The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-10-25
All Sorts.

About the year 1879 the wooden trade of
about rs miles from Norwich. and II was
at this place that the manufacture of the
twisted double thread of wooden. after
ward called worsted. was first made, II
not invented.
IL IL estimated that there are 3.11o.ooo
cyclists I'm Germany. each one OF whom
had to pay a tax of 90 cents to have his
name entered and to receive a number for
his machine. together with o book. which
he must carry about him, as II contains a
description Of his person.
In Persia the shah has a most conven-
lent method Of adding TO his funds. IL
consists In sending some rich noble a
cloak lined with fur. Whenever the shah
gives one to a subject the recipient Is In
duty bound to return the compliment by
the donation Of a large sum Of money .
Nothing is lost when . candi burns. II
the smoke and invisible vapors be collect
ed and weighed II would be found that
they would weigh rather more than the
whole OF the original candle weighed be-
fore a match was applied to 1.-THE extra
matter being derived from the oxygen Of
the air.
A chicken with a comb weighing more
than a pound is owned by John ID. Rey-
nolds of Newark, N. J. At night the fowl
rests on a perch four inches from the
ground. with its head bent forward. so
that the comb can repose on the earth.
Otherwise the weight CT the comb would
cause the chicken to to2ple over.
The largest cannon in the world was ia
ken by the British when India was con-
quered. The cannon was cast about the
year 1900, and was the work of a chief
named Chuleby Koomy Khan of Ahmed
nugger. The inside of the gun II fitted up
with seats and Is a favorite place for
British officers to go for q quiet MONDAY
smoke.
The crew of the British steamer Wen
nington Hall. now at New York, Is made
up of Orientals. Tit officers and the en-
gineer are Englishmen. but all the other
men on board. Il In number. are either
Mohammedans or Buddhists. An oficer
of the steamer says that one white sailor
r. worth two Lascars. but costs twice as
much.
In the Philippines the windows of the
houses of the better class. the villas In
the suburbs and the country mansions
are made OF oyster shells-those wonder
full. transparent. pearl-like shells OF the
Oriental seas which admit light but not
the glare OF the sun. Illuminating the in
terror with the soft radiance of q caths-
dral. A great window filled with these
sprays of pearl shows the color of 10000
rainbows.
A reguIat1On mas Deen issued Dy the pre-
feet of Turin forbidding tourists and 9TH
ers to approach within one Of
the Notifications on the Italian frontier
without special permission from the mil
itary authorities. Without such permits
sion the use of Photographic apparatus
is forbidden within a radius OF 10 kilome-
ters from the advanced posts. and persons
having such apparatus In their possession
and intending to travel in the frontier
zone are required to deposit the apparatus
In the custom houses IL they come from
abroad, or outside the radius of 10 kilo-
meters II coming from other parts of
Italy. Anyone contravening these regula-
lions will be liable to the penalties decreed
by the Italian law of public security.
Since the accession OF the present car
Russia has added enormously to her mill
tary strength. Two new army corps have
been created, as well as two new cavalry
corps mot merely regiments); the field ar
tillery has been increased by 20 new bat
teries, or more than 400 guns the Siberian
rifles have been doubled, and now -four
new army corps are to be added and the
artillery is to be reorganized so as To
double its strength within a short time,
Russia already has twice as many army
corps as Austria. and when the new ones
are raised will have by far the largest
army I'm the world. with eight more army
corps than either France or Germany. We,
this immense force costs just about what
Great Britain spends on its comparatively
small army, which, as Lord Wolseley at.
irmed. can provide two fully equipped
corps for foreign service.