Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1885-12-04
Matters of Interest.

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England does one-third OF all the
banking in the world.
Tie house in which General Grant
first saw light had only two windows.
There are five hundred persons
employed in the United States sigEal
service.
It is estimated that 68 churches in
Paris possess works of art valued at
81, ,C15, TAO.
Fashionable people on Murray
Hill, New York. employ a man by
the year to feed and take care of
their cats.
Two hundred and fifty million
persons quench their thirst every
year at the London public drinking
fountains.
The United States produces nearly
81 QUO lawn mowers annually, and
exports to every civilized country on
the globe.
In San Francisco there are 300
Chinese laundries, employing 5000
men, the value of which is Roughly
estimated $3.50. 900.
There are AS. 100000 acres of
forest in tho United States, and this
area is reduced at the rate of 25,-
100000 acres annually.
Durham, N. c., now famous to-
bacco town of six thousand inhabi-
tants, was q hamlet of less than one
hundred souls 20 years ago.
Mrs. Lew Wallace uses for pa
per-weight turquoise, from the
Santa Fe mines, which is said to be
one OF the finest in the world.
Many of the Spring chickens sold
in New York city are fattened on
sunfower seeds, which are said to
impart to the flesh very fine flavor.
In the region of the Catskills there
are more than l 900 hotels and board
ing houses, in which some 500, 900
visitors are yearly accommodated.
4 Venetian gondolier makes on an
average four francs, about eighty
cents o day, the year round. On
this be will marry, rear q family, and
put some money away.
Hercules Wilson, colored, has re-
resigned his seat in the Georgia
Legislature, giving as reason that
he can make more money by laying
brick at 81 to SIS day.
In Germany women do the main
part of the menial outdoor work.
Not infrequently a woman and
COW are seen pulling coal cart
through the streets, q man behind
gently touching them up with q whip.
A new system of drying lumber by
surrounding it with. common salt is
just now attracting attention. The
peculiar power of salt for absorbing
moisture is we'll known.
Texas is progressing wonderfully
, fast. In 1870 the grand total value
of farm products of the State wan
$49, 900 900. Now it has swelled to
the enormous sum Of $81, ,O06, 900.
Over 5000 women are employed
in the railroad Offices in Austria.
They get from SIS to $50 a month.
Nearly all of them are widows Of
men who have died.in the railroad
service.
From 1871 to May 1874. inclusive,
the French Government has expsnd.
ed on the purchase of pictures and
sculptures by living artists 12,7OO,-
412 francs. averaging more than
600, 900 francs per annum.
As many as 200 needle pointed
lightning-rod tips (made in Philadsl-
phia, by the by.) have been fxsl
upon the rods ut the top of the
Washington Monument to catch any
thunderbolts that may come flashing
down.
The present production of the
Russian petroleum field is between
10000 and 35 900 barrels per day.
It probably could be increased to
80, 900 barrels from the same wells,
provided they we're allowed to pro-
duce all the time.
Albert Ulysses Simpson Grant
Babb has become known to fame not
SO much on account of his odd name
rs because he collected a purse for
the Grant monument in New York.
A. U. S. G.. B. is o boy of eleven,
and he has as many pockets a.
names.
A number of Yankee school
ma'ams, who some time ago won't to
tie Argentine Republic. South
America, to follow their vocation,
have made excellent matches with
eligible Argentines. and tho demand
is greater than the supply. Blondes
are preferred.
New York saw a new feature in
advertising, few days ago, when q
nicely attired, good-looking girl dis
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