The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-11-25
FAMOUS OR OTHERWISE.


James Scott, who has just died In
Mortified, Mimi, was 103 years old.
Perhaps the best whist player in Lon
don is Mr.. Villiers, father Of the house
of commons
Lord Aberdeen is said to be making
money out Of his fruit and hop farm in
British Columbia.
At his last recital In London this year
Paderewski was paid s5,4s5 as his share
OF the receipts.
Judge r. II. Cochran of Toledo has
been elected president of the Ohio state
board of commerce.
The late George L. Randige left $50. 900
to the city of Boston to be used to give
excursions to the poor.
The Earl of Derby. who made a sue
cessful governor general of Canada, has
accepted the mayoralty of Liverpool.
The source of the rumor that Theodore
Roosevelt is writing History Of Crime
In New York. cannot be traced.
NJ. Canon-Berg, a Swiss, whose home Is
now in Paris, weighs $50 pounds-proba-
bly, the heaviest man in the world.
II. b, Peck of Ansonia, Conn.,, has an
orange which adorned the banquet table
on his wedding day. q years ago.
Professor Dyche, the distinguished
naturalist, is entirely self-taught. When
10 years old he had not yet learned the
alphabet.
Walter Besant is authority for the
statement that there are so novelists in
England who have incomes of 5000 a
year or over.
Mark Twain is making a big success on
his lecturing tour of the world. In Aus
tralia his reception has been unusually
enthusiastic.
Frederick Harrison, who Is writing a
life of William the Silent, has gone to
The Hague to get further materials for
his work on the spot.
c. NJ Loring of Minneapolis, considered
to be financially one of the solid men of
the Northwest, has made an assignment.
Two years ago he was worth 100000.
Charles Phillips. a nephew of Wendell
Phillips, is the chef of a restaurant in
Portland, Ore. He is a graduate of the
, kitchen of the Parker house, Boston.
John ID. Rockefeller has presented 100
barrels of apples to various charity in
situations in New York city. The apples
all come from his orchard at Tarrytown.
Mayor Davis of Kansas City, having
neglected to pay the tax on his house for
last year, discovered to his surprise the
other day that the property had been
sold to satisfy the claim.
Judge Emory Speer of Georgia will pre-
side as one of the judges of the federal
court of appeals in New Orleans during
the last two weeks in November and the
first two weeks in December.
e Charles A. Dana is an enthusiast In ar
Horticulture and his country place on the
north shore of Long Island is a tree mu-
scum which contains almost every spe-
cies which will flourish in this latitude.
Il DIR. Max Nordau is a good deal of a
hermit socially in Paris. In his profess
sional capacity he knows numbers OF peo-
pie, but his visiting list is restricted to
only half a dozen old friends. and his life
is quiet and uneventful.
Henry Howe Of the Irving company has
Just celebrated his S4th birthday and he
is in active stage harness yet. He plays
old men with as much decision and firm
ness as he did years ago, and as many do
now.
Captain Virgins, the gallant salt who
demonstrated a few years ago that the
Kara sea was navigable for commercial
purposes and lost a vessel last year in
performing the same feat, was successful
this year under adverse circumstances.
w. r. Lawson publishes an article in
the Bankers Magazine of London. in
which he expresses anxiety with regard
to the enormous output of gold from
South Africa and other fields. He thinks
It will disturb financial conditions, and
asks: what is to be done with this COM
ing flood of gold?"
Professor Fuertes of the College OF
Civil Engineering of Cornell university, is
reported to have received the largest fee,
perhaps, ever paid to an engineer-s120.
000 This for services in planning a sys-
tenn of sanitation for the city of Santos.
Brazil.