Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-12-31
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the manufacturing industries Of Chica-
so. ana 900 800 Of capital are in
vested, with an animal proluct oi
nearly : 80, 900 600.
Tie .EeSui:s expelled from France are
catrenchipg themselves in English and
Spanish soil. They have established
uine colleges through Spain. Large
buildings to be used for similar pur.
poses Lave been purchased on their be-
half il Wales, near Ctntcrbury and
ether places.
\ Lsndcu Roman Catholic news
paper states shat IN the year l~19 two
thousand prisons renowned Protest.
antism in EnGland and became Roman
Catholics. II also says flat seventeen
out OF every twenty OF these perverts
were prepared FOR tho step under ritual
istic teaching.
Litchheld, Connecticut, where DR..
Lyman Eecoher preached from l>l0 to
le2G, is still standing, although re-
mcTed short distance from where it
originally stood, in order to make room
Tor building of modern style. 1t is
severely simple in lis architecture, and
is esteemed by the Litchiield people as
valuable relic.
1t is a curious fact, brought out in
the statistics Of insurance experts, that
in all of the great cities Of the civilized
world, TIE dcath-rate is decreasing.
The science Of right living causes in.
creased longevity. From 1873 to 1873
the decrease in the London ath-rate,
as compared with the preceding six
years was four per cent.
Wayne road recently ran sixty-four
miles in seventy-one minutes, and an.
other ran l3l miles in 120 minutes, or
Coz miles in an hour, right along, if
the figures are correct. A special train
on the Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western road, with the President of
the company on board, ran eighty miles
in eighty minutes.
The increasing value of old prints is
illustrated by a late sale in London
One of Rambrandt's etchings sold for
Glo, which the last owner bought at
auction for el2 lbs, another for go los,
against its cost of CO; another for
E6 Is, against cost of "a. But an
other sold for e15 los which was pur-
chased at aactiOn for GIG los.
New York capitalists are tho pro-
lectors of canal through the Isthmus
of Cape Cod to connect Buzzard's bay
and Barnstable bay, shortening the
route between Boston and New York
some ninety miles. A force OF 800
men is to be put at work at once, and
the trench, seven and hree.tourths
miles long and two hundred yards wide
at the narrowest point, will soon be cut
through the gravelly isthmus. The
canal is to cost IS, 000.000
The receipts of the Pennsylvania Il.
Il. we learn, have increased month by
month this year, and for the seven
months of 1880 the aggregate net re-
ceipts have been in excess over last
year 50 100000. To the praise of the
company too it should be said that for
the last five months the compensation
of the employees has been at the rate
prevailing previous to 1873. There has
also been marked gain in the net re-
ceipts in the leased lines west of Pitts
burg.
A rare article of freight was seen at
the Pittsburg depot lately. 1t was a
chubby. round-faced, bright looking
boy of eleven years, who had travelled
as piece of express matter from some
place in Texas. He had paper tag
tied to him, just as though he was
piece of merchandise, and on the tag
was written the address of his consignee.
He was entered on the waybills and
manifests Just like any other freight,
and as he passed from the hands OF one
express messenger to another he was
duly receipted for.
The number of postoff ces established
during the year ending June 80, 1850,
was 3.462, and the number discontin-
ued during the same period was 1928,
making the net increase in the number
OF offices during the year 2,l34, which
is much larger increase than for any
previous year. The total number OF
offices in operation on June 30, 1880,
was 429S9. Of this number 1,7G1 were
filled by Presidential appointments,
and the remainder, Al, 22S, were filled
by appointments of the Postmaster
General. During the past year there
we're IL 1884 appointments of postmas-
tiers for various reasons.