The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-04-23
QUAINT OR CURIOUS.

After 1899 Sebastopol will no longer be
commercial port and the new port OF
Theodosa, built by the Russian govern
ment and just completed, will take Its
place. 1t has a jetty 2,O44 feet long and
the quays within the port are $500 feet
long, with "a feet of water. The port has
a superficial area of 2,500.000 square feet,
of which over $780, 900 are paved.
There are fully 1000 tons of piping of
various kinds, IL is said in the average
Atlantic liner. The condensers will pump
up at least 60, 900 tons of cool water
day The furnaces will consume no less
than 100000 cubic feet Of air an hour.
The boiler tubes. If placed in straight
line, would stretch nearly 10 miles, and
the condenser tubes more than 20 miles.
novel system of disseminating wealth
err forecasts, which seem a trifie ahead or
the new scheme of putting bulletins in the
postoffice date stamps, has been inaugu-
rated by the Florida Central & Peninsu-
lar railroad. The engineers on that road
blow six long blasts of the whistle at in
tervals of three miles to warn the fruit
growers of cold waves predicted by the
United States weather bureau.
A Partisan house furnisher is now in
PRODUCING a novel little appliance for the
carving at the table of chicken and other
small fowl. The new instrument Is COM
posed of a long, curved blade, to which
a very much shorter blade is fastened in
scissors fashion. This will permit the
host to carve the chicken properly and
serve the joints and clip thin bones with
/ the greatest ease and absolute absence OF
difficulty.
In the French departments where for
ests have been cut down there has been
marked decrease in the number of
births and an increase in that of deaths
during 30 years. In the last five years the
excess of deaths over births was SO, 6S2.
and the mortality in the departments was
nine times as great as in the rest Of
France. M. Jeannel infers from this that
the forests are an important factor In
the health of France.
4 Something of revelation will be eff
fected in the Transatlantic freight traf-
4 fic If success attends the attempt of the
Standard Oil company this spring to tow
! a large oil-laden barge from this country
to England. If the prospective expert
ment proves successful the plan may be
extended to a large variety of freight,
with the immediate results of adversely
3 affecting the business of now established
marine freight carriers.
In all ages the egg has been a symbol
of life, and in the East, for thousands
! of years, the use of the egg at the
spring festival, to symbolic the resur-
rrection of nature, has been known. Its
employment among the early Christ
ians was probably borrowed from the
& Roman practice prevalent at that time
of sending colored eggs as presents dur
ing the spring festival. 1t was con-
demned as a pagan custom by the
Christian clergy in A. d. 321, and again
In A. ID. 416, but could not, apparently
be suppressed, so 1t was permitted, a
new symbolic meaning. that of the
resurrection Of Christ, being giver
! to 1t.
A pleasant drink offered at luncheons
| where women who value their complex
ions will not drink wine, is made from
orange juice treated with fruits The juice
is served in tall glasses and is undiluted
Into each glass is dropped four slices Of
banana, a Tokay grape cut and seeded
q slice from a tart apple and pinch o.
sugar. The drink, of course, is INTENDED
to be slipped through the courses and ma,
be the only one served.