The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-06
THIS AND THAT.

Baron Joicey, one of the new Eng fish peers, IS the largest indivIduaI pI0- put of the Hampton and JVicey col nery companies, which he practically owns, amounts to 5O,U00,000 tons per annun and he has besides large inter- ests in several other coal companies.
 Daniel W. Fowler, inquiry clerk in the Milwaukee postoffiee, has been hall a century in the postal service. Nu- merUus friends remembered the golden jubilee, sending him flowers and other tributes. Mir. Fowler was born in a log cabin which stood near what Is now the western limit of Milwaukee.
 The royal families of Sweden. spain and Italy all own lots in New York, Kaiser Win slm owns several parcels of New York land and has been for some years a heavy investor in western property. The King of England in. estate on Nassau Street in New York, King Edwards owns some thousands ot acres of western land.
 Shortly after Chief Justice Purley of shire had retired from. the bench and resumed the practice of his profession a man called on. him to get his opinion on a certain matter. After stating his what do you think of my case?" The Judge promptly replied. T think you are a scoundrel." How much do owe you for that opinionT' inau'yed d the. Judge. The fee was promptly
 The following is accredited to the late Senator. Hoar: At a Fourth of where both English and American guests were assembled, the flags of the two countries were used in deco rations. A frivolous young English girl loyal to the Queen, but with no love for the Stars and Stripes, exelaim- ed: Oh what a silly looking thing the American flag Is! It sdgsests noth-. ing bIt ass snssk,er-nssirry s,e eanSy r,n9 oy candy that has made everybody sick who ever tried to lick it,
 It is a fact not generally known that Andrew carneeie's patronage of music church organs as well as libraries is the result of well ~ordered musical taste resulting from eonsiderable ed- ucation in that line. When MT. Car negie was a rich young man in Pitts burg he was a student under George Murray Alexander, who was Tor many years. organist in one of the larger gave his attention to the violin and althougf he never won fame his inti- mates say he even yet gets out his fid- dle and "maies staBger" at some of Senator Dick ef Ohio prepared a speech on the Statehood bill and car ried it around with him for two weeks
  When opportunity did offer the effort proved to be unusually dreary and in a few minutes the Senator was ad- dressing a few pages and the presiding officer. Mir Dick had underseored a lot of words he intended to emphasize to give the maiden effort the proper declamatory effect and he sent that copy tn the Government printing of- fee, The result was that the speech in next mornings Record was be- strewn with Italics and looked like a college girls commencement essay.
 While discussion of a military bill was proEressinE in the National House of Representatives the members were irvine to understand what was meant by fire control of field artillery. :" Sev- eral army captains were in the gallery One member frankly asked what was meant bv fire control" and Con1ress- man Parker of the Comnittee on MU- itarv ,Arairs said he would evniain haVine seen 1t work a few days hefnre '"The si~aal, enrnR men." he said. 'Ta, a little telegra nh line in the feld whicN onetates nv telenhnnA Then +hev have a litt'e hlt of 2 snvElass m at tha ton of the hNI which thev level like a trsnsit. They tate s'oht on thA en- Anrv anar~thAn take auother nn churck staeple in the rear and then fhev Lno,p the distance. So the gunner shoote over the hill and hits his mark with ont seeing it Then the army officers rAtirad in disgust.