The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-01-03
ltens Picked Up
Here and There

of attention. 1t is an excellent speci-
men of the photographers art. The
photograph is that of George Andrews
and j. r. Griffiths. the two men who
did nearly all of the battery work for
Anaconda'S champion baseball team of
last year. The position of the men In
the photograph is as If they were in
action. Andrews has apparently let go
of the ball and his powerful right arm
is still Strengthened out, and the posi-
! ton of his body is that of a pitcher just
having made a delivery. Griffith. with
mask and chest protector, is standing
ready to catch the sphere, which is just
about to enter his hands.
The picture is very lifelike and the
positions of the battery is remarkably
real. When it is known that this pho
tograph was taken in a gallery and not
upon the field, it becomes still more re-
markable The artist who did the work
took each man standing in position sep
arately. The ball was suspended from
the ceiling by a cord and this cord was
vignetted out. The photographs are
mounted at the opposite ends of card
and between the two are photographs
of Andrews and Griffith in their citi-
zens' clothes.
At a big hotel not more than a thou
sand miles from the Standard office
last week, occurred a very funny thing.
A lady guest of the house had with her
a little dog upon whom she laVished
/ the greatest of care and attention. The
| dog was her constant companion, and
! h always accompanied her to the din
\ ing room. This proceeding attracted
! more or less attention. and a certain
/ young man whose name may be desig-
| mated as Mr.. b. took some ex-
! ception TO the presence of the dog and
set his brain to work on plan to get
! rid of the nuisance.
lie approached the manager of the
! hotel and inquired if it were permissible
4 to take dogs into the dining room Inc
! manager said that it was not custom
! airy, but that as there was one guest
! who had been allowed to do it. others
I would be accorded the same privilege.
| This was just what Mr.. b wanted
/ He borrowed from a friend an enor-
mously big St. Bernard dog. almost as
! big as horse. He went to a dry goods
| store and bought about 10 yards of the
most delicate of blue and pink ribbon
/ and with this he bedecked his st. Ber-
| nard. The next meal hour found the
| lady and her little dog in their accus-
/ toned places. Soon Mr. B stalled
into the dining room, followed closely
1 by his ribbon decorated dog. Mr.. B
sat down at a table and babe the dog
| lie down close beside his chair. During
the course of the meal. that st. Bernard
I was petted and called more endearing
| names than would have sufticed for 80
dinner he gravely strobe out with the
st. Bernard at his heels
The next meal hour found the lady in
her seat. but the little dog was conspie-
uous by his absence.
When any company tries to put on an
| amateur performance OF any kind, they
| know not of the difficulties and obsta-
cles that thickly bestrew their path.
/ Things unheard of and entirely uneX-
! cation to make the road to fame a
| mighty hard one to travel. This is the
way Of all amateur theatricals, no mat
ter of what nature, and the Late home
talent minstrel show seemed to have
more than its share of them. One in
| stance by way of illustration may be
| related. During the course of prepare
! tion the managers OF the affair had oc-
/ caSion to use a certain book of songs
especially written for quartettes. "A
| search Of the city was made, but the
| book was not To be had here.
1t was learned that a colored quar-
tette at Butte had a copy OF the desired
| book and the management Immediately
telegraphed TO that city for it. Either
the telegram was Worded in a careless
/ manner or it's use was interpreted
! wrongly by the recipient At anys rate,
the next train from Butte came in and
I somebody went down to meet il and
| get the book Imagine the surprise of
! the home talent when instead of the
book, there stepped from the train the
| entire colored quartette with their
| guitars, mandoiins, banjoS and other
paraphernalia. Explanation developed
the fact that the quartette had con-
strued the telegram as asking them to
| come down.
In spite Of the fact that people say
| that the newspapers never have any
! thing right in the news columns, ii is
| seldom that a reporter gets off wrong
! On thing that is right before his eyes.
just the same that's what happened To
| a Standard reporter one day last week.
| Among the deeds filed for record was
| one which conveyed certain property
| in Deer Lodge To a man by the name
! of Christian :. Church. The reporter
! glanced at the deed, and made his
! shorthand note, and when he came 10
| write up the transfer he wrote it as a
conveyance 10 the Christian church.
AS the property is ranch or mining
land. it would hardly be suited for
| church purposes. The funny part OF
the thing is thar the Deer Lodge paper
had it the same way as the Standard.
A neat piece Of work is the "Klon-
dyke ship which stands upon the desk
| of County Clerk and Recorder Martin.
| The ship is the work of one of the
county prisoners. and is a beautiful
! thing. Besides the clever woodwork OF
/ the ship, bits of broken glass has been
! glued all over il and when the sun 5
rays fall upon them they scintillate and
sparkle ike diamonds. The affair looks
for all the world like a ship covered
with snow ana ice. Mr. Martin is very
proud of his ''Klondyke" and the man
who made it has henceferth a friend
1 in the county clerk and recorder.
Every once in a while there hobs NJ
! a neat little catch or two. over which
| many laugh is had. Among those
heard lately are two that are more than
ordinarily good. They involve the ques-
ton Of relationship and when sprung
! upon any one in an offhand manner,
I they are not readily solved correctly
one is as follows: Can man. un-
der the laws Of the United States.
marry mis- Widows sister,"
The other: - person meeting a
young man upon the street one morning