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The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-19

dite business with that end in view. 1t
is understood that he has important
business in ST. Louis on the 18th of
that month.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-19

It would save Spain considerable ex-
pense, worry and delay II she would
also request the resignation of General
Campos' entire army
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-19

The British army has conquered the
Ashantees without spilling a drop of
blood on either side. Decidedly luck Is
against Laureate Austin.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-19

So far as surface indications go, II Is
Morton against the field. But you don't
know just what job Tom Platt and the
other jockeys are putting UP.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-19

II Perrin Irvine hadn't been in such
a hurry to be elsewhere, President
Cleveland probably would have named
him for first place on Governor Rick
ards Cree-boundary commission.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-19

In asking the prayers of all Christian
people to prevent the Maher-F itzsim-
mons fight. the ministers of Ell Paso
are undeterred by the failure Of the
Ingersoll experiment.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-19

While it is running pretty high, Ana
conda's great moral wave has not
reached a point where the council COM
pels citizens to shovel the snow from
the first story of their sidewalk.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-19

Any English jury that tries DR.. Jane
son will be apt to lay 1t on pretty heavy
for the doctors failure to get there.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-19

1t was not TO be expected that the
genuine free-coinage boom would be-
gin in the senate till Cannon gets
there.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-19

Now that DIR. Jameson is going back
10 England. Poet Laureate Austin
may find 1t expedient TO leave.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-19

1t was a wild and woolly idea for
Arizona and New Mexico TO expect a
republican congress 10 admit them
anyway.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-19

BE II said to his credit that with all
his nonsense Emperor William does not
maintain a poet laureate.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-19

The democratic national committee
was too fly to walk into the parlor of
the New York spider.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-19

II somebody will stake them, Cam
pos and DIR. Jameson can now start
out prospecting on joint account.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-19

II is a long time to wait, a year from
next March before he can take his seat.
but Senator-elect Foraker will please
try TO keep his bloody shirt on.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-19

General Campos might follow John
Sherman's lead and give us book of
"reminiscences.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-19

Somehow the Maher-Fitzsimmons
fight liz deficient in oratorical fea-
lures
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-19

All general business letters and corre-
spondence should be addressed to the
Standard Publishing Company. Anaconda.
Mont
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-19
The Reserve Aoain.

In exact figures, the treasury bal
ance is $53,742,163 Thus the reserve
has been reduced by very nearly fifty
per cent. within the few months that
have interviewed since the recent sale
of bonds.
There is no limit Ito the ability of the
brokers to empty the reserve as fast
as the treasury can fill It, Twelve
years of experience has proved that
the drafts are purely for speculative
purposes-'the game of the endless
chain" has not been played until with
in two years. II is the old story; Mr..
Carlisle could stop the raid in FIVE
minutes if he would announce in five
words, as the law gives him the fullest
right to do, that hereafter he may pay
in silver.
From New York comes the word that
the stock market is weak, with the old
saw added that this is because of I'M
certainty regarding the financial out
look. When the next batch of bonds
has been sold. we shall hear of brisk
markets and better prices, and the
rally will be as much a fiction as the
depression has been. Under normal
conditions, 1t would be impossible to
regard the condition of the reserve as
an indication of general financial con-
ditions. 1t has legitimately no more
to do with the general trade than a tel
egraph pole has with the regulation of
steam in a railway locomotive.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-19

1t was Bismarck who sat up the pins
for the sport the kaiser had yesterday,
and possibly the old man of blood and
iron reflects in his retirement that if
he had to do it over again he wouldn't
do II
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-19

Yesterdays proceedings in Berlin
indicate that Kaiser Wilhelm feels
solder with himself than ever.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-19

II seems TO be almost time for Gen.
| eral Weaver to turn up again.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-19

Mr.. Reed thinks congress will be
able 10 adjourn by June / and will expe-
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-19

Probably Salisbury will not care to
interest himself in the boundary line
of that Butte lot that went at $3.50, as
the only asset of the Kenyon-Connell
Co that could be levied on.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-19

The standard has branch ofices at
Butte. Nissoula and Great Falls
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-19

A sale Of profitless prices-a sale of the
cream Of special cash deals made with
the foremost manufacturers in Europe
and America-a sale calculated to get
you here and acquaint you with the
very best place to buy the best goods
for the least money. We quote below
few of the many bargains which we
have to offer during this sale:
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-07-06
The Value of Monitors.

