The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-05-31
Paragraphs About People.

Ex-President Cleveland IL said to be
looking far from well and has lost a great
deal In weight.
Jazet's copy of the roll CALI won first
prize at the West Haven, England, free
picture exhibition in the vote of 5000 Wis
itors. The second choice was the Glad
stone" of Mfllais. The vote was taken be-
fore the death of Mr.. Gladstone.
Charles Dana Gibson %renounces all
chances of added laurels as a depicter of
the American girl in the garb of an army
nurse by deciding to remain in Europe
for a time. He has finished his winters
work in Egypt and now Is going to So
journ I'm Vienna.
In his address delivered in New York
recently the Rev. Robert Russell Booth.
pastor emeritus of the Rutgers Presbyte-
rian church, called attention to the fact
that Henry Rutgers, the first patron of
that particular church. was also the first
president of the Tammany society.
800
Thomas @. seabrooke. under arrest in
New York through troubles concerning
matrimony and alimony. is still permitted
to play his part In 1.-THE Isle of Cham
payne" every night by going from the
prison to the Broadway theater and re-
turning every evening under the care of a
prison deputy.
Two days before he left for war VII
liam Patterson of Andrew county, Mis-
souri,. sold by telephone 81. 600 worth OF
cattle and then went straight to Mary
VILE and Joined Company f. He has no
relatives and leaves his little fortune of
5000 to a little orphan girl whom he has
known since her birth.
80
AS long as 10-year-old Florence Lamour
threw potatoes at the railroad men in the
Wisconsin Central HTds in Chicago they
suffered it, but when she took to dancing
what they thought were Spanish dances
they secured her arrest on a charge of
trespass, and she will have a trial this
week.
1t is a poorly edited publication. wheth-
er devoted to general news or not, hat
cannot devise means to say something
about Admiral Dewey. The musical jour-
nails are noting the fact that the hero of
Manila has a fine tenor voice and is an
all-round musician. One of them says He
is the finest performer in the navy"
80
AS the shackles of Cuba loosen, there Is
a boom in the bonds of the Republic of
Cuba. Many of those of the old issue have
been destroyed, but r. NJ. Smythe of New
York has bought a lot at SIS per $1,000, and
was offering them at S25 until last week
diiptbfI piohtt dht W pus hS Whoit
stock. Mr.. Smythe let half of them go
and now holds the balance at $50.
| 80
James Hendricks of Elberton, Ca. Is
willing to enlist I'm the present war from
patriotic motives, but will not AXE a sin
gle shot as the Spaniards because he be-
lieves war wrong from every standpoint.
He says he was in nearly all the battles
of the civil war as a volunteer. and al
ways aiming high. feels sure he never
killed a. man. He asserts, too, that his
craftsmanship is superior TO that of the
Spanish gunner at Manila.
Cuba as II Is To-day"i il receiving some
free advertisement because of the recent
perilous trip to and from the island of one
of the authors of the book. Lieutenant A
S. Rowan. This is tolerable in comparison
with the thought of the books still to he
written by the 900 and odd war CORE
~spondents after the war Is over. However
that time is further off than at first
seemed likely and there Is the additional
comforting assurance that Admiral Dew
ey and those who are to follow in his foot.
steps will not take to the lecture plat.
form.