The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-02-26
Notes of the Day.


Fessenden, N. D., has 300 inhabitants
and four newspapers.
new German church has been COM
pleted in Jerusalem at a cost of 100000.
The fashionable quarter of Sydney
bears the beautiful name of Woolloom-
moolloo.
Great Britain controls 81 out of every
100 square miles of the earth's surface.
1t is said that 60 languages are spoken
in the empire governed by the car OF
Russia.
"She is plagiarist as TO hair" said a
Western paper, in speaking of woman
who wore a switch.
England has requested bid from
Missouri packing establishment for fur
nishing 10000 pounds of canned meats for
the British army in India.
A 4-year-old child in Oakland, Cal, was
poisoned the other day by chewing the
painted paper on a Japanese screen in
the parlor and very nearly died.
Ii is stated that the public accounts of
Ontario for the year have been COM
pleted and that they show surplus of
100000 to the credit of the province.
Clafin University Washington is the
gorgeous name of negro boy at orange
burg S. C. lie was born within short
distance of the college, hence his name.
The supreme court of Georgia has de-
cided that when a man reaches 66 the
term aged can be truthfully applied to
him. No limit has been fixed as to Wo-
man.
Ladies are requested to remove their
hats as far as possible was inscribed on
the cards of admission to a recent enter
| tainment in the suburbs of Boston.
| Boston inventor has fire engine that
| shoots sand. This prevents loss by water,
| besides being. in many cases a more ef-
| fective extinguisher than the water.
| A murderer in the pententiary of Kan
| sas who will be pardoned out soon, will
| remarry his wife, who since his impris-
| onment has been divorced married and
| widowed
| There is no single interest in the world
( as great as that of railways. Including
| street railways. there are to-day in oper-
alton in the world over 100000 miles of
railways.
/ A bill is soon to be laid before the
| French chamber to reduce the hours OF
| labor for railroad engineers to a maxi
| mum of 10 in "a and to fix also an al
lowancc of holidays.
| Birmingham's new meat market which
was opened by the lord mayor on Oct. ~,
is said to be one of the finest buildings
of the kind in Europe. 1t has been built
and fitted at "A cost OF SoUU,OVU.
The Vienna Medical society has award
ed the Godberger prize of 1000 gulden
| fabout $1,000 to DIR. Ruhemann of Berlin
for his pamphlet on the question, Is
Catching Cold a Cause of Disease?
The thickest known coal seam in the
world is the Wyoming near Twin Creek
in the Green river coal basin, Wyoming.
1t is SO feet thick and upwards of 300 feet
of solid coal underles 4,0o0 acres.
A physician in Mobile. Ala is proud OF
the distinction of having had at once
four patients under his charge whose ag
gregate ages amounted to 3il years. one
is rs. another Sc, another IS, and the
fourth SO years old.
Coal can be mined continuously by {
new machine which has a curved stee
frame around which runs an endless
chain of cutters to saw the coal iron
the ledge in blocks. when il can be re
moved and broken up into different sizes
The Saltwater. Mimi, Mirror has sus
pended publication after prosperous ca
reer of a dozen years. 1t was published
in the state penitentiary and the suspen
sion was unavoidable because there ar
no printers stopping there at present
In a newly designed roller skate on
one wheel is used. having pneumati
tire and mounted on a ball bearing, tn
rim of the wheel being fitted with
+ toothed ring. with gear pawls on eac
. side, which prevent the wheel from turn
, ing backward.
In the neighborhood of the Bermuda
the sea is extremely transparent, so tina
the fishermen can readily see the horn
of the Holsters protruding from their hic
, ing places in the rocks at considerable
depth. To entice the crustaceans froi
, their crannies they tie lot of snails i
+ "A ball and dangle them in front of tn
| cautious lobster.