The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-05-15
Notes Of the Day.

The Oldest newspaper in Spain is the
Gazeta de Madrid, founded in 1892. 1t has
a circulation of 10000, and is the only
large Spanish paper that appears twice a
day.
Two dozen bottles of Bass ale. bottled
more than 80 years ago, were looted by
the officers of the British squadron that
recently visited the Chusan Islands They
had been left there at the time of the
first British war with China.
Less than 10 per cent. of this country's
foreign trade is carried on by American
vessels, but this small proportion is equiv
alent to more than half the entire foreign
trade of the Spanish nation.
1t is said to be 10 uncommon occurrence
on the new Siberian railway for fuel or
water to give out. In the latter case a halt
is made and snow collected and melted
until enough water is provided for pro-
ceeding to the next station.
A rich ice dealers wife in Jersey City.
who is suing for divorce. has testified
that her husband came home one night.
washed his face in a bowl of gravy and
then demanded that she kiss him and
threw dishes at her because she refused.
A weekly publication recently requested
answers to the questions: "Wha do you
regard as the most common fault of pres
ent-day young menu" Perhaps the most
pithy answer of the hundredsOreceived
was this: preference for a white-shirt
job"
There will be state elections in three
states in September this year-Arkansas,
Vermont and Maine. Arkansas will choose
a governor Sept. 8. Vermont will choose a
governor on Sept. 6 and Maine will choose
a governor on Sept II. There will be a
state election in Alabama in August.
On one occasion. according to the old
New York records, Mrs. Johanna Young
and another lady convicted of grand lar
-. @.nIAI GAaNnA fnUn in a "a
the stripped to the waist and given 80
lashes apiece In public, and then banished
-whereupon they went to Philadelphia
Sections Of Kansas are overrun with
jack rabbits. Some time ago they became
such a nuisance that Sumner county Of
fered 8 cents apiece for their scalps. one
hundred and fifty thousand were slain on
Sunday and I'm a week the county was
and had to levy a special tax
to finish paying for the scalps.
The Swiss referendum on the PROPOSED
purchase of all railroads by the state has
resulted in a majority of 3is,l4o yeas al
against III, 100 nays for the project. The
advocates of the scheme point out tina
the private companies are often very ar
bitrary, and that the Prussian state rail
roads are earning good money for tbs
country at large. .
The largest tank steamer In the worlt
will soon be launched for the STANDARD
oil company at the Roach shipyard IN
Chester. Pa. The capacity will be 1000
gallons of oil and the ship will cost $50.
600. The dimensions are: Length over all
24 feet; beam, 40 feet; engines, 1.5N horse
power; speed, II knots per hour. IN
tanks are arranged fore and aft, with IN
machinery and mems quarters amid
ships.
The directors of the Cunard Steamship
company of Great Britain report that tn
year 1897 In the Transatlantic trade wa
the worst experienced for some time
First cabin business declined IA per cen'
from 1896. second cabin. 5 per cent. an
Storage IS per cent. The decrease in out
ward or westward steerage alone amount
ed to 76, 900 souls. AS things are now DIS
posed the year 1898 will prove even wors
for the Transatlantic companies.
IN alligator IL feet long has just bee
captured I'm a lagoon below Yuma. Ari1
The saurian was roped, cowboy style, d
several Yuma Indians, and was tied up |
the same manner a wild bull would hav
been handled. The captors proudly towe
II 10 Yuma and found a purchaser. All
gators are very rare in the Colorado rive
and this specimen Is the FIRST captured 10
many years.
An Anonymous letter recently sent Z
Count De waldeck, who resides In Hur
gary, informed him that he might expee
a visit from two burglars, who would ca
upon him under pretense OF being insul
ancs agents. The callers arrived and weH
arrested, but II turned out hat they WEI
the IONA fide agents of a New York con
pany, and that the telegram had bee
sent by a rival company IN Vienna. Leg
proceedings have been instituted agains
the latter.
, IL is impossible for the %janitor of tn
. Milwaukee court house to reach the dom
This is the reason the flag has not foate
over the building of late. Architect no
brooks plans for remodeling the buildin
removed the stairs leading TO the don
, and did not provide for new stairs. III
new board will have to make provision
, remedy the defect. some OF the supervn
? ors think the architect should be con
PEELED to put In stairs and others sa
II IL the fault OF the COMMITTEES whic
accepted the plans. =.
One of the busy departments OF II
Brooklyn navy yard just now Is the o
|. room devoted to the manufacture or o
: glory. Day and night men and girls ha'
. been busily engaged cutting out and pu
I ting together stripes and stars which mi
: futter in defiance TO the enemy WITHIN
! week OF so. The last touches TO the MAJ
= used i'm the navy are gwen by an o
4 tackle who for years has attached evei
: emblem to it's rope. and who never ALLOW
Q any other hand to assist him. no matt
Y how busy he is
1 Every battleship in the United Stat
must draw upon Missouri for part OF !
material. Down i'm Madison county is q
famous mine Lsmotte. which furnish
r nickel and cobalt necessary IN the co
n struction OF the modern ironciad vess'
4 There are no other nickel and coos
mines in the country in operation. MI
Iamotte is said 20 be the oldest mine
q the United States For more than a ce
fury IL has been turning out about .