The Anaconda standard., 1898-01-07
Notes of the Day.


birds make their journeys in the daytime
and water birds at night.
The fastest flowing river i'm the world
is the Sutlei. in British India. with a de-
scent of 1000 feet in lN miles.
Another large hotel IL to be erected in
London 1t is proposed to put up a work
ingmans hotel that will accommodate 500
boarders at cents a night. 1t is expect
ed to pay per cent to the shareholders.
Turkey is more correctly written Tur-
kia. the country of the Turks. The title.
the Ottoman empire was given in hon
or of Othman I, who assumed the gov
ernment of the empire about the year
1900.
The steam craft of the United States
last year carried $50 900 passengers, with
a loss of 4s passengers and 137 men be-
longing to the crews. Competent steam
boat inspection has greatly reduced the
number of accidents.
When a horse fell into large and deep
we'll at Henderson, N. c., some practical
genius attached hose to a nearby hy-
drant and, turning on the water. filled up
the well and fioated the horse to the top
when rescue was comparatively easy.
The first of the Booth Tucker colonies
in the West has been established at Sole
dad. in California. Another is to be
ganized in the Arkansas valley, in Colo
rado where the Salvation Army COM
mander has an option a 3-,000-acre
tract.
The travelling library is to be introduced
in Missouri. 1t will be under the excel
lent auspices of the Missouri Federation
of Womens Clubs, who have made
study of travelling library methods in New
York. Ohio, Iowa. Michigan and other
states.
In Kansas City an ordinance making it
unlawful for street car companies to col
lect fare from passengers who are COM
PEELED to stand. and providing for other
rigorous regulations designed to prevent
crowdng, has had the effect of producing
additional cars.
| Sixteen thousand dollars is the record
price paid for cablegram, that price hay-
ing been paid for message sent by Hen
mixer Heaton to Australia, in behalf of
| the British parliament. Reuters account
of the murderer Deeming's trial, 1000
words, cost SS,000
Grand opera in Paris, according to Off
| cial accounts, has been given at an ex-
| penditure over receipts of 4,500, 900 francs
| in five years, an average loss that is, of
| $1S0,000 a year. The subvention of 100000
| francs a year reduces the annual deficit
| of $4,000 on the opera concerts.
| Under d new regulation at the Enoch
| Pratt free library in Baltimore holders of
| cards may have second card, called
| students card, issued to them. On the
| students card no works of fiction nor
| juvenile works will be issued the purpose
| being to encourage the reading of solid
| books.
The supreme court of California has de-
/ cided that under certain circumstances a
/ wife may be compelled to support her
/ husband. This decision rendered in
/ the of aged and nfirm spouse
who was deserted by his wife. The wife
WAS ordered 10 pay the husband S2i Il
month
An Alaska traveller recently described
| some extraordinary phenomena connected
| with small lake. named Selawik, situat-
| ed near the seacoast. Tides rise and fall
| in the lake. perhaps account of an
| underground connection with the sea. AT
/ the bottom, he says, the water is salt, but
| on the top there is a layer of sweet water
| A rumor that the Eiffel tower was out
| of the perpendicular had led to an exam
| ination by an expert, who reports that it
! does bend first one way and then another
! because of the alternate expansion and
| contraction of the iron in changes of tenn
| perature, that it is really always in
| motion, yet quite safe, at the same time.
burglars broke into the fortress of Vim
! cennes, near Paris, recently, and after
stealing money and valuables of the sol
diers and officers used the tools of the
military blacksmith shop to break into
the commissariat which they plundered,
| and then made their way through the
moat by means of the ladders in the fort.
A police raid on IA slot machine joint at
Cincinnati resulted in an examination OF
the machines and the discovery that they
We're constructed with short decks on
the rollers. That is to say, instead of a
full deck of cards the roller lacked sew
eral, making a reduction of the player 5
chances between so and 40 per cent.
Thomas Manslield's residence six miles
/ southwest of Washington, Ind, caught
fire in the morning. The roof was burning
! brskly when an Evansville and Indian
apolis passenger train happened along
| rail-
passengers and trainmen carried water
from the tender and extnguished Tho
flames.
Seventy-eight snakes in one wrthna
mass We're unearthed by men in the EN-
ploy of the public works department %
New Bedford, Mass, the other day. TIL,
reptiles We're about a foot below the sur
face of the ground and had gone init
winter quarters. Near the same localit,
the same men discovered nest of ?
snakes.
! Ernst Rruncken. the secretary Of tn,
| Forestry commission of Wisconsin. Il
making jealous efforts 10 secure the re
foresting of the cut-over lands of tn
state with pine trees. lie announces tha
the pine kings" have promised 10 replan
their cut-over lands with trees Il year oil
il the state will see that the fire law per
tanning to forests is strictly enforced.
Years ago. when one of the now burste
Wichita banks was running. its official
caused certain money borrower To IN
sure his life and transfer the policy TO tn
bank as security. Year after year tn
bank paid the premium and kept the pol
G icy alive. The other day the man die
: and tho receiver of the bankrupt institu
S tion collected 81, 900 from the insurance. |
turned out 10 be the best investment tn
: | bank had ever made.
s Petitions are being distributed in ever
3 town along the Des Moines river whic
contain a request to ask the state legis
lature to make a vigorous attempt to hu
the dam across that stream at Bonapart,
/ Ia and to open up the Des Moines t
| the fish. which are unable to pass the OF
: struction. Sportsmen, especially the dis
eiple of 1zaak Walton, are anxious to Sc
: the obs ruction removed.
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