The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-05-08

ess Olga, the Duke of Leuchtenberg. the
Grand Duchess of Mecklenberg-Schwe
and several others.
Jerome K. Jerome admits that the pres
ent political currents and undercurrents
in England are puzzling him. Il want to
be a good conservative" he says, with
no particular opinion of my own, but this
twirling about makes me giddy. Am I ex-
pected to howl whenever the German en-
peror's name is mentioned in a music hall
and regard that monarch as the bitterext
foe of my country, or am / to cheer mad
ly for him as one of our stanchest allies?
Am / to whistle when the tri-color APP
pears in the Olhambra ballet. or am / to
jeer? / wish to be a patriotic citizen. but
this thing is becoming difficult"
About NJ. Berthelot. who had to resign
as minister of foreign affairs as soon as
England planned it's Soudan campaign.
Edmond Lepelletier writes: II Travelled
with him and Renan in Brittany. / as
sure you that the naivete. the incompe-
tency and the absolute practical incapac-
ity of this good chemist appeared at ev-
cry step. He lost his room in the hotel.
he went out at stations on the wrong
side of the railway track. missed trains.
made everybody laugh at his absent-
mindedness. Just as the German school,
masters fancy they were the men who
defeated France, French savants imagine
they are the men who have restored the
republic" f
Governor Stone of Missouri has APP
pointed Mrs. Alexander II. Kayser cap
tain general of the commonwealth" 1t is
explained that the unique appointment is
the result of her participation in the in
terstate drill at the fair grounds last July.
She was sponsor for the Kansas City
zouaves and devoted herself enthusiastic
cally to the service of the soldiers. Mr..
md Mrc II an
one of his recent visits-to st. Louis, when
Mrs. Kayser in a bantering way asked
him about her appointment. Governor
Stone replied that he had not forgotten
her, and the commission, signed by the
governor. with the seal of the state upon
it, has been received.
Roman Catholics have not been slow to
avail themselves of their privilege OF be-
coming graduates at Oxford and CAM
bridge. The oxford Hebdomadal council
has granted a license to Rev. r. F.
Clarke, s. j., to open a private hail.
whereit is intended to send a small num-
Der of Jesuit divines after they have gone
through their novitiate at Manresa.
Father Clarke, who was formerly a fell
low of st. Johns college, will temporarily
take charge of this house At Cambridge
the Baron Won Hugel has been largely in
strumental in preparing the way for such
of the Benedctine novices and clerical
students from st. Edmud's, Ware, as de-
sire to undertake the university course,
but up to the present no private resaSence
like that at oxford has been secured
The English newspaper correspond
ents who are to attend the cars coro-
nation have to supply the Russian au-
thorities with three separate photo
graphs of themselves
The interest ON money is so high in
Siam that when man once gets in
debt the most he can possibly hope for
by the hardest kind of work is to pay
the interest on what he owes.
Leprosy seems to have broken out in
the Russian Baltic provinces with
something of the virulence il had In
the middle ages. Several persons are
said to be afflicted with the disease,
and the Livonian diet has just taken
measures for isolating them at the cost
of the state.
There were 1906 students in attend
ance at Russian universities at the be-
ginning of the year, divided as follows:
Moscow, 3,SSS: ST Petersburg, 2625:
Kiev, 2,244; Helsingfors, in Finland.
1875; Dorpat, in Livonia, 1.654; War
saw, 1885; Kharkey, 1900; Kazan, S25;
Odessa, 555; and Tomsk, in Siberia
405.
Italian fruit sellers in Danbury,
Con-, have been summing blind tigers
behind their peanut roasters and doing
a big Sunday business in the Illicit
selling of beer and other prohibited
beverages. Last Sunday the stalls
were raided and seven barrels of hard
cider and several cases of beer collect
ed by the police.
DR.. Arthur Macdonald, head of the
psyche genealogical department of the
natural bureau of education in Wash
ington, has been refused permission to
use a kymographion to ascertain the
emotions of Holmes, the convicted
murderer. as he goes on the gallows.
The kymographion is an instrument
for recording emotions in visible lines.