The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-12-27
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Baptist Clergyman.
John Walter, who succeeds the late Mr..
Mcdonald as manager of the London
Times, il only rs years of age.
General r. Burd Grub says IL cost him
$25 900 to he defeated for governor of New
Jersey.
The pope has received N bequest Of
f6SD,OoO from Baron Lilienthal. The latter
was by extraction a Jew, and made money
in the Union Genarale speculation, and
his desire was to render the pope indie
pendent OF Peters pence. The will will
he likely disputed.
A man named ~awlikows who died
lately at w~loclawek. Poland. and worked
i'm the fields until last year, il said to have
been 115 years of age. II is further rclat-
ed that his brother died at the age of 116,
and his father MT In, while three surviv-
ing sisters are aged respectively 1O2, 30
and 81 years.
Schielemann commenced his new exca-
vations at Hissarlik, Troy, Nov. %. Prof.
Niemann, OF Vienna. and embe OF the
academies of Paris and Berlin will soon
Join him. Constantinople
say that the sultan expressed to Emper-
or William his lively interest i'm this UNI
dertaking, and promised to dc all i'm his
power to nm IL.
The F'unkJmrter Zeitung, i'm
ing on the rumor that Sampson Low, Mars
ton & Co., of London. have offered STAN
ley 10000 for the book he il now writing,
remarks that German publishers appear
tO be far more eager To make arrange
ments with Emin for n scientific work
from his pen. A Leipsic publisher sent a
special messenger to Zanzibar to arrange
this matter.
The death of Browning has revived an
ing's 'Sorhcllo" was published Teunyson
tried to read il. and, i'm relating his ex-
~pcrience, said: "There are only two
lines i'm that l understand, and they were
both lies: One was the opening line:
"'Who will may hear Sortiello's story told,'
And the other was the closing line:
"'who would has heard Sordcllo's story told. -
NJ. Zola Describes his mode of working
thus: II am as regular rs work.
Every morning l write four pages, mo
more, no less. That makes about sOO
words. and is all l can do i'm n day and do
il we'll. As I take n year for each one of
my novels. you see l have plenty of time
at that rate. OF course a large part oi
my work has been done before l take ur
the pen. and what I write the first time
goes to the printer with few erasures. No,
I never dictate. but write every line oi
my book with my own hand, like this
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Athens has u modern A~ristopbanes. whC
il one of the best known characters i'm the
Greek capital. His name il Suris. and hs
il proprietor and editor of the comic paper
Romios. every line of which. including the
advertisements. he writes himself Ia
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times two copies appear i'm one week N
other times, when news il scarce or hi.
inspiration agging n week or two may
pass without N new lumber Consequent
~ he has no regular subscribers, but when
ever u new number appears the new,
agents buy up all the copies by special mr.
Management.
There is n rumor that the wife of the
Chinese minister will be seen i'm societ,
before the season waues, says n Washing
ton letter Ia the Baltimore Sun. One q
the secretaries il responsible for this sur
prise. The little lady has displayed Rrca'
interest i'm Inc doinRs of the west end a,
detailed to her ny the attaches of the lega
ton; but for her To attend parties, etc.
would he an affair of considerable trouble
since her feet are totally inadequate Il
support her body, slight as she il. and ths
spectacle OF seeing her assisted by hcI
husband and the biR, brawny first secrc
tary mp and down n drawing-rootn woult
not be an edifyinR tribute to the polite
customs of the Chinese.