The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-31
All Sorts.

| Ii usSid oilly b,43i vi loe,VVo dlleiHplS
| at suicide were successful.
England gets $15OO00 a year from the
WORKOUT uniforms of its army.
The good will Of commission firm is
not an asset, according to Chicago
Judge.
John r. Mclean has offered to defray
the cost of collecting a complete history
| of Ohio for the congressional library.
For the last two years each convict in
Missouri's penitentiary earned cents a
day more than the cost of keeping him.
On Jan. 1856 Spanish troops had been
| deported from Cuba, and $4,000 were
awaiting shipment. That means that our
army of $4,000 won a victory from 100000.
! Prohibtionists polled only 1902 votes in
| Kansas last fall. That is the state in
which no liquor is supposed to be sold.
In Tennessee. full of saloons md distil-
leries, the prohibition vote was 2,4l1.
England pays its ambassadors fol-
lows: France, $4,000; Germany, $4,000;
! Turkey $4,000; Russia, $4,000; Italy, $685.
600; United States, $4,000 In most cases
| the officials receive perquisites in addi-
| ton. America pays its ambassadors ST.
| 800 each.
| Three members of the Metropolitan
| park police force of Boston are taking
| lessons in horsemanship. When they
| shall have become expert they will be
| assigned to duty on the new speedway.
where the services of good horsemen are
| needed to guard against accidents and
| to stop runaways.
| Private Earl Agnew. a Minnesota boy
| at Manila, says in a letter to his parents:
| 1.-THE inhabitants here are not very mod
| est. Some of them wear simply smile,
while the more bashful of them wear a
garter string This observing young man
also notes that during the dry season it
| only rains six days in the week, but dur
Ing the rainy season it rains only once,
and that is all the time
The Toronto courts are about to be call
ed upon to decide whether a man may lie
gally perform his own wedding ceremony.
The case in point is that of Rev. J. w.
Pfohler, who on Oct. y. 1885, married him
self to Lois Markle. This Is the first time
that a man has performed the rite COR
himself in Canada, and both Pfohler and
his wife now want the validity of their
| marriage established It would have been
much cheaper for the divine to have en-
! listed the services OF another clergyman
| in the first place. ~ ,at' ' I.ti
| The veterans who followed General Joe
Wheeler during the civil war are talking
of forming a permanent organization to
be known as "Wheeler's Cavalry Socie-
bership to those who were in active cav
! airy service in some company regiment
| or battalion composing a part of the gen.
erals command, and to have no honorary
members save the four daughters of
Fighting Joe. The idea is said to be not
so much to make the organization ex-
elusive as to make it genuine.
This is how a Bartlett, Texas, reporter
recently began an account of local mar
riage: Thursday was a most beautiful
day. Not a cloud flecked the blue sky,
and the sun placed a mantle of gold on
the earth. 1t was a winter day by the
cycles of the earth: it was a summer day
by the temper of the air, the pulsation of
hearts and the smile of radiant faces.
While unseen angels sang the marriage
anthem visible forms whispered DER and
DER the old. old song of love that the
heart fosters through the valleys over
grown with shadowy trees
American agricultural implements are
imported into Mexico, at least along the
border, without competition from abroad.
Our manufacturers have clear field and
market to themselves. In addition to
this advantage the demand for United
States agricultural machinery is steadily
increasing in the first place; implements
for tilling the soil are better in the United
| States than those made in any other
country ouf HdHuIdctuIelS HdNe tiie
advantage of quick transportation and
| moderate freight rates and all agricul-
tural implements shipped into Mexico are
entered free of duty at the customs
1 house.
There is a story told of a former Brit
| ish ambassador to America which goes to
prove that the lately developed prochvities
of Lieutenant Hobson may have been in
herited from English ancestry. The min
lister was leaving Washington and was
attended to the door of the embassy by a
large portion of the household. His excel
| lency made his adieux in a fashion decided
| ly absent-minded, and on terng his car
riage was still in brown study when in
| terrupted by his ever watchful and solicit
tous consort, who had been there await
ing him. MY dear" said this lady, do
you know what you have just done?"
| NO" replied the ambassador dreamily
do you?" why" cried his wife, you
kissed the maid servants all round"
Did I?' said the diplomat YEARLY
"Wel. hope there were some good look
ing ones among them!''