The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-01-16
GENERAL AND PERSONAL.

There is district school in Vermont
which has only hve pupils. They all
come from Une family. whose father h the
school COMMITTEES and whose mother In the
teacher.
Depletion OF the Chesapeake oyster eds
In cutting short the supply for the packers
and several Of the largest firms in Balti-
more have been cultivatin9 tlse bivalve i'm
southern waters and establishing packing
houses I'm those localities.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis In busily engaged
mt BeauyOir upon the life of her late hus-
hand. and will soon have IL completed.
She has written her daughter, Miss VIM
ME, who In travelling i'm Europe. to remain
there until she can join her upon the conn
pletion of her labor.
There In a plague of rats in Lincoln
shire, England. and the more there are
killed tile more there are to he killed, APP
parently. The cause of this
of rodents is said to he the large hip
ments of weass.ls tn New Zealand, where
they were wanted tn dispatch the rabbits.
An eccentric old German living i'm the
town of Milwaukee recently went to the
city and chartered n street car for his ex-
elusive use. He rode all over the line
and would not permit anybody to get i'm
the car with him. Al another time he at
tempted tai charter a special train to take
north OF the city.
SosAs - SN oP III
There arc now three pub
lisled i'm that country, and thcr. is "a pros
pect that another one will soon he started.
The scarcity of papers i'm the Monaghan
kingdom may he accounted for by the
fact that under the Chinese law ifia paper
publishes AN untrue statement about any
one, not only it's editors are punished but
it's readers as well.
The mean height of land above the sea
level. according to Mr.. John Murray, the
Reograpiier and engineer, is 1850 feet, and
the mean depth OF the ocean IL 12,4SO feet.
Only 2 per cent. of the sea is Included I'M
side n depth of 5oO fathoms, while a. per
cent. lies between 500 and 1000 fathons.
If Ia land were filed into the hollows the
sea would roll over the earth's crust to u
uniform depth of two miles.
The little Episcopal church of Prince
ton. N. ", has a beautiful chalice as part
of it's communion plate worth $1,000. Re
Gently at a communion IL was noticed that
one OF two eyed this chalice
with more than devotional regard. That
night the chalice was placed i'm the vaults
of the village bank. That night the
church and rector's house was ransacked
by burglars from top to bottom in their
search for that chalice.
Henrik Ibsen, the Norwegian dramatist,
may he q great author, but he In
not a Chesterfield. In o certain
i'm Munich he has q ~favorite seat. II he
chances To be late he looks in at the door
to see whether his place il free. When
an intruder has taken possession Of il the
poet marches up and down i'm front of the
cafe, pausing every now and then to peep
through the window and G~esticulating
fiercciy at the innocent invader.
Evan Il. Howell, of the Atlanta Consti-
tuition. tells n st ry to show how the south
ID waking mp industrially. A farmer friend
Of his was i'm the Constitution office, lac
says, and Howell asked him how his bee
gums were getting along. "Pretty well,''
the friend answered. "The bees work
pretty hard all day and lay up n heap of
honey. But I think they might do u little
better. My mind is running OF crossing
them with lighting bugs, SO that they can
work "a little at night"
An English sparrow became entanglcd
iu a network of electric and telegraph
wires I'm one of the busiest streets of Gin
cinnati the other day and was killed, but
hung to the wires. Immediately sparrows
began to arrive from all sections of the
city, and they covered the roofs like a
huge There were thousands
upon thousands of them. They filled the
air over the spot, and their noise COM
plaaely drowned the noise of the street.
They remained i'm the locality for nearly
three hours.