The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-03-18
MEN AND MATTERS.

Senator Hoar says that Secretary Oh
| ney is a good, solid, old-fashioned Mas
/ sachusetts Yankee"
Max Nordau's The Paradoxes," a vol
ume of Ala pages. was written on IS pages
| of paper.
Dr. Sheepshanks, bishop of Norwich, Is
| an enthusiastic cyclist, and even rides on
| Sunday from one part of his diocese to
| another
In a biographical sketch of her father.
| the poet Miss Alice Longfellow says that
an unpaid bill weighed on him like a
| nightmare.
Hannis Taylor, American minister to
| SPAIN is an Albanian who is not easily
| alarmed at hostile demonstrations. he is
a cool, determined man.
| The late William Boyne of England
| spent upward of 60 years in collecting
more than $4,000 coins. These are all to
be sold at Southeby's in two patches.
Rosa Bonheur has just finished large
canvas representing a combat between two
stations. Rosa Bonheur is now "A and has
| to wear glasses when she paints.
Gossip" has not excited much enthusi-
asm among the London critics, but some
of them think that Mrs. Langtry acts in
1t better than she has ever acted before.
The queen of Italy, who is never idle.
is now studying Hebrew. She has made
great progress in mastering the language
and is deep in the study of the literature.
Chink Dollars was the name given by
| a prisoner in the Paducah, KY, police
court a few days, and so far as could be
learned it was the mans actual and only
name.
Prince Bismarck continues to enjoy ex-
cellent health. He takes long drives in an
open carriage and occasionally walks
down to the station to have a chat with
the officials.
A new performance of Carmen" was
given at Seville recently. when $500 CT
garette girls of that gay city went out on
strike and forced the government to
grant certain concessions.
Holman Hunt, the English artist, who
is now three-score and ten, is absorbed
with. the idea of raising $500, 600, 900 to send
the Jews back to Palestine in order that
the scriptures may be fulfilled.
A friend once urged Lord Shand to come
skating. 1T is not" he pleaded, beneath
the dignity of a judge to skate" NO"
said the judge, but 1t is beneath the
dignity of a judge 10 fall"
on hearing of the death of Ambrose,
Thomas Verdi telegraphed to the widow
with the greatest sorrow / lament with
you the loss of a great artist. of an hon.
est man and friend of 40 years.
Sam Jones. the widely-known evangel-
list. has recently completed new resi-
dence at Cartersville, Ga, which contains
p rooms, and which, in it's exterior, is
said to embrace an ecclesiastical effect"
The once distinguished prima donna,
Nine. Etelka Gerster, who after a short
but brilliant career at Her Majesty's the
alter, and also i'm the United States, par
TALLY lost her singing voice, is about to
start a vocal academy in Berlin.
T. II. Ismay, managing director OF the
White Star line of steamships, has given
a sum of $4,000 to University college, Liv-
erpool, to found a marine, engineering
and naval architectural scholarship in
memory of the late Sir Edward Harland.
w. Earl Hodgson, who claims to be
a friend of the new poet laureate, says
that Mr.. Austin, originally a Catholic, is
now an agnostic, yet he is no more dog
matte about agnosticism than he was
about faith. and supports the church with
might and main"
Andrew Lang had some fun recently
with a man who wrote to him asking him
what hymns had helped him. Instead of
giving some sound old orthodox title he
replied thatthe Homeric hymns had helped
him most. particularly those of Demeter
and Aphrodte (Venus).
a Cleveland. Ky, clergyman refuses TO
perform the marriage ceremony on Sun
day. He holds that no other legal trans
action can be made on Sunday and stand
the test of the courts, and that, as mar
riage is legal transaction, IL cannot be
legally performed on Sunday.
w. III. Kelly of Phillips is the tallest
man in Maine. He is six feet 10 inches
tall and of symmetrical build, weighing
more than 200 pounds. He rides a bicycle,
which he had to have made expressly for
his own usage, because of the length of
his legs. He is leader of the local cornet
band.