The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-03-02


A Missouri Woman, who four years ago
named her twin boys Blaine and Logan.
and during the last campaign named am
other pair Harrison and Norton. has just
been defeated In q postoflce contest in
her own town.
The Gospel Standard, an English Baptist
Of very strict tendencies, adj
v~ertises that "No charge Is made for in-
sorting the death Of godly PERSONS"
Death notices of the ungodly are presuni-
ably charged for at regular advertising
rates.
Near Santa Rosa, CAL, is n well from
which, II il said. i'm water thou-
sands of eyelcss fish. from half avn inch tn
six inches i'm length. have been DRAWN.
Occasionally the bucket Is drawn mp half
full of fish. No su-bterranean inlet To the
well has yet been discovered.
An inventory Of the wardrobe of Queen
Elizabeth, made in the year OF 16Oo, re-
Gently published, shows that the queen
then had 80 robes, 126 kirtles, 26S gowns.
LIS ''foreparts,'' 125 p~etticoats, % fans, 6
cloaks, 81 s~aveguarSls,S IS dotblets and ls
lap mantles. The gowns. appear all tn
have been of the richest materials.
An Anglo-Roman company has under
taken IA contract to light Rome by electro
city. The plant is to he set up at Tivoli,
il is said, and power supplied by water
there, the current then being transmitted
by overhead wires To the city itself, ana
throughout the city by overhead wires for
public lighting and by subways for light
ing private houses.
Among the exhibits of the convention
of the Western Packers Canned Goods
| association i'm indianapolis were two cans
| containing beef soup. part of a lot pre-
pared for the United States navy in 1919.
''The contents are supposed to he i'm good
condition; IL not, the fermentation and
creation of gases within would break the
seal. The soup to-day il, therefore, Il
years old"
Probably nothing better illustrates the
great progress which Japan has made i'm
the last quarter of II century than the Al
which are now published in
the empire. Sixteen of these areissued daily
in Toxic. Each officer of the government
is obliged to he a subscriber to the govern
mcnt organ, k,coaiI'o.
The Central Shoe Backing institute has
opened its doors i'm Berlin. 1t a
takes to clean boots and shoes for its eli
ents as often as required between q n. M.
and . p. m. for monthly payments mt the
rate of so cents n month for men and Il
cents for women. Half rates are given
when several mi of one family sub.
scribe.
From statistics Just published Mime.
sofa stands first i'm the country as n wheat
growing state, having produced the pas,
year 10000 bushels. California comes
next with 100000 bushels The Dakotas
produced A., COO, 600 bushels X third
MINNESOTA Iau 4. lDO,Uup acrcs HI wuestt
California, 3,3OO,OOO; Dakotas, 100000.
Many Mormons fled from the United
States to Canada to settle for the reason
that the latter country has no law agains
polygamy. A bill prohibiting the same
however, * about to- he introduced I'm thu
dominion parliament, SO the Mormon
will nave to keep going OH up north to til,
polar regions where legislatures don
meet.
Outside of Society the q
many of the guests at church wedding
At "a very swell affair of this kind, which
took place recently in n f~ashionabl
church, the curiosity of the guests SO ia
overcame their sense of decorum tina
they stood up on the seats to see tn
bridal party at the altar. At those point
i'm the service where the evout were cS
pected to kneel, "a curious spectacle wa
Witnessed. In u number OF the pew
some women were kneeling while other
were ~standin OH the cushioned seats
There were only about u score of me-
present.
The Americans who are exploring am
excavating in Mcsopotamia have ever
reason. so far, To he satisfied will the RI
suit. AT Niffcr, the Nipur of the ancients
thcS have laid bare the temple of Bel
very fine one-and nave found inscribe
tablets which date back to about 375O 1
G.; and at Cr, i'm the great temple librar.
they have discovered many inscribe
tablets, cylinders and bricks of niue
religious and historical Importance.