The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-09
Brief Odds and Ends.

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that one of them ate bushel of peaches I
and the other 10 pounds of grapes at one |
sitting.
One of the stray shots of some careless
Maine hunters knocked the pipe from the |
mouth Of man who was driving with |
his wife near Biddeford.
On the state railways in Germany the |
carriages are painted according to the
colors of the tickets of their respective
classes. First-cass carriages are painted
yellow, second-class green and third-class
white
One of the stations of the railway which
is to be built from the Red sea to the
top of Mount Sinai will be on the spot
where it is supposed Moses stood when
he received the two tables of the law
from Jehovah.
Cod are running in such large numbers
and so near the land on the Long Island
side of the sound, near East Marion and
Orient that many of them are thrown
out by the surf and residents pick them
up on the shore.
The net debt of the city of Boston has
increased s6,6l2.393 in the last 10 months,
and now amounts to $50.340 llo. Money in
the municipal treasury is scarce nearly
every department ii is reported, being
| in straitened circumstances
What are believed TO be the skeletons
| of the famous 800 of Thermopylae have
! been unearthed near that place, between
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/ The bones were found in sarcophagi con-
tanning also coins, medals, vases and ores.
1t will cost the city of st. Louis S1e0ooo
| this year to supply all its schools with
| free text books, and being reluctant 10
| expend as much money at once. the clty
will only make beginning of it, intend
ing to make the supply complete in time
Sea fogs may be dispensed for some dis
| tance ahead of Il vessel by means OF
new invention, consisting of an arched
distributing pipe with jet tubes set in one
side. From these tubes is discharged
water or other liquid in Il spray against
the fog.
Conscience in woman has begun to
work in Michigan to the benefit of the
cash box. 1T is reported from OWosso
that woman who worked as a clerk
for Osburn & Sons 20 years ago has just
returned 5 cents which she took while in
their employ.
A young countryman who had gone to
Indianapolis to enjoy himself and had
been arrested for intoxication. found,
when he awoke in jail in the morning,
that some one had stolen his hat and
shoes. They were found in the cells OF
other prisoners.
In the old colonial times there We're
only rs postofces in America. Ten years
later there We're 900 offices: in 1880, $4,000;
in 1888, 81, 900, and to-day about 10000 have
regular postmaSterS, receive and deliver
men and women
1t has been determined to raise up an
ambidexterous generation in the state OF
Nuevo Leon, Mexico, and the govern
ment has ordered that the pupils in all
the official schools shall be taught te
write and perform all manual tasks as
we'll with the left hand with the right
At Bellows Falls. VT, man who was
: digging trench for celery i'll his cellar
was buried by the cavins in OF the cellar
wall and remained under the pie OF
stones. mortar and dirt several hours be-
fore he was found. Although "A years old
he did not suffer greatly from his eNpe-
rience.
Greencastle. Ind. it is announced, has
instituted special school with a specia
, athletic teacher. 1t is not, however as
: might be inferred. school for the teach
ing of athletics or gymnastics. but foi
, the more thorough and effective instrne-
| ton of the incorrigibe. who are To be
: sent to it from other schools
A man with a habit of talking to him
self got very angry at himself in Port
land, Me-. and while walking on the stree
: began calling himself all sorts OF name:
: half audibly. He let out one OF then
just as a stranger came up, and tn
stranger, not knowing his failing, le
drive and blackened his eye for him.
I Gulible farmers of Allen county Ohio
f have been buncoed by swindler VIII
. went through The country exhibiting a
: enormous ear of corn. from which II
n sold choice kernels at choice prices 10
h seed. The ear was made from severe
: smaller ears carefully cut up and IN
r geniously glued together in the nature
!, form of big ear.
Il Davis Cullen of Stickersvile, Del, VII
G for nearly 10 years has been treated Il
: consumption by the doctors, in "A cough
ing fit the other day brought up foot
which he swallowed almost 10 years as'
1t had stuck in his windpipe then. tn
physicians now say that il got down mi
his lungs and that it is the tooth whic
!, has caused what they treated as COZ
# sumption.
is California will observe the 10th ann
d versary Of the discovery of gold in il
territory Jan. 49, 1898. During the ha
century over $500, 600 of the yelio
A. metal has been found within its bo
L. ders and the end is not yet. At the eel
L. bration a monument will be erected cor
IN posed of as great variety of miner
substances To be found in the state as
is possible to collect.
ID For some reason the Bohemians
in Prague undertook TO celebrate the sa9
10 anniversary of the battle on the Wei
IS semherg, which was the first i'll the
wears war and in which the bohemian
with their elected king, Frederick OF Il
~ Palatinate, We're disastrously defeate
IL The outcome of the celebration was RI
y, | i'll which the police We're obliged TO u
as violence in scattering the crowd.
As Sixty-four- year-old Peter Holio. No
wegian who came to the United States
the age of II. now lives as hermit III
o: hut he built on a small clearing on La
he creek Lane county, Oregon, II yea
he ago. and although he receives an incon
nd from a farm in the East he spends
he penny ii is said. that he can avoid spen
ing The underbrush has grown so MI
about his hovel that, although the pla
is is but a few rods from high road 1t
A. said that If he died there he might
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