The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-30


the adjective New
The house in Washington in which
President Lincoln died is being reno
waited to preserve it from decay, con-
gress at its last session having appro-
priated $4,000 for that purpose. The
building will not be altered, but only
such repairs made as may be necessary
to protect it against the elements The
room in which Lincoln died will not be
touched. This modest little house is
yearly visited by thousands of tourists
from all over the country.
Diamonds and other precious stones
to the value of $40, 100000 were imported
at New York during the fiscal year.
Three years ago the imports of this
kind amounted to only $780, 900. The
increase is due partly to the prosperity
which has enabled Americans to buy
more diamonds and partly to the fore
sight of the dealers, who anticipated a
rise in prices, and, therefore, purchased
large supply ahead. The market price
of diamonds is now % per cent. higher
than it was a year ago.
So many children have been made i'll
by eating the samples of medicine of
various kinds left at the doors by en-
ployes of makers in Los Angeles, Cal,
that the municipal authorities have for
hidden the practice and the manufac-
turers will have to find other means
such articles from house to house. This
method of bringing to the public no.
tice the quack remedies that are so in
Vulnerable threatens to become a great
nuisance in some parts of the coun-
try.
The total postal receipts of this year
are estimated at 500 000, 900, against
SS7, $40, 900 last year. New York stands
at the head of the list of states and
territories, with $4,000, 900, and Alaska
comes last, with $4,000 In the table
showing the average amount contribut-
ed by each inhabitant of each state to
the postal revenues (Which constitutes
pretty fair gauge of the intellectual
development and activity of the peo-
ple), Massachusetts, stands at the head,
with an average last year Of $3.50 per
inhabitant.
The average duration of yellow fever
is week, but in graver cases the at
tack may be precipitate and prove
speedily fatal. There is usually an in
itial chill, headache. pains in the back
and limbs and slight increase of tenn
perature. In exceptional cases the Their
mometer in the mouth will register
from 100 to los degrees, as in other few
ers, but more often the body heat is
but little elevated, and in some cases is
lowered. After a few days-two or
three-the temperature subsidies and
the symptoms aDate. Inc pdtlent may
consider himself WELL and, indeed, in
abortive cases, the disease terminates
at that point. In most instances. how
ever, a recrudescence follows and may
be accompanied by delirium and black
vomt.
For some months the 7-months-old
daughter of D. c. Sailing of Ballston,
Ore, has been suffering from what was
apparently an ailment of the throat.
The child was taken to a doctor, who
said that there was a gathering in the
throat which in a few days would be
ready to lance. A few days later the
childs grandmother noticed small
pimple at the side of the jaw, and upon
examination found the point of some
object imbedded in the flesh. Working
at this a moment, she succeeded in get
ing hold of it and pulled out feather
about two inches long. 1t is presumed
that the child had, when in bed, put
the feather in her mouth and that ii
had been caught in her nostrils and
the sharp quill had worked its way to
the surface.