Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-30

n - llldI SGnIleInAn'2 con
tinuation in office.
/ II TALK OF THE DAY.
. Ihe Chicago Record tells of an absent
minded man who bought a load of ha,
} the other day for his AUTOMOBILES.
In such extremely dry weather as we
are now having even the frontier rain
maker or the Ojibbeway medicine man
with his moist lamentations, would be sure
Oh respectful attention. The official
weather prophets wilt under the strain
ana can promise us no comfort. In such
circumstances the sOrcerer with his point
ed cap and painted robe and instruments
Oh thaumaturSy would be welcome. But
wen ne appears to be one of the many
signs which fail in dry weather.
Mrs. Wrenter-What a nuisance it is to
hire a house and be unable to have any
thlng done without begging for it,!
Mr.. Wrenter-Yes, but it is a bigger
nuisance to be the landlord and to have
your tenant eternally begging for some
thing-Boston Transcript.
A man approached a Burlington, VT.
policeman the other day. and advanced
the decidedly novel proposition that if the
bluecoat would lend him a quarter, pre-
sumably to buy a drink. he would come
back in a few moments and raise a dis
turbance, so that the officer could ar
rest him and set the usual fee.
Bull-Who was that gentleman you
nodded to in the hallway?
Bear-He? Oh, he's Dunbar, the mil
liOnaire.
Bull-And who was that man you shook
hands with and gave a cigar to in the
elevator?
Bear-He? Oh. he's Muggins. the jan
it~or.-Chicago News.
The new wolf scalp bounty law of Kan
sas is giving the clerks of the various
counties considerable trouble on account
of it's ambiguity. The new law offers q
bounty of 81 for all wolf scalps. except
those Of the "lobo' species, the scalps of
which are worth IS each. The county !
clerks don't know what the "lobo'' is,
and have been unable to obtain any in
which would enable them to
distinguish the SIS scalps from those of the
ordinary wolf.
did you ever laugh until you cried,
Eyes. only this morning"
What at?"
"Sl, pa otcppcu Ou d TACK ana L
laughed; then pa caught me laughing
and | cried."--Pittsburg Chronicle.
comes by way of an East
Indian paper that Mr.. and Mrs. Thamby-
nayagampillai are now on a visit to
kovlldkudyirruppu. Mr.. Thambynaya-
gampillai is the son of Judge G. S. Ari-
anayagampillai and son-in-law of Mrs. A.
Jambulingammudelliar. From this it is
to reach the conclusion that society
in 1ndiaaead a busy and inter-
esting life. II
How are you getting On in your clay
modelling, Kittie?"
oh, Just lovely. I'm devoted to it,"
"Thi is a fine head; who is it%"
"Goodness-don't ask me; isn't he
sweet? 1t is either Martin Luther or ].
Benjamin n."-Detroit Free Press.
The Richmond Times doesn't believe /.
nat lynching prevents crime. 'In spite
u the fact" it says, that Sam Hose was
at the stake in Georgia, his horri-
Die crime continues to be committed BY |
negroes in Georgia, and even in that part
# Georgia where Hose was burned, We S
AVE recorded within the last two weeks '
more than half a dozen such cases, and +
n yesterdays Times we recorded three f
more. The things seem to get worse in t
OF better. In the light of This fact t
'ays the Columbia State, is it not true a
hat the horrors of the Hose lynching c
we're wasted, that it's cruelties failed of d
heir purpose that they damned the Il
whites who committed it while they did T
lot daunt the black criminals, and that T
ne white women of that section are even +
ess secure than they We're before?'" I
= b
I'm the report of my sermon, print y
I in VOlI ma nor This ~, npp ;~ -, - 49, "A
q the popular clergyman, you misquote Il
le." il
In what way?' asked the church re- e.
orter. W
II spoke Of the slim attendance at one
the church meetings during the week,
you make me say: 1T is not my =
ault. Blame the weather." 7
But, doctor, begging your pardon |
1ose We're your exact words. | heard
o u say Them :
Yes; but I didn't use HI ]
oint.'-Chicago Tribune.
Inc Christian people of Webster CITY.
L., say that a remarkable answer to Il
rayer recently occurred in that town.
tile Ethel Howard, 8 years old, petition
every night that she might get the
rlze offered as a result of a three
lohths voting contest for the most pop
lar little girl in the town. Ethelis vote
as 9.445 against Helen Beaumont's 9.O31
nd Irene MerrilHs 5000. T
Ada (soothingly)-Perhaps it was
cant as a compliment? ~,
Clara (unsoothed)-Oh, no, it wasn't! y
ne idea of saying 1 have a common sense "
HARD-WON BET.
Detroit Free Press: 1.-The hardest-won