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PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE.

Prof. A. W. Phillips of Yale devotes his
entire life to mathematics.
Miss Margaret Blaine is to receive from
the diplomatic corps a wedding gift of an
elegant tea service OF solid silver, worth
$500.
Mime. Modjeska will spend next season
in Europe, after which she will return to
this country, when she hopes to have a
new play.
Stanley is to he 'Lord Congo" in the
British peerage. 1t is a rather taking
title, better than Marquis of Viii, Duke OF
Mpwanda or Baron of Ubungdus.
Governor Taylor of Tennessee met Cal
win $. Brice the other day, and afterward
conflded to n reporter the deliberate judg-
ment that has a great mind"
Mrs. Garfield is said to be beginning to
show her age. Her hair is getting silvery,
but In manner she is the same charming
woman who graced the white house in
1881.
Bonanza Mackey is disposing of his
various mining properties on the Pacific
slope that are said to be worth about S1O.-
100000, and expects ~henceforth to make
his permanent residence in New York.
With the exception of Austria. which
contributed $4,000 to the pope's support
in the shape Of Peters pence last year, no
nation contributed more to that fund
than Italy. The Italian contributions
amounted to 100000, and precisely the
same mount came from France.
The old Mormon theater in Salt Lake
City, built years ago by Brigham Young,
is about to be torn down and replaced by
n new n with all the modern improve
ments A delegation of capitalists, who
ave bought the old theater, have just
come to New York to secure plans for
their proposed dramatic temple"
Mayor Grants invitation to Queen Vic
toria's son, the Duke of Connaught, TO
visit New York as the guest Of the city has
aroused a storm in Tammany hall, and
one of the sachems finds it necessary to
apologize thus: "Although he is an Eng
lish prince he has an Irish title" That
ought to make things lovely again.
Fred Crawford. who wrote the famous
Cleveland interview. has written and will
soon give to the public a full and dispas-
sionate statement of his meeting and con-
versation with the ex-president. After
the World ~disavowed his interview Mr..
Crawford promptly rendered his resigna-
ton. but the managing editor declined to
accept II.
Shortly after his conversion 10 Roman
Catholicism, 'Joe" Biggar, NJ. p. at
tended a church service and fell asleep,
TO dream, doubtless, of obstruction at
Westminster When he aw oke the SER
vice was over and almost all others had
left the church,; whereupon, glaring Mt
the empty benches, he exclaimed: "Mr.
Speaker! ! move that the house be
counted"
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THE MANLY ART.

Somebody has written a syndicate let
ter to which John l.. Sullivan's name is
signed. IL is a discussion of the art
and practice involved in knocking your
man out, the science of fighting and
the ethics of the prize ring. Withal 1t
is an interesting letter, even IL 1t was
written with sensational intent and
although il carries the signature of a
man who couldn't write two lines of
all its paragraphs and who probably
would need a guide were he to attempt
to read IL.
The sullivan letter exalts the exer-
else of boxing which, doubtless is
highly conducive to good health, but il
ignores the professors" with as much
zeal as Andrew Carnegie betrays in
crying down college training. at may
seem a little bold" remarks Mr.. Sulli-
van, "but l will guarantee to teach any
well-put-up young fellow of ordinary
intelligence the rudiments of boxing in
half an hour so that he will be able to
continue the work and become clever
at IT," If this is true and IL commOdi-
ties are like human beings, a new
school i'm political economy which
would substitute the Sullivan idea for
the Mckinley bill would furnish rock
bottom American protection for every
thing and everybody in the land with
out ado.
But Mr.. Sullivan does not ignore the
brain element i'm boxing, however light
ly he may esteem the average tutor in
the business. On the contrary, he ex-
ats the mental end of the business. II
have always considered" he says. that
a young man, in order to succeed In
boxing, must have brains as well as
muscle. | never yet knew q thick
headed fellow to become skilled In the
manly art" We suppose Mr.. sullivan
naturally regards himself rs a living
witness to the truth of this assertion.
Yet, after all, there is n deal of wisdom
in Sullivan's comment, for it surely is
true that GOODNESS and quick perception
must guide the man who makes sue
cessful use of his fists on the face and
form of an antagonist. After all, brain
must go with Drawn, and, however alb
surd IL might be to exalt the mental
qualities of a man like Sullivan, il
doubtless is true that certain qualities
of perception have helped to make him
victor more times than one.
Then, too, this suggestion of Sulli-
vans naturally leads to the logical con-
clusion of his letter, which says, IF
every man in this country, under i5.
would practice boxing, we would have
fewer narrow-chested dudes, less quack
medicines, less shooting and stabbing,
less narrow-minded cranks." Theresa
good deal in what Mr.. sullivan says on
that score.
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ANOTHER WORLD LIKE OURS.

