The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-07-25
GOSSIP AND NEWS 0RAB-B0x.
FRENCH deputy has announced his

Il FRENCH deputy has announced his
~ intention to bring in bill during
the present session OF parliament
making 1t not only admissible but legally
obligatory for women to sit as Jurors He
proposes that all juries shall be required,
to consist of six good men and true and
six women similarly qualified. Exactly
the same obligations as regards the at
tendance Of persons called to be jurors
will be binding on "citixenesses" as ON
citizens. and the same penalties for fail
ure to obey a summons will be authorised
by law. After securing the right to take
legal degrees and be called to the bar,
French women. II the bill mentioned above
shall pass. will have the prospect OF be-
ing required to discharge In courts Of
law duties which many men hitherto have
regarded as rather onerous than other
wise, and have sought oftener to avoid
than to assume.
Glasgow. Scotland. which suffers greatly
from drunkenness among it's people. is now.
1t Is said, about to grapple with the evil
by handing over a monopoly of .ne liquor
business to private corporation. The
plan differs from the Gothenburg plan in
being more comprehensive and thus re-
sembles somewhat the South Carolina
plan. The Swedish system applies only
to distilled liquors. leaving wine and beer
sales unregulated. In Glasgow wine and
only by a licensed monopoly. which en-
cages to limit its profits to per cent. to
hand over the excess to the city, and to
make saloon surroundings respectable with
out making them unduly tempting. The
manager Of each saloon will get his profit
from sales of food and soft" drinks. and
will not be forced to encourage the drink
ing of distilled alcoholic liquors. Present
holders of licenses are of course. fighting
the proposed reform.
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A pleasing little variety they offer in
Vienna is in the purchase of theater
tickets. If you buy them in advance Of
the performance you are charged an extra
sum for the privilege. You pay for your
reserved seat and you pay for resers Ing
it. At the restaurants there Is another
peculiar proposition. Apparently no ac-
count is kept of what you have ordered.
but when you are through with your
luncheon the waiter comes with pencil and
paper and asks you what you have ha,.
He asks how many beers, how many other
articles, and how many biscuits or pretzels
you have taken from the plate.
Some very curious articles We're recently
unearthed at Frankweier, in Germany,
among them being a large stone AK or
Ratchet, twenty centimeters in length. and
several small round stones OF ordinary
weight and yelowish- white cotor. The spot
where they were discovered is a little
the fact that during previous years Sow
eral other objects. all OF which evidently
dated back to the neolithic period. have
been found there.
According to Prof. Hee,er, director of the
museum at Landau these small round
stones are on an average sever ceutimetcrs
in length and have a maX;:hu'n crcum-
ference of a little more than four cent?
meters. From one ind 10 the other runs
a sort of groove, and for this reason Prof.
| HaRgar
gists who have examined the stones claim
that they We're evidently used at one time
as weapons to be discharged from sings.
| 1t is pointed out that they are especially
constructed to rest on the leashern por-
| ton of a sling
The stone ak which was found was used,
| says Prof. Heeger. when it became neces-
| sary to fight at close quarters. and these
| stones We're evidently fired from sings
when the enemy retreated and it became
| desirable to hamper them in their flight
| or to injure them at distance
| An Indian hunter of the Hudson Bay
company has slain the monarch of all
| moose. Its massive antlers, having a
spread of six feet two inches, largetenough
| to take in the figure of an outstretched
man. now adorn the dining hall of the
country house Of Mr.. Olcutt. a New
Yorker. at Bernardsvlle. The moose was
shot last season at the head OF the Copper
river region. in Alaska some 800 miles
| above Cooks Inlet, whence it was after
ward brought on dog sledge. 1t was
| then shipped to a Chicago furr;ec, who
| had the head mounted.
| The monster is said to have stood III
| life some twenty-five or twenty-four
hands high, larger than any hors@ in ex-
| istence. weighing from 5000 to $500 pounds.
A moose weighing 1900 pounds is considered
remarkably large, the average weight be-
ing 800 to 900 pounds. The antIers of the
average moose measure only forty inches
| across.
The weight of blades and scalp was 105 1-2
pounds. The age of this fallen monarch is
a matter of conjecture. From the size
| and massive proportions of the head and
antlers experienced hunters place his age
! from 50 years upward.
German surgeons have discovered that
the delicate membrane which covers the
contents of an egg will answer as well
as bits of skin from a human being to
start the healing of open wounds which
would not otherwise heal. The discovery
has already been successfully tested.