Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-08
NOTES OF THE DAY

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throughout France suicide seems to
have been increasing for some time. In
the five years ended January I, 1901,
the number of suicides was no less than
$1,000.
For some domestic purposes, and par
ticularly for frying vegetables, arachide
oil--or peanut Oils said to be cOnsid-
cred, even in France, the home of the
olive, superior to any other product.
The young king of Italy celebrated his
birthday recently by releasing 1900 pris-
oners incarcerated in different parts of
his kingdom for offenses which he con-
sidered had been sufficiently punished.
Australian ladies are accomplished
horse-women, and it is proposed to Or
ganize thousand of them as a body
guard of the Duchess Of Cornwall and
York at the opening of the common
wealth parliament.
Out in Kansas they are still paying
claims for damages sustained in the cell
ebrated Quantrell raid. Up to the pres
cit TINE Ool,J4o.fO Has Dc0H paul.. Inc
unpaid outstanding claims amount to
$15,642.35.
The New York City league for Social
Service is taking a deep interest in a re-
Gently launched movement to have the
city acquire property and erect on it
model tenements, to be rented by the
municipality.
By means of small boxes, called grace
before meat" boxes-put on the table for
the receipt of coppers as a thank offer
ing for meals-the total amount collect
ed by the Salvation Army last year in
England was ell ,0OO
farmers in Vermont are already be-
ginning to talk of the maple sugar sea-
son, and, conditions permitting, buckets
will be busy within month and the in
dustry will be on in earnest. Indications
point to large crop this year.
Something of the vast magnitude of
the canning fruit business in California
may be seen when it is known that So
100000 cans are annually shipped out of
that state. To this may be added the
great quantity of bulk fruit which GENES
from the state.
Glasgow is the second city now in the
United Kingdom. In the matter Of city
municipal improvement it is in the lead,
II is expected that the census of 1901
will show "Great Glasgow" with
population of over a million.
A Maltese cat of Sheboygan, Wis, took
a two and one-half hour ride inside the
rim of a fly-wheel and lives. 1t jumped
in the wheel at the Plymouth Refriger-
ating company's plant. When the en-
gnes were stopped she was alive and
well, except for little lameness. The
wheel is II feet in diameter, and makes
eighty-seven revolutions a minute. Con-
sequent!y, during the two and one-half
hours, the cat covered a distance of
about 120 miles.
In the postoffice of some one of the
large cities there is an unknown clerk
who for several weeks has been stamp
ing religious texts on the envelopes of
the mail that passes through his hands
Business men of New York. PHILADELPHIA
and Chicago have been finding lately
printed in purple type across their cor
respondence. such admonitions as pre-
pare to meet thy God" or mo man
knoweth the day or the hour when his
soul shall be required Of him.
Paris is about to lose one of it's great
historical landmarks. The old Temple
market is doomed to demolition. It's an
Gent stronghold and palace, once the
home of knights and royalty, afterward
a state prison, monastery and market
and associated with the most moment
Gus events of the history of France and
it's capital, went through all the stages
of power and pomp. decline and fall
and now ends as resort Of ragpickers
and beggars. and a rendezvous for
thieves and junk dealers.