The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-04-24
NOTES OF THE DAY.

The legislative committee on metropol-
itan affairs has reported favorably a bill
to reconstruct the Boston city council
into one of a single, instead of, as now, a
double legislative chamber This single
chamber is to consist of "a members,
elected nine each year, to serve for a pc
riod OF three years. The city is given the
privilege of voting to accept or reject the
plan at the next municipal election. This
change follows the recommendation made
by Mayor Matthews in his valedictory
address to the city council the first of
last year.
Eggs are now imported into Great Brit
ain from Russia shelled, beaten up and
preserved in Theoretically sealed tins,
from which they are drawn off through a
tap. Eggs in this condition are princi-
pally used by pastry cooks, and the adj
vantages claimed for the system are free
dom from damage in transport and long
keeping qualities. The tin or drum Is
packed with straw in a wooden case and
holds the contents of 1000 to 800 eggs.
the white and yolk being mixed together
and poured into the drum and the aper-
ture closed with a bung and sealed.
penny of the Transvaal republic pos
sesses one remarkable popularity over
all other coins of republics in that the
| head of its president appears upon its
face, as Is the custom of monarchies the
world over. President Kruger has nat
| an imperial countenance. On the other
side of the coin. in the center, Is a lion
| standing, presumably, for African saw
agery which the boer at his right has
vanquished. while below is shown his
primitive trek wagon" In the exact
center of the design is an anchor. while
| in the circle about the edge, in English,
are the words, Il Peny' and the date.
william A Casey and Miss Alice Pal
mer arrived in Lawrenceburg. KY. from
~. -. -.
| the Louisville Southern to Jefferson, Ind,
where they were married. The girls par
ents objected, hence the elopement. They
were an odd-looking couple and attracted
| a lot of attention. The groom-elect was
| Enthusiastically rugged up in a pair Of sky
blue trousers that had a stripe of gaudy
| ribbon down each leg, his white coat
making him a typical cartoon Uncle
Sam" A loud green necktie completed
his toilet The bride was attired in a gay
red dress profusely decorated with rib
| bons.
Aluminium TO the amount of only $50
pounds was used in the United States in
1854, and the price was 50 pound. By 1SSs
10 900 pounds had come to be used and the
price had dropped to $3.50 a pound There
| after the price fell rapidly to A.55 in 1892.
| and to an average of IS cents in 1894.
! when the amount used rose to zoo. 00C
pounds. The average price last year was
| 50 cents pound ana the use OF the metal
had greatly increased, though the exact
figures are not yet compiled. Now the
price is down TO IS cents. Most of the out
nut is being turned into cooking utensils
which are finding a rapidly widening
market.
A unique law is still in force at Star
gard. in Prussian Pommerania- para
graph Of the police regulation of 1910
which Is still being enacted, reads
smoking in the streets or promenades Of
this town is positively prohibited, viola
tors of this law being punished by a fine
| or eventually by a number of lashes with
a switch equivalent to the number o.
marks the fine amounts to-" Upon th'
strength OF this Law some reacuonar,
friends of the blue law have recent,
hauled a number of respectable citizens
before the courts The magistrate, hav
ing no choice. had 10 fine every one o
| the accused parties. because they all free
IL admitted having smoked in the streets