Tt is gratifying to find that at least
half dozen, and probably more of
the old monitors that have been laid
up and out of commission ever since
the war are still in good condition and
can be put in first-class fighting trim
at small cost and without much delay.
Nine of these vessels, the Nahant,
Jason, Janonicus, Mahopac, Man
haitian, Wyandotte, Montauk, Catskill
and Lehigh, which are now at the
League Island Navy Yard, were re-
Gently examined by board of naval
officers with view to ascertain their
exact condition, and the report of the
board is to the effect that the majority
of them can be made efficient. Two
others of the old fleet, the Ajax and
Nantucket, have been loaned for naval
militia purposes to New Jersey and
North Carolina, while the Comanche
is at Mare Island, Cal, and the Passaic
is at Boston. This comprised the feet
OF thirteen monitors built in 1862 at q
cost of about Sc, 100000. They are
not quite SO large as our six modern
monitors of the Miantonomah and
Monterey type, being only single
screw vessels, and Of five to six knots
speed, while the latter are twin screw
and of double the power, but they are
strong and serviceable for harbor de-
fense purposes, which is great de-
sideratum in the present condition of
our seacoast Notifications, and if
equipped with modern batteries they
might prove much more efficacious
than land forts. The moderate cost
at which they can be overhauled and
made available for recommission will,
therefore, it is hoped, be promptly
undertaken by the Navy Department,
and the Nation will have the satisfac-
tion of profting great deal thereby.
Marine Journal.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-07-06
Peculiar Island.

Nirrafon, the volcanic "ring" island
recently described by Lieutenant
Somervlle in the Journal of the Lon
don Geographical Society, is q lonely
spot midway between Fiji and Samoa.
1t is about three miles in external
diameter, and the entire coast limo is
formed of black lava rocks. The
internal diameter-that is to say. the
diameter of the "caldera" lis two
miles. and tho cliffs surrounding it
are 200 or 800 feet high. 1t contains
deep, calm lake, on the eastern side
of which is peninsula formed by the
craters of the eruption of 1886. The
view from the summit of the cliffs
around the "caldera" is of remarkable
beauty, and includes great expanse
of the Pacific Ocean rolling under the
southeast trade, us well as the still
deep lake within, the luxurant foli-
age of the outer slope, and the barren
cinder cones of the recent outburst.-
London Globe.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-07-06
A Tree That Stings.

There has lately been added to tho
collection of plants in the Botanic
Gardens at Madras, India, a specimen
of a strange tree. 1t is in size scarcely
more than bush, but other indi-
viduals of it's species are known to
have attained in their habitat in the
Himalayas, Burmah and the Malacca
Peninsula, the dimensions of large
tree, from fifty to seventy-fve feet in
height. The Madras specimen is sur
rounded by q strong railing, which
bears the sign "Dangerous-all per-
sons are forbidden to touch the leaves
or branches of the tree"
1t is, therefore, forbidden tree in
the midst of tho garden, but no one
is tempted to touch it, for it is known
to be a "burning tree" The name is
misnomer, for the tree stings rather
than burns. Beneath the leaves are
stings comparable to those of nettles,
which, when touched, pierce the skin
and secret fluid which certainly has
burning effect.
The sting leaves no outward sign,
pub tuo bcusdblOu Vi pdlu peISlblS
sometimes for months, and is especial
ly keen on damp days, or when the
place which has been wounded is
plunged in water. The natives in the
part of Burmah where this tree grows
are in such terror of it that they fly
in haste when they perceive the pecu-
liar odor which it exhales. If they
happen to touch it they fall on the
ground and roll over on the earth with
shrieks. Dogs touched by it yelp and
run, biting and tearing the part
of their bodies which has been
touched.
A horse which has come in contact
with "burning tree" ran like mad
thing, biting everything and every
body that it could reach. A mission
ary at Mandalay who investigated a
leaf of the plant with his foretinger
suffered agony for several weeks, and
for ten months felt occasional darting
pains in his finger. r.-London Iit-Bits.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-07-06

