The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-31
QUAINT o. CURIOUS.

The greatest Manganese mines in the
world are said to be located in Virginia.
An attempt is about to be made to open
market in England for Australian
horses.
The average of sunshine observed at
Greenwich for IA years is only three hours
day.
A Spanish musician has devised a sys-
tenn of musical notation by which the
sharp and fiat system is done away with
Measles seem to have invaded all parts
of Georgia. All of the papers notice the
appearance of this disease in their locali-
ties.
Birmingham. Ala. is said to have had
more rapid growth than any other city
not built in the gold and silver mining
districts.
Constantinople has just had a snowstorm
heavy enough to prevent trains from
leaving the city and to suspend naviga-
ton in the port.
A Tilted girl in Vienna had herself pho
tographed in a coffin, arrayed for the
grave. She sent the picture to her faith
less lover and he became insane.
A groom of "a and bride of SO were
married in North Adams, Mass, recently.
The groom had outlived five wives, but
the bride had only had one other hus-
band.
There is a movement on foot for the es-
tablishment of industrial schools for the
| convicts' children in the penal settle
ments of Siberia.
A 634-carat diamond, the finest ever
| found in Africa, was discovered at ia
gersfontein in the Transvaal. on the day
after Christmas. When cut 1t is expected
1 that 1t will be worth 81, 5000
| The statistics show that the city having
the greatest death rate in the world Is
| Rheims, France. the proportion being
| 2S so per 1000 in each year. Dublin follows
with 27.05 and then New York with 26.27.
Goldfish are of Chinese origin. They
were origin ally found in a large lake near
| Mount Tsientsing and were first brought
/ to Europe in the 18th century. The first
in France came as a present to Nine De
| Pompadour.
| Lewiston Me-, philosopher, to hold
| the infants attention when taking baby
pictures, has a kitten perched upon the
top of the camera, and pinch upon the
cats tail suffices to attract the child. The
scheme, he says, works to perfection
| A novel industry in London is that OF
| preserving eggs. The eggs are shelled,
| the white and yolk mixed together and
the whole carefully packed in a hermeti-
ealIy sealed tin. Eggs in this shape will
/ keep for long time, and are chieny USED
by pastry cooks.
Four Birmingham druggists have just
been fined for queer form of adultera-
ten of drugs. They sold articles of great
| er strength than the standard or the
British pharmacopoeia- In some cases
there was 40 per cent. more iodine, etc.,
in their tinctures than there should have
| been.
| An imperial meteorological laboratory
is to be established at Agra and an impe-
! rial chemical laboratory at Calcutta by
the government of India Other laborato-
ries on a smaller scale will be established
in each of the presidencies, and all health
| 70 ha sly months teaching
in bacteriology.
Frank Gould of South wardsboro. VT.
found a strange bird dead in the road
the other day. 1t had short legs set far
back, and webbed feet like duck. II
was shaped like a duck, had the beak of
a crow and was larger than partridge.
The head and back were black and all
the rest of the body was pure white.
The Geneves are in danger of losing
their famous lake. The event, however, Is
not threatened Immediately, but accord
ing to Professor Forel of Lausanne, will
require the lapse of $1,000 years, by winch
time the lake will be completely hllec
with the mud of the Rhone and the en-
tire stretch from Geneva to Villeneuvt
present a gently inclined plane.
One of the most curious enemies of the
British fresh water fishes is a small float
ing water reed-the bladder wort. Along
its branches are a number of small float
vesicles, or bladders. which, being fur
nished with tiny jaws, seize upon the lit
tie fish, which are assimilated in its sub
stance. This is a subtle poacher the tru'
character of which has only lately beer
detected.
A curious freak of nature arrived
few days ago on the farm of John Dale
Just west of oxford. Ohio, in Indiana. 4
sow gave birth to a litter of seven pigs
two of which are inseparably attached
The combination consists of two distinc
and complete pigs grown together alonl
their sides from fore to the hind quarters
/. They are both healthy and at last &C
. counts were thriving.
MEN AND MATTERS.