The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-06-23
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Henry Irving is expected to inaugurate
the new private theater which Mime. Patti
has built at ~Graig-y-Nos Castle. .
The author of "A Fools Errand, "Judge
A. w. Tourgee, has been given "a pension
at the rate Of 81 a month from 1863 to
date.
The dowager empress of China employs
an American physician. She must be a
direct descendant Of the wise C~onfucius.
Mrs. Rhoda Swayne, aged lOl years,
at Owatonne, Minn., on Sunday last.
She was a cousin OF the late Gen. Robert
l.. Lee.
Lord Brassey and lord Grosvenor,
backed by n syndicate, will turn Brussels
into a seaport by building a canal and
three immense basins large enough to
admit ships of 1000 tons.
Sheik Abdulla Mustapha is the name of
Queen Victoria's Mohammedan cook. 5.
A. NJ. has recently been in bad health,
and the queen mi him to Bombay to rest
and visit a favorite doctor.
Rev. Virgil Maxey. n Baptist minister
and a nephew of ex-United States senator
Maxey of Texas, is going to try the exper-
iment of elevating the stage by acting six
evenings in the week and preaching on
Sunday.
The Hon. Proctor Knott has found a
substitute for prohibition. He says: "In
the olden days, women were not allowed
To drink wine, n to prove that they had
not been drinking il they kissed every
body they met. This would be better
than prohibition"
George Nj. Pullman, of palace car fame,
wears n prominent white poatee. and
dresses WIN studied heatness, but with
out the slightest tinge OF foppery. His
summer palace on the ST. Lawrence Is
ana Islands.
Senator Hearst's Washington house
contains 20 rooms. So far $1,000 has
been spent in furnishing IL, and this is
said to be only a beginning. Thirty years
ago the senator occupied an attic room in
a Missouri farm house, where he was
working Tor ms board.
King Humbert is a prudent monarch,
and does well To be so, i'm the present
state of the kingdoms finances. Last
year the civil list for the household was
l5,350,00O francs, and the king spent 15.-
3i9,99 francs 81 centimes, leaving a cent
and t~hrce-quarters to his credit for the
$3.50
Verdi, who has been passing nine
months in the Doria palace at Geneva. Is
said TO he in excellent health, his eyes
full of fire and his beard white n How
ing. When asked IL "othello" was to be
his last work, he said: 81 do not know:
just o l feel tired. But who can tell
what l may DO YETI the inspiration
comes To me-.
Stumm Is the iron king of Germany.
tie owns enormous boundaries at Neunk-
irchen, where over 5000 men are en-
ployed. None OF his workmen may get
married., chang their place of residence
or join a society without his permission.
He gives them good advice In regard to
investments ana aids them In many ways.
He Is a membe OF the relchstag n was
ennobled by haiser frederich.
The Empress Frederick's visit To Greece
Is being looked forward to with much i'm
terest by the population. as she has signi-
fled her intention OF travelling all through
the Hellas. IL is also thought that the
crown prince and princess OF Greece will
accompany her on this tour, more espec-
tally as the prince has never visited a
large part OF the eountr Trough which
the empress will pass.