The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-09
Missing Links.

In a recent consular report reference is
made to the fact that all around Chinge-
hou, China there are mounds, earth
works, lookout terraces. the remains of
ancient cities and fortresses, which mark
the sites of capitals from the very dawn
of authentic history
Attorney General Griggs has decided in
a case submitted to him from Columbia,
Mo-, that a person may draw money on a
check without a stamp attached to it,
provided the check be payable to himself,
from his own funds on deposit in the bank
! on which 1t is drawn.
The French Electrician reports that the
town of Blankenburghe is now supplied
with water in which all the germs have
been killed by means of ozone generated
by an electric current. The same princ-
pie will soon be applied to the dangerous
Seine water at st. Mature, Paris.
The editor of the Bath Independent is
convinced that the millennium is at hand
Returning from a cunning excursion he
found at his office load of hay, Is BUSH
| els of potatoes. a load of wood and a
| barrel of turnips that had been brought in
| by delinquents, and one man wiped out
| debt of 10 years standing.
| King Charles Of Roumania's Rem
| brandt, Esther, Hannah and Ahasuerus,"
| lent to the coronation exhibition at AM
| sterdam. had a nail driven through 1t by
| the carelessness of the hangers. An at
tempt has been made to repair it and the
sum of 81 500 has been sent to the king to
compensate him for the damage done.
..Jube' Posey, constable of the town of
| Claiborne. Tenn, was recently sent to
| levy on some calves in a stable. but his
| mission unsuccessful for the reasons
| set forth in the following memorandum.
which he jotted down on the levy before
| returning 1t to the court: 1.-THE above
| calves were seeable through the kraks.
but not gitable, as. the doar was locked"
| Mrs. Ann Smith of Worcester, England,
| 10 years of age. has spent more than 100
! years of her life in travelling from fair
| to fair in a van. She has 16 children,
| and one of her daughters now so years of
age, also has Is. Mrs. Smith eats four
meals a day, drinks sparingly of intoxi-
| Giants, smokes clay pipe steadily and at
tends to all her household duties her
| self.
1t is said that several members of the
| Yale faculty including Professors Theo-
| dore Woolsey and Walter l.. Phelps, are
| considering the ACCESSIBILITY of introduce
! ing golf matches next year. between fac
ulty teams of some of the more important
! Eastern colleges. The New England pa
| pers are trying to decide whether this
would be elevating college athletics or de-
| pressing the faculties.
| 1t has been decided to restore the pail
ace of Versailles and the not less cele-
| brated Trianon for the Paris exposition in
| 1900 The minister of fine arts has asked
| the chambers for an appropriation of $780,
| GOO francs for the purpose. The famous
crystal gallery. where the kaiser's illus
trious grandfather was proclaimed empe-
ror. will be renovated and various other
repairs and improvements will be made
Rev. II. ]. Swallow. the secretary of
| the English Clerical Provident union, says
| in the London Mail: I'm the Church of
| England there is simply no place for an
| old curate. He has no market price. At
| ter working for quarter of a century he
| is worth 40 per cent. less than at the date