The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-01-17
GENERAL AND PERSONAL.

A great flight of ~locusts, calculated to
have covered about 1000 square miles,
lately passed acoss the Red Sea from the
African to the Arabian shore.
Cyrus w. Field il now three score and
ten years old, but still i'm active business
life. His first employment was as errand
hoy for A. T.. Stewart at - per week. His
duties required him to open and sweep out
the store.
It is related of n Travers City, Mich,
girl that she has made her best fellow
promise to cone around at noon for an
answer to his roposal of marriage. The
girl says she has seen him several times,
but always in the evening, and she will
marry no man unless she knows how he
looks by daylight.
free kitchens the number of drunkards is
said to nave greatly diminished. The
medical profession testify to the enor-
nous Improvement i'm the health of the
lower classes. arrangements of the
stomach, formerly the most frequent cases
i'm Vienna hospitals, have decreased to
one-third the number of ten years ago.
A New York manager has offered Henry
NJ. Stanley 81 900 n lecture for so lectures
to be delivered in America during next
winter, and the great explorer has not
siRnified whether he will accept the offer
or not. This il probably the biggest offer
ever made for q series of lectures in this
country. 1t would take some wonderful
calculation to figure ont n profit for any
manage who makes such a generous offer
as that.
John w. Mackey, whose wealth has not
made him so famous as his wife's extrav-
agance i'm spending il, is 81 years old He
has a hard face, whose features has not a
single redeeming virtue. Mrs. Mackay,
who has known much poverty i'm her life,
has u strongly developed genius for SPEND
ing money i'm n loud and luxurious way.
Mr.. Mackay lives three-fourths of the year
i'm California, where he enjoys u freedom
from restraint and etiquette which makes
his elegant residence i'm London n bore.
b. The trials of the new submarine boat,
LIE Gymnote, at Toulon, are being contin-
ued under the supervision Of Admiral
Duperre. The Gymnote has passed through
all the tests to which she has been sub
jected with perfect success. On one &C.
casion she went about th~ree-quarters of a
mile under water, and she Owed under the
ironclads at anchor with the greatest ease.
The periscope permits the commanding
officer to distinguish objects on the surface
of the sea for a wide radius while the YES
sci il at a considerable depth.
The islanders of Viii prize human flesh
SO highly that they say of the best meat,
at is as tender as a dead man." A chief
of the Fiji islands displayed with pride
the bones of S72 u~nfortunates whom his
father had devoured i'm the course of his
life. II is not SO long since cannibalism
prevailed among Inc Indians of Guinea,
the Carribeans, the Papuans, the natives
of the Solomon and Marquise islands,
ETC., and il still exists among several of
these people, to say nothing OF certain
others who inhabit the interior of Africa.
An ingenious little device has just up
peared, which will put an end to one mt
least of the troubles by which the soul of
the housewife IL vexed. This consists of
the automatic boiler, n little clock which
will stand on the range, with it's face
divided into four spaces of a minute each.
Setting the pointer ut the minute or frac-
ton required, the eggs, contained i'm a
wire basket suspended from n lever con-
nccted with the clock. remain i'm the boil
ing water the required length OF time,
when n ratchet in Unattached and the wire
basket In lifted out OF the water.
"No wonder these epidemics like In
grippe spread I'D FAST" remarked a prom
inent physician, "when il is
how rapidly the troublesome germ is pro-
ducesl. Many of the bacteria, when the
conditions are favorable, double their
numbers every hour. A Jingle bacterium
ion - hours can produce 16,777,13O, and i'm
~ hours the offspring would number 2s1,-
5OO, loo, 900, or an amount sufficient to NIL
N half pint measure, the original germ
m~easurinR one-fifteenth thousandth of Am
inch. Some bateria, like those of tuber-
culosis and CHAMBERS, propagate slowly.
hut most OF these producing plaques
double their jumbo hourly"