The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-25
Pithy Paragraphs.

A girl in Nebraska has already hung
her mistletoe for the Yuletide from the
hall chandelier She doesn't propose TO
be an old maid IL she can avoid it.
A Boston journal recently offered prizes
for symposium on domestic subjects Tor
It's Thanksgiving number. The first prize
was awarded to Miss Daisy Weather
head for her matchless essay on "Beans
As an Article of Diet"
Last year the United States produced
10, 465, 900 bushels of buckwheat, most of
which was consumed at home. There are
about 1900 cakes in one bushel, making
n total of 70.000, 900 900 cakes in the whole
crop. Pass the maple syrup.
Mrs. Horatio Davies, lady mayoress of
London, says in regard to the new wo-
man. movement: ut is the tendency of
the age, / suppose. for women to strug
gle into conspicuous positions, but it is
one with which 1 have little sympathy"
At Alsea, Or. an executor of a will who
sought to prevent the decedents widow,
the executors mother-in-law, from enter
ing a granary on the estate, arranged a
gun SO that it would be discharged
through the doorway the moment the
door was opened.
An enterprising New York man sold his
wife for a watch. The purchaser married
the woman and instituted proceedings
against his wifes former husband for lar
ceny in stealing the watch. The former
husband then had his successor arrested
on a charge of bgamy
There has been discovered among the
Ute Indians of Colorado n sort of cari-
net, which has q Sweeter and more plain
tive tone than any of our orchestral in
struments. The effect of it's sound waited
up to the mountains from the Indian vii
lagos is described being magical.
Two young English women. Miss Grace
Fairweather and Miss Ella Collins, have
recently appeared in London as profess
sional billiard players. Miss Collins 10
the daughter of well-known retiie ed ex-
pert at billiards, and has sister who
promises to be even better player than
herself
A young woman of st. Tammany par
ish, Louisiana, can shear more sheep in
day than any two men in the place,
catching, tying and washing them her
self. She can also hoe two rows of com
to the average mans one, and prefers
to ride her horse bareback, with no reins
but his NAME
Lady Marcus Beresford had a recent
exhibition of cats at the Crystal Palace
cat show. 1t is said that she has the
most remarkable collection of tabbies in
the world. All the cats are named, and
know when they are called. They are de-
voted to their indulgent mistre IS, who has
man specially to care for them.
A fine quality of marble has been dis
covered near Puerto Cabello, Venezuela,
which is being turned out so rapidly as
to have almost destroyed our commerce
in that line. a plant costing $4,000 has
been erected. first-class work is turned
out and reputation is being established.
Our brooms, too, no longer find u ready
sale there, as the natives have built up
their own industries along that branch
of trade.
at is not generally known" says the
Philadelphia Press, that Mrs. Manning.
whose wedding the other evening a
prominent social event, was the great
great granddaughter of Sir Thomas Hew-
son of London. one of the discoveries of
the Emphatic system. Her grandfather.
Thomas Hewson, was one of the most
distinguished medical contemporaries of
Gibson and Physick of Philadelphia. He
was so small in stature, however, that he
was the subject of much comment. But
he was witty, nevertheless, and on bsing
asked during a consultation with half
dozen of his taller brethren how he felt
in such company promptly responded:
Just like sixpence among six pennies