The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-01
Things Seen
ard Heard

The young man was in a hurry to reach
the theater before the curtain went up on
the first act He wanted some candy to
MUNICH, too He rushed up to a portable
candy shop on a street corner and thrust
ing a silver dollar in the hand of the man
who stood at one end of the tray on
wheels, said: "Give me a quarters worth
of mixed" The man stepped to the other
end of the cart and soon lost himself in
the moving crowds. He waited Just long
enough to find out that he had dropped
his coin in the wrong slot, then he went
to the show and criticised every act of 1t
as only man in a sad frame of mind
can.
Just to illustrate the thoughtlessness of
some men. The head of the house went
home at the dinner hour and sat in his
big. soft chair by the window. He soon
had his face buried in page of Standard
scoops. He has two little boys s and 10
years old respectively Before taking his
seat he asked one of them to please bring
in a stick of wood for the heater While
he was reading the 1O-year-old came into
the parlor carrying the 6-weeks-old cher
ub, all dressed and perfumed, for papa's
inspection.
Here, papa; just look at this
Completely absorbed in his paper, the
head of the house, only remembering the
one thing that prompted him to give the
order to his little son, said:
Like a good little man, you put it in
the stove and save papa the trouble of
getting up"
The man that thinks grass won't grow
in Butte is invited to take a peep at the
front yard of the St. James hospital
There is some of the prettest, juiciest
greenest grass that ever grew. 1t is not
tall, but it is grass, and green at that.
Walkerville has new sensation. A
wood hau,er came in from the lowlands
the other day, bringing with him a queer
| looking species of animal 1t has three
| legs; it is about the size of a chfpmunk,
| with the head of a fish, no ears, long, fiat
| body, bushy tail Its fore legs are SIM
| liar to those Of a squirrel. Its hind leg is
| longer than those in front. At the point
| where the knee should be the tail branch
es out. 1t was dead when found lying on
the edge of the road where the road cross
| es a slough. Some say it is a chpmunk
| an that it acquired its freakness after a
| loaded wagon ran over it, while there are
| some men who declare it is a natural
| freak and worth preserving. The wood
| haulcr was inclined to the belief of the
| latter until he heard the theories ad-
vanced by the former. Then he bought
| the drinks and returned to his wood
| camp
| A man who lives in Missoula gulch went
| into the Florence hotel yesterday to see
! friend. The two men engaged in con-
| versatile and the Missoula gulch residen,
| said: "Since l last saw you I have crossed
Washington. Idaho. Wyoming, Arizona
and Montana thinking that his friend
| would wonder and ask questions, but he
manifested no surprise. merely suggest
| ing that in his search for wealth he had
| cut through copper, silver, gold, iron
| aluminium, galena, granite, porphyry
and other formations. In order
| to set themselves Alright with a visitor
| they explained the system of naming
streets in Butte, and then the conversa-
| ton drifted.
An interesting account is told by Mrs
| Moffat, who is singing the Crittentor
meetings of one of her experiences in d
wild and woolly Arizona town. She had
heard of local character who in Texas
would probably have been called "a
| mighty bad man." This citizen was
handy with his gun, which he always
| wore-prohably as much from custom as
| he would wear a hat-and he never passed
up a chance for a fight. AS side issue
the "Alkali Ike" in question put in his
spare moments behind the board counter
of a local store.
Mrs Moffat visited the store and invited
the citizen to come out to the meetings
He finally agreed, on learning that she