Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-02-07
The Talk OF the Day.

l. AK VI IllS LAY.
"A western railroad official recently re-
ceived the following letter:
Il am in the Montana state prison
serving a long term. l have no friends
nor any money, so am very lonely in my
prison cell. What l want to ask YOU is:
VIII you please send me a hanger of the
united states. If you will l can spend,
a good many months looking it over,
Whlch VIII pass my time away. If you
cannot do it, please let me know. SO that
1 Will know you got this letter."
Her Romance.-"Miss Mile. 7 insist
upon an answer. I will not be put off any
longer"
Mr.. Noggins, I will be your wife event.
ually, put not till after I have become en-
gagged to Algernon We're de We're and tilt
ed him. So much, at least, is rightfully
due to the dreams of my girlhood."-
Chicago tribune.
On september Is last a Bavarian at
Bamberg sent up a small balloon, to
which was attached his card, with the
request that the finder of the balloon
should let him know where it touched the
ground. Three months later he got his
card, with a letter from the man who
had found the balloon in Sunderland,
| England.
Gloves" said he, 'were known to the
Greeks"
They must nave been, in the nature
of things" said she, "for did they not
have both theaters and married couples
in those days?"
Which goes to show hat the workings
of the Great Plan We're just about
the same in the days of the ancients.-
indianapolis Journal.
Pau Addison Of Ellwood, Ind, sued
the town because his little boy of eight
fell into a sewer and was drowned. The
jury gay Addison a verdict for $500. 95,
the net cash value of the boys life from
eight to twenty-one, when he would have
been his own master, figuring it in this
way: From eight to ten years old the
boy would be able to make As cents a
week. During that period it would cost
S. cents a week to keep him. From ten
to twelve he would make IS cents a week,
and it would cost $1.25 to keep him. From
twelve to fourteen he could make 81 a
week and the living cost would be 81.
From fifteen to eighteen he could make
S. a week, and the living cost would be 81.
BY the jury's calculation, the most valu-
able time of the child's life would be from
fifteen to eighteen.
I Obli oAoliS 4 "A y - 49,
kind of you to have our jewelled COM
munion service made without cost to us
Jeweller-Don't mention it, parson. It's
a god-send to me to nave all the old jew
elry in town melted.-JeWeler's Weekly.
Il A Tennessee congressman tells a story
which illustrates the humane disposition
leof Senator Turley. Like many other
fhouses in Memphis. that of the senator
was infested recently with river rats.
Mrs. Turley wanted to poison them, but
the senator would not agree to this. 1t
was decided to buy half a dozen wicker
rattraps. The traps We're set and the
lfrst night a dozen big fellows were
Ecaught. Senator Turley awoke early
[pext morning, reused his little children,
Iand gave them so cents to turn the rats
loose. He could not bear to see them kill
ed. The little Turkeys soon had a snug
sum in their miniature banks and had a
standing job for several weeks.
A Rough Observation-Disclosures" CON
fessed the callow youth, 81 nave married
her. We are two souls with but a single
, thought"
well, you've gained something. 4
: single thought isn't so many, but it is on
more than | ever knew you to have be
fore."-Detroit Free Press.
The Chicago board of education has de
lcided that all teachers in the publi
, schools of the city must hereafter live il
the city.
Mrs. CT wonder where in the worl'
the alarm clock has gone | saw it o.
f the mantel Yesterday.
e Mr.. Cit was there yesterday, but
heard it going off this morning.
Mrs. C.-Well, l hope it hasn't gon
where you told it to g~o.-Yonkers States
man