The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-10
pithy Paragraphs.


has red hair.
The average weekly loss of vessels on
the seas throughout the world is T.
The girl who hesitates may not be lost
but she is apt TO become an old maid.
A great rooter for the Michigan uni |
versity football team is its captain, young /
Mr.. Hogg.
Quebec, with population of 10000, has |
six daily newspapers, four OF which are in /
the French language
Caricatures are found among the seuip-
| tured monuments of Thebes, Egypt, made |
/ 300 years before Christ
They don't do things in "A half-hearted |
| way in China. The national hymn is so
/ long that people take half day to listen
| to it.
More than 900 species of plants cui-
4 tivated, and most of these have been
broken up into varied forms by the hand
| of man.
The new organ in the Church of st. Ig-
natius, San Francisco, weighs more than
100 900 pounds and has more than 5000
! pipes.
The following is the copy of sign in a
/ remote Georgia county: "A Few Bright
| Scholards Takin to Lern Writin, Spailin
and Figerin.'
To show the carelessness of mothers in
Great Britain, more than 5000 children
| are burnt to death in the year from their
! clothing catching fire
One Franklin, Me-, man has it all fig
ured down fine. There Will be Just is
snowstorms this winter. He figured it out
by cat tracks
Raisers of fat pork get about half what
the lean article brings and use about
twice the value of foodstuffs needed Tor
the lean meat to make the deal
1t is estimated that in Paris one in Is
of the population. or 100000 live on char
ity, with tendency toward crime; in
London this class is one in 30.
Each figure in a frst-class waXwork
exhibition has to be remade every four
or five years. The wax loses its color, and
becomes soft and spongy after that time.
When a woman's height is five feet five
inches her waist should be "a inches, her
ankle IA inches and her wrists should
measure 512 inches arounds
Grain is carried 500 miles on the lakes
for 0.4S4 mill per ton per mile, or less
than the Goth of a cent. Coal ana IRON
are moved on the lakes at lower rates
than those on grain.
japanese postmen whose routes carry
them into the country use bicycles. Their
wheels are made by local manufacturers,
who have appropriated improvements
from both British and American patents.
A Lebanon, Conn, man owns an apple
tree growing in the town of Franklin
from which the apples fall in two coun-
ties-New London and Windham-and in
three towns-Franklin, Lebanon and
Windham.
On a piece of land in Old Lyme. Conn,
is a rocking stone of the following dimen-
sions: Around the stone north and south,
q feet, inches; east and west "a 1eet ~
inches. This immense stone is so deli
cately poised that one man can rock 1t
from four To six inches
Canada's new postage stamps are about
to issue. They bear the vignette of the
queen she appears to-day, not as at
.; El,n .yT,ln nf 10
threes and tives will be changed in ac-
cordance with the postal union regua-
lions, to green, red and blue, respectively.
queer industry has sprung up in
Michigan, namely: The conversion of pine
stumps into shingles. 1t is stated that
stumps of trees which We're cut 20 and 70
, years ago remain enduring and obdurate
distractions to the cultivation OF the
soil They are still sound and turn out
excellent shingles when SO untitled.
recent work on Nelson makes the odd
/ blunder in describing an effort to bring
on a fight with Vileneuve of saying: The
flag lieutenant endeavored to explain the
mistake. just as the admiral was rub
bling his hands with intense satisfaction
The question Immediately arises, now
: could Nelson rub his hands. lacking
an arm?
The agricultural board of Michigan has
, asked the land commissioner of that state
hereafter to sell college lands which are
are said to have made part payments so
as to secure possession of the lands. and
after stripping them of timber they make
no further payment, but let them revert
To the state.
The gold watch of Edgar Allen Poe is
now in possession of r. w. Albright of
1 Fort Madison. Iowa, and its history Is
characteristic of the checkered career OF
the poet. He had been in debt to MI. Al
bright's brother. merchant tailor, and
in Satt
+ with the watch in trust. Edgar Poe, Is
engraved ON the gold cap inside.
A French physician has, apparently
proved to u certainty that the contagious
period in whooping cough comes previous
d TO the appearance of the "whoop NOW
o the questions arise: How are children to
be guarded against the contagion, and OF
what use is il TO quarantine them
against going to school after the 'Whoop
has made it evident that they have the
: disease
y Prince Bismarek's plan to Germanize
e Prussian Poland by buying up Polish es
G tates and settling Germans on them has
II proved a failure The Prussian chambers
q nine years ago established "A fund of 100,
u 900 600 marks for this purpose. The Poilsf
a mobiles sold their heavily mortgaged es
e tates to the government readily but, IN
:. stead of emigrating. bought with tht
d money other estates in the country IRON
Germans and gathered around them FOL
II ish laborers The only result of the eXpe
Il riment has been to benefit the Polisl
landowners of posen.
Windsor bridge. across the Thames. ha'
lust been freed from its twopenny tol
u through the greed of the corporation. I'M
had an undoubted right to collect toll
Re from prescription as they had been takel
since the reign of Henry VI. 1t asked
parliament in 1884. and again in 1873, TO
= power to charge additional tolls, and OBJ
e tanned it for limited number OF years
The privilege expired about 10 years age
but the corporation continued TO collec
q the money till 4 litigous Briton refuses