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All Sorts.


In the British army in India there are
about 1900 cases of typhoid fever every
year, 800 of them fatal
Ihough the Philippines are an agricul-
tural country, they do not produce enough
food for the consumption of the inhabi-
tants, and it is the custom to draw upon
rice-producng countries. such as Cochin-
China.
Small rooms can be heated by gas
Jet with the use of a new apparatus
which rests on the shade and Is of cir
cular shape, with a revolving fan at the
top operated by the heat from the flame
to set the air of the room in motion.
In new automatic spring fishhook two
pairs of steel wires having hooked and
pointed ends, are pivoted together in such
position that half of the ends act as
bait holders and the rest are set to grip
the fish as soon as 1t bites.
The Salvation army has decided to or
ganize several colored corps in the princi.
pal Southern cities, with view to estab-
fishing colored branches Of the army
throughout the Southern states If the idea
seems to be practicable.
Children will enjoy new frecracker,
which is manufactured in strings contain
ing any desired number, with continu-
Gus fuse which may be lighted at one end
to fire a whole bunch in succession, or
separated for single explosions
Mrs. Rosita Keller of San Francisco Is
ready to declare marriage a failure She
is now 20 years of age. Eight years ago
she was married. Since then she has tried
to commit suicide on an average of twice
a year. She has made Is unsuccessful at
tempts at it.
A New York man dreamed he was at
tackled by burglars, and that he defended
himself valiantly, but received wounds
from his assailants. He awakened sud-
denly to discover that he had badly slash
ed himself with a knife, which he had
seized while asleep to defend himself
with.
Frank L. Richards of Rochester, N. H.,
has in his possession a S65 bill of the Old
continental money which was paid to one
of his ancestors for service in the revolu-
ticEary army. 1t is a curious piece of
currency and it took bill of that amount
to buy pair of shoes at one time.
Since DIR. Judson baptized the first con-
vert in Burma there has been an average
of one convert won from heathenism and
baptized for every two hours, and during
the last 20 years the ratio increased until
there has been an average of two per
hour and during the last year a convert
has been baptized for every 40 minutes.
The French commissioners of the Paris
exposition of 1900 are anxious to secure for
the great fair the famous American Lib
erty bell Plans have already been ar
ranged here to induce the people of this
country, especially Philadelphans, who
are the custodians of this valuable relic,
to consent to the bell being taken to the
Paris exposition. The mayor of Philadei-
pbia is said to be opposed to granting per-
mission to taking the bell out of the coun-
try.
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republican committee for Wisconsin,
was frank enough about 1.-THE said
several days ago that the republicans
will agree on a law that will provide
for placing the United States on the
gold standard and that this law will be
eminently satisfactory to all gold
standard men," That is the republican
proposition for the campaign of 1900.
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Current Comment.
Can't Prove 1t by Gage.

From the Utica Observer
Senator Hanna says that the reason the
president issued the civil service order
taking thousands of public servants out
of the competitive class was to enable
the republicans to get rid of a lot of
democratic spies" Spies on what? Is
republican administration of the publics
business such as will not warrant expos
ure? But II Hanna is correct he knocks
Secretary Cages apologize explanations
into a cooked hat.
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The Fitness of Things.

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The remark of Jockey Tod Sloane that
the clothes of the Prince of Wales didn'
look as If they hurt him is bearing fruit.
A writer in the Boston Herald naively
wonders ii the fit of the blue satin cos
tune worn by Actress Lillian Russell in
a revival of "Erminie' doesn't give her
pain.
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The Division of Power.

From the Nashville American.
From the West the champion heavy
weight prizefighter of the world has come.
and from the West the next speaker of
congress will come. The East still retains
the automobile and Boston culture.
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~ HOSE little differences between

~ HOSE little differences between
the finance committees in the
senate and house are of no &C
count Indeed, the public may well be-
lieve that the alleged differences are a
myth, the aim being to get into the
public mind the notion that the agents
for gold, in the two houses of con-
gress, are not getting together at
pace that might appear to be unseemly.
That the republicans who make up the
majority are quietly maturing gold
bug plans, in their recess sessions, is
well enough known. There has been
wide advertising of alleged differences,
but Mr.. Payne, member of the national
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7 E may hug silly illusion about
~ the divine right of kings as zeal

~ the divine right of kings as zeal
ously as he wants to, because
that is altogether harmless, but Kaiser
William can prove by ocular demon
stration that he is not by divine right
a good sailor or, by human tests, the
right sort of man to run yacht in a
racing contest. He tried that last Sun
day. He was on the deck of the Me
teor, "in yachting costume, smoking a
pipe and giving orders" When the race
was fairly on, the Meteor went too near
the shore, ran aground and had to be
pulled off. To the amusement of the
competing tars, no doubt-although of
course, they didn't dare to betray their
satisfaction. There are plenty of Incl
dents in which this alleged divine right
cuts no figure except in Imagination.
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They're Not Essential.

