The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-02-29
MEN AND MATTERS.

Prince Murats nephew is to be exam
ined for admission at the Saumer Cavalry
school He is a quartermaster OF dragons
at Anglers. and took part in the NADIA
gascar campaign.
Joseph Hatton, the English journalist,
novelist and dramatist. is one of the
most earnest supporters of the Monroe
doctrine in London. He has travelled ex-
tensively in this country, is well acquaint-
ed with literary and political circles, and
avails himself of every opportunity to in
dorse Americas contention in the Ven
ezuelan affair.
Sylvester Dixon, the grain king of
Southern Kansas, will start a train of 40
cars of corn from Wichita for st. Louis.
The train will be deliberately decorated,
and I'm addition to carrying a brass band
will carry 40 Mckinley boomers and ora
tors TO represent 40 of the corn-growing
counties of Central and Western Kansas.
Congressman Blue of Kansas prides
himself on his patriotism, and never APP
pears in the house without carrying the
national colors on his person. His under
wear is red. and a fringe of that color is
always visible under his cuffs: his necktie
is white, and his name supplies the third
element in the tricolor composition-red,
white and blue.
John p. Swoope of Huntington county,
Pennsylvania, made a record as a trapper
during last year that has never been
equaled in the state. He collected $60750
in bounties for scalps of animals killed in
the county during the year. This sum
represents not far from ], 900 animals of
all sorts. He received more than half of
the bounties paid by the county.
One popularity of Max Nordau's manu-
script is it's exceeding fineness; some
times 1t is almost microscopical. He
sends all his manuscript as IL is written
off to the printers and has IL sent back
Al l. Nh..
Paradoxes," which he wrote in 1854, is
printed volume of Ala pages. The manu-
script is contained in 65 pages!
The men who have seen Sir Walter
Scott must now be getting few. John
Usher of Stordig, who died the other day,
used to tell with no small pride that on
one occasion, when Sir Walter was a Wis
itor at Toftfield, his birthplace. he had
sat on the great novelist's knee, and had
sung several songs, for which he was re-
warded by Sir Walter with the present
of a white pony.
1t is one of the ironies of fate that ex-
Congressman Deuster of Wisconsin, who
served for two terms with distinguished
ability on the house foreign affairs COM
mittee and contributed largely during
that time to the foreign relations of the
government was compelled under the
new department regulations to pass a
rigid examination for his fitness to I'LL the
consulate at Crefeld, Germany, to which
he was appointed a few days ago.
The son of the late Paul Verlaine has
accounted for his absence from his ia,
theirs funeral by explaining that he is the
victim of periodical spells of hypnotic
sleep, which last four or five days, and
which are due to the still active infiu-
ence of a mesmerist with whom he be-
came acquainted in Algeria. One of these
spells" it appears, fell upon him just
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Paris to attend his fathers obsequies.
There is considerable concern in Boston
about the future of James Russell Low
ellis magnificent old home at Cambridge, |
at the gateway of Mount Auburn ceme- |
terry. The house is the property of the |
poets daughter, but the land adjoining
IL is in the hands of real estate agents,
and tho fine estate will soon be cut up |
into building lots unless the property is
rescued. The house is an old tory man |
SION, one of the few still standing in ex- |
cellent condition in Cambridge.
w. B. Taylor of Omaha. for five years |
private secretary to General Logan DUR |
Ing his senatorial career and clerk of the |
committee, is now interested in |
western irrigation matters and In fox |
raising on a large scale in Alaska He |
organized the company that first under |
took the propagation of blue and silver |
gray foxes for the European fur market. |
The company now has five Islands in |
Alaska under lease from the govern |
ment. where these animals are domesti- |
Gated for their fur.
W. l.. McGavock of Pulaski City. Va, |
sends to the New York sun some inter- !
esting facts about the tall men of his |
district. William o. Moore of Tazewell |
county is 23 years old and feet inches |
high. Robert Jennings is rs years old,
and also feet inches tall. Lemuel c. |
Brooks is feet inches tall, and William
Jones is feet inches. There are other
men In Tazewell county almost as tall.
Mr. McGavock himself stands feet ia
inches. and his eldest brother is equally
tall. Another brother stands feet 6
inches. There never was a man in the
history OF the family less than feet in
height, and the record goes back six gen.
erations. There are other men near Pu-
ask City as tall as the McGavocks, while
;ix-footers are commonplace folk in that
region.