The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-03


II over 10 per cent of the vineyardist of
the state will agree to his terms. 1t is
the most feasible plan ever presented
| Tor the handling of the grape crop of
the state, paying the growers a fair
profit and preventing the ruinous COM
petition that has often compelled grow
ers to sell new wine for 10 cents a gal
Ion.
1t is announced on good authority,
| according to the Matin of Paris, that
| John Wanamaker is about to duplicate
in Paris his great department stores IN
| New York and Philadelphia. In view
| OF this rumored enterprise, the Matln
| gives a description of French methods
| as contrasted with American, and IN
the first of a series of articles describ-
| ing how men become rich. tells the
story of Mr.. blanchard, the founder of
| the great department store managed
by the Societe du Louvre.
Diamonds and other precious stones
to the value of $40 600 900 were imported
| at New York during the last fiscal
year. Three years ago the imports Of
this kind amounted to only $500, 600.
The increase may be due partly to the
| prosperity which has enabled Ameri-
| cans to buy more diamonds and partly
to the foresight of the dealers who an
| ticipate a rise in prices and therefore
purchased a large supply ahead. The
market price of diamonds is now IS
per cent. higher than it was year ago.
After II years of litigation the ap-
pellate court of New York has ordered
| a new trial in the case of William II.
| Townsend, who is suing the proprietors
| of dyeing works because they polluted
| a stream running through his property
| in such a way that his ducks, which
went into the stream white, came out
| red, blue, green or otherwise colored,
| according to the job the defendants
| happened to have on hand.
| The famous clock in the Palais de
| Justice in Paris dates from 1870 and lis
the work Of the celebrated De Wick,
| whose turret clocks are the earliest re-
| liable record The carved figures of
| Piety and Justice and the angels sup
porting the royal coat of arms were
| executed by Germaine Pilon. 1t is be-
| lieved that it was the bell of this clock
that rang the signal for the massacre
of St Bartholomew in 1872
While Miss Florence Williams of
Hickman county, Kentucky, was elop-
ing with her sweetheart, G. G. Bishop,
| the buggy upset and one of her arms
| was broken and wrist dislocated.
Nevertheless, after her injuries had re-
ceived the attention of physician she
!
be postponed, and the ceremony was
performed, although both of the brides
arms were incased in splints.
Brookvlle, Pa, has crow hatchery,
| said to be the only one in the world.
This birds jet-black head makes
, handsome trimming for ladies hats,
and milliners are credited with paying
rs cents for each head. The eggs OF
I crows hatch in an ordinary chicken in
cubator in 10 days and in eight weeks
the birds are big enough to be guillo-
! tined.
1t will cost 1913, $50, 0S2. O3 to run the
government of greater New York for
| the forthcoming fiscal year, according
| to the report of the finance committee.
This Includes a deficiency fund of ST.
175,S50.SS. The amount to be raised by
| general taxation is $67, sos, I5l05 1t
| cost ST. AT ,084.77 to run the city last
year.
The Frankfurter Zeitung has brought
| together a number of facts showing
| that there is at present in Austria a
| remarkable growth in clerical influence
and multiplication of monasteries. At
| the principal hospital in Vienna forty
! nurses were discharged the other day
| and replaced by nuns.
| The railroads of Australia have never
| discovered that it is possible to take up
| tickets on the train, hence the pas
| sengers are locked in the cars to pre-
| vent any of them stealing a ride, and
| when they arrive at their station are
| hustled out through a turnstile and
| held UP for their tickets.
| Copper has risen and olumnum de-
clned until the price of the two metals
| is almost the same One pound of al
| uminum is equivalent to two of cop
per in carrying electrical energy and If
| it were as easy to work ana solder
| would probably displace copper to
considerable extent.
Great Britain's merchandise exports
| during the first six months of 1899 were
| the largest of any corresponding period
| in it's history. It's exports for the same
| period were the largest since 1891 ana
| have never been exceeded except in the
opening half of that year and of 1892.
| The commissioner of immigration at
| New York, in charge of the bureau IN
| that city, reports large demand for
| unskilled labor. Since July l there had
| been inquiries at the Immigration oe-
| reau from different points of the couh-
| try for upward of 10000 laborers.
In a book entitled Roma FINS Sac
| cult" dedicated to Mark Twain, but
| extremely serious, a Milan professor,
under the pseudonym of Pohfio, mas
| made a violent attack on modern
| psychologists, whom he accuses of gen
| eral ignorance and Incompetence.
A recent bulletin of the United States
| treasury announces that during the ten
months ending May l, 1899, Ala American
| railroad locomotives were exported to
| foreign countries. The value of these
| locomotives was 900.
A first-class automobile of the French
type now costs from s., 900 to $4,000. An
| enterprising American concern has re-
| Gently started in to build an electro
| buggy or carriage for two at from 5000
| to $500.
In spite of the law the destruction Of
birds in the Italian part of Switzerland
| continues on a large scale. In the can
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