The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-03-31
Pithy Paragraphs.

cause of deafness.
There were LEE locomotives built in the
United States In 1897.
Meteors rush through space at the rate
of &c miles a second.
There are I.425 characters in the "a
books Dickens wrote.
The Swiss universities have about coo
female students this winter.
OF the q. 252 Germans who emigrated In
1897 only ia went to Australia.
IL Is claimed that cats can swim IL they
care to exert themselves sufficiently.
Ninety car loads Of oranges a day are
now being shipped East from Southern
California.
Simple and we'll cooked foods are said
TO be the only means to preserve a good
complexion.
"Norsk Kvindestemmeretsforening'' is
the name of a woman's suffrage society
of Norway.
A municipal council In France has or
dered it's proceedings to be reported by
monograph.
Moscow's orphan asylum. founded by
Catherine H., Is supported by a tax on
playing cards.
Upon an average 10000 ~pineapples are
imported into London every week
throughout the year.
Nhuuit = clTCuidtlDS uDIdTN " LoIuou
has 5000, 900 books constantly in circula-
ton. and employs IFS people.
1t is an interesting fact that the cent
was first proposed by Robert Morris and
named by Thomas Jefferson.
A Prince of Wales is of age from his
birth. and a chair is placed for him on
the right of the throne in the house of
lords.
By a curious coincidence the number of
lives lost at sea during 1896 in British
merchant ships is returned as exactly
1897.
The largest telegraph office In the world
is the general posofice building, London,
more than 5000 operators being en-
ployed.
A bill "to protect the children OF the
state from the baneful influence of wrong
instruction Is before the South Carolina
Legislature.
What was formerly a quill pen factory
at Paris Is now devoted to the manufac-
ture of quill toothpicks and turns out
10000, 900 yearly.
ing rapidly. Ten years ago there were
only l., ZOO residents i'm Jana; to-day there
are nearly $4,000.
A Scottish diver In the Clyde recently
excelled all European records by remain
ing under water for 40 minutes at a
depth of 1s6 feet.
An expedition will leave Sweden during
the month of May under the leadership
of the Swedish scientist, Professor A. G.
Nathorst, to find Andree.
II is a curious fact that the rifles with
which the Indian border tribes carry on
their periodical wars against the British
are manufactured in England.
The largest mass of pure rock salt In
the world lies under the province of Gal
licia. Hungary. IL is known to be 500
miles long, 20 broad and go feet in thick
ness.
Korean paper Is superior to either that
of China or Japan, i'm both of which coun-
tries IL is i'm demand for umbrella covers,
roofing and as a substitute for window
glass.
A hotel keeper In a Brussels hotel was
obliged the other day to buy so pairs of
shoes for his guests. The porter had de-
camped Will that number placed in his
charge.
The fire commissioners of Boston have
decided that every horse in the fire de-
partment is entitled to and in the future
shall receive a two weeks annual holiday
on pasture.
The natural gas from the we'll which
was struck about a year ago at Weldon.
i'm Sussex. England. is being analysed.
and is pronounced to be probably of pc
troleum origin.
Placards on the bedroom doors of a ru-
raj hotel in New England request that
guests will please not battle on Sunday
night, as the hot water Is needed for the
wash Monday morning"
In the whole of New England last year
only 80 miles of steam railroad were built.
while in Connecticut alone the trolley
roads were extended "a miles. making a
total i'm that state of 1856 miles.
As an inducement to manufacturers to
locate there Alabama has exempted cot
ton mills from taxation for u period of
10 years. and as a result many new mills
will soon be i'm operation in that state.
From the annual reports Just furnished
by the London gas companies 1t would
appear that each foggy day in London
represents to the gas companies extra re-
ceipts TO the extent of more than $l0O, 600.
A newly-discovered Spanish stone has
proved so well adapted to photographic
work that a large company has been
formed, which threatens to overthrow
the Bavarian monopoly in photographic
stones.
The city council of Toronto has adopted
a resolution that no aliens, particularly
the subjects of the United States. shall
be hereafter employed on any civic work.
either to be constructed or in process of
construction.
No one without a license is allowed to
take photographs in Paramount park.
Philadelphia. The license costs nothing.
the idea being only to prevent irresponsi-
BILE persons from annoying those who may
not desire to be publicly photographed.
A Presbyterian OF Toronto protests
against the use of amen" in Presbyte-
rian worship on the ground that IT is an
Episcopal idea. whereupon an American
remarks that the Ep~iscopalians must
have written the Bible. since the word is
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