The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-02-11
FACTS.

4 beautiful nearly white amber il found
in Mexico ami brought down tn the coast
by Indians. The Indians say that il is So
plentiful i'm the mountains that IL is burned
for cooking. They refuse, however. tn
tell their source of supply.
Sharks fins form n Chinese d~elicacy.
They are as regularly quoted I'm the mar
kct reports of Canton AS tea and opium at
u price varying from SIS to Sis the hum
dred. A Canton alone the importation is
valued AT 81, OO,OO
There is "a man i'm New York who makes
a comfortable living by going about with
"a whisk broom and bag. gathering up oats
that horses scatter about their nOon-eat-
ing i'm places in thu streets.
The vatican has the most artistic corps
of psnmen in the world. 1t il composed
of priests and monks, who spend most of
their leisure in practicing fancy tracinRs
and now forms of letters. No erasure is
ever permitted on "a page issued by d
pope. If an error il made, even in the
placing of a comma. the whole must he
rewritten.
Uncle sam pays his 2OO.OOO employees.
including soldiers and sailors. an average
salary of Ss25 apiece. The average earn
inRs of the plain, every day citizen, who
gets pay i'm proportion tai the work he
does, are about half that much probably.
This state of affairs explains why about
5;.UO.OOO male American citizens make a
dead set for about 5000 offices every -four
years.
A pointed chin il said tn he "a sign of
craftiness. wisdom and discretion. A
soft. fat, double chin indicates scnstious-
ness and an iudolcnt temperament. a
HAT chin il the mark of a cold. hard ma
turc: "A small chin shows weakness. want
of will power and cowardic'. In n ~
treating chin we see Stiffness, and il the
brow he shallow imhecility. 4 square and
! massive chin indicates strong and deter
mined will.
most wonderful toy has been on pri-
vate exhibition in Paris. Fancy seven
lifc-sized kittens covered with real skin,
hut with eyes of emerald set i'm pearly
white enamel and each playing on n mu.
steal instrument; a flute. u either, ii rio-
| lin. II drum. "a harp. a cornct and an &C
Gordon. all perfectly h~armonized and
| playing the most difficult operas, then yo,
nave the picture complete. The mcchan'
ism is similar io that of "a music box. and
the whole apparatus. kittens 81 al. IL val
ued at 2O.O0O francs.
The other day there came la Salem,
Ore. a boN-car that left Detroit sixteen
days before. II contained i.
wife and two babies. seven cows. tive
horses. two sheep and an endless assert
ment of household and kitchen furniture
and farm appliances. A ~stovepipe had
been pushed through a vcntilator hole in
the car and the smoke that wreathed the
opening gave evidence that those inside
the car were not suffering from the cold
Mr.. HARDWOOD said the trip was made cast
~ and quite pleasantly. nsideri the
owd condition of the car.
The execution last month of "A man foI
murder i'm Andalusia. Spain. "a hours after
"a reprieve had been actually signed by ths
queen and forwarded. has ocassioned -
much excitement i'm Spain hat the gov
eminent has drawn up a bill to give to q
telegraph message in such cases the force
of a formal written order. In this cas-