The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-02-18

Vile, is supporting a bu1lfrog In her
stomach was momentary and eyanes-
cent in character. In ordinary times.
under ordinary circumstances. Mrs.
Remnant would have perched on a PIN
nacle of fame. 1t seems that three
years ago. Mrs. Reinhart, while drink
ing at a spring, swallowed a tadpole,
which grew and grew until now it is
full-grown. able bodied Woodworking
bullfrog. with a full. round. deep. bass
voice. with which ii croalSs at the most
inopportune times and places, TO the
annoyance Of Mrs. Reinhart. the
amusement of the populaee and the
wonder and edification of the medical
profession. From spirited special dis
patches from Louisville to the Cincin-
natl Enquirer. we learn that Mrs. Rein
hart and the bullfrog are not on the
best of terms. that when she attempted
to starve him TO death by abstaining
from food herself the bulfrog kicked
with such vigor and pertinacity that
she was forced to capitulate, and that
she has been reluctantly forced 10 the
conclusion that before the bullfrog will
cease from croaking and her weary
stomach be at rest she win have TO
croak herself.
But never mind about Mrs. Reinhart
on the bank and the buIlfrog in
the pool-the Kentucky colored
people didn't. and why should other
people? The championship cake-walk
came off last Saturday night and was
witnessed by three thousand spectators,
inhamed with the very passion OF ex-
element The first prize, 500, was
awarded to John Walker and Polly
Robinson. both of Louisville; the Sec
ond, to Edward Glass and Susie Cole
man of Shelbyville the third to Rich
ard Gore and Title Martin of Louis
vile. Without disparaging the merits
of the other fifty or sixty picked con-
testants in the cake walk, the judges
unanimously decided that Walker &
Robinson had won in Il walk. They
displayed a grace and jauntiness of
carriage. an ease and wealth of akimbo,
a dashing swing and sWoop of leg, a
sprightly elevation OF chin and turn Of
nose, vivacous perch of head. an
airy huoyancy. lltheness and sinuosty
Of body, a blithesome variability of
motion, a bright, brisk, sparkling deb
bonnaire quintessence Of style. that
evoked continuous roars of applause
and stamped them as the cake walkers
par excellence OF the age. The deci-
sion awarding them the first prize was
regarded as eminently just by the
disinterested masses, but the defeated
competitors and their friends are far
from satisfied. Jealousy turks III their
hearts and raZors in their hip-poclSets.
and carnage. John Walker and Polly
Robinson narrowly escaped back to
Louisville with their lives and 800 No
Roman triumph awaited them. John
dares not walk the streets without a
body guard, and Polly ventures not out
without previously fixing the hairpins
in her back hair with scrupulous
care and firmness. The police have been
instructed to be on the alert for an
outbreak of unparalleled violence in the
colored quarters. and nobody in Ken
lucky sits unmoved by the prevalent
fear and foreboding save possibly Col
onel Watterson, who has reached an
age and acquired an experience with
the passions and storms of lie
that enable him TO view all things with
the complacent passiyity resultant from
ripe philosophy and superior sour mash