The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-06-16
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LOUIS Quinze clock.
An effort Is being made Mt Chattanooga
10 raise a fund for the erection Of an
equestrian statue of the confederate Gem
eral Forrest.
Mrs. u. s. Grant has sold her house at
West End avenue and Seventy-third
street, New York, to Frank J. Sprague for
$4,000.
After living happily together for more
than thirty years John Fraser and his
wife, Matilda, died Tuesday at their home
In Brooklyn, N. Y, within one hour of
each other.
While campaigning in Kentucky In tire
early days OF the war General Garfield
bought q farm near Prestonsburg for q
few hundred dollars. Recently Mrs. Gar
field sold the tract to spectators. receiv-
ing 5000 for IL.
In 1883 the 18th earl OF Caithness died
without issue and the title passed to Sir
James Sinclair. In 1889 the 18th earl Of
Caithness died without issue and II has
just been determined that the title passes
to James A. Sinclair.
Thomas Alva Edison, who is often re-
ferrtd to as a yankee inventor" Ia not q
Yankee at all, though he looks more or
less like one. He is OF mingled English
and Dutch ancestry, INT was born nj the
village OF Milan, in Erie county, Ohio,
February II, 1S47.
General Won Caprivi, the new German
chancellor, never has n pipe out of his
mouth when he Is awake except during
his meals, and he drinks beer by the gal.
Ion. He is most deliberate in his move
ments and always meditates for a minute
or two before answering the most trifiing
question.
Here are some interesting opinions
from Mr.. Gladstone: 1.-THE three hand
somest men of heir time were the late
duke of Hamilton, Sidney Herbert and
Cardinal Manning; the three most natu-
rally eloquent speakers of their day. the
duke of Argyll, the late Lord Elgin and
Bishop Wilberforce. Lord B~eaconsfield
was the most interesting political charac-
ter OF the country, not excepting Mr..
Pitt
The London correspondent Of the Bury
Times (Lancashire) says that he recently
had a chat with an old gentleman about
the marvelously sustained powers of Mr..
Gladstone. ~ think l may fairly claim"
aid h c old gentleman aforesaid, "that
Mr.. Gladstone owes something of this to
me. Some thirteen or fourteen years ago
i was at a dinner party-a small private
Inner party-and /, as an old friend of
Mr.. Gladstone, gave him some advice as
to diet. etc. Part Of his advice was to
take after dinner two glasses of good,
well-matured port. Mr.. Gladstone, who
was not then in very good health, said he
would act on this advice, and has acted
on il ever since"
Philip hensen, a planter living near
Corinth, Miss. is believed to be the pos
SCISSOR Of the longest beard in the world.
He Is a man of unusual stature, standing
nearly 6E feet in his stockings; notwith-
standing this his beard reaches the ground
when he is standing erect. Hensen has
in his beard many threads which measure
over 20 inches. This remarkable growth
is but IA years old.
Queen Victoria had her daughters and
granddaughters taught TO make bread and
butter. The butter rolls turned out of the
royal dairy are described as ''pretty things
to look ut and eat up" and the brown and
white bread made by the Princesses Vic
toria aud Maud is occasionally sent To
Windsor castle, and would sweep the blue
ribbons of an entire county of country
fairs. One hour n day the Processes de-
vote to housekeeping. Rumor has il that
they don white altar gowns made with
bishops sleeves and girdled with an old
silver chain, TO which the keys Of the
house are attached.
Herbert Gladstone, who is coming over
here this year on a visit, is a man rather
below the medium height, with thin hair,
a dome-like forehead, and an air of gen.
tie melancholy. He is a great favorite at
all of the women's meetings and the gen.
eral conventions for promoting woman
suffrage i'm England. He has been called
1.-THE 5 o'clock tea statesman" He affects
extreme simplicity of attire, wearing turn
over collars, the smallest sort Of n black
shoestring ~cravat, and clothes thatare not
conspicuous for their good fit or fine tex
ture. II is said that he is of great assist
ance to his distinguished father in man.
aging the grand old mans correspond
nee.