With renewed splendor Venus has
made her annual ~reaprearance and for
a limited season will hold the boards in
the western heavens with a brilliancy
that no other star, however ambitious
and determined. can initiate. Venus
has been in the evening star business
for many years, but her shining quail
ties suffer no diminution with age.
Countless millions who have long since
returned to dust have gazed upon her
with admiration akin To reverence. and
in the minds of the young and spoony
who are given to turning porches and
front gates into astronomical observa-
tories she has ever inspired sentiments
true tn her name.
Public interest in Venus is increas-
ing every year rs the facts about her
are becoming better known. .Astrono-
mers agree that she is a pretty fair du-
plicate of the earth. She has air and
water, clouds and rain. The prilliancy
of Venus, in fact, is due To these very
conditions the reflection of the sun
upon the clouds that envelop the inte-
resting planet. IL is assumed. there
fore. that the forms of life in Venus
must be closely identical to the forms
of life manifested on our own globe.
So much has been learned about
Venus: and there is food for specula-
ton as tn whether her inhabitants have
acquired a corresponding amount of
information touching the earth. which
appears To her people Just AS she APP
pears To ms. Possibly they have found
ont Il great deal more than we have.
Edgar Allen Poe once suggested the
possibility OF the inhabitants of the
several planets finding a way TO commu.
nicate with each other. There does not
appear To be any immediate prospect
of stretching a telegraph wire clear
through to Venus. but if the time ever
when intelligence can be flashed
across the intervening one hundred
and fifty million miles what "A boom the
newspapers of each globe will receive.
There are many questions which the
people of this world would really like
To ask the denizens of the sister world:
their attitude towards the tariff ques-
ton: their forms of government and
the political complexion of their legis-
latures; the prevalence of Doodle and
the means. il any. taken for its sup
preston: their position on capital pun
ishment. irrigation, sewerage, strikes,
naval equipments, the silver question.
prohibition, potato rot, bankruptcy,
state stealing. Indian lands and post
office appointments. The probability
is that each world could teach the other
any quantity of new tricks. II may be.
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the STANDARD and that monarch of re-
publican practice and profession,
the Anaconda Weekly Reriew. 1--WE
know" adds the Herald, that
the Journal always will be found
fighting with us for the prin-
ciples of republicanism." The last five
words i'm this sentence have a very pro-
nounced influence on its meaning. The
sentiment may be true, but a man who
plants his faith on the gospel according
to the Butte Inter Mountain will
hardly believe IL.
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That untoward incident of SATURDAY in

That untoward incident of Saturday in
the career of John G.. Fremont excites
one sympathy. Our readers will recall
the interesting dispatch OF Saturday after
noon and the disappointing appendix
that followed il. The venerable General
had long been rated as a debtor 10 the
government in the amount of about $751;
600. In later years this fact has seriously
annoyed him. At his request, Tho comp
troller investigated the account and made
the cheerful discovery that, in fact, the
government owed the General S2l ,0OD. A
warrant in that amount was promptly
given him. There was n time when Free
ont would not have cared much for S21,-
coo, but he had been sadly pinched In his
finances I'm his declining years, and the
welcome fund looked large. This is the
way the story came Saturday night n
n very pretty little romance il was, but
one of the last sheets of Sunday morn
inR's dispatches announced hat the orig
inal story was quite wrong that in fact
the amount involved is II 800 which con-
gress will he asked to pay. This rather
takes the life out of the story, yet, after
all, Saturday would be a pretty good day
for the General.
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however, that we are proceeding on a
false assumption. Like enough Venus
had no Garden of Eden, or IL Il had M
the principal actors may have taken a
different course from that SO unfortu-
nately pursued by Eve and her hus-
band. Anyway an i~nexhaustible fund
of interesting and highly instructive in
formation will be opened up simultan-
eously with the establishment of a sys-
TEN of inter communication between
the two worlds. and the attention of
young and aspiring Edisons should be
turned In that direction.
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satisfied with mi. Corns.

