The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-27
Strange Things
Of Christmas

that he and the boys from vi 1he
r,ulch didn't come down town because
there was no Christmas UP at the lake
He saws there is Christmas ana New
Years both there, and trimmings, 100.
The captain says that they came uoMh
lust to see if the folks here knew nov
to celebrate the feast. He wants !. I'M
derstood that they don't only nave
New Years up there, but other new
things as well. The othef das q
don't YOU know fellow walked INTO
his place and said: Man, give me q
Manhattan cocktail surrounded py
mefronolitan air, with a bead float.
sure said Jack.
well, did you give 1t to MIN was
asked.
II did that. and my partner is max
ine, them for him vet That's why he /
isn't down town with us. The lah-de-
dab got next to about so before ne leIt, I
and if his money holds out ne II pe
drinking booze and Angostura at my |
place all winter oh, I've got recipe /
for all them fellows.
John is the name of man IN TINS
| town who don't know when mes Wen
off, He works at night ana sleeps IN
4 the DAYTIME He lives in one slde OF
| q double house, and the other side IS
occupied by family with Two chiiareh.
Johns bedroom is next 10 the pafiiliuh
| and sometimes he complains that ne
cant sleep because the children on the
| much noise The family with the Two
children and the family of this John
are the best of friends, ana ne thousht
it would be no more than right TO re-
member the children on Snrlstilas aas.
Well. the day before Christmas ne
came down town and went into toy
store. The first thing that struck MS
fancy was a big snare drum painted III
the most delicate shades OF violent
green and red That was pretty good
of
bought it. But still he must have
something for the other.
There's a nice horn, and I'll make
YOU a bargain on it, seeing as It's get
ting late" said the salesman. with
drum and a horn, two children can
have more fun than box or mon
keys"
"That's so; that's just the thing /
want
And now John says his nerves are SO
shaken by this eternal night work
that he can't sleep a wink.
Now they are all looking over the
|. piles of presents and thinking what
good old world this is after all There
: were many, more than usual, useful
! presents given this year. One man toid
his wife that he was going 20 give ms
5 little daughter a pair OF skates lie
went home late on Christmas eve, anu i
q told his Wife that he got the skates All
+ right but wore them home ana probab-
n " couldn't get them off in time. As u
e only occurs once year the goou Wile
n excused him. In another FAMILY the
. presents We're duplicated. There are
+ nine little girls in that family and nine
d of their friends sent them each llttle
: four-bit carpet sweeper. The mother
Q is now wondering if they really meant
# it, Conductor Burnham wore a me iui
d overcoat and a pair of German socks
IS while the b., A. & p. con. walked VI
the street for a short distance with a
: tall silk plug on his head. small boy
is on the East side got an air gun aho
n now his little sister wears banaaSs
F. over one eve. Another boy was allow
n ed to trail his sled onto a milk Wagon
IT and now he says that Christmas is nc
Ie better than any other Gays. another
v little girl expected to receive a large
q doll with dark hair and a doll buggy
n and she got a feather boa and Shakes
10 peare's works. McDanieIs, old Mac,
" 1.-THE first man to arrive in Anaconda,
IS got a fsh-hook and new story, AM
al will track fish across the big bend II
= Warm Spring creek. Rod Williams ha
/ his dog yet. and DIR. Speiman wears
ia broad grin. A boy on the West sid
Ne got steam engine. He started IL III
III and out the door it Went and neNe
~ came back Some of the boys over a
m | the works got a day Off ana are still
e here telling what a gay time they hao
ty A few fellows started out To bu
b. themselves something and got J
in DAYS The merchants in the rush re
d. ceiYed large additions to their Dan
in accounts; everybody in town Dough
TO from one to so copies of the Christina
t. Standard, and tonight the young me
ut of the city will donate literally to tn
ad deserving poor by buying tickets to tn
of minstrel show at the Margaret.
st The dispatches say that the ladie
C. married and single, of the upper ter
in dom of London, have tired of the hael
oh neyed Christmas cards and are sene
re ing their favored friends photos
oh themselves as attired for bed That
re a new plan in society, and suEgestiY
an But the idea did not originate in Ems
ire lands capital, at any rate not recent
nv for such a photograph was made man
:, years go in Gable, west of this cit
al Yesterdays news from London of Il
af innovation and the chronicles ia
400 comment on it caught the eye OF
arc least one man who recalls the Cab
900 incident. When that mining can
Get was booming there appeared IN TOW
ne a travelling photographer from som
be- where. who went from house to hou
an and took pictures" in rapid successio
nd He was all business and coined mon
,ye in the world-famouS gold camp.
at One day a young man met him al
mr. asked him to call at his house on {
following day, when he and his WI
or would be pleased To sit for him. i
rty photographer. as was SAID, MAS
he business, anu ny shsiaihS 1s m NJ
rhe town pretty Wen eahNassea' Liz, Ia =.
he another DAY Woula mean daai.ioi
IAN expense with small chances TO ca
and more money 30 ne tdileu o ~ -
on man mousse lHdt eNe.liit5 - =
Yer fnduce MIN ana MS Mlts - 80 -
nst picture, so that he could gather up
vas tintype traps and leave at once
nen Philipsburg. He knocked at the do
is which was opened Woe ehoosH ~
Iese init the question:. ..,,
in Cant | do that job now, misterg
. to No we aren't dressed for such
the occasion. We retired early so the
nth woman could get up in time TO curl
,od- hair ana pflmp UP i't sout ttiS
the old woman wants to look pretty
that picture. and she couldn't DIR