The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-12
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The port of Gibraltar is to have a COM
plete electric equipment, both for govern
ment and private supply and in keeping
with the military IDEAS that are SO pre-
valent there it has been decided to locate
the power station in one of the best pro-
tected positions on the rocks This is
what Is known as the Kings Baston,
cut out of solid rock and formerly used
as an artillery barracks.
The library of congress is already one of
the greatest libraries in the world. The
| number of printed volumes on its shelves
is somewhat over 100000 and is rapidly
nearing the million mark; in 1862 the ag-
gregate of the collection was 10000 and
the new building will afford shelf room for
4,5G0, 600 volumes
Berlin has struck a blow at the Ger
mans right to amuse himself as he
peases. All cafe chantants are to be
closed at II o'clock; the audiences will
then be turned out. no excuses as to beer
drinking being accepted. Plain clothes
detectives will watch the performances
and stop them if they are too lively.
The lower house of the convocation of
the Church Of England has passed a reso-
luton declaring that the law Of the
church does not recognize divorce and
asking the bishops to devote themselves
to securing action of parliament to the
end that the church shall not remarry
divorced persons.
Prussia's minister of the interior has put
his foot down and forbidden the Berlin
city council to set up a memorial gate
way at the cemetery where are buried
the persons who fell in the Berlin street
riots in 1S4S. The reason given is that
the monument may be looked upon as
glorification of revolution.
At the last meeting of the Victoria insti-
tute of London Mr.. Pinches of the British
museum said that some old records recent
~ discovered In the ruins of Nineveh
told the biblical story of the fail of man.
representing the tree of life as vine and
the tree of knowledge as a cedar
Mr.. Brunetiere has made the following
general characterizations OF the chief
literatures of Europe: The essential char
acter of Italian literature, he says, IS ar
tistic; of Spanish chivalrous; of German,
philosopher of French, social: of English.
individualistic.
A Boston man with a taste for fresh air
Is having constructed at the Cramp ship
yards in Philadelphia floating house of
steel, $50 feet long and So feet wide, fitted
up like a summer cottage, to accommo-
date about 20 persons.
In Cowley county, Kansas, the other
day the officials held a sale of judgments.
as provided for in the new law. The sale
brought $500 and the bill for advertising
was 81 $50, leaving the taxpayers out of
pocket just $3.50.
Vesuvius was covered by heavy snow
fall recently while the crater was in erup-
ton. The Neapolitans watched the UNI
usual spectacle of three streams of red
hot lava working their way through the
white snow.
1t is getting to be the fashion to address
and stamp envelopes on the back. With
the directions written across the folds the
| letter cannot be opened by an unauthor-
ICED person without the fact being noted.
Golf has gained such a foothold among
lovers of outdoor sports in New York
that the park board has placed profess
sional instructors on the public links.