The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-05-25
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The countess of Dunraven sings in the
village choir. -
The Vanderbilts. Astors and Mackays
have all had divorces in their families.
Queen Victoria has created an order of
knighthood called Royal Victorian.
Two nephews of Sir William Harcourt
are among the garrison at Buluwayo.
Joseph Pulitzer has retaken Mora lodge
a beautiful place standing within acres
of handsome grounds at Kensington,
England.
A seven-foot colored man is now play
ing Uncle Tom in Southern Kansas. he
was born in California and has brothers
just as tall
sl75 O00a year from the various Industrial
undertakings in which he is a participant.
According to the London Times Vienna
correspondent the emperor OF Austria Is
the best friend that England has on the
continent.
Professor Roentgen has had the hon
orary citizenship of his native town, Len
nep in Russian Prussia, conferred on
him. i'm honor of his great discovery.
Thomas Moran. a New York policeman,
died and left an estate of $4,000, which is
now being contested for by an army OF
relatives and strangers.
Sardou is now "a years old, wrinkled
and half bald, but I'm his elastic step and
brilliant eye. as youthful as boy. lie Is
said TO have earned $1,00O0OO from his
plays.
on the occasion of the coronation of the
car at Moscow no fewer than 40 lady
singers each of whom claim the rank of
prima donna, will sing in Moscow.
Count Tolstoi. who went among the BIZ
cyclists last year aged 81, recently applied
in Moscow for the permit which wheel
men need who wish to ride within the
city lines.
Mayor p. Hall Packer of Seabrght, N.
J.. has received a letter from Ex-Governor
Mckinley of Ohio stating that he intends
TO spend several weeks this summer at
Seabright.
Sir William Priestley, granddaughter of
Dr. Joseph Priestley, the discoverer of
oxygen, is the unionist candidate for par
lament from the Universities of Edin-
burgh and st. Andrews
The monument which North Carolina
proposes to raise in memory of the late
Senator Vance will probably be erected
in Charlotte. But as yet very little money
has been contributed for that purpose.
The first white woman who ever entered
Kansas died last week at lola, in that
state. She was known as Granny Cow
den, and was SO years old. She went to
live at a trading post near Fort Scott in
1899.
The membership of the Christian En-
deavor society in one Presbyterian church
i'm Toronto is represented by five minis
tiers I'm Canada one missionary in Africa,
- theological students and seven church
elders
Theodore Turrettni. mayor of Geneva,
who is at the head of the approaching
Swiss national exposition. is well known
In this country as an electrician and is
consulting engineer to the American COM
pany for the utilization of the force of
the Niagara falls.
Rockland. Me. has a resident 81 years
old who has been driving a cart with lime
rock to the railway station for 26 years
and yet has never ridden on the cars. He
also has the distinction Of never having
been under the doctors care.
Mrs. Elizabeth Ludlow. the mother of
the well-known New Yorker. Robert Cen
ter. who was killed while riding a bicy-
Gle on the Western boulevard in New
York some months ago, has given his en-
tire estate. valued at $4,000, TO endow in
/ his memory a fund for instruction in mu-
sic at Columbia college.
AT Marshall n. C. Lafayette Shelton.
4 l6 years old was hauled to the state line
| in an OK cart to be married. Shelton is a
/ deformed hoy-can't stand, sit nor walk
/ He married woman named Mary Han.
/ She is deaf and dumb and about 30 years
/ old.
] story Sir Andrew Rusk. ex-lord may
/ or of London. likes to tell Is that OF an
/ old Essex lady who wrote to him after he
/ had passed a heavey sentence on a man
/ for cruelty to "A donkey. thanking him
| lin her own name and that Of an the
| donkeys in the United Kingdom"
| BY the death of Rev. DIR. Frederick
| Bugge. bishop Christiania. Norway
/ Scandinavia loses one Of its best known
| theologians Bish OF Bugge was formerly
/ professor Of theology at the University
OF Christiania and was the author OF a
number of books lie was an eloquent
speaker. a fine writer and a learned man
Prince Albert OF Flanders. who has just
come OF age. Is presumably the next heiI
10 the throne OF Belgium. as his father
the Count Of Flanders who Is the young
er brother OF Leopold H.. has intimatsd
his intention not TO accept the crown
should Il fall TO him.