The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-05-26
Note and Comment.

Greece has 152 newspapers.
Persia has only women carpet weavers.
Australia sends cocoanut oil to Eng
land.
victoria's gum trees average 300 feet in
height.
II Sampson catches Cervera. cervera
will catch II.
Over 1000 tons Of copper are made every
day in the world.
The best watchmakers' oil comes from
the jaw of q shark.
The Oregon boys are apt to score the
by the measles.
The man-of-war Charleston 10 on from
San Francisco at last. with a new epistie
to the Philippians.
Evidently the queen regent Of Spain
thinks IL q subject of congratulation that
her fleet still floats.
The total length Of the worlds tele-
graph system has now reached 4.9oS.921
miles. not counting cut cables
Here is the question all have been ask
ing about the Spanish feet-Quo vadis?
Here is the answer-To hades.
The numerical 1893 can be divided by Is.
and the four figures added together gives
rs. which can also be divided by 13.
OF the 300. 900 totally blind persons in
Europe 1872. 900 are In Russia-that Is to
say. one out of every 500 subjects of the
GEAR Is blind
The states Of Pennsylvania. New York.
Illinois and Alabama have more popuIa-
ton together than Spain and are vastly
more wealthy.
The creatures known a. ocean hydras
have no heart. no lungs, no liver, no
brains, no nervous system, no organs ave
mouth and kin.
Many Of the soldiers from Nebraska
never had seen a warship before arriving
In San Francisco. The war Will broaden
the horizon of many q man.
The United States consul at Oh Foo.
China, says that our trade with China II
OF more Importance than the trade OF Ger
many, or even that OF England.
The coming tower OIL our warships
seems to be a useless piece of furniture.
No captain is going to stay In a hole
while fighting is going on all around him.
The soldier from Barcelona and the SOL
der from Oregon may meet on the other
side of the world, and there will be a good
deal of friction II they should rub up
against each other.
The marshal of La Grande. Ore, is a
muscular man, but the Chronicle of that
city does not think he will be able to
wiring the curfew bell. as one OF that
papers contemporaries suggests.
The rate at which letters are going from
Oregon to sweethearts, husbands, broth
ers and sons at the Preside indicates
that the sale of stamps at Oregon post
offices will be largely increased this year.
II It be true that the Spanish feet found
two American warships in Santiago de
Cuba and let them escape, 1t only shows
the difference between Spaniard and
| American. Fancy an American feet let
ting two Cnaniar dS escane under similar
circumstances.
All code books carried on warships have
leaden backs, to make them sink IL lost
overheard. The letters in the book, more
over, are printed with a peculiar ink,
which fades away when It comes in con-
tact with the water. To make things still
more safe, the letters are changed every
few months by the navy department.
Even on the warships very few officers
know their vessels official signal code.
In Chambers Book of Days' the Rev.
Rowland Hill is made to say: Good Mr..
WHITEHEAD used TO say, Cleanliness is
! next to Goodness Some writers main
| tain that the idea is derived from an old
| Hebrew sentence. but the phrase is GER
tainly not to be found in the scriptures.
The president has authorized the Ma
rine band to attend the national EXPOSE
ton at Omaha solely because II comes
under the rule which permits the band
to attend occasions for which ongress
has made an appropriation, and i'm this
case congress has made an appropriation
of $500, 900.