The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-21
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| nut ranks among practical commercial
devices. One of the large stores In New
| FORK mas one, a Brooklyn department.
store boasts of another, while third is
| located in business house in Providence
| X. l. These three elevators have carried
| hundreds of thousands of passenpers
| without hitch or accident and have he
come very popular with the patrons of
the stores. Several of these stairways
| are projected for the Paris exposition.
These elevators can lay claim to great
economy. for they require only a five
| morse power motor and dispense with the
| services of an attendant, being entirely
| automatic
The coronet of duke consists of alter
| nate crosses and leaves. The princes of
the royal blood also wear a similar crown
Inc state headgear of a marquis consists
or diadem surrounded by flowers and
pearls placed alternately. An earl, how
ever, has neither flowers nor leaves sur
mounting the circlet, sut only points
reaching with a pearl on top. vlscount
has neither flowers nor points, but only
the plain crclet adorned with pears,
which. regardless of number, are placed
on the crown itself. A baron has only
six pearls on the golden border, not
raised, to distinguish him from an earl,
and the number of pearls renders the dia-
dem distinct from that of viscount
OF 100000 pounds of cheese, nearly all of
1t made by Swiss methods and Swiss peo-
pie, who initiate the home product fairly
well. Most of it is shipped to the Pacific
coast and finds it's market in the South
American countries. The work is done
between April and the late autumn
months and many of the "cheesers," as
they are called, young Swiss who have
learned their trade at home, go back
each year to spend the winter. reappear-
ing regularly with the opening of the
working season. The industry is an in
creasing one and the quality of the prod
uct is guarded as jealousy as the Swiss at
home guard that of their own.
A company is being formed in Brussels
under the name of the International Elec-
trio Post system to erect electrical central
stations for charging accumulators at diff
ferent points on good driving roads, where
automobile vehicles, particularly of tour
lists. would be likely to travel. The plan
provides for establishments where not
only accumulators may be charged, but
accommodations, supplies and repairs pro-
videu for bicycles and all forms of auto
carriages. There will be a restaurant and
doctors office on the premises, and prob
ably in direct or near connection a hotel
or inn where travellers may put up for the
night.
Municipal authorities of Mons, Belgium
| have just adopted a resolution which will
prevent children from being born paupers
| in that city Every child born in Mons,
| after being registered officially will have
bank account opened in it's name with
| the City Savings bank. The authorities
| will deposit 1 franc for the infant, who
when he arrives al a sufficient age, will
| find this as a nucleus to augment with
| his penny savings. The original deposit
| of L franc cannot be drawn at any time,
| but the interest accrung is the property Of
| the young deposition.
The time-worn vices of morphomana
and alcoholism have to some degree been
superseded by 'petrolism' which is de-
| scribed by physicians who have treated
patients for it as grim novelty, almost
| without parallel The taste for petroleum
| it is said grows upon the tippler until it
develops into an irresistible passion. Ply
| sicians have not vet had opportunity to
study the full effects of petrolism, and
| their views as to its cure and future are
somewhat divergent, but the consensus of
| opinion is that the victim of this new hab-
| IL is sad and melancholy.
There seems to be a difference in the
| practice of Great Britain and the United
| States respecting the abrasion of their
| gold coin due to wear. In the former
| country gold coin is taken at its face
value for recoinage. Appropriations are
| made from time to time to cover the loss
| to the mint on account of wear OF
| course this rule does not apply to foreign
coin, which is taken by weight. In this
country the mint receives our gold coin
by weight and all the loss by natural
abrasion is borne by the holders of the
coin.
A curious bean-like pod has been found
growing wild in Batavia, which, when
thrown upon the water, lies still for four
or five minutes, when it explodes loudly
and throws it's contents into the air for
great distance. This is done so that it
can scatter its seeds. which it would 9TH
erwise have hard time in doing. Nature
does no queerer things than she does in
the matter of seed-sowing. The claws
of the burr and the spears of the Spanish
needle and of "beggars' lice are for this
purpose.
Philadelphia has Vacant Lots associa-
tion which has made its second annual
report Last year sufficient land was Sc
cured within the city limits for 1862 gar
dens. cultivated by 140 poor families num-
bering 40 persons. The total yield was
49, 700. an average of $50 per garden. The
outlay of the association was s2,266 for
seed, tools. superintendent and incden-
tails. 1t is stated in the report that
thousand deserving families are ready to
cultivate gardens on this plan if the land
can be obtained.
This is being told as having really hap
pened at Emporia. Kan: A farmer went
to town and purchased lot of goods at a
store, being waited on by pretty sales
girl. He was SO pleased that he then
and there asked her if she would marry
him. After recovering from this unex-
pected request she informed him that she
had just accepted proposal, but would
gladly introduce him to another pretty
girl who was selling ribbons. An introduce
ton followed and as a result another pro-
posal and engagement.
One of the earliest notices of rubber as
a useful commercial article was by DR..
Joseph Priestly, when he was at Leeds a
quarter of a century before he emigrated
to Pennsylvania. He found 1t for sale in
half-inch cubes and recommended it as a
good eraser of pencil marks, and it Is from
this early use of the gum that it obtained
the name it still bears. What Priestly
knew was the crude substance as it comes
from Para, but that undergoes many mod
ifications in the modern process of manu-
facture.
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