The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-01-13
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During the hot months In Venezuela ex-
posture of the bare head to the sun for
half an hour means a certain fever and
almost certain death.
Lately an olive tree was careiessiy de-
stroyed near Nice which had positive
record of five centuries and measured s6
feet in circumference.
Sunday laws are strictly enforced in
some parts of Germany. A newspaper
published at Kiel was fined 81. % for issu-
ing an extra on Easter Sunday to an
nounce the Turkish declaration of war
against Greece
The prohibition candidate in New York
is found by the corrected returns to have
polled $50 votes, and in the present city
of Brooklyn, long regarded as strongly
inclined to temperance. GOT votes-a total
in the two cities OF LOST. As his contribu-
ton to the campaign was $1,000 1t there
fore cost him about 81 vote
There has just been presented To the
bishop of London a mfter, which is said
10 he the only one of its kind in the.
world. 1t is of FURNISHED ivory. with gold
orpheys. On the plaques or plates are
written in pure leaf gold the words. "Hoi-
mess to the Lord in Hebrew, Greek,
Latin and English.
There has been discovered near Colgny,
France on the boundary line between the
departments of Ain and Jura, a large
bronze statue of Mercury seriously dam
aged, but bearing clear evidences of being
a masterpiece of sculpture. The pedestal
of the statue is ornamented with bronze
tablets, covered with Inscriptions.
The following note was recently re-
ceived by the publishers of Longfeliow $
works from Il daughter of the poet: 'fThe
pronunciation used by my father was
'Heawatha,' the accent on the first sylla-
BILE being slighter than ON the wa, the
"a sounded like "a in mar not war, as
sometimes used.
The reason that bakers paint ginger
bread men red is that when humans We're
sacrificed to the gods the worshipeIS did
not. of course. partake Of them but of
cakes baked in their image and painted
with the blood of the victim. The blood
was considered the seat of the soul and
very precious. BY devouring it the men
thought they added to their physical pow
er. The gingerbread horse is a relic of the
Sacrifcal horse, the cakes being given
women and children that they might par
take figuratively of the sacred meal.
The University of Jena has conferred
the doctors degree on Peter Leonatius
Alishad an eminent Armenian scholar,
who is also popular among his country
men as a poet. He is n years old. one OF
his former friends was Alexander Won
Humboldt who wished to introduce him
to King Frederick William w, but the
bashful Armenians courage forsook hin
written a number of descriptive books OF
Armenia and has translated many Euro
pean books into his own tongue.
| The various shapes in which bakers cui
| cakes are worthy of consideration. These
| shapes are time honored and unchanged
| Bile. The gingerbread men and knights re-
mind us of the rude amulets seen III mt
SeumS and there is a connection between
/ them The work of the baker was de
| manded at the sacrificial feasts of Older
/ days and the gods had to receive theii
/ share. II was natural TO initiate IN th'
| dough the animals. and even human sac
/ rifces made to the gods. These cakes
were eaten by the people who could no
/ get part of the real animal sacrihced
Gradually ii became the custom to ea
| the cakes and not the animals.
The great lion of St Mark is about 4
/ be restored to the doges' ancient palace II
| Venice. This was the lion erected by An
| drea Gritti who became doge in 1873, ant
| who In the is years of his rule, restores
to his city all the possessions she ma
held before the league of Cambria orltl
| died in 1888, having won threefold slot,
| as patriot, soldier and statesman. lie lei
behind him as his monument the famou
| high relief figure of the lion, whie
adorned the middle gallery of the doges
palace on its best side. The lion stood a
a height of % meters from the ground; II
paw on the open gospel and the dog
kneeling in prayer by its side, and whef
| il remained until the break up of tn
olfgarchy and the vandalism of demo
cratic Venice swept it away. In May, ISL
the Italian ministry of tlne arts under
took the work of its restoration, and on
of a large number of competing sculptor
Signor I7rbano Botasso was chosen I
give the lion back to Venice. His work
a majestic lion and the doge in his robe
of state kneeling by its stde-is now con
plete and. will adorn the ancient palace {
the doges in a few weeks.