10 INTER MOUNTAIN: BUTTE. MONTANA. V’X »1. PIQÜART AND THE) DIRECTORS DO NOT KNOW WHETHER TO “4 ( LAUGH OK TO CRY AT THE lU'I I.DINGS AND FLOATS SUGGEST­ X. ED TO THEM, r x ^ 0 u.\ $ i The directors of the Paris Exposition Those who go up stairs two steps at a ( fire divided between dismay and am use­ time might get to the top by noon and ment at the large number of freak ex­ return in half an hour. m r ^ S \ hibits which have been submitted to Actually as an exhibit such a structure AvS. NN! them for use at the exposition. You have 'would be a wonderful thing: for it would J heard of the giant umbrella and of the ’show Paris up. as nothing else could ever for and Children. float, also the Ferris wheel and the Eiffel ; hope to do. The ever changing view infants tower'. These have some scientific use as the climber walked around the litige and are valuable as inventions, but the cigar would afford a magnificent oppor­ mere fact of their acceptance has s<> stim­ tunity to study all parts of the city from ulated the ingenuity of inventors from above. Toilers could journey as they The Kind You Have Always Bought Yankeeland, from the south and from ; do up the Alps, half way and then return. 1.A A 1 Æ Â ' the west, that they have hastened to It would be by no means obligatory to j: • BEARS THE SIGNATURE OF Paris to offer their freak ideas to the ! ascend "the Matterhorn " as the last rev- managers in the hope that they might I elution at the very top was called in the ' I i " ‘ ^ « obtain a concession of space in whielt to I plans. 3 exhibit them. The famous Alexandre bridge, the eor- „ ll Recently M. Piquart, the director gen­ I nerstone of which was laid by the czar eral announced that all freak exhibits i two years ago, aroused jealousy in the were now in and that he would not ac­ , mind of a Massachusetts inventor, a man A BOTTLE SHAPED BUILDING FOR ALL DRINK EXHIBITS. cept any more. The French press went ; who has secured many patents. On read- on to say that none of these were freaks 1 ing the many accounts of the Pont Alex- be shown here, and samples would l>e Wisconsin, though not Milwauke, sent pure and simple, but that all had a direct | andre he determined to originate a pont given away free. The building would be lilans for the jolliest building that could bearing upon improvement scientific and i which would bring the Alexandre bridge lighted by windows which would also ever be imagined in a day’s journey, mechanical. "The Ferris wheel." said ; to the blush. He drew and he drew, and serve as observatories^. A staircase .lust fancy a hogshead not life size, but In Use For Over 3 0 Years. they, "has a mechanical value: so also when his plans were completed he sub- would lead upward into the top of the heroic size, so heroic that it would be a THE CCNTMJB COMPANY. TT MURRAY STREET. NEW ’/CRH CITY. had the sliding sidewalk at the World's Imitted them to a committee and the com­ cork and from the top of the cork would good journey to walk around it. Fancy Fair." mittee straightway sent them over to wave a triumphant American flag. a spigot set in a Hogshead. When you Rut the wou!-be freak exhibitors the Paris exposition. The Massachusetts New York state, which has never laid wish to ascend you take an elevator claim to being overstudious, is made re­ which leads up the spigot. Then you sponsible for a book building in which— walk along a nice pathway, climb up the the inventor—suggested all the processes stairs and emerge upon a handsome ver­ of book manufacture, could be nicely anda. Thus you find yourself upon the 7 shown. “In the top windows” said he, hoop of the hogshead. Inside there are in the elaborate letter which he sent to fine walks andA a beautiful cafe where the Railway Tim e Tables 3 A CARD (*( — OF— LOCAL TIME TABLE. 1 .,.0MOapnSmleaVe B" A’ & P ’ dePot- Eutte< w . V&flU TRAINS, A <L J i * —* '1 ajSRkA, F#,' "'•■Vi32 «Ç gjJ# BUTTE 8 T r a î n éleave 10 aUnion ’ 1:05 passenger p’ 4:45 station, P- *,V, Anaconda, as follows: 8:40 a. ra„ 11:53 Uf ' i ' f>j 'V EAST Arrive Depart a. in., u p. m., 7;2o p . m . -mi. -j.'fii - fee No. 12—Anaconda to SL ^ ° r t h e r n trains leave Anaconda: P aul.................................... 9:00 pm 9 :10 am No. 11— St. Paul to Ana­ via* Butt« G reat Falis and H elena local, conda, dally..................... 