The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-01-29
MEN AND WOMEN.

Sir John Macdonald, premier of Cam
ada, has just passed his seventy-fifth
year.
Clara Barton, the noted philanthropist,
is u good shot with either rifle or shotgun.
She has been seen to bring down two prai-
rie chickens from the first flush of the
covey.
St. Louis has two wealthy colored i'm
habitants. Mrs. Amanda Labadie pays
taxes on 100000, and Alfred White. "a
caterer and confectioncr, has made $751;
600 at his business.
Miss Edwards, teacher of the school at
Granitevillc. Nevada county, Cal, went
to North Bloomfield, fourteen miles, mn
snow-shoes the other day. She made the
trip i'm four hours.
The empress of Russia is said to he cx-
tremely shy in her manner, and bushes
like a girl on the slightest provocation.
She has the same blue eyes that her sis
ter. the princess of Wales has, hut lacks
the latter's regular features. -
Joseph jefferson has presented DIR.
George Rculing, of Baltimore, "a haud-
some landscape i'm oil, painted i'm the ac-
tors leisure moments. Mr.. jefferson was
threatened with blindness "a number of
years ago and gratitude prompted the
gift.
John Rogers, the New York sculptor.
has completed i'm clay a colossal statue of
Rev. John Elliot addressing al Indian
man and woman. Ii was made i'm the
hope that it will he bought and placed i'm
Roxbury, Mass, where the "indian
APOSTLE died.
The wife of Calvin :. Bricc was before
her marriage Miss Olivia NELLY, n teach
err in the public schools of Terre Haute,
Ind. She began her career as a teacher
at the close of the war and held her posi-
ton i'm school No. s of Terre Haute for
five years. Mr.. Brice was mt that time a
young lawyer at Lima. Ohio.
The Empires Augusta had a great par
TALLY for everything French. French was
the language she usually conversed with
her daughter, the grand duches OF Baden.
She always had n French reader, and she
has even been accused of having too
strong sympathy with the French people
that objectionable sin OF the German
political gospel.
Perhaps the late Walker Blaine's most
striking characteristic was his unfailinR
good nature. Nobody ever knew him To
lose his temper. There have been times,
by no means remote, when politicians,
officer seekers and broken down heelcrs
subjected him to IL constant strain, but Inc
never said a cross word and was always
the same well poised gentleman.
Mr.. Gladstone has published no fewer
than 293 books and pamphlets. exclusive
of numerous spa and magazine
articles. Perhaps the e~N-prcmicr's per
has scribbled on more postal cards thar
that of any other man either living al
dead. The postofficc has "a profitable
Hs
age about 4,OO0 per annum.
1t is not often that u reigning queer
finds herself without II single change o
dress. This was, however, the fate of he
majesty of Belgium on the LIST inst. He
entire wardrobe had been destroyed In
the ~confiagration of the royal palace a
Laeken, and owing to the fact of the da!
being "a public holiday, every store In
Brussels was closed.
John Burns says 1889 was the brightes
year for Great Britain's workingmen sinc'
lsls. In London alone :pO trades hav'
gained shorter hours and increased pay
Thc gas stokers gained $1,000 member
and reduced their hours from twelve 4
eight. The bakers had their hours RI
ducel from 100 to GO hours per week. be
sides an advance i'm wages. Over 10000
men were added to the membership a
labor organizations.
AIyernon Charles S~winburne is the Han
njbal Hamlin of England. Says one VIII
recently saw him at Wimbledon: "H
never wears an overcoat, and the onl
change i'm his apparel which 1 have nc
ticed during the winter months is that tn
color of his clothes Is now all black. eve
to his necktie, and that he has begun I
wear a pair of thick gloves, whereas !
summer the poet evidently despises sue
= luxurics.