The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-03-25
GUAM. Or CURIOUS.

In Russia the principals in a duel par
take of breakfast together before going
out TO fight
Certain oxford tradesmen were recently
fined S25 apiece for selling American ham
as Irish.
Germans Directing to the habit Of hold
ing the hands in the pockets have formed
a society. the Antihandindenhosen
haltenverein.
1t is expected that the new battleship
Massachusetts, now nearly completed in
the Cramps yard, will be ready for trial
some time in April
An inscription on the eastern architrave
of the parthenon, just deciphered at
Athens, proclaims that the Roman empe-
ror Nero was 1.-The son of God"
The gold able service of the sultan of
Turkey is alued at 81 900, 900. One of the
soup turee : is of is karat fineness and is
studded with emeralds and turquoises.
Edward McLochlin of Rochester, Ind,
has long been a sufferer with asthma, at
times almost suffocating. A few months
ago he fell off a load of hay. breaking
two ribs, since which time his asthmatic
troubles have gradually disappeared. until
now he can walk rapidly and sleep
soundly.
Another car load of redwood has just
been shipped from California to Nurem-
burg. Germany, for use in making lead
pencils. The cedar forests of Europe that
formerly supplied wood for pencils have
been practically exhausted and experts
sent to search for a substitute reported
that California redwood appeared to be
the best available material.
Dwarfed trees, growing in flower pots,
are characteristic ornaments of japanese
and Chinese gardens and houses, and the
production of these is an art that has
been carried to great perfection. 1t is
done by preventing an abundant normal
flow of sap. so that while the tree is
kept living and healthy, vegetation does
not go on with it's natural activity.
There were ia 439 fewer children being
educated in French primary schools than
there were five years ago, according to
the latest report of the minister of public
instruction, while in the five years the
number of pupils in the schools of the
Christian Brothers nearly doubled. The
brothers are now teaching 1861, $50 child
rem, with no aid from the government.
English capitalists are discussing a pro-
ject for the establishment of a submarine
cable between the Shetland islands and
the northernmost outpost of the English
telegraph system in Iceland. England's
trade with Iceland amounts to about
$500,000 per annum, and ii is expected that
the establishment of telegraphic commu-
nication will immensely benefit this trade.
Bunko has been rubbed into a wealthy
farmer of Fayette county. Pennsylvania.
in a most eXasperating way. Three years
ago he was bunkoed out of $1,000 in a
fraudulent land scheme. Last week he
was bunkoed out of $500 by an alleged
detective, who represented that he had
tracked and could lay his hands on the
bunco men who first victimized the far
mer.
The Italian fishermen in San Francisco
bay hauled up 1900 worth of opium in
their nets one day last week. The custom
authorities knew that the opium was
somewhere at the bottom Of the bay and
had made many efforts to recover ii. 1t
was dropped overheard two years ago
from a fishing smack that had taken 1t
from smugglcrs on Pacific steamer, and
that was being pursued by a revenue cut
ter.
A new idea IN railroad transportation is
involved in a bill introduced in the New
York assembly which would compel all
railroads which run out of a city with
ESQ, 600 Inhabitants, and which during the
last five years have paid dividends av-
eraging per cent, to issue family trip
tickets" between the city terminal and
any station within 40 miles at a rate no
greater than one and one-eighth cents a
mile. These tickets would be good for one
year. and the purchaser and any member
of his family would be entitled to ride on
them.
Ariel z. Goddard of Portsmouth, Ohio
has brought suit for divorce from his
wife, Mary Goddard. The parties to the
suit are wealthy residents of the eastern
part of the county Miss Goddard was
Miss Mary Gilruth, and is a sister to
Colonel Giruth of Yazoo City, Miss. The
petition alleges incompatibility of tenn
per, and states that, although they have
lived together. they have not spoken to
each other for over three years. This
statement is a great surprise TO their most
intimate friends, who have never no
ticed such a condition of affairs. as Mr..
and Mrs Goddard were always appar-
emily happy together.