The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-08-23

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The centenary Of the French republio I
10 DO held on Sept, a2o. There ID "a ID !,
grand military spectacle on che large plaza
III front OF the lnvalidsa and9n gorgeous lii.
~torical pageant. The latter viii start frou
the Haatilo and finish at thu Place do |,
Cuneorde. The chariota uaea In the pro,
c~esaion will in tho evening be plaoed I,
street cotnera and there used 40 ~open-si,
theateia whore patriotic pieces will 81 psty
formed. New York Sun.
The Boston infant (puahing back its hiRh
chair and d%iscardine gum ring and rattle,
My dear parents. this thing must atop.
am now ten months old and quite conpe-
tent to feel disgrace. ! have just heard nv
father say Pass them biscuit, please" ID
this not true?
Tho Boston mother (plaintively )-Yss.
dear, but
Tho b I. {frmly)-But me no butts.
When you married a Chicago maj you com.
mitted u deplosabls error. II Ia no longer
endurable. desire to be placed in charge
of my maternal grandmother. -PittsburC
Bulletin.
A dangerous counterfeit silver quarter OF
the vintage Of 1899 has made its appear
The coin Is in imitation OF one made
at the New Orleans mint this year. and the
only difference Is that the eagle. etc.. on the
reverse is a little too clearly outlined. The
weights of tho two coins. the genuine and
the spurious, are the same. The only flaw
is in the ring OF the coin when dropped.
ut Ia tho most dangerous counterfeit I
have come across in all my experience
said a businsss man. ITS face is abso.
perfect, and the reverse il nearly 20;
the weight is Just right, and so is the size.
fact, the only flaw il the ring, and tho
is slightly defective"
A correspondent Of an English provincial
paper quoted in the Pail Mall Gazette de-
MI. James Bryce. M. p. as an an
%botanist, and gives the following
story as evidences: I have a vivid recollec-
tion Of how, in wandering over the Cornish
cliffs IN his company and hat of his de-
lightful wife, I was called upon, together
Mrs. Bryce. to hold him by the heels
rs he stretched over a precipitious cliff to
Gull the the leaf Of some interesting speci-
men plant growing from four to five feet
below the edge.
The year Of greatest growth in boys ia tho
seventeenth; in girls the fourteenth. While
girls reach full height in their fifteenth
iear they acquire full weight at the age Of
'wenty. Boys are stronger than girls from
to the eleventh year; then girls be-
'ome superior physically to the seventeenth
ear, while the tables are again turned and
emain so. From November to April chill
(ren grow very little and gain no weights;
April to July they gain in height. but
ose in weight, and from July to November
hey increase greatly in weight, but not in
Medical Monthly.
New illustrations Of the eccentticity and
i the same time of the generosity of the
'ealthy American. Livingstone. who re-
emily died at Florence, are afforded by the
publication of the contents. of his will.
always refused to give pour
'olres, remarking instead to those who
him: 'Ill remember you in my
Most of those to whom he said this
bought it merely a bad joke and regarded
as a very stingy fellow in re-
poet to douceurs, though in other matters
10 had a we'll deserved reputation for lib
rality. II now transpires, however, that
10 meant exactly what he said. In his
ill he bequsaths 10000 to the omnibus
onductors Of Florence. through their 30
iety, the same amount to the cabmen's
~1SoA- q n10 1:.o - A. .-osk-,. A.. --r
'otte gone, the same to the walters of the
afe Doney, $4,000 to the managers of the
afe BorQhesi, who was always very atten-
i've to the testator, and 5000 to the walters
t that resort.
Tot.avelers tho difference in time be-
ween certain points has already caused
lore or less annoyance, in so far as their
'atches will not tally with the time at their
estimation. and confusion and d~isarpuint-
lent have often often followed this irrepu-
arity.
In these days of rapid transit vast differ
noes in the hour of day are quickly estab-
shed between two given points. and for
purpose of equaliZing these differences
cleve. Frenchman has invented q system
I extra hands which can be applied not
My to new watches, but to the old ones
lready in use. The two extra hands are
laced below the principal ones, from which
hey differ both in form and color. They
re manipulated through a small arm, by |
hitch they can either be locked SO rs to
love with the principal hands. or, separ-
ted from them, move individually.
If a difference of minutes is to be estab-
'shed, the minute hand is released and al
owed to indicate the difference in minutes
xisting between two POINTS, while the hour
and remains stationary with the original
our hand OF the dial. The same holds
God for the hour hand and for both stimuli
aneously.
The cuts indicate the various positions of
he hands rotating either together or indie
'endent Of each other.-St. Louis Post