Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1892-12-23
Matters Of Interest.


There il no cure for color-blindness
lcchergs sometimes last for 200
yea-s.
London handles 30, 100000 letters
annually.
\ hot bath will sometimes cure
toothachc.
A Laplandcr will often skate $50
miles in II day.
The GatIiug gun WAS invented by
eating in 1861.
We have one pauper to every 1000
inhabitants.
Tea is gathered from the plant four
times n year.
Frogs. when cooked, taste very
much like chicken.
A crocodile takes eighty seconds to
turn completely around.
An electric machine in the London
mint counts the coins.
The German Emperor has a rhi-
noceros skin walking stick. O..
Bells in churches were first placed
there Ia drive of evil spirits.
The smallest known quadruped is
the plgmy mouse Of Siberia.
The railroads of the United King
dom possess nearly II 900 locomotives.
Chinese control almost the entire
shoemaking business in California.
In India there is species of crow
that laughs just like a human being.
The Princess Of Wales has some
gloves which are nearly three feet
long
There is but one sudden death
among women 10 every ten among
men
The tallest woman in Idaho lives at
Boise City. She stands 6 feet ) inches
in her stockings.
Wire glass is about one-iourth of an
inch thick, and in il is imbedded a
meshwork Of strong wire.
More births occur in February than
Ia any other month. July is the
month Of fcwest births.
Tannyson is reported to be the
,i13d person whose body has been
deposited In Westminster Abbey.
Glsss in oven doors is a new con-
triyance. II enables cooks TO watch
the food without opening the doors.
The Dead Sea is nothing more than
= small but very old salt lake now in
an advanced stage Of evaporation.
All the pawn shops in Moscow,
owned by Hebrews are shortly to be
closed by order Of the government.
The Michigan lumbermen carry
cedar knots in their pockets as q cure,
aud also as preventative OF rheuma-
tism.
Electropla,ing has been applied
In an ingenious and effective manner
Tor the preservation OF lace forms in
metal.
shect iron kites, to enable a vessel
when In distress during q storm to
communicate with the shore, have
been suggested.
The ocean is more productive than
the land. An acre Of good fishing
ground will yield more food than an
acre on the best farm.
There is tooth Of Buddha, preserved
and worshippcd in an Indian temple,
which probably all the gold in the
world could not buy.
Hefculitc, the new French explo-
sive, IL 81 powerful that half q pound
OF u In recent test, displ aced a stone
weis hing thirty tons.
The dua'ialoupe bees lay their honey
In bladders OF wax about rs large as a
pigeons egg and not in comb. The
honey never hardens.
The famous hank of Venice began
business "a ila2. lasted GOO years, and
might have existed 10 this day but for
the Invasion OF Napoleon.
The largest orchard in the State
~ kansa. Is that belonging to Judge
wellhou.e. II is located near Ire
mont, and comprises 1918 acres.
Mr. Dias. the wife Of the President,
is arranging a collection OF the literary
WORKS of Mexican women for exhibi-
tion q, the Worlds Fair ut Chicago.
The smallest inhabited island in
the world il that upon which the
hidvsIono lighthouse stands. At
time oi low water II il only 30 feet in
diameter
u hardly seems possible, yet
figures arc said To prove that the en-
tire population oi this earth could
hnd standing room on n field ten
uiifs square
The c,ar 81 Russih is the largest
ind yldual Landowner in the world
Tho arfa ui his possessions is far