to bridie.' For years
kcely's idea has been derided as stuff
and nonsense. hut il yet may turn ont to
be the stuff with no nonsense about it..
Mr.. w. r. Curtis, the man who on bc-
half of the state department chaperoned
the delegates on their tour
through the country. seems to have had
trouble with the authorities Of nearly
every place visited, and his misfortunes
reached their climax at Philadelphia,
when the door of the Union League club
was shut i'm his face. We don't know
what was the matter with Mr.. Curtis. but
we suspect il was "a very painful tunor
beginning just above the eyes and extend
ing backward tn the top of the spinal col
umn.
The disappearance of an overcoat from
the rack in the Polytechnic library. says
the Louisville Courier-.JournoI. proves that
no garment of the kind is safe ywh
of it's owner after the LIST of November. A
library is intellectual headquarters, and if
an ovcrcoat cannot he left alone i'm such a
place. there is little chance for il i'm less
refined resorts. The overcoat should bs
reconstructed. Ii should he made ventil-
ating. SO that the wearer may keep il on
indoors. Nobody could then remove. il
without leaving the owner u clcw. Next
to losing an ovcrcoat is the annoyance OF
never finding the Address of the man who
took il.
The people Of New York will not soon
forget the big cyclone which struck them
last January. and of them all Mr.. John
NorlinH will probably have cause tn re-
member il the longest. Mr.. Norlin9 was
passing along "a street when a board blew
oil an adjacent fence and collidcd with
his respectable person with an energy of
purpose which broke u large lumber of
his leading ribs. and indeed knocked him
galley west into the opposite gutter,
Wherefore, now comes Mr.. Norling and
sues the owner of the fence for 5000
damages. The defendant sets up that
the Destruction Of the fence was am act of
God. i'm which he had no voice or control.
or, i'm other words, that no ordinary pre-
cautions were Of avail i'm the face of the
cyclone; and, i'm fact, tae plaintiff, had he
been u man OF average intellect. would
have got in out of the wet and not tenpted
the elements to make "a threc-base hit
with his person. The case opens mp some
very nice points of law and gives the law
yers "a famous opportunity to fence. But
1t strike an outsider that the verdict
should bc in favor of the d Tense.
I~ndotnitable energy and u large mouth
will go u great ways, especially the latter.
John Mccormack, of Brooklyn. seems tn be-
the posscssor Of both, and has just been
displaying the happy combination tn "A
On his way home the other day MIR. Me-
Cornack WAS stopped by n number of
companions who desired to discuss the
political Issues of the day with him. Mr..
Mccormack, il appears. was in great haste
to eat his dinner and get back To his office.
SO he requested the boys not tn bother
him, adding that he was hungry enough
to bite of the head of n live duck. The
originality of this mode of expressing "a
high degree of hunger would have ELECTED
nothing nor, than admiration from the
gentlemen. had not one of them, u sad
sea dog. of n very literal turn of mind.
the statement as IA metaphor,
not to say IA bold-facc and disreputable
lie. Mr.. Mccormack finding his honor
thus assailed. offered tai substantiatc his