The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-05
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recovered from the shock caused nv tho
late war with this country, and once
more blooms out as a royal hostess. She
has been given numerous receptions and
dinners, until Lent set in, ana her
weekly concerts, known to be the re-
fuge FOR all the unappreciated tenors
and sopranos, have been lthronged by
that strange medley which constitutes
the Spanish colony.
The kief Slava reports an abstract Of
the official statistics of heaisn. in Rus
sian cities for the year 1897. The num-
Der of sick in that year is reported to
have been 100000. The number of
| country IN proportion to the popula-
tion. In some cities-as in Charson,
Astracflan and .Saratow-there were
more sick than sound inhabitants.
The illiteracy of new recruits for the
English army is commented upon in the
| report just published in London. Only
| Al in a Thousand are well educated and
| Is are utterly illiterate. Thirty-fve per
| cent of the applicants are rejected for
| physical disability and this proportion
| Is said ITO show a slight improvement
over former reports.
Before the Oceanic was launched at
Belfast a competing company had given
orders for the construction OF q steamer
which will exceed even the enormous
proportions of the new White Star
liner. All the details of the design are
being got out, and there is little doubt
that In the course Of the next few
months the contract will be let.
DR.. Richard Garnett. the keeper of
printed books in the British museum,
says there are about 100000 books in
the museum. The catalogue, which Is
not all printed, used to consist of 5000
volumes. When 1t is all printed, how
ever, it Is hoped to condense it to 1,000
About $4,000 is annually spent on the
compilation of the catalogue alone.
The drink bill of Great Britain just
published shows that the Fnglishman
drinks 2.41 gallons of alcohol a year.
Next to him comes the Scotchman, with
an appetite slaked with 1.66 gallons The
Irishman contents himself with "a gal
Ions. The first spends $1,000 year for
his drinks. the second $15.25 and the
third $1325.
A sharks egg is perhaps one of the
oldest looking things imag inable. 1t is
not provided with a, shell, but the con-
tents are protected by a thick, leathery
covering, almost as elastic as India rub
Der. The average size is two inches by
two and three-quarters inches and the
color is almost pure black.
Several cases have lately been record
ed in which the dumb have been re-
stored to speech by some sudden and
chester. England, found voice suddenly
a short time ago after a silence of %
years, the shock being caused by the
illness of her daughter. ...
That plants when injured suffer from
fever is new discovery by a British
botanst. Plants suffer in a similar
manner to animals under like condi-
tions. The rate of respiration increases
and the temperature rises, reaching a
maximum within "a hours
Belgian, French and Russian capital
lists have formed a powerful financial
syndicate with headquarters at Tiflis,
in the Caucasus. The sole object of the
syndicate is the establishment of iron
works in the Caucasus and the explora-
ton Of Caucasian ore and coal deposits.
One of the new things to be shown at
Paris next year is a model of Vesuvius
$50 feet high and 495 feet in diameter,
built of iron, Steel cement and turf. A
spiral path, bordered with cafes, will
wind up the volcano. Inside is to be
represented Dante's heaven and hell
Miss Edith Vanderbilt Sloane has
new idea in the celebration Of weddings.
which she will put into effect next
month when she marries John H. Ham
mond. For every dollar spent in her
nuptial preparations Miss Sloane will
give a dollar to the poor.
Tolstoi's new novel is to be published
in ST. Petersburg in May. One third Of
the material will be cut out by the gov
eminent censor for political reasons,
and the only complete editions of the
novels will be those read in the United
States and England.
st. Petersburg is to have novel kind
of a museum--a building containing
models of famous insane asylums and
specimens of clothing and appliances
used therein, together with the brains
7,,r, {,er, Sy1 hal
photographs, etc.
DR.. Merrill E. Gates, late president of
Amherst college, is to succeed General
Eliphalet Whittlesey as secretary of the
board of Indian commissioners. He has
been a member of the board of Indian
commissioners for a number Of years
and it's president.
When the new state board of charities
of Kansas Investigated the insane asy-
lum at Topeka they found four lunatics
running the heating plant while the
men employed to do the work We're sit
ting around beer key playing cards.
Chrysanthemums are going out of
fashion in England. One society for
raising the flowers, after having had 10
prosperous years, has been Obliged to
wind up it's affairs owing to the bad
business of the last two years.
. The export trade of England with
Australia, where there are but 100000
white people, is as large as the export
trade of the same country with India,
where there are supposed to be 80, 000, 900
people of all kinds.
New Zealand has law in force COM
pellipg every Intoxicated man to have
his photograph taken. His picture is
then distributed among the barkeepers
and innkeepers and they must refuse to
sell him liquor.
There will be brought into Massachu-
chusetts so dozen of quail from the In
dian territory and they are to be turned
loose in protected localities to furnish
sport when they have sufficiently null
tiplied.
'Birchthirsty'' is recent contIibu-
ton to the English language by a wo-
man member of the London school
board, who objected to the boards at
titude toward the corporal punishment
of school boys.
The Argentine Republic has placed
with the Remington Arms company of