The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-03-11
FACTS.

A Washington electrician In at work on
some important improvements I'm thc
direction OF electric cooking. There 10
every reason to believe that Investigations
in this field will well repay inventors.
Electricity :when laid in tho house has
only to he tapped tn he Immediately Use
ful.
The port Of Batoum. an the improve
ment Of which the Russian government
has spent large amounts during the last
three years, has now proved n complete
failure. IL will now become necessary to
demolish the mole and To construct an
other at the estimated cost Of ut least
s,O0O,OOO rIbles.
King Humboldt of Italy is a vegetarian.
He eats nothing hut vegetables and fruits.
His physicians will not permit him to
drink coffee and his only beverage at
present is bordeaux and water. His fav-
orite fruit IL peaches. He suffers con-
stantly from dyspepsia i'm spite Of the care
lie devotes to his diet.
A foreign chemist lately performed
quite u feat. The explosion and fire at
Antwerp reduced to n charred mass a
bundle of 100 form Austrian obligations.
Without presentation in some identifia-
bile form there could he no The
imperillcd obligations were given to the
chemist, and he succeeded i'm separating
the whole of them and finding out the
numbers, and upon his report the money
was paid.
Never nave there been SO many suicides
i'm Vienna as just now. The following is
the list for one day last week: A young
student of Il, under the p~retcnse of being
busy with q chemical analysis, inhaled
sufficient chloroform To kill him; n
wealthy butcher shot himself dead he
man of so, wh8sc identity has not been
ascertaincd, hanged himself in n little inn
beyond the precincts of Vienna.
The French and Germans, after placing
turrcts' aboard several of their new ships,
are now expressing opinions adverse to
them. In the face of the opinion gained
abroad, to say nothing of that learned 10y
ourselves i'm the early stages of the moni-
tor development, any recurrence to this
type of vessel will, il is thought, he n sub
ject of no little astonishmcnt to those
nations that have spent time and money
i'm determining that turrct ships arc no,
the most desirable.
The coarse. of true love seems to cn.
counter many obstacles i'm Biddeford. Me
The local papers report one engagement
broken up by a h~ard-hearted parent, who
bribed his daughter to give up a young
man of whom he did not approve, and
that a youth called at the police station
there the other night and wanted the Off
GERS to release his sweetheart, who hat
been locked in a room by her brother, who
said that she I'D years of age was not OLE
enough to- get married.
Mr.. Vidal of the Bombay civil service
i'm IA paper read before the Bombay Natu
raj History society, gives some interesting
statistics of snake bite mortality i'm the
district of RatnaRherry. A very large pro
portion of the deaths i'm that district arr
due to u small and Observation-Disclosures
snake, called ''foorsa' by the natives. 1
is u viper, rarely more than a foot long
and so sluggish that il does not move ON
of the way till troddcn on, and is thu
much more dangerous than the ia
l~stronger and fiercer cobra.