The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-12-05
FOREIGN NOTES or INTEREST.

Trial by Jury will be established in
Siberia after Jan. I by a recent ukase
OF the car.
j. l.. Toole. the comedian. has had a
successful operation for cataract made
upon his left eye.
Oxford university has decreed that
when men present themselves to re-
ceive degrees they shall not wear tan
col6red shoes.
DIR. Theodor Gsell-Fels, the compiler
| of the admirable German guide book
to Italy. died recently at Munich. aged
70 years.
Carolus Duran has been elected
president of the Champs de Mars Salon
Association of Painters in place of the
late Puv de Chavannes.
Heidelberg university has struck a
blow at the institution of duelling by
suspending eight corps students for
four semesters, that is, two years.
The Manacle rocks. on which the Mo-
hogan was wrecked. got their name
from "Maen Eglos." the Cornish for
church stone" There Is a legend that
a church once stood on the spot.
At a prize contest for national music
m dances. held in the Norwegian town
of Skien. the first prize for dancing was
taken by an old gentleman of so, who
went through the Halling dance.
Taddeo Gaddi's Ponte Vecchio, built
in 1888. the only medieval bridge left
in Florence. is threatened with destruc-
tion. The city authorities wish to put
a wooden suspension bridge in its place.
Great Britain has offered, according
to the Independence Beige. to give up
Walfsch bay. in South Africa, to Ger
many, in exchange for a strip through
German East Africa that will connect
the British territory with the Nile.
Moritz Frank. who as a child was
exhibited as a mathematical prodigy.
recently tried to commit suicide by
jumping from a Vienna bridge into the
Danube. His power to add figures was
failing and he had learned no other
means Of earning a living.
London's county council has decided
to assume control of the water supply
OF the metropolitan district n will
try to get a bill through parliament to
enable IL to purchase by agreement
or by compulsion" the property of the
eight companies that now provide the
water.
OF 566 freshmen who matriculated at
oxford university this fall, $50 or less
than half, came from the great English
public schools. Elton leads the other
schools with as students, then come st.
Pauls 20, Charterhouse n Winchester
10 each, Marlborough and Harrow 16
each.
Mr.. Maskelyne. the London conjuror.
has been compelled by the courts to
make good his offer of $500 to any one
who could initiate successfully his box
trick. He had made the offer with i'm
punity for years i'm his speech introduce
ing the trick. but. when two young
clerks took ii up, refused to pay.
A d~ispensation has been granted by
the holy inquisition permitting the
"a -
ing after the battle of Adua. three
years ago, to marry again, lin view of
the special circumstances and of the
valid presumption of DEATH" There
will be lively times when the Italian
Enoc Ardens return.
Ninety thousand pounds of stage
scenery belonging to the Paris grand
opera brought 5000 when sold lately by
weight because IL was somewhat faded.
Included In the sale were the stage set
tings OF Les Huguenots.' l. Juive,"
Faust" ''Guillaume Tell" LIE Proph-
etc" L Favorita" and "L'Afri-
came"
A good English word. bully" in it's
eighteenth century Specification. has
been substituted for the French "soute-
neur" to describe men who live on the
earnings of prostitutes. now that Eng
lish prudery has conceded that the
practice exists in England. and has
made IL a misdemeanor, punishable
with imprisonment.
German military authorities have
found employment for the Mennonite
private who refused to bear arms
through conscientious scruples by as
signing him to the company of laborers
at M~agdeburg. They had tested his
religious convictions previously by
keeping him in prison for nearly three
years on charges of INSTRUMENTATION.
midas tale of persons killed by wild
animals and snakes in 1897 Is 4.277 of
the former and 20,959 of the latter.
Nearly a thousand persons more were
killed by wild beasts than in the pre-
ceding year, owing. 1t is reported. Ia
the famine. which drove people into the
Jungle, while the scarcity of water also
forced tigers into the open country.
Heinrich Heine's sister. Frau Char
lotte Won Embden. has just celebrated
her 99th birthday. The emperor OF
Austria. remembering the Empress
Frau Won Embden a letter, a picture
Of the murdered empress, and returned
the letters of Heine presented to his
wife 10 years age by the poets sister.
Illustrated postal cards on which pic
lures of fortified places are represented
have been prohibited in Germany Oh
tn ground hat they betray military
secrets. 1nOusdnuS vi tdids Win Ph'-
lures Of Posen, Coblenz, Mainz, Span
dau. Magdeburg and other towns have
been confscated, N a fine OF three
marks will be imposed on any one
caught selling these cards.
Samory's capture raises h number
of savage monarchs held as personal
prisoners by the French republic to
five. The others are King Behanzin OF
Dahomey, now kept at Martinique;
Queen Ranavalo of Madagascar. Ham
Nghi of AMMAN and Dinah Califou
from the African west coast. who has
taken to Trim Samory, according IL
French accounts, Is the father or o
children.
Glasgow university has given the lat
PRINCIPAL Baird successor. Principa
story, a stormy greeting. His inaugu
raj address was interrupted by singing