The Anaconda standard., 1899-03-25
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The Fusil. a Spanish satirical journal
printed on bright blue paper. has been in
dulging in a unique inquiry among its
readers, who are asked to PROFOUND a
meet punishment for Mr.. Sagasta after
his mismanagement of the war Answers
have been pouring in week after week
No. 80, promising that there is nothing SC
terrible as insomnia, suggests that the
premier should be stretched out on a ta-
be danked by soldiers repatriated from
Cuba. These should be armed with bayo-
nets and instructed to prod him when
ever he should show a sign of sleeping
II this should not prove sufficient torment
a history of the late war might be read
aloud to him meanwhile.
The church authorities in Wurtemberg
have decided that at funerals where the
body OF the deceased is cremated the
clergy in their official capacity can hold
services at the house, but not in the
cemetery where the ashes are laid away.
This decision is found to be very en-
barrassing by ministers, as one writes:
I'VE follow the body of a suicide dressed
in our robes and offer at least a prayer,
sometimes delivering an address by re-
quest of friends, but over a man who
through aesthetic or sanitary considera-
tions wishes his body burned the pastor
dare not show as much respect as over
that of a murderer"
James Garrison, farmer living in Cam
den county, Missouri, put up ice during
the cold snap and his crop is all in one
piece. 1t measures 20 feet each way. He
constructed a box into which, by means
of troughs, he conveyed streams of water
from spring in the hillside. The water
froze and when the box was filled the
troughs were removed. Around this box
Mr.. Garrison built a larger one. filling the
space between the two with charcoal and
sawdust. He says he will drill and blast
his huge cube of ice as he may have oc-
casion to use ice during the summer.
The total amount of power estimated
as necessary for the Paris exposition is
10000 horse power of which 1900 is al
lotted for lighting and 5000 for motive
power. Upon this assumption there is al
lowed a consumption of 440, 900 pounds of
steam per hour, or. for 2o5 days, at seven
hours per day. a total of 631. 600 pounds
of steam for the entire period. This will
require 200 tons of coal a day. and the
water required for condensing purposes is
estimated at more than 900 cubic
feet for the whole period of the eXposi-
ton.
In Germany pupils of the public schools
perform an exercise in drawing with the
right hand and then are compelled to do
ed just as satisfactory results, while in
the industrial schools ambideNteritY Is also
taught by requiring the use of the left
hand in saving wood and in similar occu-
pations. 1t is claimed that not only does
this render a person almost doubly eff
cient, but that the general health is much
improved by it, as a more perfect circu-
latiOn is thus established.
The maximum amount of money coined
or issued in the United States-that Is, the
money supply of the country-was on the
LIST of March s.. 533. SOS, co., and the largest
amount in actual circulation was T,92S,-
Si2. fl2. The increase in the money in cir
culatiOn in the last u months was the
large sum of s2o2 465. 900, and the increase
is still going on apparently at the rate Of
SO, 600. 900 per month. The per capita cir
culation, $25.5l. is slightly below the high
est point. which was reached in the latter
part of 1899.
The planters in Hawaii realize that the
contract system is at an end and are now
trying the experiment of protit-sharing
with the laborers. So far the plan has
worked well and is believed to be the final
solution of the labor question. The sugar
industry is by all odds the most impor-
tant, and to get sufficient laborers the
planters have to offer liberal terms They
claim that proflt-sharing is the fairest to