The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-11-14
Notes Of the Day.


| road companies. On July /, 1896, the
| number of such employees was given by
| the interstate commerce commission as
| S26, CPS, of whom there were in the gen.
| eral administration 81, 192; in the main.
| tenance of way and structures, 243,627;
| in the maintenance of equipment, 167,-
$50; in conducting transportation, 373,-
| TAT, and uncassifed, $780, The annual
| increase in the number of such employ
es incident to the growth and extension
bof the railway system of the country
| is from 10000 to $4,000. For the three
years succeeding July 1, 1896, the total
! increase has probably been 100000,
bringing up the total number of en-
| ployes two weeks ago to $4,000, and
| $4,000 additional for those engaged in
| transportation, transfer and express
companies connected with the railroads
brings up the total number of employees
! to 1,000,000
Recent statistics relating to Mexico
show that the principal haciendas num-
Der S,101, of which 3,400 are devoted to
| the raising of cereals and 1850 to cat
| tie Tabasco heads the list in the num-
Der OF cocoa plantations, with 124, while
| Chiapas has ISL coffee estates, Vera
Cruz SO and Oaxaca Al. Yucatan leads
| in the number of henequen plantations,
| Boosting 34S, the Al remaining hacien-
| das being located in the State of
| Campeche. Vera Cruz has 45 tobacco
| plantations, Sonora 10 and Tabasco II.
| Hildalgo holds the record in the pro-
| duction of pulque, with 12S haciendas
devoted to the cultivation of the pulque
maguey. Jalisco has 40 estates devoted
to the mescal maguey Chiapas counts
2l4 haciendas devoted to raising sugar
cane, Nuevo Leon 1926 Vera Cruz 1885,
| Yucatan "a, Michoacan so, OaXaca IS,
| Guerrero u. Puebla CT and Jalisco 60.
| A novel sort of a monument is to be
erected on the Gettysburg battlefield
| In September by the survivors, Of the
| Thirteenth Vermont regiment. The
| statue will show the bronze figure of
| an officer, his right hand appraised hold
! ing Ratchet. The story as to the de-
sign OF the statue is told as follows:
| First Lieutenant Stephen F. Brown CT
! Company X, Thirteenth Vermont Vol
unteers, was the model for the statue.
| Just before the battle he was placed
under arrest and was relieved of his
sword for having forced guard from
while on the march to Gettysburg.
| During Picketts charge, Lieutenant
Brown, not having a sword, seized a
Ratchet and fought with it through the
charge. After this heroic conduct Liza
! tenant Browns sword was returned to
him without a trial. He was afterward
promoted to be captain.
The report on the production of cor
per in 1898 has just been submitted to
| the United States geological survey by
Special Agent Kirchhoff. The produc-
ton of the United States in that year
was 526,375,591 pounds, which is by far
the largest product ever reported. This
report shows that the year 1898 was
one of general prosperity for the cop
per mining industry, the full product
being marketed at prices slightly bet
ter than those of 1897.
Someone told a Twentieth Kansas
boy that mosquitoes would never come
into the neighborhood of dog, SO he
| captured one of the ours running about
the town and took him to bed. AS a
result the dog filled the bed so full Of
fieas that he hasn't been able to get
rid of them yet and he is sleeping out
under a banana tree. Mosquitoes are
bad enough, the Lord knows says cur
soldier boy, "but they are an ice cream
festival when compared to Philippine
flea"
Arrangements have been completed
| whereby band of 40 Creek Indians
will be sent to Paris in 1900 to give ex-
| hibitions of the game of toll sport
which combines the principles of golf
and shiny, with the brutality of foot
ball. Only about 20 Indians are requr-
ed to play the game, but as about 60
exhibitions are to be given it will be
| necessary to have a score of substi-
tutes to take the places of those who
may be injured.
Whenever the Stonewall Jackson
| ton, Va, turns out to bury a comrade,
as 1t did recently, a veteran of the civil
| war who fought on the union side falls
in with the procession and participates
in the ceremonies. The Grand Army
| man on such occasions wears his uni
form and badges, and he is always
treated by the Confederates as a broth
er.
Two little boys were arrested Sunday
in Atlanta, charged with attempting
to burn down a church after they had
! nearly demolished the interior. One OF
the boys is IL years old and the other
only nine. They We're arrested and
| made a confession. The younger boy
has been released on account Of his
age and the other Is being held at po-
lice barracks.
Firemen in Macon, Ga, are superstl-
tious over the fatality of a bed in the
truck house. Four men have died soon
after occupying it, A fireman who &C.
cupied 1T a few nights ago says that
one of the former occupants of the bed
named Smith, appeared to him in hi.
Sleep and he believes that he is going
to die. The bed will not be occupied
| again.
A divorced mans club has been Or
ganized in Alameda, Cal, for the pur
pose of sending out scouts and mission
aries, men who have found marrige {
failure and whose object is to impress
upon mankind the dangers of matrl
mony and give those inclined that way
an opportunity to profit by their sac
and narrowing experiences.
The wife of a western millionaire 11sf
packer is going on the stage for thu
sake of being in an artistic atmos
phere. She says she went through
rigid course of theosophy, Christian
science, physical research and hypno
tism for the purpose of establishing al
electrical current between herself anf
| her audience.
One man, with the assistance Of twt
"shockers," in Decatur township, 1ndi
ana, last week cut 40 acres OF whea
in two days. The work was done will
two horses and a six-foot binder, ane
two pounds of Irvine to the acre were
J required to bind the wheat. This Is De
licved to beat the record.
1t is proposed in California to cele
brate on October Is next, in Monterey
the semi-centennial drafting of the con
| stitution of the golden state. Coto1
hall, in which the constitution wa
framed, is standing in Monterey ant