The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-12-17
Notes Of the Day.

An interesting test mas just been made
by a French woman. With a view to test
Ing the sustaining powers OF chocolate.
she lived on that alone for 20 days. and
lost but II pounds in the interval.
A start has been made toward lighting
the city of Buffalo with the power from
Niagara falls. Last week for the first
tins the power was utilized In this way. a
circuit of 40 are lamps being supplied.
The total vote Of New York state this
year was about LOO oo. Colonel Roose-
welt was elected by a plurality Of Is, OO0. a
very narrow margin. amounting to only
u. per cent. Of the total vote of New York
state.
Clover sickness. a common disease that
often ruins clover crops. has caused Ger
man scientists to make experiments. They
now say that farmers will soon be able TO
inoculste their lands just as human be-
ings may be treated.
The use OF iron has been a new depart
ure In some dwelling houses recently
built. and. the break being made in a new
direction. II II not unlikely that the prac-
tice may yet become general and a new
demand created for iron I'm architecture.
London's county council has decided on
the municipal control Of the water supply
or the metropolitan district and will try
To get a bill through parliament to enable
IL to purchase. 'by agreement or by COM
puision. the propert of the eight COM
panies that are now providing the water.
A British weekly paper is publishing a
long series OF articles under the title,
victims OF Justice: or. True Tales of In
nocent Persons Condemned" The cases
described are so many that they would
MI a volume. and every case has been
fully authenticated. They constitute a
terrible Indictment of British law courts.
A correspondent has answered the aues-
tl0n which has hnan I'm Gn r,nnx. lind
since the publication Of Kipling's 1.-THE
Truce OF the Bear as to the meaning Of
Fad Is Persian for born.
and "Adamzad" means Adamborn: just
as Shazada means Kingdom. Sahibzada
lordborn. and the familiar Scheherazade,
In the original "Chaherzad." ~cityborn.
A California court has decided that
nothing can prevent the estate of Frank
Below. who was hanged for the murder of
a brother and sister. from inheriting part
of the estates Of his victims. The muir !
derej brother and sister were both un-
married and their estates will go to the
children Of the murderer and to two other
brothers.
Another town I'm Michigan has gone out
Of existence In the last few days. IL Is
Sights. in Grand Traverse county. The
mill and charcoal kilns. the main support
OF the place. have been closed. together
with the company's store. All the men
employed there have scattered and most
OF the houses have been sold for lumber
and are being torn down.
The Vermont legislature has passed a
bill creating the office of attorney general
OF that state. Vermont has now no at
torney general. and the pan to establish
the office had its origin in Connecticut. |
where. for the first time this year. an at
torney general was voted for. New Hamp-
shire has an attorney general who gets "A
larger salary than is paid to the governor.
American firms have practically a mo-
nopoly i'm supplying the worlds market
with typewfiting machines. Firms in
other countries make the machines. but
they cannot be considered in the light of
competitors to the American article. the
superiority of which Is generally conceded.
To adapt the machine TO universal use
special keyboards are now made for vari-
Gus languages. such as German. French.
Greek. Russian. etc.
A glass manufacturing firm OF Port Al
leg hany. Pa. H. preparing to make glass
tubes that can he used for sending oil or
gas across the country. for carrying on
sewage. supplying cities with water. etc.
The glass pipe does not corrode. il is i'm
pervious to the electrolysis in underground
Conduits. and. IL is claimed, is less likely
to leak than iron pipe. An Ohio company
Is now putting In such a pipe line. and "A
practical test Of the system will soon be
possible for a distance of 100 miles.
The Chester county. Pennsylvania,
almshouse gives shelter To three Interest,"
ing characters. viz: A man who % years
ago was worth 5000. go. but largely by rea-
son Of his generous nature lost ID all: Sal
lie Elbert. one OF the last Of the Lenape
trib. of Indians that were numerous in
Chester county years ago. and Reb-cca
coiored. said To b. lOj years old.
and who says she remembers seeing the
town Of Havre de Grace. Md. burned by
the British as she stood ON the porch Of
her masters house.
The stock of Havana cigars in London
is becoming so unsatisfactory that clubs
are looking to India for an agreeable
smoke. In one or two clubs Havanas are
barred. A new cigar from Dindigul is said
to he all the rage. Dindigul is not far
from Madras. on the Coromandel coast.
Norway and the North cape having be-
come hackneyed. British tourists have dis
covered "a new summer resort in SpitZ-
bergen. a dozen degrees north OF the Are
tic circle. The season there H. short. eN-
tending only from the first week I'm July
to Aug. 3. Board at the hotel Is S.I5 "A
day.
Thomas G. Boone. one Of the three men
who made ascents In the war balloon at
In telling OF his experiences i'm
the other night. said: Newspaper
and magazine writers have
the balloon. bat I'm my opinion
there can he no question Of the value Of
the balloon In warfare. We were able to
locate the enemy. and in one particular
undoubtedly saved many lives
when We informed our men OF a body Of
the enemy about 30 strong lying hidden In
TN. pass ON the slope commanding "A mar
row path up which our men were about to
The Spanish government has just made
some queer discoveries In the course OF an
investigation Of its acccunts to determine
where new economies might be introduced.
IL seems that In 1857 annuities Were
to a number of nuns. the young
OF whom was at that time IL years of
age. and the oldest "a. Notwithstanding
the fact that the ages Of the annuitants