The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-30
QUAINT OR CURIOUS.

Four crops a year can be raised on Gu
ban soil.
Fifteen women's clubs were organized In
Maine last year.
In japan the wealthy classes regard II
as bad form to ride horse faster than
walk.
The winter is so mild in France this
year that daisies are already blooming
in the Partisan parks.
There are 1851 Italians In New York,
the largest colony of this people In the
United States. Brooklyn comes next with
1868.
Thirty-seven years ago a Brookville,
Me-, woman received a present of a lamp.
two chimneys and a globe, and though In
constant use, are all yet unbroken.
Experiments are still being tried In
England in preserving fresh fruits in bo-
rax. 1t has been found perfectly success
full with cherries and is now being tried
with vegetables.
During 1895 the London mint struck off
72, 245. 295 coins, about 100000 more than
in 1894 The value of the gold coins was
GO, 592, 625. of the silver coins s1,ls6.l0s ana
of the bronze ei0.995.
In Tartary onions, leeks and garlic are
regarded as perfumes. A Tartary lady
will make herself agreeable by rubbing
piece of freshly cut onion on her hands
and over her countenance.
The influx of immigrants into South
Africa Is CONTINUING at sum u idbc thoN
the Cape Times fears that before many
months have passed they shall be once
more face to face with the unemployed
difficulty.
A farmer named Christ Bennecke ar
rived in Princeton, KY, last week In
prairie schooner with his family and most
of his household goods, having driven all
the way from Chadron. Neb., a distance
of about 400 miles.
Six fine marble columns from st. Paurs
will be sold shortly. They support shah
| by old gallery over the south entrance,
which is to be removed as ugly and use
| less. The columns are monolith shafts of
| dark Italian marble, with alabaster capt.
| tails.
Dean Hole of Rochester, England, hav-
| ing seen Wilson Barrett's new play, THE
| Sign of the Cross" calls it "a sacred en-
deavor to ring out the false, ring in the
true" and calls "all earnest Chris
tians" to support ii by their presence
and their praise"
| A man in Barton, VT, married his step
mother a few weeks ago. The match was
| interesting, but not successful. Domestic
difficulties brought them into the police
court a very few weeks after their mar
| riage, and the troubles are not smoothed
| out yet"
A former superintendent of the New
| Haven Conn, almshouse, died an inmate
| OF that institution a few days ago. He
was removed from office % years ago be-
cause of cruelty to the inmates. About a
| year ago he was obliged to seek shelter In
the almshouse for himself.
II is said that the health of the bru-
nette type of eye is, as a rule. superior to
that of blonde type. Black eyes usu-
ally indicate good powers of physical en-
durance. Dark blue eyes are more COM
nioh in persons of delicate. refined or eff
Terminate natures, and generally snow
weak health.
A hunter, while roaming in the woods
Of Cromwell. Conn. recently came upon
an excavation in a bank. Turning over an
iron vessel which was imbedded in the
sand he found a note in an envelope, the
contents of which were: I'VE are satisfied
that Captain Kidd's treasure Is not bur-
led here"
The French minister of agriculture
gives the number of wolves destroyed in
France in 1894, or rather OF those for the
destruction of which a premium was ask
ed, as being PAS. as against 26l in 1893
and IL has to be noted that the total has
been decreasing since 1883, when the gov
eminent increased the premium.
A. w Paine of Penobscot, Me-, has at
tended every term of the supreme cour
at Bangor for SO years, with the excep
ton of one winter, when illness kept hin
at home. He was on hand at the opening
! of the court last week, with a case TO
trial He has argued cases at every tern
of court except the one when he was III
; Over So 0OO, 600 pairs OF gloves are USE
in England every year. and of these full
three-ouartefs are worn by ladies. tn
= value spent by them in these article
amounts annually to no less than $500
> 600. One manufacturing firm alone find
employment, directly and indirectly, 70
so 600 people, and at Worcester alon
d. nearly Ave miles are covered by GLOW
factories.