The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-11-28
All Sorts.

There are over 200 brand of wins
produced in France, but not more than
a dozen or fifteen are known to peo-
pie in America. More wine is trunk
in England than in France, and London
is the greatest market in the world
In Manila most Of the houses and of
fees have tiny window panes made of
translucent oyster shell instead OF
glass. An average window s feet nigh
by feet wide contains 260 shell panes'
which temper the heat and light or the
sun n prevent blindness.
In Austria. the manufacture of bicy-
Giles Is making rapid progress. the low
! est estimate of the 1897 output Is 10000
wheels, Which Is nearly double the num-
Der produced in 1896. Exports increas-
ed from 5.735 bicycles in 1896 to $3.50 In
1897, or 60 per cent. while the produc-
ton increased 66 2-3 per cent. C2S."oO
bicycles more than in 1880 and imports
81 2-3 per cent. (s15 ~bicycles).
An ancient piece of etiquette in Hol-
land insists that the queen or king,
when being dressed for their corona
ton, should stand on a linen cloth
''unspotted from the world" The duch-
ess of Albany, who is a beautiful en-
broiderer, daintily surrounded the one
used at her niece's coronation toilet
with suitable texts of scripture IN
Dutch.
A kiss. the property of Minnie Sellg-
man Cutting, the actress, is to be sold
at auction at the Hebrew charity fair
in st. Louis during Thanksgiving week.
Despite the way the hero kissing craze
has glutted the market, the fair man.
ayers hope to run the bidding up TO
81. 600, and. since Miss Nethersole has
declared she will kiss no more in pub
lie, the chance are all the brighter.
To be domestic is not considered COM
monplace among great ladies abroad.
where the ability to rule ones house
and keep IL in good working order Is
thought an accomplishment of the first
water. Queen Nictoria's daughters
were taught to cook and sew and make
themselves generally useful. The prin-
cess of Wales learned scientific dress
cutting. and a royal princess not so
very long ago was initiated n the
mysteries of hairdressing.
Princess Henry OF Battenburg is a
skillful embroideress, besides being an
artist and musician. Domesticity has
not proved a bar to culture in the case
OF any of these highly placed women,
The Empress Frederick Of Germany IL
one of the most intellectual n cultur-
ed women in the world. but she IL also
an adept in the domestic arts. h Il
a sculptress and can cleverly WELD the
DruSn. dS Cdn HtT siStti, tnt NdiNH-
ioness of Lorne.
Albert Ham. a farmer OF West Ores
den. Me-. has al apple tree in his or
chard which measures nine feet ter
inches in circumference a foot from tbs
ground. and at the hight OF six feet ths
trunk branches into four limbs almost
as large. Its great limbs are full %
crooks and angles, but the whole makes
n most shapely tree. IL is over a cen
fury old. and has borne well for eacf
year of the forty-seven IL has been IN
Mr.. Hams possession. One year IL cav
him forty-three bushels OF good ap
piles.
In a number of ways the Chinese DIFF.
fer totally in custom from European
and Americans. For instance. II Is con
sidered the greatest mark of disrespec
to remove ones hat In company; an,
the greatest compliment IT Is possiDl'
to pay n Chinese man or woman Is &
tell them they o older than they are
Again, no Chinese man or womai
would. on any account ever dream O
eating OF a white cloth. looking upon !
with great horror and superstition
distaste. much in the same way as W
would regard a winding sheet.