The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-18

dent and cabinet down to the jokes of
street gamins
There is urgent need in the City of
Mexico for more foundries and machine
| shops capable of doing first-class work in
reasonably prompt time. The great
amount of building and improvement 60
ing on and the number of establishments.
large and small, now using machinery,
frequently with inexperienced labor,
makes a supply and repair business of
great proportions.
Kansas pays the warden of her peniten-
tiary 81 800 per annum. out of which comes
his living expenses. and her penitentiary
contains $40 convicts. Illinois pays the
warden of the Joliet penitentiary, with
1902 prisoners in his keeping $500 and
provides his living. Minnesota, with 521
convicts, gives the warden of the Sill
water prison salary of $1,000 and his liv-
ing.
Caviar which is made from sturgeon
eggs sailed in brine, is the most costly
product of the fisheries of this country:
and while largely relished by epicures, a
taste for 1t must usually be acquired. I'm
til recently its manufacture was monopol-
lied by the Russians most of 1t being
prepared on the Volga river and Caspian
sea, and at the present time about S,Ooo,o0o
pounds of it are exported annually from
the dominons of the car
auto mobiles for use in municipal work
one for the electrical construction depart
ment and one for the repair department.
If these vehicles shall prove successful in
operation several others will be ordered,
ard the authorities hope to do away with
the use of horses altogether. Simultane-
ously with this innovation it is announced
that the Toronto postal authorities have
decided to employ automobiles for carry
bn bat ha
office and its branches.
The first statue ever made of the leader
of the confederacy is now being COM
pleted in New York. IT is seven and
hal: feet high, and represents Jefferson
Davis standing in a characteristic atti-
tude, dressed as he was when captured
by Michigan cavalry in the mountains of
labama. The statue will be erected OF
the Davis lot in Hollywood cemetery,
Richmond, Va, and will be dedicated III
the early autumn. The entire expense of
the statue will be borne by Mrs. Davis
and her daughter, Mrs. Hayes of Colo
RADIO.
Art circles throughout the country are
profoundly stirred over the adjustment
by Warden Johnson of the art school In
Sing Sing prison. Though handicapped by
the necessity of wearing their hair short.
the students of the school were doing some
good work and they are enraged over its
sudden prohibition. Mr.. Johnson says the
law requires that the prisoners be kept at
hard work and he does not think walking
about the prison grounds with camp stool
ana easel. looking for something to sketch
aud talking "jargon" with each other is
work of sufficiently laborious Kind to
meet the statute.
Some Wall street sports who believe in
being on time have already taken steps to
charter a steamer from which to witness
the races for the Americas cup. When
however they invited Russell Sage to join
the party and stand his share of the eX>
penses they learned that the thrifty finan-
ccr was an earlier riser than tAey. He
said: I'm going to see the races Ii | III
nnt toe busy. but I'm not going to waste
$50 on steamboat tickets. The Western
Union telegraph boat will be there to at
tend to placing the news cables, and, as
l still own a few shares of stock in the
con pany III go on the cable boat if | go
at all
a chief of the Omaha Indians died re-
Gently in whose career was wound IN
romantic and wonderful story. He traced
his lineage on his fathers side to the
naughty Bourbons who once ruled over
France. His grandfather was Francois
Marquis de Montenelle. who, when Ma
poleon was rising into power, left France
and settled in New Orleans. His father
ran away from New Orleans, became a
trapper. and eventually was adopted into
the Omaha tribe of Indians and married
the daughter of the great chief of the ma
ton. Stranger still, this half-breed Indian
was a good classical scholar. As a trader
with other Indian tribes he amaSsed
fortune.
Instruction in swimming is being given
to Boston school children this year at the
cty's public bathing places. Any child
under 10 years of age is entitled to the
benefit of this teaching, which Will be
given two hours daily at the lighthouses,
and one hour before and one hour follow
I'M. high tide on the beaches. The instruc-
tors have been appointed under the merit
system. and Boston children. therefore,
may be expected to learn scientific meth
ods of swimming. No attempt will be
made to do more than to teach a plain
swimming stroke, enough to enable the lit
tie ones to save themselves from drown
ing. Later in the season instruction in
lfe-saving work will be given
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