The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-01-13
PASSING EVENTS,

The worlds birth rate is 20 per minute.
South Dakota has 100000 farms, valued
at S70, 100000.
The gift of song is never possessed by a
| bird Of prey.
The king of the Belgians exercises upon
a bicycle daily.
Five hundred earthquakes shock the
japanese every year.
Illinois produces S270,O00,000 of farm
products every year.
The umbrella was first introduced into
| Italy from the East.
| Liverpool is to have the largest watch
factory in tho world.
Orange trees were known to have ex-
listed in England in 1895.
| Nearly all the ostrich plumes used in the
world come from South Africa.
Oregon farmers this year experimental
with some success in raising tobacco.
The African ostrich has but two toes on
each foot, and one of them has no claw.
The harbor of Rio Janeiro has 80 miles
of anchorage and is the finest in the
world.
The product of the wax tree of the
Andes cannot De distinguished from bees
wax.
The Onchidium, species of shelless
snail (slug), has innumerable eyes on its
back.
Birch bark, tackled on with brass nails,
makes a fine wall paper for a summer
house.
Flammarion says that the earth is COOL
ing very rapidly. Europe has lost five de-
grees this century.
The cost of railroad construction has, of
late years, diminished in France and in
creased in Great Britain.
An apparatus is on trial in Great
Britain which, it is claimed, will
abate the sewer gas nuisance in large
cities.
During 1891 1,16S persons were killed
and $3.50 were injured by railroad acct
dents in Great Britain and Ireland.
Darwin declared that insanity is not pc
culiar TO human beings. He asserted that
animals often became insane.
The construction of the New York ele- |
waited railroad required 200 tons of iron |
per mile and cost 1920 yard.
On the early railroads candle stuck in |
a station house window meant stop; it's |
absence was signal TO go on.
The first line of Russian railroad was |
opened from St. Petersburg to Charsko |
Selo in 1887, a distance of 16 miles.
In the Elmira, n. Y, yards 1900 feet of |
pipe have been laid to be used in convey
ing air to freight and passenger cars.
The Chinese government levies a regu-
lar tax on beggars and gives them in re-
turn the privilege of begging in a certain
dstrict.-Detrou Tribune.
The swords of the ancient Mexicans
we're composed of bits of flint or obsidian,
set in a stick about the length of an
ordinary saber.
William Sloan Green, of Swazey. Ind,
has just recovered from an attack of
measles at los, and says he hasn't felt so
well for 20 years.
At the last meeting of the commission
in charge of the Siberian railroads, con-
tracts for rolling stock we're awarded
to Sl0,00o,00O.
The natives of Australia use telegraph
wires to make bracelets, earrings and
nose rings, and tear down the telegraph
lines for that purpose.
A plan is proposed to build an electric
road along the Rhode Island coast to con-
meet the summer resorts az Narragansett
Pier and Watch Hill.
Statistics of life insurance people show
hat the last % years the average of mans
ife has increased cent. or two whole
years, from 4l.9 TO 1879.
\ country burying ground has over it's
entrance gate the following Hibernian no.
ice: "Only the dead who live in this
parish are buried here"
A plug of tobacco furnishes an excellent
Indication of an approaching change in
he weather. When 1t is damp the air is
moist and rains probable.
After Nov. 30 free passes on Russian
always were entirely abolished: even |
abroad officers and employees are now re-
Iuired TO pay their fares.
An old rubber boot was dragged I'D in |
-angier sound, Maryland. last week, with
3 young oysters on the outside of it and
lrge toad on the inside.
According to Whitof. an area of a quar-
err of an inch contains .9j hairs on the
cad. 30 on the chin, p on the forearm. "a :
n the back Of the hand. ,,
In ISIS an island in the Missouri river
car Leayenworth contained 500 acres.
low IT has spread until it comprises I. 3l1 t.
ores. 4 coal mine has been found on il. f.
The latest ornamentation for the dim
Ig room table is a dish Of Jelly in the =
lidst Of which are three or four electric !
ghts. The effect is pleasing and pic
Iresque.