Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-01-06
Matters of Interest.

! In Lapland dress fashions have no
changed for 1000 years.
) A clock owned by resident o
, Trappe, Penn, has licked since 17G6.
Several Cinnamon have proved
themselves successful farmers in Mon.
tana
Henry Watterson says there are 10O
; applicants for each federal Office in
Kentucky.
Married couples in Norway are priv
ileged to ride ON railroads at fare
, and half.
There are full grown sheep in Bret
on, France, that are only about the
size OF rabbits.
The discovery has been made that
India rubber trees grow wild in Lee
county, Florida.
At Tinton, Iowa, the city officials
are burning all houses where diph-
liberia patients died.
For over 900 years Nuremberg, Ba-
varia, has made most of the toys used
throughout the world.
Foreign stockholders have sent an
agent to America to try to secure con-
troll of the Union Pacific.
An incorrodible metal, which is
likewise very hard, is made by ANAL
gamating nickel with steel.
The Queen OF Siam has the smallest
feet yet seen on a titled woman. She
wears one and half in boots.
For the fun OF chasing Cara, the
Mexican border bandit, the United
States government has thus far paid
100000.
The Marine City, Mich, Magnet tells
of mushroom found in that town
that filled bushel basket and weighed
l44 pounds.
The extremes of temperature in the
Sahara are such that, while the day
may be oppressively hot, at night it
is freezing cold.
The recent advance in stocks has
made the Gould properties worth about
$15, 100000 more than ON the day OF
Jay Gould's'death.
The first official test OF the new
street railway mail car was recently
made in st. Louis. 1t proved a great
success in every way.
The packing in Chicago since the
opening of the winter season is 632, ;
600 hogs, or so per cent. less than at
the same time last year.
The latest "true story" is that a
bolt of lightning drew all the nails
from mans shoes in a Connecticut
town without injuring him.
The largest barometer yet made has
has been put in working order at the
St. Jacques tower in Paris. 1t is
forty-one feet five inches high.
A minister at Hammond, Ind, lately
officiated at a wedding, and received
fifty cents from the groom, for which
he was compelled to give a receipt.
Nine hundred thousand dollars is
the subsidy which British shipowners
ask for establishing a new transatlan-
tic line between Canada and England.
The drummer in Servian regiments
never carries the drum. 1t is placed
on two-wheeled cart, which is drawn
by big dog just in advance OF the
drummer.
Elmer Perrin, of Long Branch, N.
j., is reported to have vomited eight
green peppers, each an inch and half
long, that had grown from seed in his
stomach.
Boomers are already assembling on
the southern border of Kansas in an
ticipation of the opening to settlement
of 100000 acres OF land in the Cher.
okee strip.
The Lord Mayor of London's badge
of office contains diamonds to the
value of $4,000, and the temporary
owner has to give bond for it before
he is sworn in.
The first ship canal on the line of
the present Suez canal was projected
by Necho, an Egyptian king, about
600 B. C. The two seas were actually
united 270 BIC.
All the ladies who, less than year
ago, formed a cooking club at Wash.
ington City have since that time cap
tured husbands and the cooking club
has " gone to pot"
The life of locomotive crank pin,
which is almost the first thing about
an engine to wear out, is 10000 miles,
and the life of a thirty-three-inch
wheel is 66,733 miles.
The largest typographical map OF
New York State is under construction
at Wards natural science museum in
Rochester, N. Y. The map will be
forty feet long and thirty feet wide
when finished.
A magnet at Willett's point, Long
Island, is considered the largest and
strongest in the world. 1t is made OF
two tifteen-inch Dahlgren guns, wound
around with eight miles of cable
charged with electricity.
A special railroad carriage has been
constructed at Malines for the use OF
the King of Portugal. 1t is made OF
rare wood and has a newly invented
mechanism, by means of which all os.
cillation is avoided.
No death has occurred in the family
OF Rev. Samuel Wakefield OF Latrobe
Penn, in sixty-one years. He is in
his ninety-fourth year; his wife is a