The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-17
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| eraSe expense of s31 20 per pupil.
| Judge White of Pittsburg refused to al
| low a girl to testify against her mother 5
| character, after saying that it would be in
| violation OF the commandment to honor
| thy father and thy Mother
pauper woman in Paris has been con-
victed of having had her child baptized
| II times as CatholIc and II times as a
| Protestant for the purpose of securing 5
| francs and dress each time.
The American Car and Foundry plant
has just purchased the Ohio Falls Car
Manufacturing company at Jeffersonville,
IND. FOR S2,oo0000, and as the company
has paid taxes upon an assessment of
only SlGO2ll the county assessor has ia
ken steps to recover the back taxes.
Among the most unique testimonials to
character yet put on record is that re-
Gently offered in behalf of a New York
character who had got into trouble by in
dscretions in the way of absorbing other
peoples chattels. "Ile is a good Tam
many man and wouldn't steal anything
! Only when he was intoxicated
The total expectation of California
wines to Europe in 1S9S amounted to 557,-
Gil gallons, valued al $l93,5S3. The bulk
of this went to Great Britain and Ger
many. though France, Denmark, Swtz
erland and Italy received portion of the
pioou.'' Ing i''oica '''.'T ale ma '.ie ca
poi 'atioi's 'his year VIII eNeeeu 'iiose VI
last seaeohi'
The proposed banquet of the Hundred
Year club of New York. the purpose of
which is to secure to its members the
greatest possible longevity. has been given
up because of a humilating failure to
agree on bill of fare which shall best
further the clubs object. The only course
Tue l,'el,oeis Vi 'l' h'enu eoii'ii'it'ee
"ouio all agree 10 WAS water
In a recent lecture delivered at Liv-
erpool DR.. William Carter pointed out
that the deaths directly attributable to m
temperance in 1896 were 81 per 100000
among males and so per 100000 among fe-
males; that the rate is constantly increas-
ing ana tnat the deaths are ihcreaslhs
aiiioils Women lar more raplulS ana III
Lar greater fa'io IMAM "i''ois iiiei'
The annual report Of the statistician of
the department of agriculture shows that
there has been decrease of 295, 6O4 in the
number of horses in the United States
during the year but that the average
value has increased from 1926 to s37 40
per head. The total value of farm ami
mals IS estimated at sl's9' olo'ao'' an IN
crease OF $loo'5oo'4S2' OF go per CENT DUR
ING the year.
The Merrimac Manufacturing company
OF Lowell, Mass, has signed a contract
for the erection in Huntsville Ala, of
cotton mill with 200,o00 spindles. The mill
will be an improved duplicate of the one
now operated by the company at Lowell
and will give employment to about 5000
hands. The mill will manufacture print
COINS slhshaIns' saleehS' VelVeteehs anu
me uress sooos.
Thn ali orf,,
March / had total membership of 1851
officers and men, of whom 81 were in the
bicycle squad, 50 in the tenement house
squad, 164 were detectives, So were in the
sanitary corps and were detailed for SER
vice in the house of detention. There were
also So police matrons, bringing up the to-
tai force to more than 400.
A hotel nrecaution against fires has
been suggested at Philadelphia. 1t is that
a skilled fireman be stationed in every
large hotel and Entrusted with the same
power of inspection Which tiremen in the
aters exercise. Such service, the Phia-
delphia fire chief says, should be paid for
by the hotel propretors, and the latter, it
is presumed. would be reimbursed by re-
duction in insurance rates.
A report from the United States consul
at Montreal covers exhaustiye,y the dairy
products trade of Canada. The consul
shows among other things by what means
Canada has increased her export trade in
this line, while that of the United States
has decreased in some directions. Briefly
stated. the success of our neighbors has
been achieved by catering directly to the
peculiarities (eVen the whims) of the for
eign customers.
Cheap cab seryice-25 cents a mile and
Is cents an hour per passenger-is to be
provided by five well-known society men
of New York CITY. They have practically
organized a company for the purpose. The
proposition to form the new company
came up when bill providing for the or
ganization of the General State Carriage
company was introduced. There is n
splendid field for such an enterprise, as the
present cab system in New York Is con-
family a source of complaint.
The New York legislature is about to
annronriote 81 0oo to enable DR. p II
C,orwin an accommodated Dutch scholar
m translate and nuhlish the valuable
Dutch records relating to tbe colonial his
torv If the rmnira state which he has
inst gathered Two wears ago DIR. Cor
win was sent tn Holland nv the general