The Anaconda standard., 1898-01-29
Pithy Paragraphs.

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In Australian markets rabbits sell at
cents apiece.
1t is said that diet OF garlic is won-
derful aid to the complexion.
If London streets were put end TO end
they would reach to st. Petersburg.
sixty languages are spoken in the en-
pife governed by the czar of Russia.
The German custom of having Christ
mas trees was not introduced in Vienna
till 1877.
Last year the figure Of Germanys mer-
chant marine tonnage exceeded a million
by $4,000
The money invested in British home
railways exceeds the national debt by
R120,00O,000.
Only 20 per cent Of the murders COM
mitted yearly In America and Europe are
ever found out.
The male ostrich at times utters cry
which sounds like an effort to speak with
the mouth shut tight.
Among the natives of Mexico there are.
according to Lumhoitz, about 15o,000 sur
vivors OF the Aztec race.
Careful measurements prove that the
average curvature of the earth Is 6.99
inches to the statute mile.
In many parts of France the coffin of
a peasant woman is borne to the grave
upon the shoulders OF women.
If we moved our legs proportionately
as fast as an ant, 1t Is calculated we
could travel nearly 500 miles an hour.
The first piece of cotton cloth made in
America was presented to the wife of
General Nathaniel Greene, who had a
dress made of 1t.
Dulwich, now a populous dictr,ct of
London, still has tollgate across one
of It's main streets, at which tolls are
collected regularly.
Iceiand's geysers never shoot their wa
ter higher than 100 feet, while some of
our Yellowstone geysers go more than
three tir.les as high.
A pair of gloves passes through about
200 pairs of hands from the time the skin
leaves the dressers till the gloves reach
the hands of the wearer.
The German reichstag is said to be the
cheapest of all the parliaments of Eu-
rope. Its total expenses for the current
year have been only about $l7o,0oo.
Some of the oldest trees in the world
are to be found in Great Britain. The tree
called William the Conqueror oak in
Windsor park is supposed to be 100 years
old.
The most extraordinary plant known is
the travelling plant which has root
formed of knobs, by which 1t annually ad-
vances about an inch from the place
where it was first rooted.
A New Jersey justice of the peace sent
a man to Jail for a year. according to the
commitment papers. because he IL fu-
getive from justis for one year for cut
ting a man pretty bad on the 18th day of
April, 1897
There are more women In British India
d2l, 1000 600 of them than there are m n,
women and children in Great Bit ain
France and Germany put together, W tn
the populations of several minor Euro
pean states cast in as we'll
The way the tortoise will cling to life
is one of the most remarkable things in
nature. One has been known to live three
months after the brain has been re-
moved. The heart will continue to beat
for so minutes after being cut out of the
body.
The amount of liquid refreshment taken
by man of 20 years would equal 76,70)
pints, and to hold this pail IL feet hie h
and more than $500 times as large as an
ordinary pail would be required. The
weight of the liquid would be over AZ
tons.
Acting for M. Elisee Reclus, the noted
| geographer. Nj. Hourt of the Fren III
navy has applied to the city of Paris or
permission to begin the construction OF
| the colossal terrestrial globe. INTENDED to
be one of the attractions of the next uni
| versal exhibition.
| A versatile New Hampshire man. who
| started in life as a printer later becom-
| ing an editor, changed from that en-
| pioyment to the business of barber and
subsequently was ordained as minister,
| occupying a pastorate successfully for
| several years. Now he is back In the FAR
! ness again as a newspaper man, having
| purchased the newspaper in New Hamp-
/ shire which is published nearest the Can
ada line.
/ 1t may be of interest to know that o.
| the English mistletoe so conspicuousl!
displayed on city streets about Christ
mas time not one-tenth really comes from
England. The reason is that the grea
/ orchards of Worcestershire and Lincoln
/ shire from which the English mistleto
is obtained. have nearly exhausted thei
supply Most of the mist etoe nov
i brought to this country comes from Nor
/ mandy where 1t Is SO Thick that tn
| farmers look upon it as nuisance. Som
/ American rnistIetoe, from d laware AM
! Virginia, is sold every year but 1t IL gen
| orally regarded as inferior to the i'm