The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-03-02
QUAINT OR CURIOUS.

The supreme court OF Alabama has de-
clared the charter of a water company to
be forfeited because IL has failed to sup
ply pure, wholesome. deep-well water"
as required by its charter and its con-
tract.
Potatoes are so plentiful and cheap this
season in North Dakota that a citizen of
Grand Forks has been experimenting
with them as fuel, and finds that they
are worth 10 cents bushel to burn with
wood or coal.
NJ Lockroy the French minister OF ma
rine, in his endeavor to put a stop to
favoritism in the navy, intends to publish
in the Journal Official all private reports
of admirals and captains on the officers
under them.
Three-quarters of a second is the time
occupied by the fall of a knife in the
French guillotine. The knife is weighted
by 120 pounds of lead, falls nine feet, and
cuts through flesh and bones as easily as
through bar of soap.
The monumental group entitled lie
Triumphe de la Repubique." which has
been executed by NJ. Dalou. the sculptor
will be definitely erected on July IA on the
Palace de la Nation. Paris. The casting
in bronze of this group will cost the city
of Paris 100000 francs.
Something seemingly new in politics has
developed at Elizabethtown. Ky. The ma
year that he would give his salary to
the city. The city councilmen determined
not to be outdone in patriotism, and
voted TO allow the city to draw their pay,
too. While doubtless pure. their patriot
ism is not particularly costly. The ma
yors salary is $75 year. and the council
men are paid at the rate of 81 apiece for
each meeting.
A nest of mixed metaphors has been
discovered by the London Chronicle in
the columns of an Influential contem-
porary": France might have been in
the throes of another presidential crisis
had not NJ. Felix Faure taken the wind
out of the sails OF his cowardly foes by
courageously seizing the skeleton which
was slowed away in his cupboard and
fiinging il at their feet" A family skele-
ton is quite worth having when II can
be turned to such effective use as this.
The voting census of Rhode Island
shows that that state has probably the
largest percentage of stay-at-home voters
of any state In the North. There are
liz. $50 adult males In the state. OF whom
Sc. 200 are qualified voters. but the Nigh
est vote ever poled was in 1892, when
"a s61 ballots were cast. The next highest
was last year, when d07l were polled.
This would leave over %. 900 votes unpoll-
ed or about 81 per cent. OF the vote In
the state. In other words, out OF every
100 voters In the state 50 go TO the polls
and 81 stay at home.
In telling an immense elm near Byron.
Mich. a few days ago, the woodcutters
struck their saw against a hard sub
stance when almost half way through the
trunk of the tree. The tree was laid
omen with an axe. and there was found.
grown up almost In the heart OF IL, a
stone battle-axe head about seven and
one-half inches across NJ the cutting end
the other end tapered TO a point. The
ave head was sticking I'm the tree al
tight angles to the grain. and must have
bcen left there many years ago by some
savage warrior
The Gallery OF Modcna was for 20 years
unhung. Al last Il has been admirably
arranged, and Signor Anderson has pho
tographed its many interesting works
Tbere. better than anywhere else. the
Ferrara- Bolognese school can be studied
but the glory of Modcna is It's many mas
,ernleces by Dosso hossi, most fasci-
mating artist. hitherto almost whatsoever
"a Symonds Is the only writer OF note
O,ho has made so much as n passing men
ION of Dosso. whose Jester" he greatly
sdntred. This Jester" even In pho
toaraph. reveals It's quality of Shakes
pearean humor
Maine folk are almost In despair be
.atle. o. the continued lack OF snow. such