The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-03-07

INTERESTING FACTS.
On account Of the height and sheer de-
scent of the surrounding the
sam does not rise ON Mirror lake. Yosemite
valley, until II I'D o'clock in the morning.
According to a chewing gum manufac-
gum than the inhabitants of any other
American city.
A new continuance has been applied To
watches called an "-appointment re-
mindcr." A small dial II set into the
watch's face upon which one can set the
hands at any hour required.
An English inventor claims tn have a
system by which coal gas can he COM
pressed into 3 per cent. OF it's natural bulk,
and I'm that shape carried about and
turned into an illuminant mt my time by
simply turning a stop-cock and lighting
the evaporation.
The fear il expressed I'm London that
the visit of some 100000 to
Paris during he exhibition left I'm such n
terribly ~insanitary state that the evil local
conditions have turned the influenza into
a sort of virulent typhoid. The sanitary
condition of the city Is said to- he very
bad.
There was a man over i'm New Jersey
who took out AN accident insurance pol
icy for 5000. One day while pairing his
corn he cut deeper than he intended to,
blood poisoning set i'm and he died. Now
his widow is suing the company for the
amount of he policy OH the ground that
his death resulted from an accident.
An English paper says: We consume
vastly more tea than any other people.
53 pounds, and the French one pound for
our $50 pounds. Indeed, while we and
our colonies Use from four and n half to
seven and u half pounds per head, and
the United States one pound and a quar-
ter, the only non-Anglo-Saxon people
x-1< xax S.p.n x.s.p.S IN ~, rhn IlsIfnh
Alexande Ill. has recently issued an
order directing that in future of
the imperial family are to wear only Rus
sian materials male up by Russian
hands. This order has created much dis
may at Paris, as both the empress and
the grand duches have hitherto been ac-
customed to purchase all of their dresses
i'm that city. The czarina moreover has n
staff of 20 French dressmakers perma-
nently employed at st. Petersburg.
The meanest man i'm New Hampshire
has been discovered near Dover. When
his mother-in-law died at his home he
notified the town authorities to pay the
burial expenses, although he is II well-to-
do farmer. She was the widow of IA war
veteran, however, and the Grand Army of
the Republic paid the costs. Then the
son-in-lay sent in n bill charging for the
hospitalities his wife had extended to the
bearers and others who attended the fun
eral.
On a plantation i'm Edgefield county,
South Carolina. lives n negro who is pug
zling all Ia people in that section.
NEARLY every night about half an hour
after he goes to bed he enters into what
ppear to be n trance, and breaches a
sermon. He is quite illiterate. but without
"a book and with his eyes closed, he takes
a text which by reference to the Bible il
found to be correct in chapter, verse and
wording. In these trance ermon he
uses better language than he does i'm ordi-
nary conversation"
According to a London periodical, the
slang of the streets and the stables. and
of the would-be witty and comic young
men of the universities and great public
schools, is another pretisposing cause of
the increasing vulgarity of vernacular
English. Brcvity may be the soul of wit,
but there is neither soul nor wit i'm such
fashionable brevities as ''vet'' for veter-
mary surgeon, exams for examinations
''pub" for public house, comp" for COM
positor, Saturday ''pops" for Saturday
popular concerts, the 800" for ZooloRi-
cal gardens, perks for perquisites,
.'thou'' for thousands, ''cit' for citizen,
sad for advertisement, ''bizz' for bust
ness and such Americanisms as 'he goes
out nights and works mornings"