The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-01-09
GENERAL AND PERSONAL.

In the ~stockyarls at Kansas City a mule
and IA horse engaged in kicking match,
and the mule was kicked out. The at
PENDANTS had to turn the hose on the con-
testants in order to- separate them.
Kansas raised A,OOO,OOO bushels of
wheat this year. If made into bread,
reckoning n bushcl to sixty pounds of
flour, il would give each man, woman and
child in the United States thirty-four
loaves of bread.
A bright young fellow i'm London earns
his living by writing speeches for wedding
breakfasts. In England speeches are
still expected from the bridegroom, and
they are generally very bungiing affairs.
A Lower Soucan, northumberland
county, Pa, farmer, while ~butchering the
other day, struck "a bullock with n sledge-
hammer, and left the animal for dead.
When he returned from his breakfast the
animal was finishing "a chest of meal.
The latest news from Mcntone is to- the
effect that Rev. c. ii. Sturgeon is suffer-
ing acHtely from rheumatisnl, SO much SO
that his Ease is exciting some anxiety.
His throat is now attacked. and it is
feared, even at the best, that his magniti-
cent voice will he irreparably injured.
The schoolma'ams of st. Paul not long
ago were instructed to give occasional in
struction in plain and fancy sewing to the
girls under their charge, and the dreadful
fact came out that few, IL any, of the
teachers could do any kind of sewing
whatever.
A man came into Bradford. Pa, the
other day and paid n bill of SIS in old
fashioned paper currency, 10, % and
5OIccnt shiu-plasters, which he had kept
since 1sA. He probably did not know
that as curiosities they were worth more
than their face value.
Cliif Clay. an Americus, Ga, lad, not to
he outdarcd by his youthful companions,
rode horseback across "a trestle bridge two
squares long, four feet wide and N feet
high. Soon after he had started some
workmcn saw him, but were obliged to
let him go on, as the animal could not he
turned around.
During the recent floods i'm Japan 2,419
persons were killed and 155 were wounded:
5000 were deprived of the nece.ssaries of
life 5000 houses were swept away or rem
dercd u~ninhabitablc 10000 acres of ag-
ricultural land with their crops were laid
waste; 5000 bridges were carried away.
and hundreds of miles of road WAS de-
stroyed,
The number of cloistcrs and monks i'm
Spain have increased with astounding
apidi of late years. Spain now has
29.2D monks,and 25,OOO nuns i'm l.:ssO clois-
tiers and Ia orders. In Barcelona alone
there are 163 cloisters for women. I'm the
last fourteen years the number of monks
i'm Spain has been sextupled and the num-
her of nuns has been doubled.
Another hermit is dcad-"Grand-
mother Bradley, who lived alone in a
small cabin outside of Tcrryvillc, Conn.
She was over 10 years old and little is
known of her life. as she never allowed
herself to he on familiar terms with any
one. She lived on the proceeds of her
garden and n flock of hens. Her nearest
neighbor was n mile away.
The Electrical Rerie,c opens up n new
field of thought and discussion by asking
why the mere magnetism of II bar of
steel makes of il N machine for the trans
formation of energy. 1t is said that n
nagnetized horseshoe will lift II pound of
iron and hold il for an indefinite period
of time. In every second of that time it is
not only cxpcnding energy but also in
increasing it's actual power; and the
question is. where that shaping potency
comes from-whether from gravity, at
m~osphcre, solar rays or earthly currents.
We seem yet to have hardly reached the
confines of investigation into the forces
of nature.