The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-06-17
MELANCE.

In olden times the flowing beard
Was reyerenced by the youthful mind,
But now, alas! tits scorned and jeered,
And glibly coupled with the wind,
-Tsrre Haute Express.
Al a bear and bull fight In San Diego
county, California, the bear had every
thing Its own way, and three bulls were
killed.
Gen. W. w. Loring, Florida's favorite
warrior, lies buried in st. Augustine with
no headstone to mark his last resting
place.
Senator Edmunds is reported to make
$4,000 a year by his law practice. Some of
his arguments have brought him lei dol
lars n word.
Information gathered in London is said
to show that cats catch d~iptheria from hui
man patients and carry the disease to
healthy persons.
A Michigan farmer turned a $500 colt
into a field surrounded by a barbed wire
fence. The colt ran into the fence, sew
cred its jugular vein and bled to death.
Judge Gornto, Of Perry, Fla, has a
camphor tree on his place. The cold has
not injured il in the least, and he believes
the trees can be successfully raised.
"Vyhy did you laugh at that aimless at
tempt at a joke? 2" "On account of the
man who essayed it," "Who is III ."
MY employer."-Chicogo Times.
The agricultural college professors
have figured il out that two little SPAR
rows in ten years will produce an ances-
try of 275, ZIG, 9s3,GOs birds. Well. that
isn't more than a bird or two out of the
way at most.
Foolscap is "A corruption of the Italian
folio-capo, n folio-sized sheet. The error
must have been very ancient, az the
watermark of this sort of paper from the
thirteenth to the seventeenth century vas
a fools head with a cap and bells.
A New York lady thinks that any gen.
tleman, when called upon, will quickly
throw "A man out of n horse-car who is
two ''previous' with a lady passenger.
But the lady should not forget that some
men are much larger and stronger than
others.
Senator Hearst's Washington house
contains seventy rooms. So far $4,000
has been spent in furnishing il, and this
is said TO he only a beginning. Thirty
years ago the senator occupied an attic
room in a Missouri farmhouse, where he
was working for his board.
An Ann Arbor, Mich, man has secured
a divorce from his wife because she re-
fused to sew on buttons. To guard against
accidents he had added in the bill of COM
plant something about being pelted with
fiat irons, fed on diet of bread and milk
and other minor offenses.
Farming operations in the vicinity of
Egypt, Miss, are greatly retarded by
craw-flsh, which burrow In the fields mt
keep the surface broken and wet. They
bore to a depth OF two or three feet, SO
that the hogs cannot get at them, else they
would not live to do much damage.
An order has been issued at the press
censor's department in st. Petersburg
that no kilograms can he either received
or sent by the papers between six i'm the
evening and eight i'm the morning. The
bureau object 10 remain on duty at night
time.
A Gallitzin, Pa. man recently bought n
pair of mules in Clarified county for S1A0
| and discovered while taking them home
that one of them had n plaster of paris
hoof-the false work coming of and
sticking in the mud. He returned the
mules md demanded his money back. but
he didn't get il.
A quick-ilring gun, the invention of MIR.
Thronsen, was tested recently at Fin
spong, i'm Sweden. The results showed
that ten shots can be fired within twenty
five seconds, which is twenty-four shots n
minute. All the shots were true and hit
the target within a space of nine inches
LONG and six inches wide.