The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-04
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bathers around and affordng pleasure to
yachting parties. A company has been
formed in New York by Juan Tonkin, an
engineer of Chilli to introduce into this
country the hydro-dynamo, a simple ma
chine. which takes up the power of sea
waves and makes it useful on shore. The
machine first will be used as a motive
power for 1000 horsepower engine.
Tonkin sailed last Wednesday for Chilli
| to make arrangements for the use of the
| hydro-dynamos in transmitting power to
| the nitrate beds near Iqulque.
Coincidence noted by the New York
| Commercial Advertiser: Two bright-faced
| messenger boys sitting side by side at the
| edge of the pavement in Central park,
| west, with their feet in the gutter, abb
sorbed in one copy of a thrillingly illus
| trated penny-dreadful In front of them,
| in the roadway, the message" they were
delivering-a push cart containing a large
and beautiful pillow of hyacinths and Ill
les. bearing the device in red carnations,
"At Rest Funeral or no funeral, the
combination provoked smiles.
II is reported that experiments have
been carried on at the United States mint
in Philadelphia for nearly year with
view of ascertaining the fitness of alum
mum for minor coins. Some 10000 blanks
of the size Of the nickel scent piece have
been delivered at the mint for this pur-
pose. Congress some time ago appointed
commission of experts to investigate and
report upon this subject, and the expert
ments above referred to are being carried
| on under the direction of it's members.
Among the souvenirs which are being
treasured by lot of Kansas mothers
are letters from their soldier boys written
on pieces of cartridge boxes with pencils
| made OF sharpened bullets. Such a letter
was received from her son by Mrs. John
son. wife of the supreme court justice, the
| other day, and in it the young man said
| he had suffered no other injury except an
arm which was black and blue from the
| elbow to the shoulder from the Kicking
| of his gun.
| journey around the world by estab-
| lished lines of travel can be made at pres
| ent in 66 days. Starting from New York
the traveller crosses the Atlantic, proceedy
| by rail from Southampton to Brindisi,
and then by way of the Suez canal to
Japan. This costumes SLY days. The Pa
citic is crossed in 10 days. and the United
States by rail in four and half. When
| the Siberian railroad is completed the
trip will be cut down to SO days.
clergyman at Dundee, Scotland. has
two relics that would scarcely be looked
| for so far from home. One is the overcoat
| pierced by a bullet, worn by Stonewall
| IL
wound. 1t was given to the present owner
| by Mrs Jackson when he visited America
| The other memento Is uniform coat
| worn by General Howard in the same bat
| tie. They have been placed in the public
museum at Dundee
| The London Times says decision has
| been reached concerning the Pacific cable
| The British government has decided to
| contribute in the form of yearly sub
sidy the full amount recommended by the
| committee which examined the matter in
| 1896, to guarantee the construction of an
| all-British line by way of Vancouver,
Tanning island, Fiji. Norfolk island,
Queensland and New Zealand
Ten years ago Charlotte, N. c., had a
| population of about 10000 and one cotton
mill. To-day its population is more than
| $4,000 and its - cotton mills are running
| day and night in the manufacture of
cotton yarns, gray cloths, ginghams tow
cling, webbing, sash cord, hosiery, batting
| and wadding and it's five clothing factor
les are utilizing every hour of daylight to
keep up with orders.
| The Blakely, Ga, Reporter says there Is
| a man in EARLY county who has been re-
lieved of road duty for years on tech
nicality." 1t is customary to summon a
| man to work the road nearest to where he
| sleeps and has his clothing washed. AS
| this man has never been seen with so
| much as a clean shirt on, the suppostion
is that he has no washing done and he is
relieved of road duty
| 7. Thoroddsen who has explored Ice
| land during his vacations for Is years, and
seen every part of it, will shortly publish
his results. He has discovered scores of
| crater lakes in the interior, and regards
| the country about Vatna Jokull as a coun-
| terpart of the scenery on the moon, allow
ing for the fact that water exists in Ice
land, but probably not in the moon.
| Tunnels under the Thames below Lon
don bridge are multiplying. Hardly has
the Blackwell tunnel been opened when
another at Rotherblthe is projected. 1t
| is to be so feet in diameter, three feet
more than the Blackwell tunnel; a mile
and a quarter long and to cost 81. 100000 OF
| which $4,000 900 will go for the land needed
for the approaches
A scientist of some standing asserts
| that chemically pure water Is poison to
the human stomach, upsetting some hith-
erto accepted theories regarding distilled
water by the argument that in distillator
| the water loses sundry salts that it greed
| lily abstracts from the animal tissues wher
| it is swallowed thus constituting a pro-
toplasmic poison.
The British soldier is the best fed indi.
vidual of his class in Europe. He receives
for his daily ration 16 ounces of bread /.
of dried vegetables, 16 ounces of potatoes
and once week he receives ounces OF
salt. ounces of coffee and ounces oil
sugar.
A bill has passed the legislature at AL
bany of the greatest Importance for the
care of trees in the streets of the city OF
New York. 1t puts the park commission
in the charge of the trees and authorize:
the board to establish rules for the plant
ing and cultivation of trees and the pro
lection of street trees and other vegeta
| ton.
To celebrate the anniversary Of the lib
GRAFTON of Switzerland in the coming
summer series of performances Of Schil
ler's william Tell will be given at Alt
dorf, the town where the chief incident o.
the drama took place. A theater holding
1900 persons will be built for the occasion
and 10 performances will be given
AS showing the cosmopolitan make W
of American regiments, the following
names are culed from a list of casualtie:
sent by General Otis: Stotsenberg Stoch