From the st. Paul Globe
Professor Atwood declares that man can
live on alcohol and sugar. From this we
take it that lemon peel, mint and Angos-
tura bitters are mere luxuries.
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New York Offices Tribune Building.
Chicago Office-469 The Rookery.
The s. c. Beckwith Special Agency,
Eastern Representatives
Washington Bureau Ais G ST., N. w.
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What Whipped Fitz.

From the New York Herald.
Jeffries' father who is a minister, says
the Lord was with his son and won the
victory for him at Coney island. It may
comfort Fitzsimmons to know that he
was not beaten single handed.
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q TRANCE to say, the play called
~ THE Turtle which not so very
> long ago was on malodorous ex-
hibition in Montana, came to grief in
San Francisco. 1t transpired that, for
it's Montana performance, this product
of the sewers of Paris was severely cut,
so that it might hope to run the gaunt-
let of local criticism successfully. The
owner of the play, William A. Brady,
who manages prize fights and 'The
Turtle" felt safe in turning the whole
thing loose on San Francisco. The law
stepped in and compelled the omission
of some of the indecent scenes and
dialogues, with the result, of course,
that the play was robbed of all of its
attractions for the kind of people who
like the sort of thing that gave the
performance it's chief charm.
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Not Easy.

From Harlem Life.
She-Indeed it's not an easy thing for a
girl to get husband.
He-Why, a pretty girl can make her
choice of four out of every five men she
meets.
She-But it's the fifth that she wants.
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thing ne VIII not find, probably, VIII De
word in defense of his recent civil service
order. Even the Boston Journal says:
There can be no denying that the order
has not been well received by the coun-
try"
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What He Won't Learn.

From the Hartford Times.
If President Mckinley shall read the
Massachusetts papers when he comes this
way next week, he will get some valuable
impressions of republican opinion. One
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In Sporting ParIance.

From the Philadelphia Times
Christiani in a prison cell over hitting
the president of the French republic at
the races might sum up the situation by
saying, This Is horse on me-.
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Prominent PEOPLE.

Enemies of C. d. Walker, a, Kansas
candidate for congress, claim that he
wears plum colored silk dressing
gown.
A Porto Rican paper says of Major
General Guy ". Henry: He has but
one eye, yet that is as sharp as a
Mauser bullet"
Prof. Hadley, who saw the Yale
Princeton baseball game, was the first
president of Yale in years to attend
such a contest.
Major Apostolos Mavroyeneis, the
oldest living Athenian, has just cele-
brated his Tooth birthday. He was a
friend of Byron in Greece.
John Philip Sousa dislikes very much
to hear his music tmbutchered." He
recently stopped IAN sorgan grinder on
Broadway, New York and took the
crank and finished .grinding OUT one
of his marches.
G. D. M. Peixotto, who has been in
Washington several weeks, engaged in
painting portrait of President Nc
Kinley for the Union League club of
Chicago, has practically completed his
work and the likeness will soon be
ready for inspection.
After lengthy negotiations and some
dispute the jewels of the late Fanny
Davenport have been sold by the ex-
ecutors of the estate to Blanche Walsh,
the actress, for $4,000. When Miss
Davenport died her jewelry alone was
thought to be worth 100000
That quiet, domestic lady, the queen
of Saxony enjoys the ownership of
four sapphires, equal in size and beau
try to the one that CLOVIS in the crown
of England, and the favorite wives of
the shah of Persia and the sultan of
Turkey wear turquoise, the like of
which no Western queen can boast
Nine. Emma Games Story, contrary
to her usual custom, will spend al
most all the summer in her home on
the Place Des Etats Unis, Paris, where
her husband is at work on two large
pictures. Marion Crawford will spend
month with the Storys.
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spondence should be addressed to the
STANDARD PUBLISHING COMPANY,
Anaconda, Mont.
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The Hope of Asuina1do.

From the Detroit Journal.
Aguinaldo probably feels encouraged to
keep it up on the theory that we won't
do any more to him than we did to Jeff
Davis
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Don't Run a Bluff.

From the Boston Globe.
The Congo Independent state ought not
to run the risk of Offering Spain 100000
pesetas for the Canaries unless it is per-
fectly willing to part with the 100000 pc
setaS.
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His Dull Side.

