The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-27

for in his face he has that blank, sense
less expression, and his speech Is very
imperfect and sloveniy. 1t is pitiful 10
watch him as he works patiently at his
bench. Notwithstanding these misfor-
tunes he is born mechanic and might
have become a great machinist were it
not for the fact that he cannot grow
either mentally or physically. Invention
is mania with him. 1t is all he hopes
or lives for. When he has succeeded in
making ridiculous toy, self-operating
by some arrangement of machinery, he Ia
happy until the novelty wears away, and
then he sets vigorously at work upon
another.
One of his greatest achievements is an
automatic brass band. 1t consists of 10
or more toy men, mounted on a stand
and blowing tiny horns, which squeak
forth strange, discordant notes. They are
operated by clockwork and a bellows
which blows the air through the toy men
into the Instruments. In the minds of
the children the achievement is wonder
full. Fully dozen such pieces of ma
chinery are the products of his shallow
genius. His farm machinery he consld-
ers the greatest of his inventions. The
collection consists of a thrashing machine,
engine, water tank. eight farm hands,
horses, wagons. etc. Automatically it
moves with perfect system. the engine
wheels whirling, the complication of belts
operating the thrasher and each man and
horse doing the part designed for him.
Two men feed the shocks in and the
wheat drops out into sacks held by a dim
inutive wooden man, who loads them into
wagon, drawn away by toy horse. He
has hand tricycle. of his own make,
which he thinks an Improvement on the
foot power machine and he may be often
seen riding it about the streets of his
home town.
He now has the perpetual motion craze
and is hard at work developing new
theory which he insists will be a success
and is to bring him great wealth.
Bent and decrepit, Irresponsible ever
walking and talking like drunken man,
he has lived apparently happy for more
than 80 years. In his community he has
turned all the boys green with envy and
established reputation as an inventor
throughout several counties. Every year
at the county fair in his home town he
can be seen in his own booth, and all
the people visit him to see what funny
things he has made since the last fair
time.-Chicago Chronicle.
Car the Worlds Most Powerful Man.
In Russia the cars will is the only
law and it follows that he can name any
man he likes as his successor-a barber,
for example. AS a matter of fact, the
czars have lately observed the laws laid
down by their predecessors, but they used
not to and there is no power to compel
them to do so.
The car commands an army of 1852. 49G
men, who know no higher law than his
will He has personal estate of more
than 100000 square miles of cultivated
lands and forests, besides gold and other
mines in Siberia. His wealth is literally
incaculable and probably inexhaustible.
Public documents give no account of his
income as they do in other monarchial
countries.
Although the position Of the car may
appear an enviable one, it has many dis
advantages. The mortality among czars
is probably higher than among match
factory operatives. Peter III, grandson
of Peter the Great. was murdered in 1852
Paul son of Catherine H., was murdered
in 1901. Alexander H. was assassinated
by the nihilsts in 1881. The late czar, AL
| exander III, died prematurely through
| the constant fearof assassination.
| The car possesses the most splendid
| collection of jewels of any person in the
| world--monarch or millionaire. These, Of
| course, are of more Importance to his
| wife than to him.