Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1885-01-30
c. GENERAL INTEREST.

Hing County. Washington Terri
tory, has on" woman Justice of the
Peace and one woman Constable.
Dcroc. the weather prophet. SAYS
that if Il potato is left in the ground
after the vines are dry it viii lose it,
flavor.
Tie Western Union Telegraph
Company has three thousand. eight
hundred and forty-nine Stockholders
y. !. san.
In no other city in the country do
as many women make their living by
keeping boardrr, as in arlington
Washington star.
A horse at Cleburne, Tex. got int"
his masters poultry-yard and dcvour'd
thirteen Young chickens. which he
found in a box there. feathers and all
If You have any oyster plate, in
the house throw them into the alley az
once. They are no longer in fashion.
! ou must eat Your oyster soup from L
bowl. DtTod Post.
Idaho claims population of
lightweight thousand and shows an
assessment roll of nine million dollars
rs an evidence that she is able to main
tain State Governments.
Mr.. Thomas Mcchan. who has been
visiting the Alaska Glaciers. reports 4
torrent a hundred feet wide and three
or four feet deep flowing winter and
summer from under the Muir Glacier
there.
A lady in Nashville. Tenn. keeps
five cats. two dogs. two cararirS. Il
vet she is very indignant 1t her neigh
bors because they think that this do
nestle mcnaCcrie is Il nuisance.
Captain Chctwynd. of the British
Navy. who has been pouring oil on
troubled waters. concludes that al
though ii may he of great use 10 ships in
an open sra. ii is of no practical adyan-
ta@c to lifchoatS having to pass through
large breakers.
The advertisements Of furnished
houses to let in Il Washington paper in
dicate that the lowest price q desirable
house can he procured for is seventy
five dollars a month and the highc>,
three thousand. seven hundred and
thirty-thrcc dollars.
There are now about one million
and two hundred thousand domestic
servants in this country. who annually
earn about two hundred and sixteen
million dollars. In England the same
number of servants would earn oulv
ninety million dollars.
The Interesting fact has been
demonstrated 10y Mr.. Arthur Sc"ri.'
that the Milky Way is about t.-o
magnitudcs brighter than the mean
brightness Of the sky. and a square de-
gree of the Milky Way mast give he
tween five and six times rs much light
as an average square degree of the rest
of the sky B0StoR EHdJct.
One scarcely thinks of coral as
CROWN" under the ice swept and fo~gv
seas of the Newfoundland banks. Yet
on the eastern slope Of Banqucrcau is
an area of bottom. several miles in cN-
tent. so covered with Il growth 0f
coral that travis sci upon ii are rarely
recovered. The fishermen call il III"
"stone fence" and avoid it Il, far H.
| possible.
A lov was caught stealing cur
rants. ard was locked up in a dark
closet by the grocer. The boy COM
menccd begging most pathrtically to
be released. and after much persuasion
suggested: Now, if You will let me
out and send for my father. he'll pay
you for The currants and lick me re-
sides" The grocer could not with
stand this appeal. tHjro9o Hrd'h.
The body Of the elephant is nearly
naked. but the mammoth. an extinct
| species. had a covering of long. woody
hair Elephants live in large herds.
and sub>ist on foliage and grass. There
are but two living species, the A>iatic,
with Ion" head. conceive forehead,
small ears AND short tisks: and the
African. with round head. convex fore
head. LARGE ears AMI long iusks.
DR.. Marcy. of Paris. has succeeded
III measuring the motive power of the
human body H. dr,eloped in every
NOV emvnt. As ore of the results of
his studie, he shows that something is
gained in the power of walking by
1uickening the pace from forty to sev-
enty-tive steps per minute. But the
latter number is the extreme limit; with
a greater number of steps power is lost
instead of gained.