The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-01-25

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to the number of Irish tenants who own
h soil they cultivate. The eari OF Re-
mont has sold The whole OF his large g.
tates In Kilkenny and Tipperary foE
f26O,0OO. The farmers arc fortunate
enough tn get the land at the rate of NJ
single Transaction under the Ashbourue
net.
More han 10000 plated Roman DIN
date1 between $50 A. ID. and 40 A. D.,
have been found beneath n tile at Sc.
Pabu, Finisterre. Most Of them were
coined at Treves. They are of valerian,
Diocletian, Constantine the Great and
other emperors. Remains of two silver
cup. and n dish highly ornamented In re-
lief were found by further digging.
A peculiar result Of the drinking Of Ice
cold water from n spring at StoninRton,
Conn.,, is reported. The water flows from
"a crack i'm a high rock. and the veins Of
the man rho drinks from IL beRin to swell
and he looks and feels as though he were
to burst for the next ten minutes. The
swelling gradually subsidies, and no seri-
Gus effect Is felt, except a slight buzzing
in the ears.
Miss Annie Gladstone, the auuhte of
the family physician of the prince of
Wales, died recently I'm London and left
i'm her will a Request of f3,OOO, tn he de-
posted i'm a London bank, and it's inter
est applied to the purchase of several
bottles of the hest champagne for the use
of actors and act ~esses on every occasion
when the. play calls for wine drinking upon
the stage.
Arthur Mack, ex-chief of the Shanghai
detective force, asserts that while China
has u population of over 45O,O DOC, 600, yet
the criminal elemen i'm proportion to
numbers is less than 10 per cent of what il
is i'm the Chinese quaIter of San Francis
CO.. He accounts for his by h greater
stringency of the laws for the punishment
of crime i'm China and the greater certain
ty i'm their administration.
OF an eccentric old man of n pcnurious
disposition, who recently died in Milling
ton, Conn.,, il is related that he was once
k by "a bold neiRhbor for S25. The
would-be borrower was not Allowed to
enter the miser's home, but the desired
amount was handed from the window in
clean bills of the old East Haddam, Conn.
bank. The institution had gone out of
existence and the money was worthless.
A case of considerable interest to men
who insure their lives for the benefit of
their wives was recently decided in st.
Louis. The case was one i'm which u man
had taken out such n policy. His wife
died and he married again, having chill
drcn by both marriages.. At his death a
dispute arose as to who was entitled to
the insurance. The decision of the court
was that AS the insurance had been taken
out for the benefit of the first wife, her
children alone were entitled tn the money.
Miss Harriet HosIner, the sculptor, has
recently completed the libretto of an OPP
eretta that will bc brought out next win
ter. The music is to he written by "a dis
tiuguislIed The plot is found
ed on "a play written i'm Rome several
years ago, i'm which w. w. Story, the
sculptor, appeared when it was produced.
Algernon Charles is the
Hannibal Ramlin of England. Says one
who ~ccently saw him at Wimbledon:
"He never wears am o~vercoat, and the
only change in his apparel which I have
noticed during the winter months il that
the color Of his clothes is now all black,
even tn his nccktie, and that he has begun
to wear IA pair of thick gloves, whereas in
summer the poet despises such luxuries."