The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-10-18
TOPICS.

Noah got all his animals into one ark,
hut il takes three to accommodate all of
Barnum's. They sailed for England last
Saturday.
A Chautauqun circle has been estab-
lishad at the Nebraska pcnitentinry with
who can afford u thorough penitentiary
education.
Gothenberg claims to he the most thriv-
ing town i'm Nebraska. A leg broken by
the kick Of q horse, n hand crushed i'm =
can mill and a badly torn pair of trousers,
the result of u runaway, constitute the
~sualtic Of the past week.
On account OF illness, senator Vest has
been obliged To cancel all his engaRe-
mcnts To speak at the tariff-reform pic
mics, . series Of which il being given in
Missouri. II il unfortunate that the Vest
should be pulled down just at this time.
The inhabitants of Sing Sing. N. Y, are
aRitatinR propositions either for q change
of name for their town ar for the emoval
OF it's prison. There are a great many
good people out OF jail there, and they
want the fact made palmer to the world At
large.
to he inserted in the newspapers the fol-
lowing brief announcement "Not having
heard Of my wife for the last ten years, I
intend to marry again. JOHN LEARY,
IDG8tOWGe, NreplGnR. MI. lhary lant TO
ing tn have any Enoch Arden business in
his'n IL he can help IL.
A watertown, Dakota. man has an in
genious device that digs potatoes, picks
them mp and deposits them i'm bags, and
at the same time disposes of the vines and
pulvcrixcs the ground. He ought to keep
at Il and bring the machine to that stage
of perfection when il will also milk the
cows, feed the hogs, wind the clock and
spank the children.
h prize horse thief of Kentucky 10
Harry Van Arsdall. He stole q horse and
sold il to his own brother. The next
night he stole the horse from his brother
and sold IL to another man. 1t was shown
on his trial that no had stolen the same
horse nine times and sold Il eight times.
He would almost do to hire out to the CEN
trail republican OF Silver Bow.
The band Of Brule Indians who passed
through Nebraska to the sand hills for
their annual fall hunt about two months
ago, returned last Friday and Saturday.
IL seems that Chief whirlinR Hawk some
where on his travels, gota bottle of whisky
and drank M much that he died and his
friends were taking him home. They had
hauled him seven days i'm the bottom of .
lumber and the tribe were becom-
ing more and more affected by his death
every day.
A pupil i'm n b~oariiug-school i'm Penn
~sylvania displayed some time since no
small degree of industry ina collecting
autographs OF distinguished literati.
James Russell Lowell was one Of the num-
her addressed. The requeat tn him was.
substan TALLY: II would he very much
obliged for your autograph" Tho re-
Spouse was ms follows: "Pray do not say,
hereafter, Il would he obliRed.' IL you
would he Obliged, he obliged and be done
with IL. Say, Il should he Obliged and
oblige, yours truly, JAMES Russell Low
ELL" We feel obliged tai d that . vein
of pedantry is displayed i'm Mr.. Lowell's
reply, which in becomes him, even When
undressing n schoolgirl.
THE aoMEsrAkE TUNNEL.
This is the precinct that william M.
Jack built.
ONE
This IL the story that he told the bosses.
h then did chuckle they
thought of the dandy precinct that
Jack built.
We STURDY wooDcHoPPERs.
These are the men that were to confirm
the sclf-same story that he told the bosses