The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-02-25
FACTS.

The largest tea and coffee mporte i'm
tho United States In ]. w. Doan OF Chi
n He In many times n millionaire.
Mr.. Doan kecps ono man buying teas In
China at q salnry of s12.O0Oa year. An
other gets the same SALARY i'm Chicago for
grading teas by inhalinR the aroma.
In ono Of the small islands of the New
Hcbrides - trading vessel recently put
ashore n sailor To buy some yams, arranR-
ing to call for him i'm n few hours. While
he was waiting n hand of natives attacked
him and carried him OF into he interior.
where subsequently he was roasted and
eaten.
The sultan OF Turkey has sent three
hairs from the heard of the prophet by
a special messenger a. n present to the
town of Aleppo. Wherever the messen-
ger appeared during his journey me was
received in state, and the governor of
Alcppo came to meet him befors, the
gates of the town.
A farmer near Western, Ncb.. received
n surprise the other day. After his favor
lite cow had died, as he supposed, he
hitched mp his team and carried the car
cass to the bone yard. The surprise and
tableau took place when. ON returning to-
the scene with "a butcher knife tn remove
her hide. he was met by the faithful ami
NAL slowly making her way back home.
The highest meteorological station i'm
Europe is on the top of the in
Austria. 10, 16s feet above the level of the
sea. The operator is Peter Lechncr, who
lives there with no human companion and
with no communication with the outer
world except by telegraph and tclc-
phone.
San Francisco seems to- he taking the
lead in the matter of putting the plono-
graph to novel USES The latest story
from that city is that some rich families
are using the photograph as n companion
for the sick, q negro being hired to turn
the crank while il sings, talks and plays.
nm nf .hn nnflnrfnE ora IN ~. nhnlIt n. nun-
ploy il for short prayers and sermons at
the burial of the fricndlcss poor.
A New York woman is doing "a thriving
business i'm the sale and exchange of '.la-
dies miscellany" She buys all kinds of
feminine apparel and pays either cash or
swaps other apparel for it. Women go to
her with gowns, hats, etc., which they
have worn two or three times and change
them for others which other women have
worn. Thus all are enabled to appear in
''new" dress frequently without much cx-
pense.
French engineers are planning for an
attack upon that hitherto virgin peak of
the Alps, the Jungfrau. They propose to
continue the present line OF railroad from
Iutcrlakcn to Llauterbrunnen as far as
Stocklcbcrg, ut the foot of the Jthgfrau.
and thence to mount up by u succession of
slanting cable roads. forming n zigzag to
"a height of some 1000 feet, landing
, nearly Mt the summit of the mountain.
we sec Gill soIlctiIiltSs ittDu tHt Nstiue
of rare books i'm the hands of Bohcmians
or at auction sales, but there la now i'm
| San Francisco a volume than which there
are few more valuable i'm the world. IL is
worth $4,000, not as n fancy price, either.
Thirty thousand dollars is the actual cash
value. II is the register of the whereabouts
of 1900 Chinese corpscs i'm the city cemc-
terry, all of which will have to bc dug up
and returned to China i'm due time, while
"a disintcrmcnt permit costs $40.
aa-;,- - Hcinw ,t.rir. rnV,,l~.s =
being administered to the "Four
by New Iork's newspapers. The aristro-
cratic few who thought they could chatter
in their boxes ut will TO the discontinue
of the poor and 1owly many i'm the seats,
are being RECALLED with bits of satirical
writing which arc gems in their way. The
New York Times figures out that without
the support of the plcbcians i'm the stalls
il would cost the box holders 5000 each
to run the opera.