The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-02-08

senator anf has given $4,000 To
Susan b. Anthony for the benefit OF the
woman suffrage cause. Part of the money
will he used tn print and distribute 5000
men will vote next fall Oh the question of
women's light to vote.
Justice Brewer is the iembe
of the United States supreme court. both
in years and point of service. He is only
80. The chief Justice and Justice Harlan
are 81. Justice Lamar is 81, and Justice
Blatciford is five years his senior. Miller
and Field are the same age, "A, and Brad
ley Is the Ncstor of the court, having lived
.. years.
Charles villicrs is now the oldest mem-
bcr of the English house of He
il ~ years old and has sat continuously
for W~olverlhampton since ISIS. He was
associated with Golden and Bright i'm the
reform agitation. O'Gorrnan, Mahon and
Gladstone entered the house before VIII
liers. hut there have been breaks in their
service.
"Having been for many years i'm the
habit of working from II to l6 hours "a day
myself l should personally favor the re-
dnctiOn,'' writes Senate Ingalls, to the
executive council of the American Fedora
his views on the eiRht-hour law. And now
the committee is trying to figure out what
the senator was driving ut.
Marshal MacMahon, ex-presIdent of
France. has completed his but
they will not he given to the public. He
intends To have only six copies printed
one for himself. one for his wife, one for
each of his three sons. and one for his
daughter. He has received fiattering Of
fers from publishers. but refuses to allow
his work tai receive general circulation.
Nellie Patterson, of Mount Carmel, is
the only woman machinist i'm
cut. She is u handsome girl. bright-eyed,
quick i'm action and very popular. She is
employed by the Mount Carmel Belt COM
pan and IL IA full-fiedged n~iachinist, hav-
ing served her full time at the trade and
mastered il i'm all its details. She earns A,
mans wages and is in love with her work.
Al first she had to meet with jealousy
from her fe~llow-workers, but her pleasant
ways have made her a general favorite.
Mrs. Stephen Danforth has just died at
Manchester, Mass. aged 1O1. She had
smoked from childhood until her death.
She acted asa terrible example, for an
anti tobacco league that was formed i'm
her town i'm 1850, sitting on the platform
and pulling her pipe while the lecturer
descanted on the horrors of tobacco and
the certain death of it's slaves. Since then
the anti tobacco league has played the
terrible example," for Mrs. Danforth. by
perishing untimely. while she has gone
putting along for 40 years.
Nathaniel Hawthorne did not like poll
ticians. He once wrote tn u friend: ~ do
ue.es' All oinces-aii' at least. that are
held ON n political tenure, and l want
nothing tai do with politicians. Their
hearts withcr away and dry out of their
bodies. Their conciences are turned TO
India rubber or to some substance as
black as that and which will stretch as
much. One thing, il no more. l have
gained by my custom house experience
to know IA politician. II is a knowledge
which no previous thought or power Of
sympathy could have taught me. because
the animal, ar machine rather, is not in
nature"