The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-04-14
Notes Of Interest.

A hunter near Cumberland. Me-. shot q
wan that was four feet four inches tall
and had a spread OF wings of six feet
nine inches.
The fall Of a tree near Little Cypress.
Marshall county. KY, exposed a guam
tity of counterfeit scent pieces that had
been buried at it's root.
Solomon Smith Of Burr Oak, Kan. a
years old. a veteran of the Mexican and
civil wars. says that he is ready to en-
list again to fight Spain.
A one-legged man. 80 years old. pur-
poses starting on the 18th inst. from To-
peka, where he Ia now in a hospital. to
walk to his home in ambria county. Pa.
On the Sabatis road. near Lewiston.
Me-, a family sell small fish for bait from
a well in the dooryard. They ave ceased
to use the well pump and lower q pail
when a customer comes along and bring
up a large number Of little sinners.
st. Louis Domestic Science club. organ
lied to elevate the domestic servant and
domestic work and to conduct cooking
classes in order to improve the health OF
mankind. is receiving many letters from
men seeking wives. who want advice on
the subject from the club.
In the Missouri exhibit at the Omaha
exhibition there is to be a pair of tur-
keys weighing So pounds. The owner says
that this weight beats the record of the
United States or anada The gobbler
weighs so pounds and the hen 81. They
were raised rear Columbia, Mo.
Glasgow. KY. recently advertised the
sale of two negroes who were persistent
Migrants. 1t was the first procedure of
the kind since 1855. Tn law orders the
sale of their services for the term of
their sentence. the purchaser being
obliged to feed, house and clothe them.
After having been robbed a dozen times
in three months. q Huntington, Ind,
grocer has sold out in disgust. His sue
cessor announces his readiness to greet
the robbers, IL they come again. with a
warmth that will make them remember
him as well as they have remembered the
store.
The empress of Austria, having offered
to sell her palace and estate at Achillein.
Corfu. on very favorable terms to the
Bryon society, steps are now being taken
to raise funds for the purpose Of pur-
chasing the property and founding an or
phanage for Greek children as a national
memorial to Lord Bryon.
Mrs. Mahala Bentley of Bloomington.
ILL.,, whose mother was with Daniel Boone
at the siege of B~oonesboro and whose
mothers sister was the first white child
born i'm Kentucky, has entered upon her
second century of life. She is reported to
be as active as most women of 60, and
with the apparent vitality to carry her
over the next century. when she will
have lived i'm three centuries.
When the Methodist conference at Law
renee. Kan, was almost ready to close,
some of the ministers were discussing the
appointments and agreed among them
selves that everything was coming out
satisfactorily, the appointments having
been all fixed up. Then another preacher
babe his brethren not to be too sure.
For said he, 81 was in conference with
Bishop Fowler once and we fixed every
thing up, and then the bishop asked to
be allowed to with God awhile.
The rest of us retired. and from the con-
dition in which we found the appoint
ments when we came back, 1 should say
that. If the bishop talks will God again
to-day. he is likely to break that slate of
ours into pieces so small we can't write
our names on EN-"
An old man, tall, with white Greeleys,
and a short. fat woman got aboard a
train at Kansas City and handed the con-
ductor tickets to Holiday. Neither spoke.
The man merely motioned the woman to
a. seat. When the train drew out OF Hol-
liday the two were still seated. and when
the conductor came along the man hand
ed him two fares to Wilder. They didn't
get off at Wilder, either. but the man,
when the conductor came through, paid
the fares to Lawrence. The conductor
became interested. After Lawrence the
man paid to Lecompton. and after Le-
compton to Topeka. The conductor lin
gered I'm the neighborhood Of the singu-
lar couple, neither of whom had said a
word on the journey except when the
man had spoken the name of the city to
which he wished to pay fare each time.
When Lecompton had been left some dis
lance behind the tram situation was
explained by just one question and an
800 -. afa Nh ~ . pff
the woman said. "Clean to - IL you
hadn't said anything" was he reply.
NOW i guess wen get Off at Topeka and
take the first train TO Holiday"