He was a stout man with n red face, and
his general air indicated that he was In
possession of n fair amount Of liquor. He
tidReted about on his seat in an elevated
railroad ear, and inspected the passen-
gers as though he must tall or burst. At
length he leaned over to a timid man who
sat next, and said:
"Did you ever have corns""
''No," said the timid young man. blush.
ing.
"Hayen't got any"
"No."
"Bunions? ."
"No."
"Let me see your foot said the big
nal imperiously, waving the butt of a
cigar toward his unfortunate neighbours
extremities.
The young ma reluctantly advanced
one foot into the range of inspection.
"What makes IL three-cornered? " asked
the large man.
IL am sure ! don't know" murmured
the owner. growing more and more con-
fused.
'Well, young man. said the other,
with all the scorn obtainable from much
liquor. i've got four corns and two good
live bunions, but I'd rather nave more'n
that, than have them two ilat-iron feet OF
yours CROWN ON me-"
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4 London genius has invented an
electric apparatus for measuring the
amount of liquor sold AT the bar, and
for checking and recording the sales
and receipts. The amount served de-
ponds ON the position of a knob, and
by means of a series of electric contacts
the amount is recorded OH a pointer
and dial. Such n device may he ad-
mired by the phlegmatic, practical
Englishmen, but il would never be toll
Grated in this country, where whisky
and mathematics don't mix. The
American drinker drinks chiefly for the
effect of the drink upon his magma
tion. and anything like rules, formulate,
statistics or any arithmetical computa-
tions which tend 10 hinder the free ex-
ercise of that glorious faculty would
be promptly and severely discounten-
anced. The bartender who attempted
TO measure the size of every customers
drink would he short lived in this
country.
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MONDAY. MAY II, 1880.
We had il last week from the STANr

We had il last week the STAND
ARDS evening contemporary in Butte
that the whole story of democratic dis
indignation in Butte would be out in
two days. The shadows of prophecy
lengthen-the two days have become
live, and people on the political watch
towers discover no signs of the coming
contest. The STANDARD has no inter
est in any mythical rows. IL Is annoyed,
however, to reflect that an excellent
arrangement for appointing members
Of the Butte police force was unwar-
rantably ignored by the new city u
ell. II has been trying to find out how
the thing happened and why it was
done, but nobody is rushing forward to
explain. There's this much about it
Butte will never have an efficient police
force under n system which the city
once abandoned and which has now
been put in operation again, to the dis
credit Of every man in the council who
was a party to it.
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An View.

From the 1t. Paul Globe.
The returns are nearly all in from the
election OF the prcsbyteries, and the libe-
rails are about out of the woods. OF 11O
that are reported, 10 nave declared for
the new platform to 55 against and five
sitting on the fence. There are As more
precincts to hear from, and even IL il re-
quircs a two-thirds majority to extricate
the true faith, there is hardly a possibility
Of defeat. The disposition outside to
treat this renovation of a creed i'm about
the same light as the reform of q tariff
does not quite comport with the gravity Of
the theme involved. Still, the elimina-
ton of the doctrines hat have been al
legged to he immutable as truths suggests
a phase that has n peculiar aspect. IL the
dogmas to be excised were vital and es-
sential to h post-terrestrial immunity
from disaster in view of the church
fathers, and wrong views are fatal; II il is
now voted that the departed have all cher
ished and died by the untrue, will not the
revision make their position uncomfort-
able?
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One Of the STANDARDS Butte contem-
poraries printed, Saturday morning, a
letter about Naples, written by Edgar l..
Wakeman, and accompanied Il with cdi-
torial praise. On that morning orh Of our
Helena contemporaries announced that,
as one Of its special features for Sunday,
IL would furnish to the reader an interest
ing letter about Naples, by Edgar Wake
man, and Sunday brought from Helena
the Saturday letter in Butte. That was
rather an unfortunate misflt. The Wake
man letters and others, some of which are
suggcstively cyclopaedic in their sub
stance, are furnished to newspapers in
pay for advertising-which is all right
enough. of course, for those Of our con-
tcmporarics who choose To go into the ar
rangement. But the office In Washington
which enjoys the advertising and pays for
IL In literature, ought to see to II that MIR.
Wakeman's favors are scattered q little
more widely, and ought also to prevent n
variation in the date Of publication.
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Yam Phou Lee. the Chinaman who
acquired fame by graduating from
Yale college, marrying a New Haven
heiress, and writing articles for the
North Imeri,uH RerieT entitled "Why
am a Christian" and the like. is again
before the public. this time as "A defend
ant in q suit brought 10y the aforesaid
New England heiress for divorce. She
alleges that Yam has not been SO good
a husband ms the Christian religion re-
quires, and for his part Van declares
that the cause of all the trouble Is his
mother in-law. who. he AYERS, has
trumped up the charges against him.
The honesty Of that lady cannot be
passed upon here: yet il seems clear
that Mr.. Lee, however well he had ia
miliarized himself with the language
and literature of the Anglo.SaNon race.
married without any conception Of the
importance of the American mother
in-law. In his case the curriculum of
Yale college was not sufficiently extern
sive. Back in the old country no doubt
the functions of the mother. in law are
extremely limited. There she never
aspires TO n controlling influence In the
household. Yam Phou Lees education
is Just beginning 10 round out. II is
time he renewed his contributions to
the North American RerieT, beginning
with a series on "Why My Mother-in
law Got the Best of Me-"
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LITTLE LOVE STORY.

