The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-26
All Sorts of Themes.


Chicago has a Norwegian old peoples
home.
In Portugal married women retain their
maiden names.
The flower trade OF london exceeds In
value 500 900. 600 per annum.
Spain has sent to Cuba 1000 tons of med
icine. etc. In three years.
Hanging is too good for many of the
paintings sent to exhibitions.
1t isn't the man who knows the most.
but the man who knows the best, that's
wisest.
In Mexico the family OF a dead duelist
can claim support from the person who
shot him.
One firm In Austria uses 10 tons of phos-
phorus a year and turns out 25.ooo, 900
matches.
A German paper mentions as a curiosity
a city of 5000 Inhabitants in Bavaria.
with only LIS bicycles in use.
william Nef Of Colorado unearthed six
baby coyotes on his ranch. and trained
them so that they follow him like dogs.
BY the year 1903 the Swiss government
will have again secured control of the
five leading railways in the country.
A japanese bride gives her wedding
presents to her parents as some slight
~compense for their trouble in rearing
her.
Mrs. Edward Harris of Richmond. Mo-,
So years old. has given birth to twins for
the seventh time. They are all living.
A glass firm lately received an order for
500 glass fence posts, to be of the usual
size. and grooved for the reception. of
wire.
The inmates Of the Joliet, H.. p~eniten-
tiary have the war news, In condensed
form, printed In the prison every af-
ternoon at 2 o'clock.
The Appalachian Mountain club of Bos-
ton has started for the A~dirondacks.
where the 40 members of the party will
spend two weeks in mountain climbing.
A meteoris stone weighing four tons
fell on a warehouse in Flume, Austria,
and set 1t on fire. Thu stone crashed
through the house and was found buried
in the cellar.
Within a year Thomas Sanderson,
years old. of Fan River, has fallen
from a second-story window, drank a pint
of kerosene, been run over twice. and es-
capped without breaking a bone
A Sioux at the Rosebud agency. s. D.,
wrote to the United States marshal: II
want to make complaint against my
brother for shooting at my mother. He
missed her at least a foot"
A 40O-pound bear walked into a barn
yard at Proebstel. Wash, and carried OF
a v tdlls ~ Nlkt a
posse. and after a long chase captured
bruin, who had Rugged the calf to death.
Two hundred babies of Oriental parent
age were recently displayed In a baby
show in San Francisco. The boys had
their heads shaved, while the girls had
! their hair stiffened with beads and paper
lowers.
Miss Carey NJ. Carroll, who recently
appeared as one of the lawyers in a case
L. T,nt--A, aA,,fu NIgGannrt mas thn ArEf
woman to graduate from the Missouri
State University of Law, and is the first
to plead a case in Jackson county.
Miss Madge E. Thompson. who will
! christen the battleship Wisconsin, to be
launched in San Francisco in a month or
so. is described as beautiful and accom-
plished. She is a native of Princeton,
wis, and received the honor because of
| Governor schofieId's strong personal
friendship for her father.
The Prince of Wales has taken a great
fancy to a pretty villa at Cannes, belong
ing to Comte 81. Priest, and arrangement
will probably be made SO that his royal
highness may become the owner. The
| maisonnette is of very modest dimen-
sions. but charmingly situated and COM
handing lovely views.
English dockyard officials are Growing
because the three cruisers of the Talbot
type built in the government yards have
cost from s12, 900 to f15.O0o less than the
estimate of 92sS, 900 each. Six other YES
sells of the same class built in private
yards, however, cost only G252, 700 on the
average.
Miss Helen Gould is about to take her
first trip across the Atlantic. She viii
not go to Paris, however, and IL the chill
dren of her sister, the Countess de cas-
tellane. see her. II will probably be In
London, where. IL is said. not desiring TO
go in for social display of any kind, she
will be ~incognito.
1t is now definitely announced that
Sara Bernhardt will play Hamlet IN
London next season at the request of the
Prince of Wales. 1t has been rumored
for some time that the tragedienne was
very anxious to attempt the role. she
has some original and peculiar ideas
about the play, and whether her perfor-
nance is a success or not. 1t will certain
ly be interesting.