The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-12-30

was dragged out BY an Ofncer. bringing
dow from the upper floors more than
100 persons. many of whom surely would
have persisted.
Personal Paragraphs.
A. A. Fitzgerald. the explorer. whose
recent ascent OF Mount Aconagua won
him fame. Is now In Egypt TO recover his
health.
III. u. Baker. cashier Of the Hallowell.
Me-. Savings institution. who celebrated
his SD birthday ;ast week. attends to his
official duties daily.
Joseph jefferson has announced his in
teEtion OF delivering I'm the near future a
series OF lectures on the drama before
several New York dramatic schools.
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Mrs. William G. whitney. who was in
jured while horseback riding some time
ago. shows no signs OF further improve
meDt. She Is confined to bed. from which
II Is feared she can never rise.
Freiherr Won Gleichen Russwurm. a
groat-grandson of Schiller. has recently
been invited TO visit Vienna by the Ger
man-Austrian Literary society OF that
capital. He delivered a lecture on 1.-The
ihhuehce VI Women.
80
Ninon de rEnclos took her secret of
sempiternal youth and beauty to the tomb.
But she left her house behind her. IL Is
still standing i'm the Rue de Tournelles.
Paris, with it's six stories and Its mag
niicent staircase OF artistically wrought
iron.
Governor-elec Roosevelt OF New
York. driven to desperation by the army
of office seekers by whom he is besieged.
has issued this notice: mo person. no
matter who he may be. need come to see
me hereafter unless he has an appoint
ment."
Lindley Murray. the grammarisn. was
born in East Hanover township, Lancas-
ter NOV Dauphin) county. Pennsylva-
mia. and the house where he was born
was standing until about 1850. Murray
Station. on the Lebanon & rail-
read, is named for him.
Frederick schrelner. the brother of the
Cape Colony premier. has written to the
English papers denying that his family Is
of Dutch extraction. "Our father" he
says. was "a German. our mother an
English woman OF Scandinavian descent
and no Dutch blood is in our veins"
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The grand old man of the Roman
church is not the pope. as most people
Suppose. but Cardinal Mertel. who IL in
his 95th year and SO active and energetic
that he bids fair to see the 18th century
out and the 2oth in. He has just returned
to Rome from a holiday visit to his ma
tive town of Allumiere.
Vice President Hobart patronizes a Chi
nese laundry in Paterson and the celes-
tial Is naturally very proud of his distin-
guished customer. Mr.. Hobart recently
secured for him "A photograph OF Presi-
dent Mckinley. bearing the presidential
signature. This now adorns the laundry,
an. the owner is elated by the gift.
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King Oscar Of Sweden and Norway has
conferred the order of Vasa on August
Peterson of Washington in recognition of
his services in founding the colonies of his
cOuntrymen In America. The order was
instituted by Gustavus III. In 1I12 to rec
ompense persons who have rendered the
state distinguished services and the honor
is rarely conferred outside OF Sweden.
49,
Rembrandts picture. David Playing
the Harp Before Saul" one of the most
important canvases i'm the recent inter-
national loan exhibition of the Dutch
masters works in Amsterdam. is to re-
main i'm Holland. IL belonged 10 Mr.. Du-
rand Ruel OF Paris. but has been bought
by DIR. A. Bredlus. director of the Nation
al museum at The Hague. for $4,000. and
has already been placed I'm that museum
OH exhibition.
Lord and Lady Aberdeen signalized
their departure from Canada by circulat-
ing "A farewell literary souvenir. IL rom
sisted of a beautiful reprint OF the intro
duction that Lady Aberdeen contributed
to the Canadian summer annual, entitled
Our Lady OF the Sunshine" the retort to
Rudyard Kip.ing's "Our Lady of the
Shows" Then on a loose sheet were the
words Goodbye" the autograph sigma
lures OF Lord and Lady Aberdeen and the
date, Nov. IL, 1SsS.
Mrs. Sarah Josepha Hale, n Boston wo-
man and editor Of the first woman's mag
azine published in this country, worked
for - years to have "a definite day set
apart for Thanksgiving. Time did not
daunt her courage. but rather increased
her insistence. She wrote to governors OF
states and tn presidents of the United
States. At last President Lincoln adopted
her suggestion I'm ls6I, when there was
reason To rejoice over the success of the
North in restoring the union.
George II. Baillie of Kansas City IL a
native Of Spain. a graduate OF the Uni
Versity OF Heidelberg. and served this
country as "a soldier i'm the Mexican war.
the civil war and In the campaign against
the Modocs in 1870. lie has been a me-
chanic. a physician. "A piano tuner. a
teacher of modern languages and n pro-
fessor OF German and chemistry i'm the
University OF Kansas. But he is now In
straitened circumstances and depends
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