The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-02-19
QUAINT OR CURIOUS.

So sensitive is the duke of Marlborough
to the stories that Blenheim was restored
with Mrs. Hammersley's money that he
has had his family accounts Investigated
and published by chartered public acr
countant who shows that the money
came from the proceeds of the sale of the
Sunderland library and the Blenheim pic
lures.
The fox's reputation for smartness was
well sustained by a member of the tribe
near Falmouth. Me-, the other day. A
couple of hounds and the hunter were
after IL and the fox led the hounds to a
frozen pond and out on the ice so thin
that 1t just supported the fox, which es-
capped while the hounds went Through
and were drowned.
A census of the gypsies in Hungary has
just been taken. They number 274,940,
about half settlers in towns and villages,
while the other half keep up a nomadic
life. OF the total number S2,045 can only
speak the Tsigany or Romany language.
5,So1 Servian, 1885 German. OF the nomad-
ic gypsies 62 per cent. could speak no Ian
gauge but Romany.
California and Mexico have a new COM
petitor in the matter of supplying
oranges to the rest of the world. The
oranges grown near Jerusalem are light
in color, of oval shape and the fruit is
packed with more care than that from
other countries. The first consignment,
which reached this country recently at
tracted much attention. The oranges were
grown between Jerusalem and Jaffa, and
are worth between 81 and $40 case.
An unusual appropriation of 100000 for
stone roads is made in New Jersey, and
the counties where the improvements are
carried forward add double the amount
furnished by the state. The roads are
made from Ia to 16 feet wide. and expe-
rience has shown that the stone should
be crushed small and evenly. A hundred
miles of road have been built within two
years, and two-thirds of the counties in
the state are actively engaged in the
work
The export of horses from this country
to Europe has increased largely in the
last two or three years. During the first
eight months of last year 222, 1855 horses,
valued at s., 9i7 900, were shipped to Brit
ish ports, as against 1854 in the same pc
Rod of 1894. and 1911 in 1893. The ship
ments to continental ports show large
increase, too. The varieties of horses In
demand are different in almost every
country in Europe. Despite the astonish-
! ing fall in the value of range horses in
! the west horse breeders in the south and
east think the future is very promising.
! There is very charming and very
| charitable woman in Washington whom
| all in society know and respect for her
woman is a veritable Mrs. Malaprop.
| Only the other day she recalled the visit
of a young woman in request of aims.
| There had been some question as to the
| integrity of the young womans cause
But" said the good and rich wo-
man. do you know, she came to me in
such "a garbage of woe that / could not
! refuse her"
The first sewing machine that was ever
made was probably that patented by
Thomas Saint in 1890. He patented a ma
| chine for stitching. quilting and sewing
! 1t was intended chiefly for leather work
and just missed being a real sewing ma
| chine. After him came Bartelemy Thi-
moier, of st. Ettenne. France. who in
I vented and patented a machine In 1881
which contained the germ of the modern
/ machine. He was nearly murdered by the
/ Partisan working people. who objected to
! the use of machines for sewing.