The Anaconda standard., 1898-02-23
Shots That Scatter.

California imports Chinese coal
There are nearly 5000 gypsies in Eng
land.
In Persia cutting the hair is a sign of
mourning.
The London police are vetoing the sand
wich Girls.
There are nearly 27o different religions
in the United Kingdom.
Taking all the year round the coolest
hour of the "A is ) o'clock in the morn
ing.
The bones and muscles of the human
body are capable of over 1,200 different
movements.
The tunnels of the world are estimated
to number about ] .142, with total length
of 5I4 miles.
The number of visitors admitted to the
state apartments at Windsor castle last
year was 94.Il5
Famine and pestilence are now raging
in Russia on scale far more serious than
in India a year ago.
A German professor reports he has
found living bacteria in wine which had
been bottled % or 30 years.
The German navy has only been in ex-
istence half a century, the first naval
officer having been appointed in 1s4'.
Accordions were invented in 1929 by Mr..
Domain of Vienna. and a single German
firm now manufactures over 1000 year.
Every week 100000 oysters are swal-
lowed by the people of London. Half of
the shells are broken up and used for
asphalt paving.
The number of people who have lived
upon this earth since the time of Adam
is calculated to be somewhere about &c.
627. .S44. 600 0g0, 000
In he ba of the I'm
glish language did not number more
than 80 900, 600; in 1897 their number was
estimated at 110.00o00o.
Whenever Queen Victoria goes abroad
she always has a couple of fire extin-
gushers sent out in advance and fitted
up in the house she is to reside in.
A remarkable eel has been discovered in
| the Fiji islands 1t has a peculiar for
| nation in it's throat which causes it to
/ whistle when in an excited state.
/ The busiest time on the Atlantic cable
! is between the hours of 10 and Il i'll the
/ forenoon. During that time on an aver
/ age about 900 messages pass over the
| cable each way.
The tolling of church bells on the oc-
/ casion of burial is based on the old
! pagan custom of banging gongs when a
body was to be inferred in order to scare
away the bad spirits.
/ The expenses of Great Britain are now
about $500, 900 900 yearly, or nearly $1,000
| per minute. but every tick of the clock
1 represents an inflow of little over $40
/ into the British treasury, thus leaving an
annual surplus of about SO, 100000.
The visitor to Peking often is reused
from slumber by sound similar to the
/ clicking of the bones at a minstrel enter
tainment and then he knows that the
| chiropodist and manicure artist is MAX
/ ing his rounds in the street below.
The British authorities deny that Amer
ican paper is being used by the British
| government. and aver that ''it is not the
| present intention of the department to is
| sue invitations to tender to mill owners
| outside the limits of the United King
| dom"
A Partisan doctor has discovered that
| 6; solution of one part of picric acid to
| 10 parts of water will surely and speedily
cure the most terrible burns and scalds,
| and recommends that barrels of the sou-
tion be kept in foundries, etc, in which
workmen could be immersed.
Few people have any idea of how much
money is spent by the municipality of
Paris in planting and looking after the
trees which line the principal boule-
wards and avenues of the French capital
The annual report of the superintendent
gives the total number of trees planted
at 81, 600, each of which represents an ini-
tial cost of $50. The annual expenditure
for maintenance is $52, 500.