The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-01-18
pithy Paragraphs.

Of the 2J6,s31 recruits for the German
army examined last year only 2S5 were
unable 10 read and write.
NJ Pasteur's widow has taken up her
residence at the institute bearing her hus-
bands name, and is in receipt of PEN
sion of 5000 year.
on nearly every block in Japanese cities
is a public oven where for a small fee,
housewives may have their dinners and
suppers cooked for them.
Artesian wells have proved successful
I'm New South Wales, the area within
which underground water is found ex-
tending 1000 square miles.
Sir Isaac Newton's house in st. Martins
street London, which Macaulay said
would forever be an object of veneration,
is threatened with demolition
Dining cars have not yet appeared in
Russia Express trains stop but once in
three hours to let passengers refresh
themselves. the stations being built
about Is miles apart.
The wife of the Grand Francais,' NJ.
De Iesseps, spends the greater part or
the year at La chesnage, where her hus-
band died. She receives a pension of s2i.-
600 year from the Suez Canal company.
The Egyptians resorted to dancing to
express religious emotion; it was one of
the cherished arts of ancient Greece and
later of ancient Rome, disappearing with
the fall of the empire and reasserttng
itself during the early period of the Chris
tian church.
One of the most active of the famous
widows is the wife Of the historian Mich
elet, who lives quite alone and occupies
her time in bringing out new edit ons
of her late husbands work and editing
the manuscripts he left behind, including
his memoirs
The Austrian government has enlarged
the boundaries of Vienna to SUCH an ex-
tent that the metropolitan area Is now
/ half as large as London, twice as large
as Paris and three times larger than Ber-
! lin. Yet Vienna has been declining in
prosperity for years.
CalciEed seed pearls considered a
medicine of great potency by the Chinese.
/ and beautiful art work in mother-of-pearl
/ has long been executed both in China and
Japan. In the Philippines windows are
| made of mother-of-pearl and in Cash
/ mere it is used for inlaying Inscriptions
/ on tombstones.
Gladly island, at the entrance to Caer-
| marthen bay Wales, containing so acE es.
/ has just been sold The owner IS free from
/ all county and other land taxes. The ISL
| and was once the haunt of buccaneers
/ and pirates and was harbor of refug
/ for John Paul Jones, whose name is at
| tached to its little bay. Caldy has light
! house.
/ the popuIace danced the horrible car
/ magnole, and % theaters and 1.s00 public
| balls We're open every night. Then came
! the days of Tagliona Elsser and Grisi.
! and such enthUs'a1 m Tor the dance has
/ never been equaled in these latter days.
/ Everyone was wild over the art, and the
] ballet was admired from sheer love Of
the beautiful
1t is said the hand indicates the degree
/ of refinement but II is not nearly 50 good
a guide as the foot. Often a person will
/ have a lovely face and hand and the foot
| viii fbetray Il lack of arstocratic blood
! signitied by the graceful fingers. A very
small, arched foot tells of an arbitrary
spirit pride elegance and reserve. 1t Is
/ rarely seen except i'll the far east or II
| Spain An arched foot is capable of more
! work than a Hat one, and in some coun-
tries a tlat-footed man has no chance OF
1 becoming a soldier.
Here are some curious extracts from
! examination papers quoted by the chi
| cago Record: 'The government of Eng
/ land is king and queen. Queen Isabella Is
4 the present ruler. England is owned by
the Dominion of Canada, India and part
/ of Australia" Also: Russia has good
| government: is owned by Spa n" The fol-
| lowing were handed in as definitions OF
| words: ..Austere-The hind part of q
boat "Tory-An abandoned soldier
'"rory-A fsherman's boat Serene
Deadlike.'' "Canteen-A cone shaped bot
tie to carry water across the desert
| One day II class was asked to explain thu
meaning of "B. G" and "A. b 1t WAS
a sticker for IA while. but one lad final,
figured it Out. Ills little hand shot up ant
he arose with decision written on his
earnest face. as he said "B. {. means be
fore Christ and A. =. after he died.