The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-12-16
Personal Paragraphs.

Ernest Van Dyck. the grand opera sing
er. began life as a newspaper man.
A young Frenchman named C~onstantin
is now being exhibited i'm Paris. lie Is
just s feet tall and is well proportional.
though his knees are rather weak. The
giant Is but 10 years old.
Mrs. Langtry in the past year or two is
said to have become one Of the best
Judges of horseflesh i'm England. In some
mysterious way this fact is oDerating TO
smooth her way toward reinstatement in
society.
Senator Gallinger calculates that the
pensions on account of the latest war will
amount to between 81. 900 and S2O,co0,Oo0
I'm the very near future. G~allinger H. at
the head of the pensions IN and
is an expert on the subject.
Martha Ann Darnell and Lucinday
Yates Mckee are twin sisters. both Wild
ows. of Putnam county, Indiana. both re-
siding near Green castle. They are nearly
81 years old and have passed s. years of
their lives i'm the county named. Mrs.
Darnell bore II children and Mrs. Mckee
IL.
An Irishman who stands high in the
favor of the ear of Russia bears the Rus
sianiZed name of General O'Brrtschen.
which is a corruption of that OF O'Brien.
He is the chief of the general stan of
the czar. who has loaded him with hon
ors and decorations.
Lieutenant ]. c.. Mason Blunt Of the I'd
United States cavalry. now assistant
quartermaster general. served under Don
Carlos i'm the Carlist wars OF 1877. He
says the Spanish pretender is a typical
Bourbon and an uprising in his favor is
at this time impossible.
Judge John NJ. Smith. who assumed the
circuit bench at Portland, Ind. recently,
was at one time a section hand on the
Panhandle road. While working at any
kind OF manual labor he could obtain he
studied law. and before being elected cir
cult Judge had a lucrative practice at the
the Jay county bar.
Since Mr.. Mckinley has been president
Speaker Reed has been just four times at
the white house. each time strictly on
official business. 1t is said by the Maine
mans friends that he has never asked
the president to grant him a favor either
In the matter of patronage or otherwise.
holding that the administration ought to
consult him regarding such matters i'm so
far as they affect the state of Maine.
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One OF the declarations of DR.. Lyman
Abbott, which created considerable dis
cussion when IL was made two or three
years ago. was of his disbelief In the
story Of Jonah and the whale. As soon as
his utterance on the subject was pub
lished a number of people came to his
support with statements that IL was not
possible for a whale. owing to his physi-
cal conformation, to swallow "A man.
Then some one found a fairly well-au-
thenticated story of a modern man being
rescued alive after having been swallowed
by "A modern whale. and, after a number
of letters were published, the subject was
left about where it had been taken up.
Rev. r.. F. Chapman of Andover. Conn.
who has lived to be IS years old. was
born on the 18th day of the month. He
was Is years old when his family made an
important move of his boyhood and IL
years after that he was married. He Is a
member of a family of - and his wife
was also so situated. She was born on the
18th day of the month and had IL letters
in her name. Three of their five children
saw the light of day on the same day of
the month. lie was born and will probably
die in one of the original - states. and in
a county having IS towns. When he came
To Andover the usher of the church
showed him into pew No. Is, and he has
sat there for 40 years.