The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-07-16
Interesting Information.


bushels.
A Paris Frenchman has invented
new process for treating refrac-
tory ores which is expected to
vastly increase the gold production
of the world. The ore is fed into
the top OF stack about forty feet
high. 1t is conducted gradually
toward the bottom, undergoing
roasting as it proceeds, and is
finally shattered into dust by a
spray of cold water. The rest is
easy. It is claimed that the cost
of the process is so small that al
most all kinds of ores can be
treated with profit. The Black
Hills people will be partic ularly
interested in this invention. A
cheap process for heating low
grade and refractory ores will
unlock in that district enough
gold to pay the debt of the nation.
Prince Joachim Murat, having
held the post of brigadier general
in the French army for 26 years
without receiving any command,
will now be put on the retired list.
He entered the ranks at the age of
IL, and is the only general who
gained the military medal as a
private.
Notable graduates from the
medical department of the univer,
sity of Michigan are two Chinese
girls, who finished with a fine
record of scholarship. They were
sent to the university by Miss
Charlotte Howe of the mission
school at Kinkiang and are to act
as medical missionaries IN China.
The university of Strasburg con-
tained in 1883 three men, each
unknown to the other and each of
whom has since achieved interna-
tional fame. The trio consisted of
Paderewski, then musical instruc-
tor at the university; Prof.
Roentgen, professor of physics,
and Nicola Tesla.
Sir Walter Besant has declared
in speech in London that he does
not believe that Canada, Austria ia
and the other great colonies will
continue the fiction of dependence
upon Great Britain for any great
length OF time.
Signor Ernesto Nathan, grand
orient of the Italian Free Masons,
advises them to put aside secrecy
and to publicly declare their con-
ncction with the order, as the or
der is hostile to no form of re-
ligion and to no political party.
Italy has probably the finest COL
lection of anthropometrical status
tics in the world, minute details of
300, 900 me" during their army
service having been collected and
preserved. The generalized re-
suits OF an examination of these
statistics for the men born during
years 1959-68 has just been pub
lished by the war Office.
Last week in Gardiner, Me-, a
man over 100 years old walked
calmly to the dentist chair to have
two teeth extracted. He was
satisfied that he had carried them
long enough, and submitted his
age for one thing in support of his
plea.
The importation into this coun>
try of plants from China and Japan
is forl idGeu on occount of the pre-
valence of cholera in the Asiatic
countries Nothing holds the
germs of disease so we'll as the soil
in which the plants are shipped.
"A discovery has just been made
of relic which, should it prove
genuine, will be national object
of veneration to the French. 1t is
the armor given by Charles VII at
Bourges to Joan of Arc, He
ordered 1T to be made for her
during the siege of Orleans. The
armor bears the arms that Charles
VII granted her.
The North Frisians are very un.
mericiful to the people who don't
marry. One of their legends says
that after death old maids are
doomed to cut stars out of the sun