The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1892-12-06
MEN AND WOMEN.

Considering that Speaker Reed was 81
years old last week il is strange he does
not know any better.
Helen Dauvray says: "Petticoats are
good enough for woman" and with one
accord the men Of America say amen.
Mr.. Cleveland during his visit to Wash.
ington last week entertained at dinner
Justice Lamar and and Thomas j..
Semmes.
Joe Cannon says the people OF his dis
trict can neither be bought, bribed nor
bullied. Having arrived at this conclu-
sion IL is expected that Mr.. Cannon will
speedily withdraw.
Senator Morrill, OF Vermont is the third
man who has been elected for fifth term
in the United States senate. The other
two were Benton OF Missouri and An
thony Of Rhode Island.
Governor Waterman OF California, at
the expiration Of his term OF Office this
winter expects 70 make his home in the
southern part Of the state, where his min
ing and agricultural intests lie.
Mrs. Oscar Wilde Is described rs a
plainly dressed little woman with no dis
tinguishing graces and her only approach
TO estheticism is her enormous Gainsbor-
ough hats, heavy with dropping feathers.
Francis Parkman, the historian, has
taken to gardening, and is as successful
at Il as was Evelyn. He is particularly
fond Of roses. He is writing again, hav-
ing in n great measure recovered his
health.
Mrs. Julia c. R. Dorr recently wrenched
her left arm so badly in fall as to cause
axiety as TO its healing. The authoress is
now, however, rallying from the accident,
and will pick up the pen once more for
literary work.
President Lincoln appointed more JUS
tices OF the supreme court than any other
executive. They were, Swayne, Davis
and Miller in lsG2, Field In 1853, and Chase
to succeed Roger b. Taney in 1864. All
OF these except Judge Field are dead.
One Of the clerks In the navy pay Office
in San Francisco is Col. Antonio Fran
cisco Gomez. He is a Parsee, and when
in India his name was Rustumjec Conjee.
His ancestors erected some of the most
magnificent palaces Of ancient India.
Miss Alice Longfcllow, daughter of
the poet, has become an expert amateur
photographer and has taken a number of
especially fine storm pictures at points
along the Massachusetts, coast TO illus
trate book Of sea songs soon TO be is.
sued.
BONANZA Floods wealth has been
guessed AT all the way from Si0,000,O00 %
s25,0o0,0O0. The executors Of the will
have just settled accounts with the court
and asked to be discharged. The total
value Of the estate was found to be s., ,23O,-
i37.
Mr.. and Mrs. p. Il. Barnum have
changed their minds, at least for the pres.
ent, about going TO Japan. and will return
TO the Bridgeport home in few days.
They are now in Denver, Col. They still
intend 10 go TO Japan some time, how
ever.
DIR. Julia Brink. q medical writer OF
some note is the first woman to be hon.
ored by receiving from the British med.
ical association OF London $50 10 defray
the expense Of publishing physiological
treatise on the nutrition Of the muscles.
II is said that Senator Ingalls, never
'igns note or gives mortgage. He
planks down the cash for everything he
gets, whether il calls for % cents or &. 900
IL is claimed that he can put his hand on
more ready money than any man in Kan,
sas.
Rev. DR.. Joseph Parker of London Is
making crusade against the old method
Of worship and exortation. He says tha,
preaching is no longer an effective instru
ment Of the gospel. Preachers, he thinks
are living in a FOOLS paradise, drivclinu
theology instead of dealing directly with
the daily lie Of the people.
Willie Winter. the wandering minstrel
from Manhattan, is stirred by the bells OF
Stratford to indite few soulful verses In
which he refers 10 "my Shakespeare y
II shows that Willie does not hold spite
because Shakespeare, taking in all times
persons aud things In his prophetic Wis
ion, referred, somewhat urgently, 20 "ths
Winter Of our discontent'-meaning, al