The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-01-07
MELANOE.

Robert Browning L. said tn have made
up scraps of verses when he was n small
child and tai have done something in the
way Of translatinR Horace when but 8
There is "a good deal of samcncss and
dinners OF the day. The menu is almost
precisely the same an il was 10 years ago.
and n new soup, novel cntrec, or unfamil
statistican gives the following table,
howin what a comparatively small
the 4,aOO kinds of flowers which grow i'm
iferonr. The commonest flowers are the
kinds. Less than onc-ffth of these are
fragrant. of the a5A kinds of yellow flow
kinds, "a; of the 59a blue Kinds. n: OF the
:hs -iolct-bluc kinds, IL; of 2iO kinds with
combined colors, u are fragrant.
An Interesting case has been concluded
before the Austrian court of appeal. AT
The funeral of the crown prince, the mayor
of Horitz, in Bohemia. called together the
town council to pass q; vote of condo1ence
with the imperial house. After having
addressed the town councillors the mayor
their grief. All rose except one comnciI-
Tor, who remained seated. This was re-
gartled as AN offensc tn "a membc of the
imperial family. and il has been punished
by two months imprisonment.
petroleum says "a correspondent in
refined, long before il was used in lamps.
A Frcnchman is said To have spent years
i'm vain endeavor to construct "A lamp in
which the new oil would burn without
smoking. Accident helped him AT last.
Nexedl by failure. he had drained his wine
fask iong.neck.d thin bottle. like an
oil-flask and set IL down on the tabl.. So
hard as to break III" glass bottom. He
then CHANGED Z" catch il up aud hold il
over the flame of his smoking lamp. The
smoke ceased, and he saw that what he
sought was found"
Some twenty years ago, Herr Falb. am
Austrian scientist, first suggested the pos
sibility that the moon may act upon the
great ocean of molten matter beneath the
carth's crust exactly as il acts upon the
tides oil the external ocean of water. He
now considers that the reality of such ac-
ton is proved, and that the earth's crust
and broken at the times the theory would
Indicate: Ii is during the periods of great
est strain resulting from the moons at
traction that earthquakes appear tn be
most likely tn occur. and the gasscs seem
to- be forced into coal mines tn such an ex-
The Princess of Wales is rep"rsed To-
have been very much astonishcd at seeing
kits worn by the Messalia shepherds at
Kills are also worn by the lbanian and
when the Duke Of Hamilton was In Alba
mia not long x he habitually wore his
kilt, although he is by no means in the
Eative heather. Many tribesmen on the
these, as among the wild L,Ishais on the
Assam frontier, against whom "a British
expedition is now moving. many tribes
shAs W I'LL NthtS pts ptbttsts pEodh'I1t'S.
and tartan plaihs. Some Of them also
have "a bagpipe, or am empty pouch very
similar to II, with the chantcs and the
dlroues.
The Museum of Antiquities at Dresden
has come into possession of am interesting
marble relief from Rome, which repre-
SCENTS All ancient butchers shop, of ohlonp
shape, and divided by IL pillar i'm two equal
parts. in the greater stands the butcher
with u high ~chopping block, resting on
three substantial legs. before him, while
behind him, hangs the steel-yari and "a
~clcaver. he himself being occupied i'm di-
viding "a rib of meat with another ~cieaver.
On tile wall above him. just as with US, is
n row of hooks near to zach other. ON
which hang pieces OF meat already
dressed; ~ rib and leg. of meat, n pork
joint and undcrs-a tid-bit of the Romans:
also lungs and liver, and last of all, the
favorable boar's head. On the left. ia the
smaller division of the shop. the wife of
the butcher sits in am easy chair with am
account book IN her knees, engaged i'm
assisting the business of her husband by
acting as book-kccp.,r. Her hcaddrcss
points to the time of Antonine.