The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-01-05
STAND TOPICS,

STANDARD TOPICS.
The "Cold Day. theatrical has
encountered it's namesake i'm Minnesota,
and the members are now warming them
selves by pedestrian exercise.
Some Montana papers are having n
good deal to say about the Power behind
he throne. 1t il n only n one-horsc
Power, but il seems to- be able to run the
machine.
Philadelphia paper says that Emily
Rigl 'simply dashes On n hit of powder
and is ready for the stage" That sort
of thing may do i'm Philadelphia, but il
would never be allowed out here. not
even i'm Butte.
Judge Gresham says that the standard
of excellence in the legal profession is
not as high as il was twenty-five years
ago. The Judge probably speaks for Chi
cago. He should remember that these
are trying times for the lawyers of that
city.
1--WE note with pleasure says the
Brooklyn Times, 1.-The interesting fact that
n lady won the hog guessing match at
Cold Spring Harbor Saturday afternoon.
Long Island women must have good judg-
ment. for luck doesn't count at n hog
guessing"
We have great respect for the late
Henry Grady. and therefore We do not be-
lieve that his spirit, il il is cognizant of
the fact, countenanccs the story that is
going the rounds of the press, to the
effect that at the time of the Charleston
earthquake lace reached the striker city at
midnight and by = o'clock the next morn
ing had "a report eight columns long OH
file i'm the. telegraph office for transmits
sion to his paper. Mr.. Grady is probably
working OH space at the present time, but
we doubt IL he is so rapid as all that.
Genuine influenza, it appears, some
tt,ao IN as m nrins mil s,nSf sVfrf.,-
nate form. No one will he SO rash as to
intimate that Edwin +. Ide. the noted
Brooklyn prohibitionist. has anything but
the real Russian disorder when his
friends assert that this is the only disease
from which he is suffering. But Mr.. Idle
has had It very bad. 1t came to him in
an acute form. II made him dclirious.
His brain rceled. The principles of pro-
hibition vanished from his memory. He
no longer dreamed that he was holding
vast audiences spell-bound by the magic
of his eloquence. No more did his imaHi-
nation glow with rosy visions of
the complete success of the third
party, the brilliant Inauguration OF q pro-
hibition president, and the complete sup
PRECISION of the rum evil i'm every state of
the union. On the contrary his fancy
took flight i'm other directions. He saw, il
is said, Shiny serpcnts crawling over the
bed, coilinH themselves Enthusiastically
around the bed posts, running out their
forked tongues and kissing i'm his face with
diabolical familiarity, until like Francisco
and Bernardo he was distilled almost tn
jelly with the act of fear. While in this
dcplorablc condition lac conceived the
idea of escaping from the reptiles by the
simple process of rising from bed and
fleeing into the street. This project he at
once proceeded tn put into execution and,
the emergency being SO great, he did not
stop to don the attire usually worn 10y gem
tlemen i'm public. Indeed, lac ran out of
the house and started down the street, APP
peiring in "a garb very much like that af'
fected 10y Adam before he had become
acquainted with the possible uses of fig
leaves. But although his absolute free
dom from the burdensorne usagcs of soci
ETY. lent amazing speed and extraordinary
agility to his untrammclcd limbs ;aIthougt
he was still further spurrstl To intenses
sxertion by "a very large and constantly
increasing assemblagc of the dogs al
Brooklyn, tn whom the heels Of the ap
partition seemed tn possess "A most absorb
ing interest; although in addition to the
dogs there suddenly collected from al
parts of the city "a monster procession al
small boys, i'm whom the spectacle wax
cned ~ lively sense of exhIlaration
which found vent i'm turnnltuoul
applause; although Mr.. Idle, in "A word
, ran with the fierce and blind rapi,iity of
> man cn~deavoring to- reach second nhcas
of the ball, still this good prohibitonis
/ could not get out of the South America
Jungle with it's wild beasts and Ur..a
snakes, i'm which his disor,i.r,d braiI
forced him To- believe lac was "A wandercr
. OF course, Mr.. Idle WAS captured iu du
: time, aud put back to bed, and skillfu
I physicians and ls-bod nurses wcr
hired to attend him. IL il gratifying &
learn from the doctors that his condition
is not really serious. and that his r,stora
ton to health and reason IL only "A quc-
ton of time. We are rcjoiccd tn he AS
suret 10y scientific authority that thcrs. ar
: no complications along with tho disease
Mr.. Idle has the influenza Ia it, simo