The Dillon tribune. [volume] (Dillon, Mont.) 1881-1941, 1886-11-12
Items OF interest.

1903 upon every negro imported into
the colony .. massachusetts.
The art of sculpture in wood seems
to have been native among the early
Greeks, and carved idols soon took the
place of stones and trunks of trees,
which were at first worshipped as
divine symbols.
Now we are told that graham bread
has had it's day. cit is a mistake to
suppose that the bran itself is Of any
value as nourishment. The fibres of
wood which compose it are of no more
use than chips or shavings."
The biggest cannon that England
has or has ever had has arrived at
Woolwich from Sir William Arm
strong's factory. The new weapon is
a 110-ton gun, is forty-four feet in
length and li'{ inches in diameter, the
actual weight being 247,795 pounds.
An English ethnologist has made an
interesting discovery. Sir Samuel
Baker notes as a curious fact that the
negroes never tame elephants or wild
animals. The elephants used by the
Carthaginians were trained by Arabs
and Carthaginians, but never by
negroes.
Numerous as are bicycles on our
streets, they are much more so every
where in England. The streets of
London. and even the avenues and
paths in hyde Park, swarm with them.
tits quite common to see little store
on q bicycle or tricycle.. The man sits
behind, and propels his store with his
feet.
John Spaulding Of Louisville, KY,
owns q big mastiff bitch. Not long
since she CT ,tured and killed a cat. the
mother OF ,.lree kittens. and then, us if
conscious Of ha,'iny done al evil deed
gathered the soSe orphans to her side
and has since tenderly cared for them
and fed them with the faitbfulness of
mother.
California claims little Venice of
her own. Lake Elsinore-.a body of
water seven miles long three wide and
eighty feet t;"np--is between Los An
geles and San Diego. A city is growing
up all around it, and steamboats,
make regular trips along the Shore
and people. can go from street to street
by water in charmingly Venetian
manner. ....
A New York oyster dealer figures up
that in the season thirty thousand
bushels of the d '.icious bivalye arc
eaten by New Workers daily, and as
each bushel averages two hundred
oysters, it follows that six millions
are devoured. There being 2ll days to
the season. the a'r ""a~,te consumption
is placed at l,414,oJo,UoO oysters.
An interesting experiment was re-
Gently made to test the speed of the
swallows flight. Two hen birds were
taken from their broods in Pavia and
conveyed to Milan, where they were
released at given moment. Both of
them made their way back to their
nests in thirteen minutes, which gives
the speed as S7H miles an hour.
Persons who have superstitious
dread of Friday will be interested to
learn that this is thorour hly Friday
year. 1t came in on Friday, and will
have fifty-three Fridays. Four months
OF the year have five Fridays each:
changes OF the moon occur five times
on Friday. md the longest and shortest
days are Fridays.
Huber the great authority on bees,
was blind from his seventeenth year
ana conducted the observations whic:,
gave him the facts through the eyes OF
his wife. He declared that he should
he miserable We're he to regain his eve
sight, adding: II s,ould not know to
what extent a person in my situation
could be beloved; beside, my wife is
always yoaa-. fresh and pretty, which
is no light matter"
The lucifer match was invented by
John Walker, of Stockton-upon-Te
<E'ngland) IN 1929. Mr.. Walker manu-
featured bat few of these matches and
those were for the use Of the peonle of
ms nelghbor.lood. Professor Fardav
learning of them, procured some and
brought them into pub.ic notice. Their
'lsetuI properties were soon generally
acknowledged. and their manufacture
rapidly increased, till it became an i'm
poTtant branch OF industry in Europe