Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1885-1890, 1886-04-03
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The people Of this country paid last
year moro than $9,0OO,O 600 for impnrt-
cd precious stones.
The forts OF Paris are to be demol-
ished. They are not ornamental in
time OF peace, nor useful in time of
war.
The London Times suggests that a
weH-served fre-plug, with a hose at
tached, is the best weapon with which
to confront a riotous mob.
It is thought that dozen shots
from the new German boom charged
with dynamite shells, would destroy
the strongest fortifcation in the
world.
In forming an idea of what the
West means, it is stated that in the
region west OF the Mississippi, 351
States Of the size of Massachusetts,
could be placed.
One plank nine feet wide and TWEEN
ty feet long, without knot or blemish
Of any kind. and another twelve feet
wide, arr among the contributions of
British ColuuIbfa to the Liverpool ex-
hibition.
Senator Ingalls, Of Kansas, is quot
ed as defining Senator Evarts as a
political archaologist who has made
subtitle explorations into the subterra-
mean recesses Of the constitution and
the inner consciousness of the found
ers.
Sands that have accumulated for
centuries from the surrounding des-
ert are being removed from the base
Of the Sphinx, and when the work is
completed high wall will be erected
to keep out further encroachments.
Hamilton Fish thinks that 81, ,OOO,-
600 is too large sum to try to raise
for the Grant memorial in New York,
and that the hundred thousand odd
dollars already obtained will be sufG-
cient to erect suitable monument.
No less than $4,000 has been spent
by the German government in boring
a hole. This costly hole was made at
Schladeback, near Lipsic, and was
made with diamond drills to the depth
of 1880 faet-the deepest drilling ever
done The object was to get true
estimate of coal deposits there.
The highly classical game OF poker
is all the rage in Washington as a
popular pastime, in which the fair sex
take no unimportant part. One Con-
gresham is credited with winnings
to the amount<of $4,000 since this
session OF congress began, and many
others with less sums.
The people Of Arizona say the sold
iers have not been able to subdue the
Apaches because the Government has
never yet learned that Indians, on
feet, tough ponies, with no load but
the riders and their arms, cannot be
caught by heavily laden cavalry horses
and pack trains.
A wonderful Chinese boy is men
toned in the report of a missionary
at Pekin. At recent examination
he repeated the entire New Testament
without missing single word OF
making one mistake. He is.nowcom-
mitting to memory DR.. Nartain'a
Evidences Of Christianity"
The word 'sreclusion,' which occurs
occasionally in foreign dispatches, is
applied to a new and terrible form OF
solitary imprisonment inflicted on
criminals in France. A Paris jour
nalists, who was recently convicted OF
murder, was sentenced to seven years
reclusion, solitary confinement in q
darkened cell and deprived of all en-
ployment.
A German test for watered milk
consists in dipping a well-polished
knitting needle into deep vessel OF
milk and then Immediately withdraw
ing it in an upright position. II the
milk is pure, drop of the fluid will
hang to the needle, but the addition
of even small proportion of water