The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-03-19
TOPICS OF The TOWN.

returned from Butte this morning.
TOPICS OF THE TOWN.
The Joshers stiII at It-A Dog Attempts
Suicide-All Sorts.
MISsoULA, March 1s.-The joshers are
not dead yet in Missoula and they are
still playing their practical jokes. Last
evening half the town was called out by
the explosion of Chinese bomb on the
steps of the Hammond building. No dam
age was done but there was a big crowd
OF badly fooled people who wanted to
club the perpetrator of the joke. Yester-
day afternoon an unfortunate dog with a
tin can on his tail played a star engage
ment to a large audience on Higgins
avenue. These people seem determined
That the town shall not lose its reputation
as grand center of joshing, and if they
tall IN their object, il will not be for lack
of faithful endeavor.
The suicide mania has become preva-
lent. 1t seized big, black dog to-day and
no deliberately jumped into the river be-
low the bridges. He is ''bum' dog that
ioafs around West Front street and,
while everybody around there knows him,
he has no master. The swift current
OF the north channel swept him along I'M
| III ne was washed ashore on the lower
end OF the island. He crawled I'D on the
/ graveily beach and looked regretfully at
] the cold water and then trotted back 10
hls accustomed haunts, going by the way
OF the electric light works. lie will prob
ably try morphine next time.
Several of the local merchants had
shamrocks made of silk and worsted IN
their stores last week and these little
emblems of Ireland were distributed
everywhere. They were in general de-
mand and all sorts of persons have asked
Tor them. STANDARD reporter stood in
one of these stores for few minutes one
e.ening and watched the applicants for
the green. They were numerous and
each had a different way of asking for
what was wanted. A staid business man
came in and called the proprietor one
side as If he had some extensive purchase
TO make. The smile on tho merchants |
lace indicated that he thought so, any way.
But the dIgniiied gentleman simply whis- |
pered request for a shamrock leaf. sfor |
my boy, you know" The next applicant |
was long legged boy who said that the |
"old man" had sent him over for a sham
rock. After he had explained that he
meant his father by the "old man." he
got the shamrock, but his father didn't
see 1t. The fresh youth put it on his own
coat. Then came two school girls. They
were not ashamed to admit that they
wanted shamrocks and wanted them for
themselves. They got them. So the pro-
cession came and went until the supply of
trefoil leaves was exhausted. Only few
were honest enough TO admit that they
wanted the leaves for their own adorn-
ment.
Good advertising is always productive
of good results. That is demonstrated by
the fact that the company of itinerant
physicians. so-called, who were so hor-
oughly advertised here last month by
being arrested and sued and black
guarded, will return this week and locate
permanent establishment here. They
have reaped where their prosecutors |
sowed, but the crop has not been Just
what the latter anticipated. There are
more suckers TO the hundred in
than in any other town in the
United States. and these travelling doctors
seem to appreciate that fact. !
There is in the STANDARD office a fine c
'lackthorn stick that has attracted con-
iderable attention. 1t is the cane which v
vas carried for long time by Tommy" z
" villains, who was county treasurer. The . /.
tick was brought from Ireland by Mr.. J
md by him presented to j. L. Sween,.
rho in turn gave it to Mr.. Williams. After
lr. Williams death his wife gave il to n u y
'TANDARD man and it Is now a valued
ortlon OF the equipment of the Missoula
flee. a
The late lamented blizzard seems TO u
ave had no depressing effect upon the
pring flowers, for Sunday strollers YES
erday brought in from the streams huge $
andfuls of golden buttercups and pink
loss. Any Hover that can withstand the ST
milling force of last weeks weather is | m
nutled to respect and should have been | al
lade the state emblem instead of the
litter Root. bl
There was no sadder man in town yes ~
rday than julie Hartley. lie brought :
ick from Helena an able-5odied case of
journalism and was therefore Obliged TO
main in town while Frank West went
shing. The warm sunshine coaxed out
lot OF fishermen to-day and there were
the street early this morning several 4
'ntlemen clad in corduroys and rubbers IA
at did not look like Sunday clothes. IN
he worst of II is that most of them were iii
ccessful and under such conditions. II
ere is not much use to preach Sunday III
'servance. II
There are numerous gentlemen in town
day who will willingly subscribe to an
ddavit that Sunday observance may he
rried too far. These are the men who
CROOKED the fact that the BARRIERS no
lGer keep open house on Sunday as
suit OF tho recent enactment of the
lte legislature. These men who wore
ioby boards over sunday denounce the
" law as class legislation and call il
gotry and condemn the legislators who
; sed il. But the In rbnrs vvara al b,--.. -