The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-03
QUAINT OR CURIOUS.

+ Common brick dust is used in adulter-
ating sausage, sometimes to the extent OF
one part in five.
The new women" are coming to the
front In Finland. They have formed vol
lunteer fire brigades in Helsingfors and
other towns and have done first-rate
work.
A late census of the big trees" of Cali
fornia shows that there are 2.675 of the
giants still standing, the largest being 80
feet and six inches in diameter.
! Princess Victoria has marvellous col
lection Of shoes, including some worn by
Marie Antoinette. Mary Queen Of Scots.
Joan or Arc and several other celebrities.
The famous Broad street restaurant of
Delmonico was closed one day last week
for the first time in 30 years. It will give
place to a 23-story building.
In Hauguesund, Norway. which has a
population of 600. no liquor has been sold
for 20 years, nor has any been given
away. The Inhabitants simply do not use
it,.
. An expedition sent out from St. Peters,
burg four months ago to collect Russian
popular songs in the provinces, has al
ready secured over 100 songs, many of
them of great antiquity.
e Cheap rates of travel act on many peo-
pie like auction sales OF useless baggage.
They buy because they get bargains.
Whenever excursions are organized, rail-
road officials say, thousands with the no
madic instinct suddenly decide to go
wherever cut-rate tickets will take them.
President Faure of France is one of the
active advocates of the proposed ship ca
nal to unite the Atlantic and the Mediter-
ranean, with terminal harbors at Bor-
deaux and Narbonne. 1t would leave
Spain outside of the track of ocean COM
merce and deprive Gibraltar of it's exclu-
sive entrance to the Mediterranean.
DR. John Knapp of Mount Vernon, N.
Y, has in his possession a tapeworm two
inches long that was found in a hens
egg. DR.. Knapp insists that 1t is a genu-
Inc tapeworm. He says the finding of
such an organism in an egg is unprece-
dented, and that II will suggest to bac-
teriologists a new field for investigation.
Tom King. engineer of the steam roller
belonging to the city of Charlottesville.
Ind, blew off steam a few weeks ago to
start the horse of Mrs. Alice Ammerham.
which had baked near the roller. The
horse ran off and Mrs. Ammerham was
rendered a cripple for life. Now she has
entered suit against the city of Craw-
louisville for $4,000 damages.
Russia has 1910 qualified doctors. 300 OF
whom do not practice. giving one doctor
to 5000 persons throughout the empire. AS
by far the greater number of the doctors
live in the cities, and the urban popuia-
ton of Russia is only IA per cent of the
whole, the peasants are poorly provided
with medical assistance. One-fifth of the
total number of doctors are in the army
or navy, and 553 are women.
Harry Menier went out on the Wabasha
street bridge in St Paul Wednesday af-
ternoon, and in the presence of a few adj
miring friends. dropped 81 feet into the
water and then swan ashore, and. just
to show that he didn't mind taking lit
tie drop like that he turned a handspring
by way of acknowledgment OF the ap-
plause that was vouchsafed him. Then he
was taken, much against his will, to the
central police station, where he spent the
night.
More intimate trade relations between
the United States and Rusiia will be the
result of the establishment in New York
of a branch of the Bank of Russia, and
the exhibition in various large American
cities of Russian productions. Financial
exchanges betwee the two countries
have been difficult and various kinds of
Russian goods are sold in this country as
of German make The Russians would
buy more freely of American manufac-
tured products If they could do 1t directly
and with facility. A line of steamships
between Russia and the United States Is
also talked of.