The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-02-04
MEN AND mi

Mrs. Mary Livermore In reputed to he
worth e1OO,OOO, the result of her lectures.
Mr.. Howells, during his editorship of
the Atlantic Monthly, declined one of his
own contributions. Is there another i'm
stance on record Of a similar feat of edi-
torial self-denial?
Nathan Frank of 81. Louis is one OF the
new members of congress-, and i'm his
Made speech recently he alluded to
Christopher Columbus as the gentleman
who discovered America.
Justice Lamar thinks that Justice Mat
thews died from Overwork and apprehends
that other Justices will break down unless
the supreme court can he relieved from
some of the strain tn which IL IL constant
ly subjected.
Marshall p. Wilder, the dwarf humorist,
is under engagement to Mrs. Cornelius
Vanderbilt to visit all the New York hos-
pitfalls and play Jester to the patients. In
this manner many Of the sick are laughed
back to health and happiness.
The Rev. DIR. Chester. pastor of the
Metropolitan Presbyterian church, Capt.
tai hill, Washington, ID. C., announced to
his congregation that Samuel j. Randall
and Mrs. Randall had been admitted to
membership i'm the church.
Prince and Princess Hatfield will live
i'm New York city I'm the great house which
MIR. G.. p. Huntington Is to build on Fifth
avenue. 1t in stipulated by Miss Hunting
tOi1 t1ot she SDOuIu I'VE WIN her parents
and the new house is being constructed
accordingly.
Oscar =. Strauss, who was Mr.. Cleve-
lands minister to the sublime porte, is
one of the most popular Hebrews in New
York. His writings on Turkey and the
Turks are said to be piquant. He is one
of the seven out of ten foreign ministers
who write when they come home.
DIR. Oliver Wendell Holmes and John G..
Whittier are optimistic old men. The
former i'm prose and the latter i'm poetry
have recently given voice tn their ideas of
old age. Their checrfulness il a rebuke
to aged Europeans of note who seem
to grow rabbed as they approach the end
of ife.
Congressman Flower, who is on the
worlds fair committee, eight years ago
defeated William Waldorf Aston for
membership i'm the lower national house.
He is a wealthy man, and is said to have
spent $4,000 OH the contest. Young Aston
found consolation for political defeat in
writing good novels.
The prince of Naples, who is making u
tour around the world, is a reserved, rath-
err stiff young fellow of ~, whose natural
~ delicate constitution has not been inn
proved by constant application to his
studies, unrelieved by an athletic recrea-
ton whatever. His tastes are those of a
scholar and bookworm, his ~favorite hobby
being the collection of medals, coins and
old arms. He fulfills his military duties
as rigidly and punctually as "a German,
and rarely shows surprise or expresses
his feelings.
The Rev. Robert Collyer said recently
'Not many men know how to behave
when they give a minister his fee for mar
rying them. 1t seems to embarrass them
for some reason. l remember once out in
ndian that a man whom 1 had just uni
ted i'm marriage to n very comely young
woman, gave me so for the fee. As he
did SO he blushed and Then
he said with perfect candor: Il would like
to give you more, doctor. and-and i will
next time.' His bride him.
and looked at him i'm a queer way, hut he
evidently didn't realize what he had said
i'm his embarrassment.