The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-01-12

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Rob.rs Brovnins n said 10 have made
up scraps Of vsrss when hs vas small
child and 70 AVE done something In the
way OF ~trsnslasing Horace when but Q
pears old
Mar Ann Carter, the oldest inhabitant
OF Allegheny county, Maryland, died NJ
her homo 1T Mt. Savage last week, aged
1O6 years and 10 months.
For several years the receipts from the
sales OF public lands I'm Canada have not
been s~ufhcient 20 cover the expenses OF
surveyiuR and management Last year
there was . deficiency Of more than $751;
600.
In the last twenty years moro than Sioo.-
600 worth Of pearls have been found tn
she United States In that family Of mol
lusks known - "unios," or fresh water
mussels, the same that abounded nj one
time i'm the rivers of Scotland.
A prominent druggist has just returned
FRONT &c gum section OF norsnern s.alne'
and reports that in regions usually pro
life i'm this product Il cannot be sought
NJ any price. There IL no gum to he had
and the future of the ~gum-chewer 10 hard
- contemplate.
A correspondent sAys that IL IL easy
enough for q man 10 get all the whiskey
he wants at the leading hotels In the
strong prohibition town OF Des Aoines.
All he has 20 do IL to fee q bell-boy at the
rate OF 20 cents . pint and the boy VIII at
tend to the rest of Il. The price, includ-
ing the fee, In 81 q pint.
Robert Browning, IL now appears pretty
well established, was of Hebrew origin.
His mothers maide name was Wiede-
mann. His father was a trusted clerk OF
the Rothchilds at the time when the fam
Gus firm was supposed to employ none
but persons Of their own faith. But h
family passed for dissenters. The poet
always took the keenest interest i'm Jewish
history and legend.
A New York drygoods merchant says
that frequently some of the subordinate
employees receive larger enumeration
than the men in whose hands rests the
main responsibility for running q busi-
ness. The men who usually make
most money in very large firms are not
the superintendent and his chief assistants
but the buyers of departments.
Jersey Island, the place from which we
obtain the ~favorite Jersey cow, IL . small
spot of land. II squared It Is six and
three-quarters miles each way. Yet this
little island has . population OF 60,OOO hu-
man beings and has 1900 cattle and has
had that number for the last 10 years, for
they export ON an average annually 1000
head. Roughly speaking Of this island
they n 10 support one head OF kline
20 every two acres, while in England there
In only one head 70 every 10 acres.
T. j. Munson, living In Lacrosse county
Wisconsin, should he credited with one of
the shortest courtships on record. Last
week he went to see the sights of Black
river falls, and while eating dinner at one
OF he restaurant was smitten with q
sation. In n few minutes they were
friends. and i'm an hour lovers, and before
man and wife, he returning Sat
urlay night with his bride, having been
gone from home but three days.
Al Ansonia, Conn.,, some old women got
ANvotl.a. n,,s1 n,.ral m child 80 r.as,larn.
neous Group, after the doctors had given
IL up. The patient was thoroughly wrap
ped up i'm flannel and his head and throat
were rubbed with goose grease. A dose
of the stuff mixed with vinegar. was with
difficulty forced down the child's throat.
In q short time he vomited up n large
portion Of mucous and broke up the clog
ging matter i'm the throat. Being placed
i'm the bed he soon went to sleep, and the
next day he was playing about the house,
and appeared to he far from dying.
Confusion arr Uses occasionally when n
year like 1900 is discussed, as to whether
or not ii is "a leap year. This is the rule
Every year of which the number is divisi-
bile by four without q remainder is a leap
year, excepting the centesimal years,
which are leap years only when SO divisi-
BILE after suppressinH the two zeros.
Therefore 1000 was q leap year. 16 being
Invisible by four without n remainder
and SO ZOO will be q leap year. But 100
Div ON wSEs SsSTSs hAo ~ Will
1900 be, because II, 10 and 10 are not di-
visible by four without n remainder.
The cochers of Paris, who were SO ut
terly spoilt by the exceptional demand
for their services caused by the Paris ex-
hibition, are not NATURALLY suffering from
the very decided reaction which has set
in. Now, instead of arbitrarily and inso-
lently choosing his fares. the Paris cocher
is represented as humbly approaching a
possible customer. hat in hand. and po-
~ "a &. -
u cab; OH which, according to In Chayi.
pa,i, the fare thus addressed replies with
a stern hauteur: Every well, you may
drive me to Porte Maillot IA four-mile
drive well-niRh from any part of central
Paris, and I'll pay you half a franc, ana
no pourboirc, remember! And look here
cocher, l shall expect you to offer me q
book OH the wayw
MONTY AND THE GRIP.