The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-05

fcrmance All the new arrivals are sturdy
and likely to survive. ...
The New York Herald says that Sir
Thomas Upton has received an offer OF
$40 600 if he will change the name OF his
boat, the Shamrocn, to that of an
American periodical devoted TO advertis-
ing Nobody yet heard from believes he
will accept the offer. Aside from consid-
erationss of taste, 1t, would raise all sorts
of complications.
The Salt Lake City Herald says the rev
enues of the Mormon church from tithes
alone were 100000 in the year ended Dec
last one-third of the amount being cash
and two-thirds produce, which was dis
tributed to the poor or paid as salaries
to church employees. For the present year
it expects a large increase, its estimate
being $7OO 900 in cash and 100000 in pro-
duce.
The officials of the Greater Britain eXhi-
bition at Earl's Court, London, have de-
cided, on account of the recent scandals,
to close against women the Kaffir kraal,
peopled by 300 native Africans. who depict
scenes of savage life in connection with
the exhibition. 1t was among these KAT
frs that Miss Jewell found the black
prince with whom she has eloped.
Alexander Dumas once said of French
justice: IF / were accused of stealing
the towers of Notre Dame | should not
undertake to defend myself. | should
bolt
Miss Milly Burnett of Port Even, N. Y,
who is candidate for school commits
sioner on the republican ticket, is cleo
pioneering by riding through the country
| on a bicycle and interviewing the voters
| She is an expert wheewoman and is max
| ing strong race.
Daniel ]. Ryan, who has been chosen
| director general of the Ohio centennial ex-
| position, to be held in Toledo in 1902, had
| charge of the Ohio interests at the world s
| fair. Mr. Ryan was born in Cincinnati
| and is A years old BY profession he is a
| lawyer. He has served in the Buckeye
| legislature and as secretary of state.
| H. NJ. Atkinson, the street railway mag
nate, who is trying to get some conces-
sions for a trolley line at Atlanta, Ga, is
| of less peaceful disposition than his I'm
| Gle Edward of Boston of cooking lamp
| and Philippine pamphlet fame. When he
| thought one of the town counclmen had
made impertinent remarks about him and
| his aims he met the offending city father
in the street, knocked him down and
choked him.
Professor Roentgen is in great demand
| by the German universities. Some time
| ago he received a call to Lepse and
| Wurzburg only succeeded in keeping him
! by promising to erect a new physical lab
oratory Now Munich is trying to secure
him.
| The Society of Sons of Vermont has I'M
| dertaken to raise from $4,000 to $15 900 fot
| the purpose of erecting a statue of Ad-
miral Dewey on the porch of the Yer
mont state house at Montpelier Branch
| societies in various states have been call
| ed upon to contribute
|
| The sultan of Turkey has a great af-
| lection for Switzerland. II love it," says
the sultan, beyond all the other states in
Europe, and for a good reason-because it
sends no ambassador to Constantinople to
| worry me with its grievances"
|
| Governor Leslie NJ. Shaw of Iowa. who
| has been nominated for second term as
| chief executive of the state objects to
| dancing, and refused at his last Inaugural
| ton to sanction the customary ball This
| prejudice is attributed to his Puritan an.
| cestry.
]. H. Hofmeyr the first professional
| politician is South Africa, is now 90 years
Old, wears gold spectacleS in public, and
| Is bland or saturnine, as occasion de-
| mands. For many years a member of
the Cape parliament, he has never held
office and rarely spoken.
| Sir Julian PauncefOte, the popular Brit
| ish ambassador at Washington. who has
just become Baron Pauncefote of Preston.
| takes the latter part of his title from
Preston Court. the ancient seat of his