The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-07
Odds and Ends.

Odds and Ends.
Muscatel grapes have advanced in
price in California from Sc to $40 per
ton.
Last year the value Of the stone
quarried in this country Is given at
$3S, 270, 1854.
OF $4,000 children in Edinburgh
schools, 10000 are connected with the
Band of Hope.
Lumbermen at Portland, Ore, are
now shipping 100000 feet of lumber
to Northern China.
Lumber to the value of 100000 Is
annually used in Jerusalem, much Of
it for orange boxes.
In 1886 the Erie canal carried to tide
water 1,4S9 900 tons of vegetable food;
in 1897 it carried but $4,000 tons.
Consul Maerum pretoria, Transvaal
Republic), writes that the average ex-
ports of gold from the ports of South
Africa amount now to about $2,092, $50
each week.
A monument will be erected in Octo-
Der to Charles Marc Cauria, said to be
the original inventor of lucifer matches,
at ST. Lothian, small village in Jura,
where he spent his life as country
physician.
Comparative tables published in the
London financial press show that Brit
ish gas company securities have, as
rule, gained during the past 10 years,
both in market price and earning pow
er, despite electric light competition.
An English, Ind, clergyman refuses
to pay poll tax on the ground that he
is church property--the property of the
congregation as much as is the pas
toral residence, and that. as such, he
is exempt from taxation, the same as
the parsonage.
DR.. aFelix Brunei, surgeon OF the
French navy. has perfected means
of removing tattoo marks. Heretofore
the removal of such marks has been
a matter of no little difficulty and ex-
pense. but Dr. Brunet's method Is said
to be easy and rapid, without being
costly.
A Maine farmer who raises fine straw
berries came to Wells village with a fine
lot recently and commenced peddling them
at Is cents a box. He sold quite a portion
of his load at that price. when he found
that he must sell at two boxes for a
quarter. Then he retraced his route and
refunded the difference to all those who
had paid the Is cents per box.
Miss Emma Fowler of Pittsburg, secre-
tary of literature of the Woman's Home
Missionary society Of the NJ. E. church of
that city, declares that statistics showed
that more cigarettes were purchased by
women than by men. Miss Fowler says
the women buy the cigarettes for male
friends who call on Them and that they
themselves also smoke them.
The increase of insanity in civilized CEN
tiers of population is appalling. A half
dozen new asyums have been built in and
about London in the last dozen years.
and each one is filled almost as soon as
completed. The number of insane in Lon
don institutions alone now reaches an ag-
gregate of more than $4,000.
At Asti in California. last year a cistern
10i feet long by "a feet wide and "a feet
deep was formed in a hillside for the stor-
age of wine. The immense tank was lined
with concrete two feet thick and coated
inside with a glaze as impenetrahle as
glass. The capacity of the tank is 5oo0 900
gallons.
Cornstalks continue to look up. They
yield cellulose worth 500 a ton for stop
ping holes in battleships, fine cardboard
and paper, the best foundation for dyna-
mite, a patent cattle food and a superior
glue. But it is said that $50, 900 tons of
cornstalks still go to waste every year in
this country.
pet thrush owned by New York man
sang so long and loudly in the early
morning that formal complaint was en-
tered before magistrate. The latter or
dered the bird to be kept in doors and
the cage covered with a dark cloth until
a reasonable hour In the morning.
The gross expenses of the state of New
York in the year 1899 WILL 1t is computed,
amount to s25, 600, 600 of which nearly 10
per cent. will be necessary to pay the de-
ficits of departments which exceeded in
1898 or in previous years the appropria-
tions made for them.