Jig, and while in this jacket holes are
drilled into the tubing for the introduction
of stay pins. Then the frame is ready
for brazing, and for this is subjected to
a blue-green gas flame, intensely hot. The
frames then pass into the sand-blast room,
where the scales on the frames produced
during the process of brazing are remov-
ed by stream of air and sand. The con-
nected tubing is next filed, polished, enam-
eled and baked, when it Is ready for the
assembly room.
A large proportion of the wire works of
the country make bicycle spokes. They
are made of piano wire, and the right
kind are tested to immense strains. A
trouble which has been encountered is the
crystallization and breaking of the steel
where bent for attachment at the hub.
In some wheels this trouble has been elm
mated by an ingenious device by virtue
of which the spokes need not be bent, and
yet are tangents.
About every city of consequence has one
or more cabinet works where wood rims
may be obtained. A square piece Of sea-
soned wood, of requisite length and thick
ness, is bent into circular form in hot
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-07-06
AN ELECTRIC BICYCLE.

assembling of parts turn out their own
cups and other bearings, and many con-
struct the machinery with which they
are made. They also manufacture their
own cranks, spiders, sp1ockets and hubs
from drop forgngs purchased from high
class fOundries, of which quite number
exist in different parts of the country.
The big barrel hub" which is now in
vogue has been called merely II freak of
fashion, and an opportunity for the in
PRODUCTION Of something new" in the
makeup of the new seasons wheel pro-
duct. But there was better cause than
this for its use; one is that by the greater
diameter the hub is strengthened and not
so liable to bend under trying circum-
stances, while another is that the balls
may be in better alignment, which con-
I tributes much to the easy-running powers
of a machine. The whole hub, including
the rim, is turned down from n cylinder
of drop forgingS, the work being done
in part by hand, and in part automatical-
| ly. One turning machine will cut from
uinety-three to ninety n day. All
the cutting machinery of a bicycle factory
is fabricated by copious streams of lard
oil The machinists receive about $3.50
u day.
A very few only of the bicycle factories
Of the country draw their own tubing,
and the establishments in which this car
dinal part of machines structure is pro-
duccd are not numerous, though capital
lists are preparing to add to the number
shortly, Some Of the best known are in
Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Ohio.
The metal from which tubing is made is
not produced in America yet, for quality
of ore of particular fitness, prepared
| with especial skill, is essential. The
billctS come mostly from Germany and
! Sweden.
The process of drawing is a wonderful
one. a hollow cylinder, about three
inches thick and about three feet long, is
stretched between powerful tongs by
| sheer mechanical force to Il length of
over 100 feet by repeated bisections and
| further street hing. The billet is cold
! when claspcd by the tongs, better results
being obtained in this way than by heat
| ing. The interior orifice of the billet is
made to remain the same as that of the
| finished tubing while being drawn, by
the insertion of a mandrill. Until re-
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-07-06
Notes of the Wheel.

