The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-05-10

Morgan Is . director In % companies, be-
ped by snother membe Of that arm. C.
III. coster, who II . director In ~ compar
MES. George Gould n a director In - SOM
panies ana Russell Sage In "a. Daniel 3
Lamont is q director in n companies.
A son Of the confederate general. J. b.
Hood, who was one Of the most reckless
fighters OF the confsderacy. has been com-
missioned BY the governor Of Louisiana
to raise a regiment for service against
Spain in case Of 2
Max Aivary. the famous wagnerian OPP
era singer. fell from the stage at Mann
helm. and as q consequence was unable to
follow his profession for some time. He
claimed the accident was due to the care
lessness OF . machinist. sued the opera
house and has just been awarded 5000
damages. the biggest verdict ever given in
such q case.
Tit portraits Of Postmaster General
and Mrs. Gary were recently painted by q
young Italian artist. whose ~gailantry led
him into the mistake of making the lady
appear OUNCE than she really is. Mrs.
Gary is q pretty and dainty little wo-
man of so. but In eminently sensible. Her
criticism of the painting was: He left
out all the lines In my face. but he left
out tne cnaracteT, TOO.
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Theodore 0hafer. the newiy-elected
president of the Amalgamated Associa-
ton of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers. was.
before he entered q rolling mill and be-
came interested In labor matters. q Meths
odist minister. He Il a man of education
and was pastor OF q church IN Browns
vile. Pa, for . few years. resigning on
account of Ill health. At present he IL
boss roller in q Pittsburg tin plate mill
One day at dinner Bismarck. speaking
of love and hate. remarked that one was
as powerful as The other. Two Ahings
are indispensable to me-" he said; my
wife to love and Windthorst to hate"
Windthorst was q parliamentary leader In
the opposition. Coming into his offce one
morning looking tagged. the prince cried:
II could not sleep. l had a hating mt all
night"
Dignifed, grim and cold though he may
be, Senator Proctor of Is not
above indulging I'm a joke. Senate Vest
of Missouri was recently delivering a
| speech, in the course of which he became
quite impassioned. He quoted two verses
OF good poetry, which. he incidentally re-
marked. had been set to music. Sing it,"
said Mr.. Proctor in his metallic way.
Decorous senatorial laughter ran around
the chamber and the effect of the Mis-
SOuTlan TemdTkS was lOtdhy Spoico.
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Charles Emory Smith Of Philadelphia
is not the first newspaper man to become
postmaster general. Benjamin Franklin,
the first man to occupy that position. be-
longed to the grand army of writer's.
Amos Kendall left an editorial desk to
become postmaster general In Van Blu
ren's cabinet. Montgomery Blair, Lin
coins postmaster general, was an editor.
and Thomas l.. James began life as u
newspaper man.
Captain ]. w. Holmes Of the American
ship Charmer. has just arrived at San
Francisco, after rounding Cape Horn for
the 18th time. The captain is "a years old
and has been at sea ever since he was 10,
and has never been shipwrecked. This
immunity from disaster is all the more re-
markable considering that he never con-
suits a barometer. but crowds on all sail
at all times, depending ON his own wealth
CT wisdom for the safety of his ship and
crew. .sHh
George Eliot the great novelist.
SAYS Household Words. lived for some of
her later years in that popnlous land of
artists which lies between Whitley and
Haslemere, in Surrey. Her residence was
on the heights overlooking that vast
woodland scene which Birket Foster has
reproduced in so many charming illustra-
tons. With the rural Surrey ok the nov
elist was greatly pleased. and their dia-
lect seemed to her as rich and racy as
that OF the Midlandshire rustics of her
early years. She would repeat with gleo
one quaint Surrey villagers remark: "oh,
ma'am. what ] have gone through with
my husband! He is so unedicated; he new
or had n faflcoat i'm his life