The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-01-08
pithy Paragraphs.


Berlin has made a new loan of 100000
for improvements in gas and waterworks,
etc.
Out of "A storms which reached the
French shores in 1886. all but three were
foretold by the central meteorological
office.
The German reichstag is said to be the
cheapest of all the parliaments of Eu-
rope. It's total expenses for the current
year have been only $4,000
Last year 456.a39 persons were con-
demned in the German empire for crimes
and violations of the laws; 44,313 of them
were under Is years old.
The telephone has not made much pro-
gress in Russia. Last year there were
only 1881 subscribers To the state lines
and 1o,164 subscribers TO private lines.
Prof. F'inkIenburg of Bonn estimates
that the average human life In the six
teenth century was only Is to 20 years,
while today it is over 40 years.
No less than 10000 signatures are need
ed before the petition against the plan of
government assumption of the railways
can be brought to a public vote in Swift
erland
one of the features of the new hospital
building in Berlin is to be large room, i'll
which patients with malades of the res
pratory organs can breathe air artiticiaily
impregnated with salt.
The bishop of ST. Asaph has taken the
bold step of inviting his clergy to come
and discuss the way in which he has ex-
erciSed his patronage at public meet
ing. All the clergy of the diocese bene-
feed and unbeneficed, asked.
Baby carriages can be fitted with an
automatic fan to keep the baby cool, the
device having u yoke extending over the
top of the carriage to support horizon-
tai shaft which carries the revolving fan,
hptner a l.
tached to one of the front wheels of the
carriage.
An improved hair crimper just placed
on the market has cylindrical member
with a catch at one end and concave
leaf hinged to its opposite end to clamp
the hair in place after ii Is wound on the
cylinder. a spring loop being provided TIC
hold the leaf in engagement with the
catch.
Boston woman has invented a skirt
adjuster consisting of two pieces of wire
sewed to the skirt and linked together to
form a hinge, with the outside ends hav-
ing transverse interlocking portions which
can be pnched together and fastened to
secure the skirt in its shortened adjust
ment.
Hairpins which will not come out are
formed of a hollow shaft. with slots in
the pointed end, with sliding rod inside
| the shaft TO operate a pair of pointed
arms through the slots and spread them
out to fasten the pin, the arms being
withdrawn to remove the pin by pulling
| the rod outward.
There are several lady coffee planters
| in the Hawaiian islands but the richest
| is Miss Wildwood, a girl of only %. Two
| years ago she was a stenographer in a
| law office. with only capital of S1,25o,
| which had come to her as a legacy and
/ which she was reserving for the pro-
/ verbal rainy weather., against which
| lonely spnsters often try to fortify them
/ selves. Hearing of the coffee plantation
i possibilities of Hawaii, Miss Wildwood
/ decided to risk her little capital and to try
her luck as planter, and so well has she
succeeded that in two years time she be-
! lieves that she will be making an income
/ of $4,000 a year.
/ When Il great man passes Chinaman
dismounts and Hindoo prostrates him
self in the presence of his superior A
/ japanese removes his sandals. crosses his
! hands and cries spare mel" In Siam
| a man throws himself on the ground ane
| then waits to whether he is to bt
| raised up and welcomed or kicked out OF
the way. A South Sea Islander greets q
friend by flinging a jar of water over his
/ head. In Russia it is correct for gentle
| men TO press the foreheads Of ladies
| whom they know intimately with theii
| lips and in Germany and other continent
| tai nations kissing between men Is by NJ
! means uncommon.