The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-11-05

trains can obtain workingmen's rates.
1t is announced that the historic
Fairbanks house in Dedham, Mass, has
been offered for sale and is in danger
OF being destroyed. This is one OF the,
Oldest houses in the country. 1t was
built shortly after the settlement OF
Dedham In 1886.
A farmer OF Albany, Ore, Is ex-
hibiting a bunch of AZ stalks of wheat
with 924 meshes and about $500 grains.
which grew from a single kernel. An
other farmer in Cedar Rapids. Neb..
has a cucumber five feet long and still
growing.
ARRANGEMENTS have been made by the
German military authorities on the first
| intimation of war to instantly convey
by rail all the women and children in
| such large towns as Metz and Stras-
burg, as we'll as smaller places, into
| Germany.
| 1t has lately been ascertained that
the humming noise made by telegraph
wires is not due to the wind, as 1t can
be heard in time of dead calm. The
most tenable explanation is that 1t is
| caused by a Tightening of the wires,
| owing to atmospheric changes.
German papers assert that gas pipes
made of paper are success. Manila
paper strips are passed through melted
asphaltum and then nodded under
heavy pressure. After cooling the pipes.
| which may be of any desired length.
they receive a water proof coating.
1t is a common fallacy to state that
! the pilgrims introduced into the holy
| fathers presence kneel down and kiss
| his toe. The real facts of the case are
that the pilgrims kiss a cross embroi-
| dered on the toe of one of his shoes,
which his holiness wears on this occa-
| sion.
The Atlanta Paper company has sent
| a letter of coincidence to the widow OF
| a negro who had been in the company's
employ for rs years. This man."
| writes the companys secretary, stood
with us for all that was honest, faithful
and devoted. There never was and new
| er can be a better servant"
| John Therasiwick of Meriden, Conn.,,
a Pole, 40 years old, attempted to treat
himself for rheumatism the other day.
| He and his wife made a mixture of al
cohol, turpentine and camphor, which
they rubbed on his legs. Then the
wife lighted torches and held them I'M
der his knees In moment the man
was encircled by flames and was dane
| ing around the house like a dervish.
| His hands and knees were fairly roast
| ed and the flesh was ready to drop off
in patches at the slightest touch.
| Rev. Walter c. Clapp of Milwaukee,
who. about a year ago, seeded from the
/ Episcopal and Joined the Roman Catholic
| church, has, accoding to his own state
ment, become convinced that he took a
| wrong step, and now he has left the Ro-
man church and returned to the Episco-
| pal or Anglican faith. He has written
| to Bishop Nicholson, saying that he made
| a mistake, acknowledging the wrong he
has done and making his unconditional
| submission. He is at present staying
| with the Fathers of the Holy Cross, at
| Westminster.
Robert Livingston Cutting. who married
/ Minnie Seligman, the actress and was
will, has effected a reconciliation with his
disinherited by his father in Mr.. Cuttings
| family. The young man and his wife are
| travelling in Europe with his mother. and
| IL is said that Minnie Seligman-Cutting
| has promised to leave the stage and that
| Mrs. Cutting will leave most of her for
| tune to her son.