Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-03

deal of milk, especially during the sum-
mer months, had been preserved with
acid. a large part thereof being a 're-
markable strong antiseptic derived from
wood alcohol.' His investigation as to
the extent of the use of that chemical
disclosed the fact tina it was becoming
almost universal. No professional certlfi-
cation of the EMBELLISHMENTS of such a
compound is needed, but State Chemist
Wallace and Professor Descher, who made
the analyses, denounce the use of any
p~reservatlVe whatever, and agree that IN
the case of children particularly much
illness is caused by the use of milk so
treated. New Jersey is in this particular
no worse off than New York and other
milk producing states. There is suffi-
cient testimony that like practices are
common in them all, and that a remedy
must be sought in legislation absolutely
inteIdicting any such process, and pro-
viding penalties of sufficient severity for
its violation.
Despondent Tremio( mournfully)-Well,
by gosh! This is the irony of fate for
keeps. Here I've spent me last so cents
ter commit suicide with gas, an 1 get
a room with electric lights.-Judge.
| Congressman get curious letters. 81
voted for you, just the same as Jim
hSmith, and he got four packages of seed
ANA L oAis SoN nv
who cut his complaint short with the dec
laration that he would never vote for that
member again in a thousand years. An
other seed-struck constituent asks for a
package of "Mardi Gras" seed, of which
he had heard so much about, and which
he believes grows in New Orleans. An
other request from a mountaineer says:
My gal Sue is going to be married next
month. Please send her a silver ring,
and nave it marked From Pa to Darl-
ing" Another constituent asks for two
gallons of good whisky, but this tavorlte
beverage is requested by many writers
Of queer letters. OF course, those VINO
have voted for the congressman all their
lives and would like to borrow a little
money on the strength OF 1t are many,
but all of these unreasonable requests
} are consigned to the waste basket, ana
the writer's probably belleVe that tneir
representative is too busy making
speeches to answer them and by next
election forget all about 1t.
Gwen zero weather or worse lacks the
power to quench the curiosity OF the aV-
5 age mortal said one Philadelphlan TO
another yesterday afternoon. To-day a
horse slipped and fell on the pavement
; near Market and Twelfth streets. 1t was
a Ommon, everyday horse, and a COM
| mon, every-icy-day slip. But, although
, the frost bitten wind howled around the
corner at a twenty-five mile an hour Sa's'
chilling any one who fingered tive MN
,tes clear to the bone, a crowd collected
> and stood gaping at the fallen animal for
Q half an hour or more, or until the morse
ambulance came and hauled it away.
| Queer, don't you think?"
! His friend gazed at him tor a mlnute'
yes, it's queer" he finally asSented;
blamed queer. By the way, now DO you
know that the crowd stood there for hall
an hour?"
The first speaker grew red in the face
q 'I-oh I just mean. l was he
= stammered. "Oh, pshaw; let's go ana Se'
a drink And they Went.-P1llalelphta
| Enquirer.
The Chicago Post tells of a doctor who
n hurried into a drug store. i've JUST
: been called to attend the Croesus baby
> he said, land I've given a prescription
e that calls for nothing but %paregoric
When they send it over here you mus
tell them it will take at least at hour tt
n put it up, and the cost will be $3.50
That's the only way to make them thlnl
I'm any good, the medicines any gooe
and you're any good, and l want to keel
their business
Home Chat-Mrs. Wickwire-Oh, hav,
IS you seen Kipling's poem on THE Whit
Mans Burden?"
lie Mr.. Wickwire-No. What is tan
other one of those woman poems?-ln
dianapolis Sentinel.
In one of the last letters written by T
r. Barnum, just discovered, he thus ad
ia vised young men: Keep your brain fire
from the fumes of alcohol; your bloc
free from it's faint. Avoid tobacco as tn
is poison it really is. Keep yourself clear
physically and morally. Give your bod,
the care you would give to any machin
of which you require much good work"