Michael, the European champion, uses
a wheel geareI to H. inches.
1t is reported that ten tandems have
been sold in 1896 for every one sold in
1895.
one-legged bicyclist in eastern Maine
is riding fifty miles day in a tour across
the country.
The value of the wheels stolen in Eng
land last year, as reported by the police,
amounted to 100000.
A bicycle thief in Australia was SEN
fenced recently to three years at hard
labor for stealing wheel.
Someone has invented saddle, and
pneumatic one at that, that is located in
the seat of the knickerbockers.
A bicycle is good deal like n baby. A
man is opposed to it on general principles
until he has one of his own.
A cyclist in Bedfordshire, England, has
had his machine shattered under him by
lightning, while he escaped unhurt.
1t is now a misdemeanor to throw upon
any road in New York State glass, ,tacks
or any sharp substance likely to injure
bicycle tires.
In the Circuit Court at Grand Rapids,
Mich, Judge Adsit has decided that
bicycle is personal property and not sub
ject to execution.
Canvas cloth, fine woven wire and tan
ned rawhide, put together and vucanized,
constitute material for new tire which
has just been patented.
An Englishman named Jefferson has
started on 6,000-mile bicycle ride to Ir-
kutsk, Siberia. His machine and bag
gage weigh sixty pounds.
The San Francisco aldermen have en-
acted an ordinance which prohibits chill
dren under q years of age riding or being
taken out on bicycle by their parents.
The wife of Senator-elect Foraker of
Ohio and her three daughters are enthu-
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-07-06

Wheeling etiquette is not yet in very
advanced stage, although few rules
have been laid down.
gentleman should never mount until
the lady with whom he is riding is set
tied in her saddle. Then he may mount
and follow her When practicabl they
should ride abreast, the lady always on
the right side. When narrow road
makes this impossible, the lady should
go ahead so that her escort may know
at once should any danger menace her.
At the conclusion of ride, the gentle
man should first dismount, that he may
relieve his companion of her wheel MS
soon as she has jumped from it. But a
gentleman should never assist lady to
mount. Such thing would be very dis
tasteful to the independent spirit of a
wheelwoman.
While chaperons are not considered
necessary by high-spirited American girls,
it is certainly good form for young lady
to be accompanied by more elderly mem
Der of her sex.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-07-06

steam, and the ends dovetailed together
Then the rim is turned out, a special
groove being cut on the outside over the
joint. In that groove strip, or rather
three strips of wood are laid, and like
the dovetail joint, are glued fast. The
grain of the inner strip is at right an
giles to the upper and lower strip. These
add strength to the joint. The holes for
the spokes are drilled at the bicycle fac
tory. The very essential rubber tires are
formed from fiat material in mold. This
is true of the thin inner tubes as well as
of the tough outer casing. 1t is declar
ed that the use of single tubes is greater
for the present season than for previous
ones.
The only bicycle patents now in force
are those covering specialties. Approxi-
mately 1000 "makes" of wheels are at
present produced in the United States.
Some, a very few of the great establish
ments, where nearly 100000 mounts are
placed on the market annually, them
selves manufacture nearly every part
which goes into the construction of the
machine. But the vast majority of fac
tories purchase nearly every part from
some special source, machining the drop
forgings, and fitting and finishing the
partly prepared material. Ten thousand
dollars, machine dealer informed the
writer, would equip such factory, while
a bicycle dealer stated that $1,000 would
suffice for n good start. One master me-
chanic is needed.
With the steady and tremendous de-
mand for wheels, and the prices at which
they continue to be listed, the incentive
to n launch into the business of bicycle
making is showing its results in the mar
velous increase in the number of fac
tories, and in the capjacity of those that
are established. About 100000 wheels
will be placed upon the market and prob
ably sold this summer, representing an
outlay by wheelmen of over $5O,OOO,OOO
How soon the revolution in prices will
among riders. A representative of one
factory stated that it would not be inside
of two years. The cost to the manufac-
| turer is believed by many. on grounds
satisfactory to themselves, to be between
SO and 500. Those handsome catalogues
and vigorous policy in advertisement
add quite an increment, and allowance
must be made for the guarantee. The
wholesale dealer-the houses representing
the factory in different sections of the
country-comes in for good share, while
the retail dealer makes only % to 80 per
cent.
Another effect of the bicycles advent is
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-07-06

