The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-25
Notes of the Day.

"a new "ondH 5 cluD Is TO be started
in London to which no one under six
feet in height will be admitted.
Robert Stephenson & Co., Newcastle,
the most famous of engineering firms,
has just been turned into a limited La
bility company.
There were $500 suicides in this
country during the last year. compared
the same time there was a. falling off
of nearly so per cent. in the number of
reported embezzlements.
German locomotive factories number
IL and have capacity of 1,4O0 locomo-
tiVes per year, part of which output is
exported. 1t is said that no American
locomotives have yet been introduced
into Germany.
The latest lifeboat, which has been
approved by the British admiralty, car
ries three long cylinders, into which
100000 cubic feet of air can be COM
pressed. This air will drive the boat
Is miles an hour for six hours.
Maros-Uvjar in Hungary, manu-
featuring town of 5000 inhabitants, rnay
be expected to grow rapidly. A Hun
garian singer, who undertook to give a
concert there, found 1t impossible, as
there was not single piano in the
town and he had not brought one with
him.
If the reports of the criminal courts
as an index 1t Is safe to say that crime
is on the decrease in the United States.
In 1897 there were 4,523 convictions, as
against only 1857 in 1885, This shows
a decrease of 596, or nearly 20 per cent.
AS the result of the success of num-
Der of Jersey City women in causing
the streets of that town to be properly
cleaned it is proposed to turn the de-
partment of street cleaning over to the
women, having all the employees, from
superintendent down to sweepers, of the
feminine gender.
Whales are thick on the Scottish coast
this summer At Sand in the Shet-
lands a shoal of II bottle-nosed whales
was driven ashore and captured in one
day. 1t was the first time in A years
that whales had appeared there, though
in former times they stranded frequent
ly.
Hildesheim's famous 1,0O0-year-old
rosebush, which it had been feared in
the last two years was dying, has sent
out new shoots and runners from
thick root stock this year and seems
now to be safe to last for a good many
years to come. The plant has not blcs-
somed this summer.
Lightning caused the death Of 1857
persons in the United States last year
and a property loss of s1,441.SS0. Few
of the deaths occurred in cities. The
annual number of thunder storms at
given localities in this country aver
ages between 35 and As. The maximum
is in the southwestern states.
A number of Russian officers-among
the highest of the cossacks of the guard
have been sentenced to long terms of
imprisonment in Siberia and elsewhere
for frauds and populations. Gambling,
as usual appears to have furnished the
motive for the vulgar crime of falsify-
ing accounts and similar forms of
swindllng.
Harry Farjeon, eldest son of the nov
eliSt and grandson of Joe Jefferson has
composed the music of a two-act opera,
"Floretta,' for which his younger sis
ter. Eleanor, wrote the book, which has
been pei formed with success in London.
Young Farjeon is 81 years of age and
his sister IS, but she had completed the
play when she was 16.
A divorced mans club has been or
ganized in Alameda county, California,
for the purpose of sending out scouts
and missionaries, men who have found
marriage a failure and whose object 1t
is to impress upon mankind the dan
gers of matrimony and give those in
Clined that way an'opportunity TO pront
by their sad and narrowing expert
ences.
If Pennsylvania is not well doctored,
from a medical standpoint, 1t viii not
he because of a scarcity of physicians.
The state examining board has just
granted licenses to 1915 more doctors to
practice, out of 425 that made applica-
ton, and in view of there being two ex-
animal ions held each year it is patent
that the supply of medicos is being well
provided,