The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-12-06
ODDS AND ENDS.

The human race often results in % tie.
In "a lazy family there is never q working
majority.
Emperor williams visit tn C~onstanti-
nople cost the sultan over $1.OOO.uO.
Where there's n will there's u way-to
break it. Especially IL drawn by n great
lawyer.
A French Journal has just discovered
Nelson ut the battle of Trafalgar, hut AS
the brave admiral would hardly he alive
now had he not been shot, no investiRa-
ton is likely to take place.
The first statue erected i'm the United
States tn n workingman will soon he UNI
yelled in sacramento. Ii is i'm honor OF
f.. j. Stevens, late master mechanic of the
Southern Pacific, who had for years been
i'm charge of immense railroad shops i'm
sacramento. The funds for the monu-
ment were contributed entirely by work
ingmen.
In personal appearance Edward Strauss
is not especially prepossessing until lost Ina
his music; then his dark face lights up
wonderfully, his eyes grow brilliant, and
the plain face softens as he produces the
beautiful strains. When his own waltzes
are played he leads with violin i'm hand,
facing the audiance; and at times, as IL
no longer able to contain himself, he
plays n few strains, his body fairly sway
ing to the rhythm of the music.
Some time since the Chicago Adrdnce
relates. n gentleman wrote to James Rus
sell Lowell asking which were his favor
ties among his own books. Mr.. Lowell
sent back the following answer: ~
would willingly help you il l could, but.
to be perfectly frank, 1 can't say that l
have any favorites. After they had stood
long enough to cool I Am not at all salts
with any of the things l have written. 1
wish l could he, but l can't"
1t is said hat there are more Jews in
New York city than in Jerusalem itself.
A. -. ---l lnDn 1l..-
keep up their distinctive worship and
maintain forty-nine synaRoRues. They
are a recognized force in commercial and
political circles. Among them arc wealthy
bankers, princely merchants. able and i'm
ftuential editors and active politicians.
They are generally moral and industri-
ons. While they comprise 10 per cent. OF
the population their contribution to the
crimina classes IL less than I per cent.
A supernatural visitant, described as q
white figure i'm human shape of unusual
height, which stalks through the woods ut
night, hearing in his right hand a flaming
torch and i'm it's left a black banner en-
blazoncd with skull and Is re-
ported tn have been seen i'm Crenshaw
county, Alabama. His Rhostship il said
o'clock, emerging from n cavern i'm q side
hill at the eastern extremity OF the woods
and traversinR westerly until he disap-
pears I'm the dense pine forest.
Uncle Samuel Gardner is the veteran
farmer of Ransom township, Lackawan-
ma county. He was horn October II, 179S.
and il rugged, hearty, active, and jovial.
Uncle Samuel celebrated his 91st birthday
by huskinR corn out i'm the field from
early i'm the morning until niRhfall, and
ne said he never felt better or tougher
since he left the old home in the fall of
1919, when he was n years old He has
always been temperate in his habits, kept
regular hours, and taken good care OF
himself. One of the products of his we'll
titled farm ills year is n squash & feet z
inches inches i'm circumference. and Uncle
Samuel is willing to bet n barrel of cider
against n peck of apples that no one i'm
the township ran beat il.