11:40 a m 11:50 p m p ' :,2C p- m- Through train for all points No. 34—Mixed, to White- easL and west. £ liail, daily, except Snn- da.v; to Twin Bridges io°îo*îaern P a ®ific traîna leave Anaconda: m f e . P*'4f m ,n’t Pacinc Portland CM ■ Tuesday,Thursday and 7 Points west. //rw* Saturday; to l’ony and o J.f - ,P1 m- T h r°U£h train for all point* Kerris, Monday, Wed­ east and west. A BRIDGE IN THE FORM OF A SILK HAT. nesday and Friday .... 0:15 p m 8:00 am A ^ conda^°n SJlort LIne traln leaves Ana- little daunted on being refused, have gone plan showed a bridge in the shape of a silk f - W Æ xvr* WEST. outside the grounds; and have in many hat. Tlie one brim of the tile rested up­ r*r No 13—To Portland and south P m F cf aIi P0*11*3 easL west and cases obtained space upon which to erect on one side of the river; the other brim M all coast points daily... 10:30 am Ticket, for sgle for all points, local and their monstrosities. These, though out­ rested upon tlie opposite shore. This No. 14—From Portland side the walls, directly overlook the gave a beautiful arch which was the de­ A FLOAT TX THE FORM OF A STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE. through, on the Great Northern railway. and all coast points Oregon Short Line railroad and Northera grounds and give a perfect view of both light of the constructor, daily................................... 9:45 p m sides of the Seine, on which the exposi­ j The roadways were exquisitely provid­ the directors, "our men of letters could j nourishing beer is dispensed. This is Pacific railway, and their connections. tion is laid out. ed for by the natural shape of the bridge. turn out their novels and their poems. I designed to show the superiority of the Steamship tickets for sale to all point* A very remarkable construction which On driving over all teams would keep While the ink was yet fresh these could ; American beer over foreign. Our native Standard Pullman. First-Clas# and In Europe via the above lines. was submitted to the management about to the right and would drive along the be taken down to the ground floor and set I manufacturers claim that they can excel Tourist Sleeping Cars to Portland. St. six weeks ago was that of a cigar which sides of the brim going and coming. in type upon the linotype machines. As the imported beer; and the Wisconsin Paul. Omaha, St. Joseph and St. Louis, soon as set up the pages could be electro- genius submitted the hogshead in their ÄAA*<WVVU*WVWVWWVNAVV*I was to be built of steel and covered with There is n band around every silk hat without change. a wooden casing. Outside it was to have and this band was utilized in the plan as typed and finally placed in the forms, interests. Of course an American flag a coating of brown stucco so applied as ■ a bicycle track. Bicyclists were raised turned off and bound. This would give waves from the top in the design. the visitor an excellent opportunity to see to look like a pure H avana wrapper. The by an interior elevator and were then let These few freaks aie by no means alt W. H. M ERRIM AN. O. A., Butte, cigar when completed would stand TOO loose to pedal across. The top. the plans the making of a poem from the inkstand that have been submitted. But there feet high and would taper at each end. (explained, was not now ocupied but could to the bookstore. is a delightful quality about them which Mont. From the top an American flag would j be made into a magnificent observatory. "This," continued he. "would be a fine makes them noteworthy out of the thou­ CHAS. S. FEE, G. P. & T. A., St Paul, wave. A strawberry shortcake was the inven­ opportunity for any poec, and thousands sands which M, Piquai t and his assist­ Minn. Thet projectors, a Florida company, tion of a California m an who saw in his would bid for the upper windows.” ants have turned down. Insisted that the idea had a great me­ , mind’s eye this trophy resting upon the chanical significance, but M. Piquart j Seine, its lower layer built like a float 55» and his friends did not think so and so constructed as to sustain the up- The mecahnical excellence in the de­ I per part.