Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-04-28
MATTERS OF FACT.

New Orleans reports an anti-treat
club.
A London clock dial is 90 feet in di-
ameter.
No Water, the famous Sioux chief,
is dead.
There are 1900 electric plants in
Germany.
A Chicagoan suggests a 50 story
building.
Leather comprises 4S,O9G American
firms.
Hawaii has $4,000, 900 of American
money.
Electric roads have displaced 80 900
horses.
We sent England 100000 letters
last year.
Swedes are cultivating 10000 Flor
ida acres.
Jarrah is the most nearly indestruc-
ticle wood.
Pepper production averages 23,COO
tons q year.
At Calgary, Manitoba, beer costs 81
cents glass.
Three expeditions will put out for
the North Pole this season.
There are estimated to be 81 500
street cars in use in this country.
A patent has been granted for a de-
vice for tapering fingers and reducing
joints.
The census of 1890 gives to the
United States 32,O67 $50 men and 30
554 $40 women.
1t is said that there are over 10000
applicants for postmasterships in the
State of Georgia.
Berlin has the widest train roof on
the continent, that at Anhalt station,
which is 1913 feet 4 inches.
According to the treasury computa-
ton the presidential salary of $4,000
a year is at the rate OF $l3S.SS a day.
The Florida coast has a floating ho-
tel which moves from place to place,
where the fishing happens to be best.
The banana seeds only in small
spot on earth, the Adaman islands.
Everywhere else it must be raised from
suckers.
Chairman T. H. Carter has issued
a call for a meeting of the Republican
National Committee at Louisville, KY,
on May 10.
AL parts OF Kansas are complaining
of want of rain, imperiling the wheat
crop. Later reports are received of
damage by frosts.
The complete statistics show that
the production of beet-sugar in the
United States has more than doubled
during the past year.
A poor but virtuous young woman
in Boston rents her five-year. old
daughter out at 50 day to amuse
wealthy but childless people.
1t is estimated that since Mr.. Nor.
ton started the Arbor day movement
400, ,OW, 900 trees have been planted in
the northwest alone.
Five thousand coal miners in the
Borinage district, Belgium, have re-
volted upon a general strike, partly
for higher wages and partly for uni
versal suffrage.
Rev. Robert G. S. McNeille, who
undertook to preach to his flock in q
Congregational Church at Bridgeport,
Conn.,, wearing a dress suit, is out Of
job.
The New York assembly passed IS
to %, the bill abolishing capital pun
ishment, TO take effect, should it be-
come a law, on September LIST, too late
to save Carlyle Harris.
The Democrats Of Palmyra, New
York, have nominated Samuel w.
Sawyer for President of the village,
and the Republicans have nominated
his son, S. Nelson Sawyer, for the
same office.
DR.. Hofikine has written from India
to the Russian papers that he has
conquered cholera by his inoculation
method. He says he has inoculated
hundreds of persons with good results
and promises to give his method to
the world on his return from India.
The famine in the European part of
the Government of Perm in Russia is
worse than ever before. The poor are
dying by hundreds, and in the smaller
villages the people have ceased trying
to bury all the bodies. The relatives
OF the dead are often too weak to pro-
vide burial for them and leave the
bodies on the roofs OF houses.
How Criminals are Made,