The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-04
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brencn ministry OF posts and tele-
graphs has just brought out an inyen-
ton which he claims viii revolutlonize
the telephone BY an ingenious adap-
tation of the telephone wire the micro
phone is made to develop and intensity
the vibration received SO that it is UNI
necessary to place the receiver to the
ear or stand with the mouth close to
the transmitter, and conversation is
easily carried on between two persons
both of whom may be several yards dis
tant from the instrument. The ifiven-
ton has been several times officially
tested and pronounced a complete sue
cess. 1t is Familiarity known as high
| speaker"
Some years ago Rev Mr.. Sheldon Of
| Topeka, Kan, made the odd expert
ment of writing a serial socialistic novel
called Tn the Steps" which he deliver
ed in his church in weekly installments
| in place of sermons 1t TOOK, ana ne
published it In book form. It was
rather overlooked in this country. but
now it is meeting with an extraordinary,
| If belated, success In England. Is
estimated that 1000 900 copies have been
sold. The novel describes the extraor-
binary effect produced by few leading
men in western city, who simply un-
dertake to follow in the steps OF
| Christ.
England finds it impossible ito dock
Europe. The Hong Kong Dock COM
pany has refused to take the risk Of
docking the Victorious, as the battle
ship is only six inches narrower than
the dock entrance. She must, therefore.
return to England to be cleaned unless
she can get into the Malta dock. The
Victorious, it will be remembered, ran
aground at the entrance to the Suez
canal on her way to China, and was
foated again with difficulty. The rea-
son given at the time was that her am
chors were not big enough to hold.
The old London banking house of
Gosling & Sharpe, which In bygone
days was known by the sign of the
| Three Squirrels, has been pulled down,
| and boarding remains around the site,
while new premises are being erected
| in which the banking business, now
amalgamated with that Of Barclay,
Bevan & Co.. will continue to be car
| ried on and where the ancient sign,
formed of three little iron squirrels,
which had been displayed upon win
dow bar of the goldsmitfl's and bank
| er's premises upon this spot for more
than 800 years. will still have a place.
| The newsboys of Boston are required
to take out licenses to sell papers, the
documents costing Is cents each. ''We
| expect to license 1000 of them this
| year" said the clerk who issues the GER
"
had 1900, and then the bars We're taken
down altogether and anybody was al
lowed to sell papers during the war. l
| shall have a superintendent and two
| men on the street now, however, and
any boy found selling papers improp-
erly will be reported to the committee
on licenses, which has said 1t will take
away the licenses
The movement for the study of the
Irish language in ireland had met an
obstacle in the opposition Of a number
of prominent Irish educators, among
whom are D. Mahaffy and DR.. Atkin-
son, both of Dublin university DR.. At
kinson is regarded as the greatest liv-
ing authority on the Irish language and
literature and might have been expect
ed to favor the proposed renaissance.
But he takes the surprising ground
that the mass of extant Irish literature,
including the modern folklore, is too in
decent for popular teaching.
The Minnesota supreme court has just
affirmed a decision of a lower court
which held that a telegraph company
was liable for damages for the trans
mission Of lbelous matter over its
wires. The lower court found a YER
dict for $4,000 damages. The supreme
court said the principle was correct,
| but the damages EXCESSIVE that the
| damages should not have been more
than 81 900. Unless the complainant
consents to a reduction of the amount
to $1,000 the case will go to trial
again.
Mayor Quincy Of Boston has suggest
ed that the city should possess facili-
ties for incinerating the bodies of pau
pers, criminals and others whose burial
devolves upon the city. The idea is
to do away altogether with the pot
! ter's field. 1t Is asserted that the city
should be able to cremate bodies at 9
cost of only 81 each, while it costs 50
to dig grave. The present potter's
of the present year. The burials are
increasing in number yearly.
While the Byron memorial is probably
failure and even the Gladstone fund
comes in rather slowly, the Charlotte
Yonge memorial in England seems to
be undoubted success. OF the $4,000
asked for the establishment of a schol-
arship at the Winchester high school
memorial has also been suggested for
William Black, to take the form of a
life-saving station on the wild Scottish
coast he loved SO well.
When one receives an invitation to
a wedding in Cairo, Egypt, 1t Is an inn
portant event, because instead Of being
asked for 10 minutes church cere-
mony or a brief evening reception the
invitation reads for three days. There
feasting during all this time anf the
mouse ana street are lDefaliy decor
ated with flags and lanterns.
The belief that Friday is a day Of bad
luck arose from varied reasons. One
superstition is that it was on Friday
AdamNand Eve ate the fatal apple, and
then it Is agreed that Christ was cruci-
fed on Friday. 1t is believed to be bad
luck to cut the finger nails on Friday,
and manicurists say their business is
lightest on that day.
A native merchant of Manila while
undergoing his last illness expressed a
desire to have lone of those beautiful
American tunes" played at his funeral
He could not give Its name, but friend
knew the tune he meant, ana SO the
funeral passed on to the cemetery, the
band playing "a Hot Time in the Old
! Town Tonight"
The weights Of classes of students be-
fore and after examination have been
; made the subject of recent investiga.
ton. In high classes, where naturally