The Helena Ind,ptndent paraphrases
a familiar line i'm order to say that, in
the spring, the burglars fancy lightly
turns to thoughts Of cracking safes.
Helena is testing the truth of that e
mark. We observe. however, that i'm
the gentle %springtide month of May
the fancy of the two republican news.
papers in Helena does not lightly turn
to thoughts of %quarreling. Far from
il. ON the contrary they ill all the re-
quirements of the sentiment which the
I~ndependent distorted their thoughts
turn lightly 10 things of love. the kind
of love that is stipulated in the
riage ceremony. the sort that holds for
better o for worse until local quarrels
them do part.
This fraternal relation came about in
a curious way. The Inter Mountain
happens To have n little quarrel with
the Journal, and il is pounding away
pretty hard on the head of
its rival over the range, The tight
would have II ahead all right
enough if IL had proceeded under the
recognized rules of the journalistic
ring, but just at a critical moment the
Helena HeJ0h rnshes in TO remark
that the republican papers in Montana
are a band Of principled journals with
whom party success and party veal
are ever paramount Ia personal consid-
erations."
Behold, how good, how pleasant and
how remarkable il is to see these re-
publican newspapers dwelling together
IN unity For all the world, Just like
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A Vigorous Opinion.

From the Chicago Journal.
The civil service commission want its
force increased, and may get the increase
asked for, but, IL so. the appropriation
will come from congressman like q tooth
from the jaw OF q man who suffers be-
cause he thinks the briefer evil the wiser
choice. Very pleasant for the Intelligent
Hindoo traveller is il TO sit in the gallery
OF thch house of representatives and hear
men OF both parties belaud the institution
they would like to rip up the back and
down the front and then 10 slash side
ways. The civil service law has lone
some good, but il has produced an awful
crop of congressional lihrs.
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Anew York paper says that 30 gradu-
ates Of q polytechnic institute are on
record in that city as having offered to
work As electricians at 10 cents per day.
Already il appears that the new trade is
overcrowded. An increase Of wages and
at the same time much valuable scientific
information might he obtained II these
DO graduates were set at work expert
menting with a view to finding the quick
est and easiest mode of killing each other
off.
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After a suspension Of two years The
highlander societies Of Portland, Ore,
have reorganized, and are ready to resume
the business of numbering their fellow
Cinnamon with greater energy d ever
before. The reorganization has revived
interest in the order, especially the inter
est of the police.
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FULLY ~ vigorous.

From The Milwaukee sentinel.
The editor Of Hdr1sr's Weekly thinks the
most vigorous Of ecent writings is Henry
{. LEAFS comments OF the administration.
Mr.. Curtis has not read Mr.. Dana's COM
mcnts ON Mr.. Cleveland apparently.
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Truth srom New England.

From the Lawrence American.
In associating the worlds fair of lsa3
with a historic event of the previous year.
the people Of the United States simply adj.
vcrtisc themselves Ia the people Of other
countries as too slow, too much divided
Ia keep up with the times. There is a
suggestion of a serious lack somewhere
which does not agree with the estimation
IN which Americans are wont To hold
themselves.
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tn. ual,or-sa,inv Caucus.

From the Philadelphia Record.
The passage of the Si2,O0O.O0O pension
bill after q brief thrce-hours' debate, by
means of the caucus machine. goes TO
show that the tendency of machinery is
To lessen the hours of human labor.
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The Hat I'm Politics.

From the New York Tribune.
The wearing Of a soft felt hat by a poll
tician in Europe is sufficient Ia denote his
radical proclivities, and in the British
house of commons Mr.. Bradlaugh and
William O'Brien are almost the only
members who affect that particular form
of headgear. Everybody else makes use
of the high silk hat.
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canism a strange expression stole over
the faces Of the patriots there assembled,
which, II one had not known TINT Il was
born OF ecstasy Of devotion. he would
have supposed was caused by eoblets Of
Ice water suddenly and simultaneously
poured down the backs Of each.
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Not u Marker to ~.
IrilIn I.nrk

FfOln TUCK
Lecturer on the French revolution
IL is impossible To imagine the chaos that
reigncd- confusion and anarchy every
where. In our more peaceful conditions
we can mo- imagine such a statco OF hings
Man at the back of the hall-lc s we
cam, mister. Come M to our house
were movin'.
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The present congress expects TO get
through by the middle of July. and the peo-
pie expect to eradicate all traces of Il
early I'm November.
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4 lsls, Marx.

From the Chicago Journal.
Between Senator Ingalls, sharp tongue
and Editor Dana's ~vinegary pen, Grover
Cleveland, as an object lesson. is made to
illustrate the capacity of the English lam
guage In vituperation.
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Deacon Harrison. nepuhlic,n,.m.

From the Chicago Times.
When u of the republican leaders
rose tn the occasion" before the stat.
committee Tuesday nd,lclivcrcd hsasclf
Of a culogy Of Deacon Hdrrison's republi.
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Funeral notices neatly printed al the
STANDARD" Office.
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