The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-03-07

Columbus Alexander. who has just died
at the age of 81 years in Alexandria, Va.
was one of the four jurors who stood out
for the acquittal of John II. Surratt,
charged with participation in the assassi
nation of President Lincoln.
In a private letter from an American
woman travelling in Europe occurs the
following: Last night we went to Monte
Carlo and saw Lilly Langtry in low
necked white satin and diamonds play
ing heavily and winning all the time The
Duke of Cambridge was watching her,
and so was everybody else"
Professor Mommsen. the Roman histo-
ran, replied as follows to the question re-
Gently addressed to the artists and au-
thors of Europe: What manner of wo-
man will the Goth century woman be?'
THE woman of the 18th century has
given me so much food for thought that
| have no room for her of the 20th."
Joaquin Miller says: II reckon Walt
Whitman could write anywhere. | once
was with him on top of n Fifth avenue
omnibus, above sea of people, when he
began writing on the edge of a newspa-
per- and he kept 1t up for half an hour,
although his elbow was almost continu-
ously tangled up with that of the driver"
Archbishop Ireland, in giving his opin-
ion recently on the war situation. said:
THE attitude of the administration is
dignfied and worthy of this great nation.
War scares and clamors of war do not
move 1t. 1t awaits the necessity for war,
meanwhile making ready Mr.. Mckinley
will not rush the country into needless
conflict"
Justice Harlan. in an address to the
graduating class of Columbian university
last Saturday, said of the Maine disaster:
And we ought all to have this feeling,
that if ii turns out to be accidental we
should rejoice; if it turns out not to be
accidental, we will not hear any more of
North. East, South or West: no more of
republicans democrats or populists. We
will hear only of Americans.
''It is more than 80 years" says Senator
Davis of Minnesota, .'since l began to
make a collection of works relating to
Napoleon Bonaparte. During this period
/ have accumulated about 800 volumes,
some of them rare and priceless. My col
lection was inaugurated before the Ma
poleonic fad set in, and was started be-
cause of the regard I have for the great
est man France has ever known
Captain Renaud. the French specialist,
is a firm believer in the sixth sense in
pigeons and other birds and animals pos
sessed of the homing instinct, which he
calls the sense of "orientation." He has
defended his theory at length in a paper
recently read before the French Academic
Des Sciences. claiming to have amply
proved it by special trials of various
kinds. He says If the five senses acting
together account for short distance "hom-
ing "A sixth sense is required for long dis
lance in unknown places.
Congressman Suloway recently told the
following to a Detroit Free Press re-
porter: Somewhere in the South bright
colored boy appeared before the civil SER
vice commission to be examined for the
position of letter carrier. How far is it
from the earth to the moon? was the first
question asked by those who We're to de-
termine the young mans fitness for the
place he sought How fab am ii from de
earf to de moon?' echoed the applicant.
My Lawd. boss if you's gwine to put me
on dat route | don't want de job With
that the young man grabbed his hat and
left as though he were chased