The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-12-19
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

Cleveland journalists are organizing
press club
In one year an average of 44.oo2 vessels
pass in and out of Liverpool. while the
daily average Is 120 vessels.
Some flowers, like those of the yeast
plant or of the common mold, produce
seeds in a few hours after blooming.
A cannon bali fired from one OF the
great Krupp or Armstrong guns travels
at the speed of 2.ss7 feet per second.
The following bill is posted In large let
ters at the door of Brussels theater:
Moral pieces every Sunday and Thurs
day."
Teeth extracted, French, Spanish.
Italian, German and English spoken" is
the announcement In the showcase of a
dentist on upper Sixth avenue. New
York.
has a surface of S. square inches and
weighs but 20 grains. 1t would take 1,S0O
such sheets to make layer an inch
thick.
In East Thompson. Conn, is a curios
house, which differs from the ordinary in
being covered on the outside with white
paper instead of clapboards or shingles.
The fact is recalled that the teacher
and all those who sat under her instruc-
ton IN little schoolhouse in the town of
Minot. Mass. SO years ago, are alive and
well to-day.
The mountain county of Leslie In Ken
lucky claims to be the banner republican
county In the United States, having given
Bradley in the recent election 7S6 votes to
20 for Hardin.
Sir John Bennett Lawes has revised his
estimates. recently issued. of the wheat
crop of the United Kingdom. He now
places the quantity of wheat that win be
available for consumption at 5,271, 1866
quarters, necessitating the import of "a
$50, 900 quarters.
A new English swindle is to advertise
for ladies to dress high-priced dolls"
and then. on the promise of good pay, to
extract a deposit as a guarantee that the
high priced dolls will be returned. 1t has
been worked through the mails with
great success.
Charges are current In Barre. VT, that
certain officials connected with the city
government have been receiving hush
money from a number of liquor dealers
and giving them protection against raids.
Prominent citizens are demanding that
the matter be investigated.
The prohibitionists of Flint, Mich, are
about to try the scheme of setting up a
counter attractions to the saloos on Sat
urday afternoon. when the farmers and
traders come into town. For this purpose
a church is to be opened and music and
hot coffee furnished.
A New York newspaper, in telling the
story of a man who after an absence of
10 years returned to Jersey City only to
find his wife married to another man,
says that the incident duplicates "Enoch
Arden's experience 50 graphically de-
scribed by Henry w. Longfellow."
1t will require fine telescopes to catch a
glimpse of the newly-discovered comet. 1t
is now about 100000 miles from the sun.
The distance VIII decrease and reach a
minimum of about 20. 900 on Dec Is. 1t
will undoubtedly be visible with telescop-
ic assistance within few weeks.
Russia still refuses to accept the Gre
gorian calendar and has the satisfaction
of being a dozen days ahead of the whole
world and is constantly increasing the
lead. IL the empire and ats conservatism
endure long enough, Russia's Christmas
and our Fourth OF July win occur ON the
same day.
The latest oddly in queerly colored
game brought out of the Maine woods is
a deer with polka-dot hide. The ground
color of the hair is almost snow white,
and the whole body is dotted with spots
or blotches of red hair. The appearance
of the animal is said TO have been no
tably pretty as we'll as odd.
The United States leads all nations in
its educational facilities, a fact which is
proved by the manner in which the peo-
pie avail themselves of these privileges.
The report OF the federal commissioner of
education shows that in 1894 the enroll
ment OF pupils in public schools was a.
O12.f9s and in private schools 1.517.77O.
The skeleton OF an Indian warrior at
least six feet six inches tall was found in
Muscongus, Me-, a few days ago by two
men who were digging a cellar. The body
had been buried In a sitting posture. fac
ing east, and about II were found iron
implements aud spear and arrow heads,
while around the arm bones were copper
bands covered with curious carvings.
The French government has paid the
Persian shah $4,000 for the right to dig
up antiquities anywhere within the an
Gent empire. and the bargain is regarded
as an excellent one for the western ma
ton. Several OF tho great cities OF the BIZ
BILE lie buried there and archaeologists
think that they contain better treasure
trove than he world has ever gained from
the orient.
The proposition to merge the homestead
of the poet Whittier at Amesbury. Mass.
into a memorial. open to the public.
mention of which has heretofore been
made. is being received with general ia
vor In eastern literary circles. II is de-
sired to have the homestead remain in
tact just as Mr.. Whittier left Il. The poet
went TO Amesbury in 1886. and there he
wrote all his greatest poems.
A traveller in Japan says that the Jap
anese tramp takes his hot bath daily IL
he has a fraction of a cent to pay for II.
or his cold bath n he hasn't a cent. He
carries a comb toothpicks, a razor and a
toothbrush In a little bundle. few Jap
anese tramps might well be introduced
as missionaries In the American brother
hood. whose members do not seem to APP
preciate what cleanliness Is next to-"
OF the 4.9i4 seaiskins brought into Port
Townsend. Wash, during the season just
eiOaad GO Were nj fQmala seals an
dication of the rate at which the seal
herds are being destroyed. IL is said by
those who have been with the sealing
fleets that more than half OF the females
killed were either nursing pups or were
graved. The skins brought into Port
Townsend only represent about one
eighth OF the total catch of the sealing