Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-05

IN SuCn excellent spirits was the reply.
Here Mrs. Cleveland interposed, saying,
Il am AFRAID you are guilty of flattery,''
whereupon, came the reply:
mo. madam; flattery is fulsom co1npli-
ment, and in this instance no compliment
could be either too frank or too fulsom!"
The charm of this response lies in the last
and fourth from the last words. Mrs.
Cleveland's maiden name being Frances
Folsom.-I.adies Home Journal.
Boutet de Monvel, the French artist,
says: why have American painters
never made use Of their twenty-two-story
buildings in their pictures? Something
fantastic and imaginative could be done
| with Them
The Case Not Fully Covered.-"Well.
did, that fortune teller who advertised
that she could reveal your past, present
ard future carry out her agreement? p"
Yes, I suppose she did. She said / had
been in love with a beautiful, darlz-eyed
girl; that l am now in owe with another,
and that I will marry somebody else. All
this seems to apply to my case. I have
been in love with a beautiful, dark-eyed
girl, and the one I love now is unfortu-
nately the child of honest, but POOR, pa
rents. I don't see why the fortune-teller
forgot to mention. that tall blonde and
the little Hoosier girl I used to be engag-
4 ~ q LIZ ASS"o.
Prince Hilkoff, the Russian Minister of
Railways and Telegraphs. says that when
the Trans-Sibeerlan railway Is finished 1t
will be possible to travel around the world
in thirty-three days, as follows:
Bremen to st. Petersburg, one and
one-half days.
est. Petersburg to Vladivostock travel
ling by rail at the rate of thirty-two miles
an hour, ten days.
"~Vladivostock to San Francisco by
! steamer, ten days.
"San Francisco to New York by rail,
four and one-half days.
New York to Bremen by steamer, in
| seven days"
A Kansas boy in Manila thus writes
home: MY, you ought to see the gor-
| geousness of the i~nsurgent officers. The
little brown rasCalS strut around in gold
lace. They wear red trousers with dou-
BILE white stripes like our musicians, white
coats, green epaulets with gold stars on
them, and white caps with gold eagles,
and white shoes, and how they do strut!
We are aching to get to shoot at them,
and are anxious anyway to see whether
A%guinaldo is boss or Uncle Sam. The
other day the sly brown rascals built a
huge bamboo house up near our outposts,
and then, working at night, made a
~blockhouse inside the bamboo and garri-
soned it with 100 men. Funston ordered
them to a k it down, and when they re-
fused he called out the First and Second
battalions, but General Macarthur heard
of the trouble and stopped him. Otis is
trying to use moral suasion, but 1 doubt
if he ever makes it 60"
a natural soap mine and a paint mine
are two of the latest mineral discoveries
in the northwest. Several soda lakes have
been found in the foothills heal Ashcroft,
B. c. Their bottoms and shores are en-
crusted with a. natural washing COM
pound. containing borax and soda. No
two analyses agree exactly as to the COM
position of the material. A New York
! analysis gives>26 per cent borax, while a
Montreal chemist, from the same sample,
gives IS per cent bOrax.. An Ottawa an
alysis showed only a trace, of borax.
Tests prove the substance to be equal to
the washing powders in common use for
cleansing purposes. . Trials by black
smiths and farm rkm show that it
Will remove the grease and dirt quicker
than SOAP After many such tests a syn
dictate Of British Columbia men has been
formed to put the product on the market.
One of the members is now in New York,
for that purpose. About two hundred and
seventy-five tons of the compound have
been cut and taken out of one Lake. 1t is
handled precisely as ice is handled. The
blocks are more than nine inches in
thickness, are sawed in blocks fifteen by
eighteen inches, and weigh fifty pounds
each. 1t ia m that this lake alone
contains twenty thousand toms, proving
that the industry, if successful, will reach
large proportiOns.-Chicago Record.