From the Boston Herald.
Governor Pingrees letter denying the
report that he is about to retire from poll
tics looks as if he lacked adequate appre-
citation of a joke.
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Prof. Hadley, who saw the Yale
Princeton baseball game, was the first
president of Yale in years to attend
such a contest.
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Major Apostolos Mavroyeneis, the
oldest living Athenian, has just cele-
brated his Tooth birthday. He was a
friend of Byron in Greece.
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In the British army in India there are
ABOUT l500 cases of typhoid fever every
year, 300 of them fatal
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-20

A Porto Rican paper says of Majol
General Guy ". Henry: He has bu
one eye, yet that is as sharp as {
Mauser bullet"
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John Philip Sousa. dislikes very much
to hear his music sfmbutchered." He
recently stopped IAN Borgan grinder on
Broadway, New York and took the
crank and finished "grinding OUT one
of his marches
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-20

Enemies of C. d. Walker, a Kansas
candidate for congress, claim that he
wears a plum colored silk dressing
gown.
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is found all through the islands and
the people pay no more attention to 1t
than IL 1t were an ordinary skin dis
ease. / have often seen lepers--though
not In Manila-in the midst of crowd
of people. who pushed up against them
familiarity. seeming to have no dread
OF contagion.
Perhaps one reason for the general
ignorance of and Indifference to sani-
tary laws is the pervading super
stition. Whatever is not understood is
put under the head of the miraculous.
II plague or epidemic RACES, nat
ural cause is not thought of; 1t is
manifestation Of the wrath Of God, and
propitiation is necessary. / nu.nber
of sacred images serve as religious
buffers or go-betweens, and instead OF
finding remedy in the cleaning o.
the city. these holy relics are appealed
to. ANNA N. BENJAMIN.
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WALL SHOWING

knows what. For many years this
moat has lain undisturbed and the gen
eral opinion has been that when its
rage over Manila pestilences Of every
variety. There will be other ghastly
finds there besides those Of the germs
of fever. There have been expert opin-
ions advanced as to different methods
of attacking the moat with safety, but,
Notwithstanding the expertness of
these. most Americans here would pre-
fer to have the experiment made while
they were at considerable distance
from the Philippine capital-in Japan,
for instance. Hong-Kong to those who
know the history OF the moat, is too
near
The most serious problem which
confronts the board of health in Ma
Mia, is the seeming inability of the
citizens to grasp the first principles of
sanitary living. AS regards personal
cleanliness there is much to be said in
praise of the natives. 1t is safe to say
that you never pass by a canal or a
river without being able to count
number Of native bathers. The small
children dispense with any garment
whatever, while the women wear one
that is destined for the wash. The
men dress or not according to indi-
vidual taste. The family wash is done
at the same time. the various members
OF the family often lending a hand to
the materfamilias. There are wayside
fountains throughout the city. and
these are universally used for bathing
purposes. modesty being often sacri-
ficed-it must be admitted-on the al
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fuse. It will take years to educate the
natives 30 that any intelligent co-op-
GRAFTON can be hoped for and probably
little can be done with this generation.
The large population is crowded into
a comparatively small district. large
families dwelling contentedly under a
roof tree of very small dimensions.
This will have to be changed before
Manila can be healthy. Smallpox
which has always been prevalent here
is never epidemic because there are so
many immunes. and owing to the es-
forts Of the health officers. 1t has been
pretty well stamped out in Manila. Tho
natives do not dread the disease. and
object to having 1t Isolated. Leprosy
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supple. for England. Soldiers.

! England always keeps on hand a
large supply of army stores at the
Woolwich and Deptford stockyards.
When the fitting out of the South AZ
rican expedition began there was on
hand at these two depots 2,OOO, 900
pounds Of ships bread or biscuits,
100000 pounds of chocolate-the use
Of which 1t did not require Bernard
Shaw's German soldier to tell us-lOO,-
900 pounds Of tea, 100000 pounds of
sugar. 100000 bottles OF lime Juice and
tins Of condensed milk, quarter OF a
million barrels Of beef and pork and
millions of tins of meat.
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THE MOST COSTLY CRADLE.

