The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-06

He has dried the goose bone for the Win
ter of 1898, and says: This bone is nearly
all blue, with very little white, top or
bottom. The blue is for cold weather
You see, this bone indicates an early and
hard winter. to continue late in the
spring."
Paris newspapers announce that the
governor of French Oceanca has issued
a decree prohibiting tattooing throughout
the archipelago in the interests of public
health and morals, which, the decree
states, seriously suffer from the practice
The Journal Des Debats, humorously
commenting on this decree, says 1t will
deprive the natives of the only costume
they We're ever accustomed to wear
In payment of a football bet a Boston
actor rode through some of the main
streets of the hub recently in an open
carriage dressed as a Spanish troubadour
and waving Spanish flag. A curious
crowd followed the unfortunate actor and
he was treated to some expressions of
what the sidewalk contingent thought of
man who had the audacity to wave a
Spanish flag on Washington street. The
expected shower of missiles for which the
actor had prepared himself, did not ma
terialize, however, and he paid his bet.
Thomas C. Boone, one of the three
| men who made ascents in the war balloon
at Santiago, in telling of has experiences
| in Boston the other night, said: "Newspa-
per correspondents and magazine writer's
have condemned the balloon, but in my
| opinion there can be no question of the
value of the balloon in warfare. We were
| able to locate the enemy, and in one par
ticular instance undoubtedly saved many
| lives when we informed our men of a
| body of the enemy about 800 strong lying
| hidden in the pass on the slope command
| ing a narrow path up which our men
| were about to march,
| The Spanish government has just made
| some queer discoveries in the course of
| an investigation of its accounts to deter
| mine where new economies might be in
| troduced. 1t seems that in 1897 annuities
| were granted to Il number of nuns, the
| youngest of whom was at that time II
years of age and the oldest 66. Notwith-
| standing the fact that the ages of the an
nuitants would now range between rs
and 1873 years, none of them has apparent
| ly died, for the pensions amounting to
| 10000 pesetas a year, have been drawn
regularly ever since they We're granted
| The church authorities have been asked
| for an explanation.
In the middle of July, 1872, the Rev. DR..
| r. w. Dale of Birmingham, England, ar
ranged to preach at Ventnor. and at the
| same time to take a few days holiday IN
| the island. On the Thursday before his
| engagement he made an excursion to Ca
| risbrooke and while walking along one
of the castle walls he slipped and fell
breaking an arm and dislocating the ell
| bow. The pain and the shock kept him
OF the couch for several days. Dr. Hal
| ley took his place on the Sunday. and
! when he gave out as his text, He keep
| eth all his bones; not one of them is
broken" the gravity of the congregation
gave away. The good old man was uneas'
| lily conscious that something was wrong
! but the ripple of laughter did not en-
| tighten him, and it was not until he hac
| left the pulpit that he saw what he hac
| done. He was acutely distressed-espe-
| cially when he found that some present
supposed the incongrtlty to have been in.
| territorial.