The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-02-06
QUAINT OR CURIOUS.

Polo on tricycles is the latest Paris nov
city in sports.
The mail services of the world are near
" all maintained by British built vessels
The London Carlton club has about
1000 members. and is the richest in the
world.
At the Buda Pesth exposition next year
there will be a steel tower 1873 feet high.
A return of the Dublin board of trade
shows a very large falling off in emigra-
ton.
The only eclipse visible in North Amer
lea I'm 1896 will occur Aug. 22-2S-a partial
eclipse of the moon.
one hundred and sixty plows started in
row in a recent ploughing match at
hartford. England.
The number of unmarried women in
England and Wales exceeds the number
OF unmarried men by a majority of near
ly 200, 600.
Perhaps one of the best conducted, al
though not the best known of botanic
gardens, is the Royal garden at Glasne-
win, Dublin.
An Old man and his wife, both over so.
and paupers were brought before Lon
don police justice recently for habitual In
toNicatiOn.
The first number of the Connecticut
Courant. printed at Hartford in 1894. pre-
diets the overthrow of SPANS power on
this side OF the Atlantic
In bidding for the new first-class cruz
sers for the British navy, there was but
per cent. difference between the bids
of the three competing firms. About 81
$50. 600 will be paid for each l'0Oo-ton YES
sci.
A hairless coon was caught in trap
on North Coos river, Kentucky, a few
days ago. Such an odd freak had never
been seen before and no satisfactory eX-
PLANTATION of how the coon lost its hair
was arrived at.
Sagadahoc county, Maine. is expecting
| 10 make about 5000 out Of prohibition
shortly. Forty-eight indictments for VI
/ olation of the liquor law have been found
| I'm the county, and il is figured that the
fines will amount to the sum named.
| The Cooperative Wholesale society, lin
/ tied. of London, has no fewer that 24O
I employees engaged in clerical work in a
| single apartment, 156 feet long by 60 feet
broad The sales Of the concern amount
| TO considerably over S5e.e0oo0o.
| PRESBYTERIAN vigor in invective has not
/ dcgenerated in Scotland. Glasgow min
/ lister who opposed total abstinence. was
| described lately in the pulpit "a
whitc-chokered blasphomer engaged in
raising q sign post to hell
| Divorce has been legal in France now
! for eight years. In the nrst year the num-
nor WAS 200. in the second. 1000. in 1891
! II was 5000 the total for the eight years
/ beius OOoo. The working classes supply
| m. largest proportion. 4, per cent. the
! p,3~autS have tho smallest. : per cent.
| II seems that two species of native
! birds are bccouiur quite rare in South
| raroIina-the SNOWY red bird ana the
/ uocking bird. The threatened eNtermlna-
| zion Of these birds is said TO be due TO the
demand for them In the north. and, in the
! case OF the red bird the Introduction Of
| the English sparrow is to blame.
! cycling is one Of the amusemnnts al
| tho National Institute for the Blind I'm
! France 4 species of home trainer is
] rs,g the wheels OF which are So ar
/ ,arraf that the actual speed IS indicated
I an "A dial. So that races are held ami some
/ ~ the inmates have established records.
/ T-rs machines also give audible signals
! al various speeds.