The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-01-19

invariably deatroys every let
ter he receives II IL contains u request fos
his autograph.
jackson, the negro puiiist, stands 6 feet
2 inches md his arms reach two inches
below his knees.
The rumor comes from the court al
Potsdam hat the Princess Maud. young
est daughter OF the Prince of Wales. h
shortly to he bethrothed to Duke Ernst
Gunther, OF Schles wig Holstcin-Sonder
ber-AugustenberR. The luke In the only
brother Of the German empress, and il d
years old.
Pierre Lorillard Of New York has pur-
chased n 3O-acre oak grove ON Inc Pean
plantation, the old homestead of Mai.
John Thomas. at Harris Neck, near Oar
len, Ga. Twenty hands are at work beau.
tifyinR the plat, where Mr.. Lorillard will
ut an early day erect cottages for himself
and guests and stables for his racers.
Mrs. II. Van Rensselaer, of New York de-
clares IL impossible to do any reading or
learn anything i'm society," And SO she
buys the hooks that please her fancy, col
lects manuscripts and magazines, has
them packed away. and when the strain
becomes unbearable goes abroad, takes "a
villa, and reads day and night to make up
for lost time.
Dumas fils has begun to publish a series
of hitherto unpublished nnaxims of his.
The first il as follows: "Vvhen life ap-
pears rs God has made IL there In NOTHING
left but to thank him for having insti.
tuted DEATH" The last il: ..woman, ac.
cordinR to the Bible, was the last thing
created by God. He must have made her
on n Saturday night, for the work shows
signs of fatigue"
~ am feeling greatly improved" said
United States Senator Evarts to a re-
porter. "Wbile my sight is not as keen
as IL used to be, il il I'm good condition
and answers every practical of q
person of my age. But the chief incon-
uy.sn "a Nv.e
must not read, and I must not write, and
must give up thinking; SO 1 will he COM
PEELED to turn to making speeches i'm the
senate"
Mr.. La~bouchere says of the late Marquis
de Caux, Adelina PATHS first
marquis was a pleasant gossip. He
had n trenchant wit, and i'm airing IL rom
trived not to pc ill-natured. His sayings
uttered often with his hands i'm his pock.
cts, fell from him i'm short, punRen SEN
fences. Laterly, the back of his neck and
cheeks grew disfigurativcly fat, and his
affairs did not prosper. Whist became
his chief resource. He was an attentive
player, with n good memoir and nearly
always won."
In the old vigilance IN days i'm
Montana, Colonel w. +. Sanders, now
one of the United States senators-eleet,
was n leader among the REGULATORS" On
one occasion he had for several days
hunted n desperate through the mount
aims without sleep, and arriving at one of
the mining towns, lay down to rest. A
meeting was i'm progress, and at
the close, learning that the young lawyer
was i'm town. the crowd adjourned to his
hotel i'm u body. Mr.. Sanders was awak-
ened about IL o'clock by n slap on the
In an instant a cooked revolver
was at the ear of the man who touched
him. Learning that the crowd outside
to hear from him he walked out
on to the balcony and delivered an hours
speech.
At Saint-Gall. Switzerland, Col. Martig-
noni has just died at the age Of 10. No
a. writer would dare to give to his
hero n career so varied as that Of old
Then he turned soldier and fought i'm the
of the Sonderbund. Al the close of
that struggle he rose to the bench and
served az a Judge. Then fortune deserted
him and he went down-hill until he be-
came n strcet-sweeper i'm New York and
afterward n waiter i'm n coffee and cake
saloon. Soon afterward he managed to
get to California, where he became a
miner. Having been cured OF the gold
army, and served under the English col
ors i'm the Crimean war;. AT the end Of
that difficulty he went to the Argentine
Republic. There again fortune deserted
him and in q few yenrs he returned to
Europe. He labored as a railroa . con-
ductor, a policeman, and n town clerk
and at last settled down to a quiet life I'm
his native country. His final request was
original and easily granted. II was that
nobody except the undertaken and his
should attend his funeral.
ANDERSON 4 CRUTHERS,