The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-27
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MEN AND WOMEN.
Mrs. Oliphant 10 making Q tour Of the
Holy Land, anu will write . book ON the
region, the material for which she II H.
b~oriously~ collecting.
General Fremont was the last survivor
of the four major generals appointed
early In the war. They were Fremont,
Mcclellan. Halleck and Wool.
w. Jennings Demorest, patternmaker,
IL the prohibition candidate for mayor Of
New York. His tickets will he cut on the
bias, rufiied and tucked, and gored at the
polls.
Lord Tennyson, though his health has
improved recently, In said to be much
broken by age and illness, and matches
his physical decreptitude by q very obvious
mental slowness.
Prince George Of Wales will he at New
port I'm August. and the fashionable wat
erinR place may expect q regular deluge
Of anglomaniacs from New York with
their trousers turned up.
Mrs. Lincoln, wife of the American
minister to England, with her daughter,
will leave London for their home In Chi
cago early in August. Mr.. Lincoln will
not take his leave before November.
Cardinal Manning favors the immediate
adoption OF an eight-hour law, declaring
that NO long as employers alone are re-
sponsible for the duration of n working
day workmen will not be able to exist
properly.
Bowler Bowser, the newly appointed
United States consul to Sierra Leone, IL
an intelligent colored man and resided
for a number of years on the west coast
OF Africa. Since 1875 he has resided i'm
Hartford. Conn.,, carrying on n hotel bar
Der shop.
Joseph Chaplain, the Plattsburg, N. Y,
murderer has been cheated out OF the dis
tinction that would have attached to the
first electrical execution, his sentence
having been commuted. This would
seem TO leave the eminent Mr.. Kemmler
lis winner Of the race by about a neck.
Colonel Ethan Allen, of New York, an
nounces In stentorian tones that Cuba
must be ours" The impetuous colonel is
n descendant Of the famous and fiery old
Ticonderoga Allen, and the chances are
hat IL congress doesn't take steps pretty
500 to annex Cuba he will 20 down and
capture IL.
Chauncey Dcpew, who lately has seen
Queen Victoria for the first time, thinks
''she is n wondrous woman" because 'her
face lights up when she Smiles" IL
Chauncey had kept his eyes open when at
home he would know that there are about
five million American women of whom
the same thing might be said.
John Merriam, OF Rhode Island, called
himself a humanitarian and bought up a
Let of old horses, and turned them out to
pasture TO end their days in peace. He
had got about thirty, and h papers were
eulogizing him, when his wife got a di-
vorce on the grounds of extreme cruelty.
She proved that he almost starved her to
death.
Stanley's book I'm the German edition
has a preface addressed TO the publisher,
i'm which Stanley says he does not under
stand a word of German. that he is ia
tigued, and that he is about to be married
to n certain beautiful lady who will, he
hopes, bear him off to the happy regions
where married people are said to find
peace.
General Sherman is at Cape May. He
looks q great deal younger than his pic.
lures generally seen in public print do.
He has that firmness Of flesh and steadi-
ness of eye which are peculiar to a man
of 40. He, however, ook like q man OF
81, yet II is needless to state that he is
more thar a decade older. The only
thing about him which gives away his
age is his walk. He gets along slowly.