The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-12-09
NOTES OF THE DAY.

The life tree" of jamaica is harder to
kill than any other species of woody
growth known to arboriculturists. II
continues to grow and thrive for months
after being uprooted and exposed to the
sun.
sudermann's latest play. "Giuck in
Wrinkle" (Fireside Bliss). was performed
for the first time at the Vienna Burg
theater, as the author Is offended at the
Berlin people on account of their kissing
his Battle of the Butterflies" The new
play was well received.
There is very quaint and original FASH
ion now in vogue with our Australian
cousins. and from 1t we might with ad-
vantage borrow an idea. During after
noon calls, grapes artistically grouped in
the daintiest of baskets, wreathed In
leaves. are handed round among visitors
by way OF refreshment, and the dissipa-
ton goes by the name of grape tea"
Instances are numerous of persons who.
born without arms. learned to use their
feet as hands. Bulwer, in The Artifi-
cial Changeling," tells of John Simonds,
native of Berkshire, who was born
armless. but who could write with his
mouth. thread a needle with his toe,
tie knot, play cards, and do almost
anything that another person usually
does with their fingers
Perhaps the most wonderful specimen
knife to be seen in the showrooms of a
celebrated Sheffield cutlery firm. This
extraordinary knife is provided with one
blade for every year since the commence
ment of the Christian era; the number
of blades. of course. now being 1885.
Blades are inserted five at a time at the
lapse of every five years.
The Yorkshire gamekeepers have an
ingenious way Of protecting their hares
from poachers. They net the hares at
the various gates and stiles through
which they pass, and then let them go
on again. The result is the hares are so
frightened that they wifi never go
through the gate again, and when the
poacher fixes his net there for them he
is surprised to see them jump over the
fence.
The following appeared in a death no.
tice published in an English paper recent
ly: TT is an interesting feature in his
(Mr. Co4man's) career that he was a
member of a redoubtable and far-famed
team OF cricketers that at one time -four
ished IN Norfolk. the members of the
eleven being all brothers. The entire
eleven have now succumbed to the COM
mon fate, Henry Colman being the last
of the company"
The new town of Fitzgerald, which has
just been established in south Georgia
by a colony of northern immigrants,
promises to be a small-sized wonder in
town building. 1t is three months old and
has 1,5O0 inhabitants already. Its promo
ters expect to lay claim to a population
of 10000 within a few more months. 1t
is the center of the Grand Army colony
which Is settling in Wilcox and Irwin
counties, Georgia.
Teeth reading is the latest fad. The
science" is only in dts infancy yet, but
the following are two or three OF the
items which its professors assert to be
incontrovertible: Teeth that are long
and marry denote vanity; projectors indi-
cate grasping disposition; treachery is
best known by small, white. separated
molars; Inconsistency by overlapping teeth.
and the possessor OF wide separated
worries is sure to ten all he knows"