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

1reShlnS variation from tue peripa.
tetic advertising sandwiches Of men
and bill boards that impede travel
on crowded tnoroughfares.
Massachusetts will he interested TO
learn that on an original map Of the
world by which Alexander vi di.
vided the discoveries between Spain
and Portugal, and which 10 now in
the possession OF the Vatican, all
tho present United States form q
blank space marked "Tsrra de Ba-
calaos," or Tho Land Of Goldfish.
Mr.. Parnelrs estate in Wicklow,
already rich in valuable stone. al.
most exclusively used now in Dublin
building, has developed new source
of wealth in mushrooms in great
profusion and OF extraordinary size.
One specimen sent to the Dublin
market weighed four pounds and
measured more than Q foot within
the cup.
The United States navy comprises
thirty nine vessels aud TO officer this
feet, we have, on the active list, Z
rear admirals, 10 commodores, i5
captains, S5 commanders, "a lieuten-
ant commanders, 251 liedtepants, 10
junior lieutenants, 1SS ensigns, and
76 navel cadets; and in the staff.
16O doctors, 120 paymasters, and
242 engineers.
There are 3l5. .OOO, 900 bread con.
sumers in Europe. II each one
should eat half buslel more next
year than last, the difference would
amount to 157 ,000, 900 bushels. II
then, the time Of depression in Eu-
rope should pass 30 that the mass
could afford to eat oil they needed,
the difference in demand might ab-
sorb all our surplus at good prices.
The Journal Of Chemistry relates
that a celebrated Partisan belle who
made q profuse use Of cosmetics.
from the soles of her feet 10 the
roots of her hair, one day took q
medicatsd bath, and on emerging
from it was Mortified to find herself
as black as an Ethiopian. The
transformation was complete; not
q vestige OF the ' supreme cuucx~irn
race" was left. 1t took some time
to restore her to membership with
the white race.
The greatest gunpowdsr blast in
connection with railway works was
that by which Sir William Cubitt
blew away with one charge Of 10000
pounds Of gunpowdsr, the entire
mass Of the Round Down Cliff, which
rose to the height Of $50 feet above
the level of the sea. within . few
miles OF Dover. This monster blast,
fred by electricity at several points
at once, tore from the cliffs mass
Of more than a million tons Of chalk.
The earth has nearly $4,000. 900
of square miles Of land surface, and
16, 900 900 Of thsss miles are we'll
adapted for settled populations. To
people 16, ,000, 900 Of square miles -
densely As Belgium 10 peoplod would
give the earth . population Of O..
400, ,000, 900, or over four times its
present population. The United
States and Territories il % dsnssly
peopled as Saxony would have .
population equal to the present pop.
ulation OF the world.
In India the tigers dsvour On aver.
age Of 10, 900 farm laborsrs in year.
In lower Bengal. according 70 Capt.
Rogers. 400 persons we're killed
by tigers in six years. In 1869. .
tigress destroyed l27 victims and
stopped the travel along that route;
another tiger in three years killed
108 persons. Ssrpents ia India
killed 1859 persons in 1866. and Il
is maintained that IL the statistics
were we'll kept, they would show .
yearly average Of 20. 900 victims.
San Francisco continues one Of
healthisst cities in the world, with
an annual death rate Of 1858 per
thousand, which 10 lower than the
dsath-rate in thirteen iorsign cities
and eleven American cities sslsclsd
for comparison-that 10 to say. Of
foreign cities. London. Liverpool. .
Manchester, Sheffield, Leeds. Hull,
Stockholm. Baeuos Ayrss. Dublin.
Belfast, Berlin. Munich aud Ham.
burg; aud o. Am srican cities, New
York, Boston. Pittsburgh, Washing.
ton, st. Louis. New Orleans, Balti-
more. Charleston. Savannah and
Richmond.
The steamer Un,atilia. which was
recently sunk in Esquimslt harbor
and taken to San Francisco for re-
pairs. has been thoroughly over.
hauled, aud is at Bsale street wharf,
loading pig iron for Portland. from
whence she will return 10 the Bay
City with grain.
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A TRIBE OF 800 Indians has been
found on Stewart river, Alaska, who
had never seen white men and we're