The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-07-23
Interesting Information.

TWO inches taller than her husband.
Bluefish are biting in Buzzard's s
Bay as never before.
Some of Great Britaln's latest
guns will be employed for the first
time during the autumn campaign
in the Soudan. They carry a
highly'axplosive shell 10 miles, and
each she'll is capable of disabling
200 of the enemy. These guns
have such rapid fire capacity that
before the first shell bursts three
are on the way in the same di-
rection.
President Kruger says he has
only one book, and he swears by it.
Both the prince and the princess
of Wales have had their hands
pictured by the Roentgen rays; the
princess seemed to show no signs
of gout in hers, while Wales will
have to go to Homburg again to
reduce the hereditary taint.
Mr.. Hart, the brother of Sir
Robert Hart, head of the Chinese
customs, accompanies Ii Hung
Chang from Berlin to London, and
Mr.. Drew, we'll known in China
American commercial circles, will
be with him in Washington.
Biologists say that all known
species of wild ANIMALS are gradu-
ally diminishing in size.
A Delaware man had not been
outside of his house for 20 years
until a few days ago, when a
cyclone struck his dwelling. He
has now concluded to travel.
7. M. Murphy, of company E.
Sixth Alabama, who attended the
confederate reunion at Richmond
last week, wore the coat that he
wore all through the war. He
says that Gen. John B. Gordor
used it as pillow when he was
mounded at Saarpsburg.
Queen Victoria is much displeas
ed at the way in which certain
members of the royal family have
INDUCED in festivities while il
mourning for Prince Henry Of Bat
tenberg. The queen and tn
bereaved princess wear the heavies
: weeds.
, Mrs. Katherine G.. Reed, VIII
t has just died at Sisterville, w. Va.
was a widow in Strengthened cir
cumstances five years ago, her onl,
g possession being farm looke'
, on as worthless. But oil was foun,
$ on 1t, and when she died she wa
: wo 'th upwards Of al, 100000.
1t is not generally known tha
the remains of all the czars @
q Russia since Peter the Great, ii
: in memorial chapel built on on
: of the islands OF the Neva. Al
r the cenotaphs are exactly alike
: being block of white marble wit
e out any decoration whatever. Th
e only distinction by which each Oh
i is marked is the name of tn
: deceased emperor.
Prof. Haddon claims tha
Stephenson obtained his idea of til
d railway coach from an Irish iaunt
. ing car.
-, Adjoining the presidents hous
in Petoria is that church wher
Dom Paul is on Sundays az
- customed to pray. He is the mos
y regular member of the congreg;
= ton. He often leads the servic
and pl caches when he is in tt
: mood. He always draws ver
large audiences.
Mrs. Gladstone, writing to
# teacher of elocution, says:
,s trust that in all your efforts yc
IS will lay the foundation partrcula
!, ly in careful and distinct articul
tion. Roweyer, I fear the Englis
are behind all the nations
Europe. The Scotch and Irish al
| believe, somewhat better"
- The earl of Loneadale is the be-
is known sporting peer IN Gre;
49, Britain. No better amateur VIII
N has ever lived. He is distin nguisl
w ed as pioneer OF burlesque cor
panies as an amateur boxer, and {
arctic traveller of great couras
ut and endurance.