Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-11-22
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~Teacher-Try to remember this: Mil
ton, the poet, was blind Do you think
you can remember it?
Bobby Smart-Yes, ma'am
Teacher-Now what was Millions
great misfortune?
Bobby Smart-He was a poet.-Ohio
State Journal.
The iceman's ball the other evening
at Brighton. Mass, was a unique affair.
The decorations about the hall were very
elaborate. implements used in the ice
industy being in evidence, while the
platform was a mass OF ported palms
and ferns and tropical vendure. A fea-
ture of the stage decorations was sew
eral ice picks and other tools stacked to-
gether, and the whole surmounted by an
American flag.
1.-THE Boston Herald" says: "It is ru-
mOred that James Jeffrey Roche. of The
Pilot is to be appointed an admiral in
the Transvaal navy" Now mark the
first result Of that i'ippant joke. A Brit
ish-American writes, calling us a traitor
and a lot of other unpleasant things. He
evidently does not know that the Trans
vaal navy is like that of switzerland in
lacking only seaports, ships and sailors.
That is the way that we Beers are abused
all the time.-Boston Pilot.
Apropos OF the way the mules acted
at Ladysmith. The Hartford Courant"
says that ION the eve of the battle Of
Lookout mountain in the civil war, STAN
peding union mules broke up a cOnfed-
crate camp. the oldiers fleeing for dear
life under the impression that a body of
cavalry was upon them. Unfortunately
for the federal side, the charge of the
mules was not we'll supported. And
then Blanco's report of one of our bonn
bardments in Cuba last year gave the
casualties as 'one mule killed."
Newrocks-What are you reading, my
dear?
Mrs. Newroclls.-It's a letter from
Uncle Henry. He says he is getting rich
out in Kansas this year, because the
crops are so abundant, and he thinks he
will be able to indulge in a few ~luxuries.
This is what he writes in a postcript:
Nov. if o and Charlie don't want that
autumn mobile you WrO.e about, send 1t
it's worth. You'll likely want a new
one in the spring. to be in style, but the
people out here won't know whether
yours is a spring or an autumn one, so
it'll do Just as Well for me as if it was
brand new."-Cleveland Leader.
THE Boston Herai," says: "A man
was brought into The Springfield police
court the other day charged with neglect
ing 20 support his Wife. He pleaded gull
ty and was fined $40. Thereupon his
neglected wife stepped up to the clerk 8
desk and paid the fine. which was
promptly refunded to her, under the
provision OF the law relative to non-sup-
port cases. which provides for the pay
ment of the amount of the fine imposed
on the husband to the wife when the
court so d.rec :. The law appears to be
based on the right principle. but it oper-
ates uueerly sometimes, as in this case
Romance and chivalry are not what
they were, alas.
Once. the hero. having rescued the
maiden from the tower, paused in his
flight 70 exclainl:
"Hark. The hoofbeats of ~pursuers!'
But now
smell. Inc odor of thy fathers auto
MOBILIZE" .
1t is terrible, this sordid utilitarianism!
Detroit journal.
The first parliament house OF the
Beers Was under a banyan tree. under
which the rulers of the Tra,svaal gath
cred in the early days OF the epublic
to discuss questions affecting the coun-
try, and the tree has thus become known
as the first Nolksraad Of the Transyaal.
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