The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-12-18
NOTES OF THE DAY.

The last turnpike road in Connecticut.
the old Derby road, is soon to be made
free.
Strawberries in marketable quantities
were gathered in Greenville. Ore. last
week.
A Paris, Me-, woman takes boarders,
does dressmaking. gives music lessons
and takes in washing.
A kite-shaped track on the Penobscot
river, near Bangor, is a hope entertained
by Bangor horsemen. -...-.-..-
Two deaths from the effect of poison
ivy occurred in Connecticut within few
days of each other recently. +a' ~
A connoiseur in cats living in westfield.
Mass, has % cats in his house. One ne
values at $1,000. fft
Fifteen cents apiece is all that the
plumpest cartridges are worth, delivered
at the hotels, in many parts of Maine in
this exceptional year for game in that
state. 't'
School teachers under contract with the
school board OF Chehalis, Wash, are pro-
hibited by an order issued by the board
last week from dancing or playing cards
Fishermen in the vicinity of New Lon
don. Conn. report that during the past
week several of them have seen huge
whale about so feet long playing id the
waters there. ->-
A l6-year-old Diana. Miss Lulu Daniels
of Big Elk. Ore, shot and killed a big
buck with five-point antlers at 200 yards
range while out hunting with party a
few days ago.
Three girls and boy were born to Mrs
Amanda Webster at Bethel. Del. one day
last week The mother is 20 and the hus-
band 81 years old. All the children are
doing well at last accounts.
Certain districts of Swabia are at pres
ent suffering from a plague OF field mice
similar to that which afflicted Soarhern
Scotland and Greece a few years ago AS
many as A.ooo have been captured In a
week. Z llg-
This has been a year of good crops. as
rule. for the farmers OF Massachusetts,.
but. according to reports from the state
board of agriculture. II has been an un-
profitable season comparatively. owing Ito
the low prices OF products.
Boston business man. who Is q large
advertiser. received a letter not long AGO
from the manager of a religious weekly
soliciting advertising on the ground that
the weekly not only had a large circular.
ton, but a very credulous class of read
ers."
woman drummer for a cigar factory
appeared in Naldosta, Ca, a few DAYS
ago and surprised the merchants. She
further surprised them later by proving
that she was an expert in handling ci-
gars and understood her business thor
oughy.
As wood is largely wanting I'm Austria
Ian gold fields several steamships gare
now engaged in carrying timber from
the Pacific coast for use In Australian
mines. The steamships carry fromy2 OGo. =,
600 to 100000 feet each. The wood Is
California pine or fir
There Is a young Siberian wolf at the
Jardin des Plantes. in Paris. with a robe
hardly observable from a badgers.
great curiosity is the my-a-potamus of
Cuba, which is half rat and half pig. 1t
Is very fat and French cooks think must
be good to eat.
The Seventh Day Adventists in Michi-
gan, me chief center OF the sect, are pro-
posing to discard the present names OF
the day OF the week because OF their
heathen origin. They will designate them
by number. as Is done In the Bible, ex-
cept that they will. OF course. call Sat
urday the Sabbath. y.
People OF almost all nations have be-