The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-06-23
Personal Points.

There is said to be no truth in the story
that the Emperor of Austria wants to
have his little 14-year-old granddaughter.
the ~Archduchess Elizabeth, marry the
king of Spain.
w. w. Beach, a member Of the British
parliament. said recently at an election
meeting that during nearly 40 years of
parliamentary service he had never Open
ed his mouth in parliament.
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Sam Sticks son. Sir Arthur Halliburton,
late permanent secretary of the war de-
partment, was made a peer on the
queens birthday, and is said by the Court
Journal to have selected the title of Baron
Halliburton. He is a native Nova Scotian
and the first Blue Nose to enter the house
of lords.
Major General. NJ. c. Butler OF South
Carolina. who lost his field glasses at the
battle of Brandy Station in 1863. as well
as a leg. was greatly surprised and
pleased the other day to get his field
glasses back again, they having been re-
stored to him by a Mrs. Kemper of Vir-
glnia. THE last time l used them said
the general, 81 was a Confederate officer;
now l am a Yankee officer"
NJ. D~eschanel. the new president of the
French chamber of deputies, is only forty
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a little OF his advancement TO his grace
fulness as a dancer. He has all kinds of
society talent, an inexhaustible stock of
Conversations small change, and is said
TO have danced himself into the good will
of the wives OF royalists. rallies and re-
publicans.
The gossips who are still talking about
the marriage of George Vanderbilt say
that he Will In future spend most of his
time abroad. They also believe that at no
distant day will the world be astonished
to hear that he will make Biltmore over
for some memorial institution. Some folks
say that young Vanderbilt has always re-
garded his South Carolina castle, amid
broad acres. as a plaything.
Corporal ~Stuyvesant Fish OF Roosevelt's
has earned his first laurels by
smashing a private's nose In accord
ance with orders from his chief. The pri-
vate was very hilarious and annoyed the
colonel, who, turning to Fish, said: eco
in there and smash that fellows nose.
He is too fresh for this regiment" Cor
poral Fish saluted and left the car, and,
having literally carried out the order. re-
turned and reported. Corporal Fish has
since been dubbed "Teddy's Executioner."
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"On one occasion two gentlemen, in
vited as guests at a table where Mr..
piduStoHt Wde expected, says the New
York World, made a wager that they
would start a conversation on a subject
about which even Mr.. Gladstone would
know nothing. To accomplish this end
they read up an ancient magazine article
on some unfamiliar subject connected
with Chinese manufactures. When the
favorable opportunity came the topic was
started and the two conspirators watch
ed with amusement the growing interest
In the subject which Mr.. Gladstone's face
betrayed. Finally he Joined in the CONVEX
sation and their amusement was turned
into gnashing of teeth, so to speak, when
Mr.. Gladstone said. All. gentlemen.
perceive you have been reading an article
which 1 wrote In the - magazine some
30 or 10 years ago."
James Russell Lowell once wrote TO
Howeils: You can't imagine how far I
am away from the world here-I mean the
modern world. Spain is as primitive in
some ways as the books Of Moses. and as
Oriental. Spaniards have, I believe, eve
cry possible fault-and yet / love the
tades for a that! They find themselves in
the midst of a commercial age. poor dew
lis! with as little knowledge of bookkeeep-
ing as the grand Turk. But there Is some
thing fine In this impenetrability Of theirs,
and the grand way they wrap themselves
in their ragged capa of a past and find
warmth In their pride. Their Indifference
TO legitimate profit is a continual comfort
and they have no more enterprise than an
old Cambridge man."