The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-24

men in England than Alfred Lyttleton,
the youngest son of the fourth Lord Lyt-
Teton At Cambridge he won the euutya-
lent of five distinct ''blues'' and repre-
scented his varsity in cricket, football
racquets, tennis and athletic sports. He
has represented England on both cricket
and football fields and has been cham
pion tennis player for Is years. He is
further clever lawyer, rising polti-
clan and a good speaker and musician
aluminium Is now worked on a large
scale for all sorts of Industrial purposes
and has taken its place as one of the five
or six commercial metals of the world
Weight for weight 1t is already cheaper
than copper and tin; 1t does not tarnish. is
suitable for all kinds of cooking utensils.
is largely used in shipbuiding and is
most valuable adjunct to metallurgy, in
asmuch as small addition of aluminium
to mold of steel or brass insures abso-
lutely solid castings
German savants are busy with plans for
the excavation of Babylon. Layard, the
discoverer of Nineveh, was the first really
to do anything in the way of excavating.
The Germans are determined that their
work shall be thorough. 1t will be costly
and take five years. The excavators will
begin with Ell Kas'r, the fortress, which
is the remains of acknowledgements pal
ace, and where Alexander died. They
will also investigate a number of other
ruins near by.
There were some notable forgery cases
in London recently, and 1t became neces-
sary for one of the banks to call upon
Scotland Yard hurriedly for a detective.
An attempt was made to telephone, but 1t
developed that Scotland Yard is not con-
nected with the crcut-it could see no
use in telephones-so telegram was sent
instead. Five hours passed before a de-
tective appeared, with the forger putting
the miles rapidly between him and the
city.
Turkey has been engaged in war IS
years of the present century, considera-
bly, more than one-third of the time.
Spain comes next, with 81 years of war;
France has had 27 years. Russia "a, Italy
%, England q, Austria II, Holland IA, Ger
many 49, Sweden 10, Portugal 10, Denmark
9. Much of this is for Reckoning of the
first Napoleon.
Here are few names taken at random
from the delinquent tax list of Hawaii
for 1898, as printed in one of the Honolulu
papers: Alapaki, Bila Alapai, All kui,
All You, c. J. Fat. Boo Sau Tong. Bow
Din. Dol, Ak Goo. Iokepa, Ellen Kahaun-
aela, Luka Kaholoholo, Leihulu keoho-
kalole, Kahakumakalani, Not At and B.
So. The ks take up three columns of
space, being three times as numerous as
the delinquents under any other letter.
At Young Mems Christian association
dinner in New York Saturday one Of the
speakers, a lawyer, told of a client who
every time he wrote to him Enclosed
tract. and said that the last letter. re-
Gently received, instructed him to collect
the money due on a mortgage, and if it
wasn't paid in 80 days to foreclose. The
tract accompanying that letter was head
ed: HE that giveth to the poor lendeth to
the Lord
Denver man just returned from Mexi-
co reports that English is taught In the
public schools of most of the larger cities.
In Guadalajara the children were pro-
vided with both Spanish and English text
books and rather disconnected members
of our party when they addressed us in
pure English, while we could not return
the compliment by saying a single word
to the little ones in their language"