The Marlborough Children Are Rock cd
In the drawing room at Blenheim is
exhibited the wonderful golden cradle
in which each first-born son of the
house of Marlborough is rocked during
his infancy. In this cradle, which is
perhaps the most beautiful and costly
thing of Its kind in the world the pres
ent little Marquis of Blandford was
placed on his christening day, when he
had been given the name of John AL
bert Edward William Churchill. The
little heir. by the way, is named for
three well-known persons. John, for
the great duke; Albert Edward for the
prince OF Wales. one Of his godfathers.
and William for his grandfather and
godfather. William X. Vanderbilt. The
two children are very closely guarded
In the nursery. which consists of the
most charming suite OF rooms in the
palace. Here the young duchess, who
Is most proud and devoted mother,
spends most of her time, with her ba-
bies. When they go out In their blue
and white perambulators for exercise
they are wheeled about In what is
known as the Kitchen gardens"
among the fruits and vegetables, for
on show days the kitchen gardens are
not delivered over to tourists for in
spection. Thus the two little lords may
hold high carnival without fear Of pub
lie intrusion and snapshooters. On
other days they are wheeled about
where their nurses will, within the $50
acres of private grounds. which are
walled of from Blenheim Park.-Ains-
lees Magazine for December.
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the exception OF feeble attempt in
the walled city. This Is of primitive
character and all the refuse is carried
into the moat. which entirely sur
rounds the wall which encircles this
portion Of the city. From a certain
standpoint there is nothing more pic
turesque in this part of the world than
that old wall OF masonry SO massive
as to convey an idea of :mmutability
with its ancient sally ports and dun
geons. the beautiful soft grays of its
stone softened by and blending into
the moss which covers Its top. and at
Its base the ancient moat. whose stag
nant waters are filled with rank
growth Of vegetation, hiding heaven
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tar Of cleanliness. The natives that
you meet in the street always look
clean. and this includes the clothes
that they wear. No matter how low
the grade of society to which they be-
long. 1t is rule to see the men with
clean shirts and the women with fresh
camisas and panuelos, generally of
much-washed and much-mended ce-
nemi. Unfortunately this personal
cleanliness-which has no connection
with the hot water Of civilization
does not extend to the proper care of
dwellings or to the disposition OF re-
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CLEANING UP MANILA
OLD WORLD METHODS MAKE
1T HARD.
The Dimculties OF the Board Of Health
Omoiais y Medieval Methods stiil
Exist In TREATING Disease - Super
stitions In tho way.
(Manila Lottery


The news Of the death Of Capt. Ell
dredge OF the Fourteenth infantry in
the fight at Bacoor has been a shock
to his many friends here. Capt. Ell
dredge came out on the Sheridan in
July after year In Alaska, during
which time he was separated from his
family. He was man of cheerful dis
position and unfailing humor. though
In the prime of life, an army man OF
the old school. He won the regard Of
all with whom he was brought in con-
tact and will be sadly missed by his
brother officers Of the Fourteenth.
The rebel bullets are derided because
most of them fly wide of the mark, but
occasionally one finds its mark. as In
this case. and everybody here feels
sudden shock and sudden realization
that Filipino bullets can kill and can
send heartache to America, more
than ten thousand miles away.
AS an escort for fourteen American
prisoners. all privates and most Of
erals. gorgeously caparisoned. have
had the freedom Of the city" for the
last few days. They resided at the
Oriente, and took numerous drives
with our officers on the Luneta and
elsewhere, and proved conclusively
that. as far as gold lace was con-
cerned. the American army wasn't ''in
It," II anything has come OF their
conferences with Gen. Otis the public
here is unaware of 1t, and every one
is unanimous In wishing that they had
remained at their own headquarters,
wherever they may be. They have
doubtless done some good work for
their cause while they have been in
the city. and have found out all that
they wanted to know concerning our
position. In addition to this they
have been able to pose and create a
sensation, and nothing is dearer to
the heart OF the "mestizo." 1t was
pleasant break in the monotony Of
their existence, for the rebels must
be having more stupid time than the
Americans. even, and that is saying a
good deal. The prisoners which they
brought with them as an excuse for
their being here were selected with
care. only the plumpest being allowed
the privilege Of return to friends and
liberty. One of the men with whom
they started was sent back because he
showed too many signs of weakness,
and was likely to convey the idea to
US that the "insurrectos" were not
carrying on the war under civilized
principles. 1t would seem that only
those American prisoners who are en-
dowed with cast-iron constitutions
have much chance of being returned
alive-to demonstrate. by an object
lesson, the humanity of those who
have been holding them captive. The
other poor fellows had better fatten
up or die.
II accounts of Manila differ in some
particulars there is one upon which
there is no possibility OF a difference
of opinion-the ubiquitous dirt and
filth. 1t will be readily understood
that the board Of health has had more
difficulties to contend with than most
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Of the city departments. The work of
getting the city in thoroughly sani-
tary condition is work Of years--ten
or fifteen, at least. 1t would be real
blessing to the 100000 residents Of
Manila II few more thousand nipa
huts were to meet with the same fate
as their 5000 predecessors in the Ton
do fire. or course, they would grow
up again like mushrooms, but certain
restrictions might be imposed to ad-
vantage and the health Of the city
would be much improved. There Is no
system Of sewerage in the city, with