of those who make and use all manner OF
human appliances for the control of mo-
tion.
People are beginning to realize what
they have been losing by friction, and the
extent to which the use Of ball bearings
is being applied is wonderful. They will
be used in street cars, effect n saving
of thousands of dollars in power, and con-
tribute much to the ease of the cars
movement. One provided with ball bear
ings that was lately built could be pulled
with Il string when on level road, so
nearly devoid of friction had it been
made. Ball bearings will be used ex-
/ tensively IN machinery, and in many
plants have already been introduced. They
are coming to he used in fine carriages,
and their use in higher class road vehi-
cles will become general when the motor
carriage shall have become familiar
object upon our highways.
Steel balls that cannot he crushed with
less than 1000 pounds pressure may be
purchased so cheaply that bicycle manu-
facturers leave their production to special
factories. The making of these little
essentials to rapid movement is not n
complex process, but it is an exact one,
for the tiny spheres of hard metal must
not yield to Wear or pressure. A long rod
of special steel is fed into an automatic
turning machine, from which the balls
drop a the rate of eleven a minute. Then
they are hardened and placed in quanti-
ties between large plates which by revo-
lution polish them down to absolute uni
formity in size AMI perfect roundness of
figure.
The grade of n wheel depends on the
quality and workmanship of the bearing
parts fully as much as upon the perfection
Of the balls. All wheels are not alike in
this respect, for some of the cheaper ones
are only ease hardened" making the
machine liable to give way to wear in a
/ comparatively short time. The material
Of the best bearing parts is cruciblc test
| steel, known also rs tool steel and the
foreman of factory visited declared that
the metal was Il such quality that it
might he heated in stove, and after be-
ng dropped into cold water be of hardness
sufficient to cut glass All factories which
attempt something more than the mere
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-07-06

Is the frightiul drouth that has dec.
mated Australia and much of the
Southern Hemisphere the past SIX or
eight months likely to DO compensat-
ed for by similar drouth in this part
of the world this present summer?
This question the American Agricul-
turist submitted to Professor Willis
l.. Moore, Chief United States
Weather Bureau, who replies: "The
most exhaustive examination of rain
fall statistics that has been made in re-
cent years shows that period of de-
fcient rainfall in one section of the
globe is not balanced by u period of
excessive rainfall III some other por-
tion. On the contrtry, the evidence
tends to the belief that years of de-
fcient rainfall are general over the
greater portion OF the Northern Hemi-
sphere, at least. Many more years of
observation at points well distributed
over the earth's surface are needed,
however, before we can arrive at any
definite conclusion respecting rainfall
aeriodicity."
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-07-06
TOO FOND OF MONKEYS.
A Huge Python Swallows One that
Was Attached to Chain.

An animal store in williamsburg n
Y, was recently the scene of tragic
affair, the suicide of huge python,
During the night the monster reptile
broke out of his box and swallowed
q frisky monkey that was chained in
a cage set close to the ceiling.
The python, in common with the
other great constructing snakes, has
the popularity that he can swallow
an object of great size, but cannot re.
linquish anything. If he swallows
a tin can he is obliged to keep 1t. The
jaws are Joined by very elastic carti
lage, which permits them to open to
a great width, but the sharp teeth all
point backward toward the throat, and
nothing can pass out between them.
The python had caught the chained
monkey, killed and quickly swallowed
him. Then he tried to move away,
and found himself held by a stout
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-07-06

Daniel Chester French has attained
the distinguished honor of being the
first American artist to whom permis-
sion has been granted to erect an out
door statue IN Europe. The statue will
be of George Washington, and will
cost $4,000. A group of American
women formed themselves into the
Washington Memorial Association,
and after raising the necessary funds
secured the consent of the municipal
authorities of Paris TO erect statue in
'he French capital on Rue Washing.
ton.