The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-03-23
MEN AND MATTERS.

John p. ST. John intends to run for con-
gress in the second Kansas district and
builds his hopes of success on a pronun-
ciamento of no liquor and free silver. st.
John is an advocate of free silver on the
Colorado plan.
All the Earl Of Chichester's farm are
carried on under his wfre's name. which
appears on all wagons and agricultural
implements. On the home farm at STAN
mer a large number of oxen are employ
ed in lieu of horses.
Edison's patience is illustrated by the
fact that he tried 1880 chemicals before
he found the right one to aid him in his
finally successfully effort to see through
an eight-inch block of wood. or three
10O0-page books placed side by side.
The appC tment of Lord Dunraven to
be lord lie enant of Limerick is said to
have given much satisfaction in Ireland,
as he is a very popular landlord, and has
always been on excellent terms with his
numerous tenants on his large estates.
Emperor William of Germany takes
great interest in his kitchen. Recently
he accompanied his court marshal
through the lower regions" of his pail
ace and complimented his chief of chefs
on the good order that pertained to
department that is always over worked.
Henry Willard, who. in his younger days
was a journalist and man of letters,
ton as a correspondent in the field, is
writing an autobiography for his chill
dren exclusively. 1t will be privately
printed, it is thought. next year.
Grandfather's clock has turned up at
Paris, Ky. John Barrett, a grandfather,
died there a week or so ago, and at the
very moment he died his tall old clock,
that had stood many years on the floor,
suddenly stopped. and no one has been
able TO make il run since.
Nine. Modjeska is an admirer of a Lon
don fog, and the first time she happened
to see one she ordered her carriage and
went for a drive in the park, that she
might have the pleasure of seeing the
weird effect of people and vehicles
emerging from the mist which en-
shrouded them.
DIR. Chantemesse of the Pasteur insti-
tute of Paris has discovered an anti-ty-
phoid serum with which he has made ex-
periments on three patients. Immediately
after the first injection the disease in
each case passed at once through the or
binary stages and the patients entered
into a state of convalescence.
Members of the Loyal Legion in Cleve-
land are about to raise funds for a mon
ument TO the late Major General Morti-
mer ID. Leggett. The monument will con-
sist of a bowlder of granite weighing 20
tons. 1t is probable that the body of Gen
efal beSgett Will nnal,y De placed in Lake
View cemetery, Cleveland.
The Marquis De Mores. renowned for
his good looks, who killed a man in a
duel kept a ranch in the United States,
ran railway in Tongking. led the social
lists in Paris and was deprived of his for
tune by the French courts, is now at
work trying to prove that British gold is
stirring up the Soudan against France.
Dr. William Lyon Phelps, assistant pro-
fessor in English literature at Yale, has
received an offer to the head of the de-
partment of English i'm the Women's col
lege, Baltimore. 1t is expected that he
will decline. He is regarded as one of the
most promising assistant professors in
the university, and a strong effort will be
made to retain him.