The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-03-11
QUAINT OR CURIOUS.

! A tramp visited all the houses at Clo-
! verport KY, and begged from every kind
lady he met a postage stamp with which
| to send a letter to a sick mother He got
the stamp every time and went out of
town with several dollars in his pock-
cts as a result of the successful ruse.
/ Experiments made with carrier pigeons
! in connection with various European ar
mics show that the speed of the carrier
In calm weather and for a short distance
is about 1,210 yards a minute. With a
very strong wind in the direction of the
flight a bird has reached 1850 yards a
minute.
/ Between 1881 and 1898 the number of sui
/ cides in Germany was 1861 27. The highest
rate. IS in 100000 inhabitants. was in the
Prussian army. SAKE Altenburg heads the
list of political divisions with 46 suicides
to 100, 900 Inhabitants, while the proportion
! in Elsass Lothringen, IL, is the lowest.
In the army officers salute by dropping
the point of the sword also by lowering
the colors and beating the drums. In the
navy salutes are made by discharges of
cannon, striking the colors or topsails, or
by voleys of small arms. Ships always
salute with an odd number of guns. and
galleys with an even number.
Paris theaters took in SO, 700, 900 last year,
s1S5. 900 more than in 1894. Those in which
there was an increase in the receipts were
the Opera the Coincide Franchise, the Va
rietes. the Gate, the Porte st. Martin. the
Nouveaute and the Gymnase, where NJ.
Porel made the largest gain, more than
$4,000 over the year. before.
Names biggest and strongest man,
John Moriarty, died in Oldtown recently
of typhoid fever. He was six feet nine and
three-quarter inches tall, and weighed 240
pounds. He was broad and big-boned and
some idea of his build may be had from
the fact that despite his weight he was a
lean In nrartiCally uyaU
he could do as much work as two men
and he was known all over the state for
his feats of strength. He worked most of
the time in the lumber camps and was
valuable a peacemaker as well as a
worker. Many stories are told of his
prowess in putting down fights and small
riots. He was a very peaceful and good
natured man.
Back of Lagos, on the west African
coast, one of the native kings allied to
England recently condemned to DEATH ac-
cording to the custom of his country, one
of his subjects who had been guilty of
adultery with a woman of the royal fam
lily. An English officer who happened to
come that way with some troops OBJ
Jected to the punishment as excessive,
and asked the king to mitigate it, He re-
fused and had the man executed. The
Englishman, having a Maxim gun, there
upon attacked the town, burned down his
pdldce, Killed many OF MS people, drove
the rest into the bush and at Lagos his
conduct was approved by the governor.
Lieutenant Lustig of the Austrian re-
serves, was playing billiards in a cafe at
Brunn recently with some students, when
Baron Soini, a Dragon lieutenant, with
other officers, began to sing anti-Semitic
songs. Lustig asked them to stop and told
them he was an officer of reserves. Soini
called him Jewish swindler. Lustig then
took out his card, when Soini slapped his
face. Lustig, who is a gymnast, thereupon
took the baron by the collar and the seat
of his trousers and threw him out of the
window. His friends drew their swords
but the students prevented them from in
terfering. The result was a duel, in which
Baron Soini was wounded in both arms
and hands, and the arrest of both duel |
lists.
Six weeks ago a new king, Angooshe,
assembled the throne of the Indian do |
minion on Kake island, Alaska, and for |
four weeks the whole tribe was engaged |
In grand potlatch celebrating the event. |
There wild orgies, followed by severe |
lasts, dancing that was kept up day and |
night, and general wild celebration that |
left the whole tribe in a state of collapse |
Every day at 10 in the morning the bucks |
assembled on the beach, and no matter
how cold the weather nor how much |
snow on the ground and ice the water
would strip and plunge in the icy ocean
Then they would dance until they fell
rom exhaustion. When able to warlk
again they would take more icy baths
Some $50 gallons of bad whiskey were
trunk during the potlatch. and at the
Hose of the celebration Angooshe tore up
100 pairs of blankets, for what reason is
lot clear.