The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-01-18
GENERAL AND PERSONAL.

An ~8O.year-old BRIDE. near laurel, Del,
was Nd bashful that .he refused tn he mar
ried until he lights were turned down.
The groom, who In only 25. darkened the
room, and Inc minister then tied the knot.
Edward Strauss, the brother of Johann.
the waltz writer. il coming to tins country
with his orchestra. He IL said tn he q
magnetic leader. He uses his how for a
baton or to stretch a note here and there
just to show his men how it ought to be
done.
King umbert of Italy is looking very
old. His hair and mustache have turned
white. The royal family of Italy IL not i'm
good condition. The king has bronchial
trouble, Queen Margaret in suffering from
t~oothache, and the prince of Naples, heir
apparent tn the throne, il i'm u state Of
mental and physical collapse.
~ recall" said DIR. Lyman Abbott at the
New England dinner i'm Philadelphia, IAN
old cartoon i'm the Harvard LampOOn,
which depicted two ladies looking at a
milestone near Boston, which was marked
Il I'm from Boston, One of the adies re-
marked to- her c~ompanion: 'What u
o epitaph-' I'm from Boston,"
Gladstone is so years old, but his mind
and body is in as fine condition as when
he was only three score. His voice il still
and ringing and he IL never thrown of his
guard. He is tall, slim and bony, has
been all his life fond of out-of-door exer-
else, and to this he attributes his vigorous
old age.
Queen victoia has expressed her will
ingness to accept a copy of Miss Woods
latest work on Nursing" Special per-
mission has to he obtained before u book
can he sent to her majesty. the vol
umne has to he bound by the royal book
binders i'm color and material to match
the other books i'm that part of the queens
library i'm which the new volumnc will be
placed.
The reduction from 10000 to GOOD in
the number of seals that will be allowed
to he annually taken i'm Alaska for their
skins under the new contract with the
government points to- a greater scarcity of
i'm the near future. Gentlemen
WHO postponed making their wives a
Christmas present of this sort of garment
until next year will thus he made to pay
the usual penalty of representation.
The 81. Louis be-Denaocrot has made
the surprising discovery that i'm order to
he eligible to jury duty i'm Missouri it Is
not necessary that the party summoned
should he p years of age. A gentleman
whose son, aged 20, was included i'm n list
of persons Eligible for jury duty, went to
Judge Withrow i'm his behalf, when the
judge said that il he was but . years of
Rencc he would he obliged to serve.
The president should without any fur
ther delay recognize the republic of Bra
zl i'm SO formal, emphatic and cordial n
manner as to repair i'm Sd far as is possible
the grave injustice our policy has already
and to serve notice upon the
governments of the world that the repub-
lie of the United States of North America
stands firmly by the republic of the United
States of Brazil.-Netc York Star.
The vatican library at Rome,c celebrated
for it's thousands of valuable books. has a
copy Of the Hebrew bible, for which Pope
Julius, i'm 1913, refused $125,OOO. The
purchasers were n syndicate of
rich Jews. They did not exactly offer
Julius $125, 600 for his biblical treasure;
they simply told him they would give it's
weight i'm gold. As the hook weighs 325
pounds, the offer they made il equivalent
to thef figures given.
The Chicago postofiice building is a relic
OF an era of ''boodleism." Within a year
after il was occupied the walls began to
settle and crack and there has been no
time since then when the labor of repair
crs was not needed to keep the wretched
structure from going to pieces. II has
cost the country millions of dollars, and il
is n question whether the money would
not have been more wisely expended in
tearing il down rather than propping 1t
up.