The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-04-01
NOTES OF THE DAY.


New York has about 5000 physicians.
only 600 of whom are native Americans.
4 memorial tablet has been placed on
Lawn Bank, the Hampstead villa, where
Keats wrote his lode to a Nightingale.
George Joachim Goschen. first lord Of
the admiralty, is at work on a life of his
! grandfather, the Leipzig bookseller.
Goeschen. the friend and publisher of
! Goethe, Schiller, Wieland and Herder.
Hopkins county, Kentucky, is expert
encing a notable religious revival under
1 the preaching Of a woman evangelist,
Mrs Mum OF Madisonville. In a five
weeks tour of the county Mrs. Mum has
preached so sermons, netting 119 CONVEX
sons.
Forty thousand acres of virgin forest in
northern Idaho will soon be turned over
/ to the axemen of big lumber syndicate.
| 1t is expected this area will yield more
I than 100000, 900 feet of yellow and white
pine, red and white fir. cedar and tama-
rack.
4 Scotland Yard, London, has issued
/ order to the police force to the effect that
| IL constable sees a drunken man APP
preaching a public house he is to prevent
his entrance, and IL a drunken man does
get inside public house the policeman is
to call the landlords attention to his con-
| dition.
Rats have invaded Reeds island. at the
mouth of the Humber. England, which
not long ago furnished grazing for thou
sands OF sheep and cattle, and have turn
ed IL into a desert. Shooting. ferrets and
| terriers and smoking out do not diminish
| their numbers and the island has been
| flooded with little effect.
| The sultan has presented to the Louvre
museum the celebrated Tello silver vase.
| 1t was discovered in 1888 by NJ. De Sarzee
during his excavations on the site of
antique city of Sirpoula: 1t is piece OF
| Chaldean fabric of the most remote an
| tiquity and one of the Oldest examples
known of engraving on metal.
At the international medical congress to
| be held in Moscow in 1897 French will be
recognized as the official language. Pa
pers may be read in other European Ian
guages but the discussions must be In
Russian, French or German. This decision
has made English doctors angry and they
talk of not attending the congress.
There are in Arizona 100000 acres OF
desert land capable of reclamation TO ag-
riculture through irrigation. Already
! some s97, 900 acres have been reclaimed
| and are bearing profitable crops of va
rious kinds, and various enterprises are
now under way which, 1t is expected, VIII
in the next two years insure the reclama-
ton OF almost 100000 acres more.
The bridge to be built over the Tennes-
see river at Knoxville is to be a remarka-
BILE structure in many respects. 1t is to be
entirely from pink marble from near
quarrfes, 600 feet long, with one arch OF
2i0 feet, 20 feet longer than any other
arch in the world. At it's highest point 1t
is to be los feet above the water, ana II Is
to have a roadway so feet wide.
The late Carlo Giuliano of Piccadilly
has bequeathed to the South Kensington
museum a very valuable collection of jew
! els consisting for the most part or gold
ornaments, decorated with minute gran
! ulatfons after the Greek and Etruscan
fashion One of the necklaces has 50 en-
phora-shaped pendants and is most deli
cately enriched with no less than Isl, $50
tiny gold granules.
Chloroform and ammonia killed a cent?
pede and saved cat at Springfield the
other day. The centipede dropped from
bunch of bananas upon the cat, and at
once buried its poisonous fangs in the an
imals legs. Its mistress, with rare pres
ence of mind, dropped chloroform on the
insect which succumbed, and then she
applied ammonia to the cats leg. 1t was
a triumph of presence of mind, appar-
emily.
The medical students of Paris are still
on the warpath of those of their fellow
students who come from foreign parts,
and are circulating a petition in the hos
pitfalls requiring the minister of education
to exact from the strangers before receiv-
ing their degree qualifications of the
same value as are exacted from them
selves If the strangers do not possess the
qualifications they should the French
students maintain. only be granted hon
orary diplomas.
The class in zoology at Cornell the 9TH
err day was studying the brains of rays,
or skates Some of the students made
hasty drawings and seemed to think that
nothing more was to be done. Instead of
trying to convince them of their error
Professor Wilder remarked that In the
summer of 1867 he had sat at the table of
the late Professor Louis Agassiz while the
latter pored for hours over just such a
brain which he had exposed with a knife
given him by the poet Longfellow.