Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-11-29
MISCELLANEOUS

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&&,%:&N.&& OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
The Hutchinson (kan.) News says that
every morning at the usual hour Miss
| Mary S~croggins opens the schoolhouse in
District No. IS in Reno county, and
then sits at her desk all day long, while
not a pupil comes to receive instruction.
1t seems that all the families living in
District No. IS are Catholics and send
| their children to a nearby p~arochial
school. Miss Scroggins has the usual
contract with the school officers, and she
will continue to open and occupy her
lonely schoolroom through all the winter
months. Last year she had no pupils
at all during the first four months of the
term, and only two pupils during the
remaining three months.
Some months ago a number of public
| spirited citizens of Berkeley, CAL, Of
fered to pay into the town treasury
| the $500 received annually from liquor
licenses. On this condition a prohibition
ordinance was adopted, and the saloons
received notice that they might have
three months in which to wine up their
business. At the expiration of that time
the $3.50 necessary for the first quarterly
| payment was raised, but it was held in
hand to await the attitude of the town
authorities toward the prohibited traffic.
That attitude was one of indifference.
AS much liquor was sold as before, and
the citizens committee refused to pay
the money.
Many ludicrous MISUNDERSTANDING Oc-
Cured in the taking of the census. One
question was indicated by the remark
length of residence" which was expect
ed to show how long the people living
in various localities at the time of the
| census had been there. When the re-
ports came in it was found that many
of the queries were answered in figures
in this way: 2ox40, 15X3O. etc. The
enumerators had gone around with a
footrule and had measured the length
of the residences of the people they
counted.
Mary is very stout, quite deaf and the
trusted housemaid of a family in the
East Park section. Incidentally, she
seems to be something of an art critic.
When she cleans the family rooms she is
heard to mutter and shake her head
in busting the pictures, an d she seems
to be especially severe on a few repre-
sentatives of the "altogether'' that hang
in the little den. One day Mary was
flirting her dustcloth about in this little
room when her mistress happened in.
Mary was standing gazing intently at a
beautiful photograph of Bouguereau's
Cupid and Psyche" And phwat pictur'
is that?" asked Mary, in hard, cold
tones. "Oh, that is Cupid and Psyche"
said the lady, rather ndifferently.
MOODY and Sankey, is ut? Well, I
hav' heered of them felleys. Sure,
they ought to be ashamed of their
Observation-Disclosures. Record.
The officers whose duty it is to en-
force the game laws of Kansas, recent
~ had reason to suspect that some
market hunters were illegally shipping
quail from Wellington, but the gather
ing Of evidence was found to be an al
most impossible task. Finally the Off
GERS borrowed a pointer dog and took
it to the freight depot, and the animal
promptly centered it's attention upon a
large egg case. The case was opened,
and under it's two top layers of eggs
were found several dozen quail. The
law-breakers We're found without diff
Guilty upon reference to the railroad
company's books, and arrests promptly
followed.
Il ave w suits for my two boys"
says a Philadelphia man., lone new and
expensive; the other very old and ugly
and Worn. They own these suits in
common, and the boy who gets up first
in the morning wears the good one as
a reward. Both boys are fond of dress,
and SO this scheme works we'll. The
minute I shout Boys, get up they
spring out of bed and make a rush for
the new suit. Sometimes they reach it
together, when there will be a hot fight
over who's to wear it and I have to
come up and restore order with a hair
brush"
Halloween Risk-"If I walk backwar!
down the cellar stairs in the dark II
see my future husband
Nonsense. you'll be more likely to see
our family surgeon.''-Chicago Record.
1t is the habit of a certain Lewiston
CMe.) instructor in languages to call
upon the pupil and then give him a clew
to the place by translating the first three
o. four words the latter is to read. The
! result is that often when the teacher is
in somewhat of a hurry at the close of
the such startling admonitions as these
roll forth upon the class: "Next-Take
of your boots,' or Miss S.-'You scoun-
drel, what 10 you mean?'" or "Mr.
| ~Brown-'Pray the gods to spare you,'"
and the innocence of the teacher and the
surprise of the pupil never fail to please
the sense of humor of the class.
reakfas and lunch for ladies and