The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-12-10
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FROM the Chicago News.
The title often sells a book-and II In
variably catches the American heiress.
The Is a healthy looking ami
NAL. but It is nearly always on its last
legs.
Even though she refuses him. a woman
always admires the good Judgment Of the
man who proposes.
When the new crop OF pensions begins
to ripen II may he necessary to appoint
veterinarians as medical examiners.
II Is human nature for men to look out
for number one, but the charming young
widow always looks out for number two.
The residents OF Saco. Me-. appear to
be as guileless and innocent as newborn
babes. The canvassers for crayon por-
traits recently cleaned out the place. bor-
rowing watches and engagement rings
from six girls. money from hackmen and
porters. and going without paying their
board bill. Moreover, half the people IN
town had ordered crayon portraits and
paid for them I'm advance. The local pa
per describes the canvassers as dead
game sports" Dead game sports are evil
IDENTIFY winners In Saco.
Uniforming the street cleaning force In
New Orleans has proved a practical sue
cess. 1.-THE men appear to realize says
the Picayune, that they are no longer
n part of a ragtail and bobtail concern.
but that they are members OF a properly
organized branch OF the city government
that calls for consideration at the hands
of the public. That there has been a de-
cided Improvement I'm the street cleaning
Is plain enough. because the men work
with the spirit and the sort of pride that
are necessary to all good services"
A seat on the New York Stock exchange
has Just been sold at s2s.0O-the highest
price in Is years. The advance in the
price has been due TO the increase in Wall
street business and the generally prosper
Gus condition of affairs In the financial
district. The record price for seats Is
SS4. 800, made in 1881, and there Is a decld-
ed demand for the seats and as there
have been few deaths. II is predicted in
wall street that this price may be again
reached. The seats that have been sold
in late years have been largely bought by
young men, many of them rich mems
sons Just starting In the wool gathering
business.
The domain OF Achilelon In Corfu has
been bequeathed by the Empress Eliza
Detn 10 nor glntSl thugnNfts AIt <Aith-
duchess Gisela. wife OF Prince Leopold OF
Bavaria. AchlIleion IS one of the most
magnificent royal residences in the world
and It is said that 5000, 900 francs were
expended By the empress in building and
decorating the palace and I'm laying out
the beautiful grounds and gardens.
There are in france 2.1JO women au-
thors and Journalists and about 200 wo-
u... ,.tfgtg 1ka nroyfnnaC POnfTfhnta
most OF the writers-about two-thirds-
while Paris is represented in the same
proportion among the artists. Among the
writers 1000 are novelists. 900 are poets,
$50 educational writer's and the rest
writer's Of various kinds. The artists COM
prise 107 sculptors, and the others are
painters. ranging over all branches Of
the pictorial art.
United States Consul Eugene Gumain Of
Zurich. Switzerland. says chat American
goods are making rapid Roadway in
Sw 'tzerland. especially machinery, tools,
hardware and similar lines. and arc APP
idly supplanting Swiss and other Euro
pean manufactures Swiss watches are
suffering from the competition of Ameri-
can watches I'm all parts of the world.
Japan furnishes the latest illustration.
Until a few years ago Swiss manufacture
ers had a practical monopoly I'm Japan,
but they nave been nearly driven out by
the competition Of the American watch.
Epicures I'm the East are developing n
taste for the miniature specimens of the
earth's products. To supply the demand
I'm the larger cities for young vegetables,
such as the French consider the most del
icate and appctizing, the truck farmers
bring to market tiny potatoes, turnips,
carrots. caulihower. and even heads of
cabbage the size Of a baseball. Such veg
etables are. Il Is said. more easily d.
gested. their fiber being tender and succu-
lent. instead OF tough and often of n
woody nature as the growth arrives at
maturity.