The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-02-22
QUAINT OR CURIOUS.

Part Of Dahomey is to be colonized with
Alsatians and Lorrainers who have
served in the French army.
An Illinois doctor reports a case where
blood poisoning set in from beer drink
ing and the patient lost leg.
Jack the Ripper" is the subject of a
new opera about to be produced at We
roma, music and words by an Italian
named Gioma.
Seidlitz powders must not be made too
strong in Egland. A druggist has just
been fined for overdosing the people of
Brentford.
Oswald Nerlinger, a German, has made
cup of common pepper corn, which
holds / 200 other ivory cups. with handle
to each all gilt on the edges, with room
for 400 more.
A half-dozen italian opera houses were
opened this season with Wagnerian OPP
era. Thirteen began with operas by
Verdi three with Carmen and nine
others with various French works.
Professor Poinacre of Paris. in his stu
dies of the effect of the moon on the
meteorology of the earth discovered that
IL has an influence not only on the pro-
duction of cyclones. but also on their d.
rection.
At Johns Hopkins university recently a
patient under hpnotic influence was sue
cessfully operated upon for deceased kid
ney, no anaesthetics being used. The case
was the first in which hypnotism has
been used in that institution.
One of the popular mistakes of the day
is that one can travel cheaper in Europe
than in the states. Travelling first-class
there costs quite as much as in America,
and the tourists do not get anything like
as good Accommodations for their money.
1t is proposed to demolish the old
French market at New Orleans and on
-te a. l<.,tl1 I~tt H.
to the business carried on there. Nearly
all visitors to New Orleans for many
years have made IL a point to see the
French market.
Some rascal has been stealing several
tons of printed documents stored in the
loft of the senate chamber at Harrisburg,
Pa, and he has probably been selling
them for junk. Copies of the laws of
Pennsylvania for several years were a
part of the plumber.
The Swiss National exposition begins at
Geneva on May and terminates Oct. Is.
Theodore Turrettini, mayor of Geneva,
and a distinguished electric engineer is
president of the exhibition and II is ex>
pected that the electrical exhibit will be
one of the finest ever seen.
Russia is to have an electrical branch
of her army under the direction of a
lieutenant general, two major generals
and five officers of lower grade, who will
also have military electrical school I'M
der their charge. Russian military Off
GERS have always been very adept in the
use of electricity.
A young school teacher named Hem
bricks, residing in Honeybrook township
near Coakesville, Pa, was arrested a few
days ago upon a complaint of a resident
of that place, who charged him with ut
tering II oaths. At a hearing before a
magistrate the teacher was fined 81 cents
per oath. a total of $S.0i
The duchess of Northumberland is the
possessor of shawl which was present.
ed by King Charles Y. of France, and
which cost half a million of francs 1t is
manufactured from the fur OF a species
of Persian cat. The hair of this cat is so
extremely fine and elastic that a single
hair is scarcely perceptible to the naked
eye. --rrf
A proposal to exclude from the army,
the legislature and municipal offices all
persons whose fathers or grandfathers
were not citizens is before the French
chambers. The rule would have kept out
Napoleon Bonaparte and Gambetta. A
law admitting only the children Of
French citizens to the civil service is also
under consideration.