The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-12
or All Sorts.

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In 10 years the OF two rab-
bits will number 70.oo.000
A glass firm recently received an order
for 100 glass fence posts, 20 be of the usu-
al size. and grooved for the reception Of
wire.
In Algeria there IL a river. one branch
OF which flows through a country rich in
iron. the other through a fiat marsh rich
in gallo acid. A main stream OF jet black
ink Is the result.
BEN Clark. who was chief of scouts
for General Custer I'm the campaign which
ended so ~tragically at the Little Big Horn
many years ago, Is now trainmaster and
Indian Interpreter at Fort Reno. Okla
homa.
A red sunset indicates a fin. day to fol-
low. because the air. when dry. refracts
more red or heat making rays. and as dry
air is not perfectly transparent they are
again reflected in the horizon. A coppery
or yellow sunset generally f~oretells rain.
A professional beggar of Hong Kong
has just built a fine three-story tea house
outside the south gate of the city. AS
the only three-story building in or about
Hong Kong. 1t is an object Of great pride
to the natives, whose charity helped so
largely in its erection.
This Is how a writer in the Clarion
analyses the music of ~bagpipes: big flies
on windows. " per cent: cats on midnight
tiles, 11h per cent; grunting of hungry
pigs in the morning. 5h per cent: steam
whistles. 3 per cent; chant OF cricket, 2
per cent"
Near Briancon Is the Alpine glacier Du
Casset. which is now being regularly
worked as an ice quarry. the product be-
ing shipped by rail to Paris. The ice vein
is 100 feet wide and rs thick, and 1t Is
found that 1t can be worked at a profit,
making the first commercial use Of the
glacier so far known,
A recent traveller thus describes the
praying wheel OF Thibet: "A barrel eight
inches long holds 400 thin leaves. on each
side of which the prayer Is printed, say.
10 times. This gives Is, 900 prayers, all OF
which are put to the worshiper's credit in
the world to come II. with a touch OF his
finger. he makes the barrel revolve once"
A Shan princess has written the follow
ing letter to the medical officer In charge
Of one of the cantonments in the Shan
states: kindly supply me the under mem
toned medicines by bearer. as i am un-
well. being fell down from elephant. and
| oblige. One does of smelling salt, one does
for cureing headache. one does for cure
ing the pain at neck
Tn TO the end of 1897 Russia had expend-
| ed within a fraction Of $500. 000, 900 on her
great Siberian railway. this and
1900 another outlay of one hundred mil
| lions is expected. when the road will be
in running order with through trains from
St. Petersburg to the Pacific. opening one
of the most important commercial chan
! nels in the world and a new and spacious
! page in Russian political and commercial
history.
The 81 Georgia regiment of volunteers
has a colonel without feet. Colonel John
8. Gambler by name. 1t seems that
through the special favor Of the war de-
| partment ne has been allowed to pass the
| army's rigid physical examination. Col
Gambler is probably the only footless ofi-
Ger in active service on earth. course,
he wears artificial feet, which are just
about as good. Indeed. when shot off,
they must appear greatly superior to the
old article.