The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-04-09

SNOSSS VI LIZ V0y.
Pisek. Bohemia. 10 probably the only
"dogless'' town in the world. In conss-
quence Of . death from h~ydrophobia the
authorities ordered every dog In the place
killed.
The authorities Of South Africa are de-
stroying locusts by catching a few. inoc-
ulating them with a toxin and turning
them loose among their fellows, from
which a locust pestilence ensues.
In Hawaii. It ia stated. mere are nm
Protestants. 8,s8 Catholics. 4.ess Nor
mons (polygamy 10 f~orbidden), A.6o6 OF
Eastern creeds. and Disc who declined to
state their faith. or possessed none.
A Canadian traveller who has spent .
couple of years in the far Northwest, part
of the time along the Peace river, says
that there are In hat country at least
four herds of wild bufFalo. numbering al
together not less than 1900.
The old dollhouse on the Boston post
road. at the Connecticut line. near 0reen-
witch. Is to be removed. Washington ana
his army were permitted to pass through
free. and were given two barrels OF Ae
by the keepers wife besides.
A frontier politician who visited the
white house recently and made use OF the
telephone for expectorating purposes OBJ
served In passing that II was an insult to
a free people for the administration to
nail the cuspidors to the wall.
The bicycle as a letter carriers vehicle
has been abandoned in Louisville. KY,
after three years trial. The carriers say
that very often instead Of being . help
the wheel is actually a hindrance to quick
delivery, on account OF bad weather,
muddy streets. crowded th~oroughfares and
breakdowns.
There is a movement on foot I'm Penn
sylvania to organize a fire insurance COM
pany to be operated by the state iremen.
and this project is receiving encourage
ment on the ground that their profts will
depend upon their ability to successfully
cope with fires. This is not entirely q
new idea in that state.
A sloop left Philadelphia primed for the
Klondike gold fields by way Of the Horn.
Going down the river the party struck .
snow furry, and five of them at once lost
all appetite for nuggets. and expressed
a feverish desire to go back home. They
were accordingly landed at Cape May,
and the rest went on.
Frederick M. Ayres. a jeweler of New
Brunswick. N. j., has discovered a means
of making an alloy that will stand the
tests applied to gold. and that
metal in every way except weight. He
combines copper and aluminium with the
aid of intense heat and a secret emf
Mr.. Ayres has a sample of the imitation
gold on exhibition.
A bill for the determination of rabid
dogs was introduced in the Florida legis-
lature was defeated by a representative
from Polk county who said that for his
part he had the best rabbit dog In F.ori-
da. and any man-if IL was the governor
himself-who tried to Kill his rabbit dog
would find he had the biggest fight on
his hands that he had ever got into.
The design of William A. Gault Of Bal
timore has been accepted for the monu-
ment to the signers of the Mecklenburg
declaration of independence. and II win be
set up at Charlotte. N. c., and dedicated
May 20, 1893. The monument is to be of
granite. tall. stately and symmetrical"
with a needle-pointed monolith mounted
on an inspiring base. The height of the
whole is to be 80 feet: the cost, 5000.
A bunch of violets and a purple ribbon
attached to the door of a house In a pri-
vate street as a substitute for Grape at
tracted the attention of passers-by i'm
New York. The house is the residence
of a Swedenborgian, and as the follow
ers of Swedenborg believe that true hap
| piness begins beyond the grave, they do
not hang Grape on the door when the dark
angel crosses the Threshold. Hence the
purple ribbon and vio.ets.
II = Jill oAAs
posed of women well known in the social
and literary world. has been formed in
/ Amesbury, Mass. The object of the as
sociation is chiefly to preserve the old
Whittier home as "A memorial The active
membership Is restricted to women. but
there is an associate membership to which
men are eligible. Mrs. Samuel 7. Pick
ard of Boston. who was the favorite niece
of the poet. will be an active member Of
the association.
The judgment comes from the district
court ,at the national capital that the sale
of newspapers on the streets ID a legtti-
mate business. and that newsboys have a
right to enter street cars and sell papers
to passengers provided they behave them
selves and leave the car when their busi-
ness is finished. One newsboy was forci-
bly, elected from a car in Washington
some time ago. and had a leg crushed by
a car running on the other track. He
has just obtained an award of $500 dam
ages from a jury under Instructions to
the above effect by the Judge.
The practice of our forefathers in roll
ing up pieces of paper to be used as a
lighter has been utilised by an inventor
for the manufacture of matches. The
paper takes the place of the wooden stick.
and is not only lighter, but cheaper. Long
strips of strong porous paper an inch wide
are immersed in a solution of wax, stear-
inc and other substances, which causes
il to stick together and to burn with a
bright. smokeless. odorless flame. The
strips are then passed to a machine, which
winds them into long. thin tubes and cuts
them INTO strips of the ordinary length.
The strips the then dipped into the phos-
pherus preparation to form the head.
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