The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1896-04-21
R. Y. Street is on the sick list.

the liberty head without necktie
or collar, and all the strange
things that to us seem so new;
the wide spreading eagle, the ar
rows below it, the stars and the
words with the strange things
they tell; the coin of my fathers,
we're glad that we know it, for
some time or other twill come in
right well-the spread eagle dol
lar, the star spangled dollar, the
old silver dollar that we all love
so well--Ex.
Frank w. Beane, Idaho memb-
er of the National Democratic
Committee and ex-special agent
of the treasury department, says
the real reason of his dismissal
from the service of the govern
ment was because the admins
tration could not handle him.
The goldbug president and his
goldbug advisers had labored
under the impression that they
had bought him with the little
position of special agent. They
had discovered, however, that he
would not follow their dictation
with respect to silver, and he
was thereupon dismissed--Key-
stone.
Under the head of ''Her Name
is Pants the Stockton Mail says
that comely Miss of twenty
three summers ind winters ap-
piled at the County Clerks Office
recently for marriage license,
produced 81 from the depths of
her bloomers in payment thereof,
and Immediately led to the altar
a timid young man named Fred
Pants, thereby completing a pair
of pants. 1t is the earnest wish
of all that these pants will not
bag at the knees or wear out in
the place most used, and that life
will hold nothing but Joy and
prosperity for the young lady
who has the nerve to so aggres-
sively exercise her leap year pre-
rogative.
The greatest human monstros-
Iity now living perhaps is the
freak referred to as the ''twins
of Lacona." They, or it, has
one body, two legs, two heads
and four arms. The freak is
now well along towards its ma
ljority, having been born on July
4, 1865. In Italy, where the
monstrosity was born, it is well
known in the annals of the cur
ious and wonderful In nature as
the Tecci brothers. One head of
the monstrosity is of fair com
plexion, resembling the mother.
The blonde head speaks Italian
and French. The other head is
covered with black hair and has
a dark, swarthy complexion. II
speaks German and English.
The Madison (Mo.) Democratic
county convention which met al
Frederictown last week offered
the following humorous resolu.
ton relative to Mr.. Cleveland:
ReSOlUed, That we congratulate
our weighty Chief Executive,
Hon. Grover Cleveland, upon his
newly acquired reputation as q
successful duck hunter, and thai
we greatly regret that he has
not given more time to wasine
an unsparing war upon the flocks
of threatening and dangerous
mallardS, sprig tails and canvas
backs, and less time to co-operat
ing with foreign money lenders
for increasing the bonded indebt-
edness of an already over burd
ened people by additional issue
of erest-bearing bonds payable
only in gold.
The resolution was taken ur
seriously and unanimously pass
ed after some stirring speeches
denunciatory of Cleveland's fin
ancial policy.
The glamour and romance an6
the deviltry of the western min.
ing camp are fast fading into
history. The rip roaring scenes
that inspired Bret Harte's ballad:
viii soon. like the Argonauts, be
but memories of a golden dream,
/ when all men were rich, when
fortunes were made and lost anc
regained in day. when life was
. cheap and mining communities
were ruled by savage chivalry,
vigilantes and ''red-eye." The
tenderfoot who, from histories oi
, the earlier days in the west, has
gained the impression that min
ing camp is made up chiefly o.
dance halls, sombreros aud six
shooters, and that life is one luric
round of killings. hangings, dis
css,a ~, apI Isc0r5ar .C xou- nc