Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-04-28
BITS OF INFORMATION.
The Buddhists have thirty-two LeI

The Buddhists have thirty-two hells.
Only once does the word reverend"
occurs in the Bible.
\ girl five feet in height should
weigh about 100 pounds.
During the Crimean war OF lS54-55,
$1,000 men were slain.
Philadelphia began the century
with population of A. 800.
There are G.OOO lighthouses in the
world, S02 OF them in America.
New York is the only State that
allows an uncle to marry niece.
Three thousand marriages are per.
formed every day all over the world:
Four billions and half of people
die in the entire world every century.
A ton of sea water is supposed to
contain about fourteen grains Of gold.
The modern system of fortification
was adopted about the year 1900.
The bayonet is so called because it
was first used, it is said, near Bayonne.
The cost OF the capitol at Washing
ton has exceeded thirty million dollars.
Every year the population of the
United States is increased by 1,OOO,-
600.
The largest theater is the Paris
Opera House, which occupies nearly
three acres.
Some stretches of track in Mexico
are higher than any railroad in the
United States.
Some statistician has found out that
all the world over there are SO women
to 100 men.
Texas has fifty.seven counties, each
of which is larger than the State of
Rhode Island.
The pneumatic torpedo-throwing
guns make the Gibraltars OF the world
safer possession.
Since the organization of the Gov
ernment there have been eleven
special sessions OF Congress.
The excavated temples near Bonn.
bay. i'll India, would require the labor
OF 10000 men for forty years to COM
plete.
1t is said that the Turks were the
first people to bury the dead in ceme-
teries adorned with ornamental head
stones.
The fire in Chicago on October s,
1871, destroyed 17,43O buildings and
25O lives were lost. The loss was
1892 100000.
The United States now produces the
best armor plate in the world, and it
looks as if would soon have the best
cannon also.
There is said to be only one hotel
in this country, and that one in Phila-
delphia, which has a library for the
use OF its guests.
The first silver coin of the United
States was 5-cent piece, authorized
by Act OF Congress April 2, 1892, and
issued in the same year.
The Savannah was the first steamer
that crossed the Atlantic, making the
trip in 1919, from Savannah to Liver
pool, in twenty.six days.
A newspaper may be sent from any
part of the United States to Stanley
Falls, in Africa, 1000 miles beyond
Stanley Pool, for 4 cents.
There are between seventy.five and
eighty thousand negroes living in the
National Capital at Washington, and
their wealth is now very large.
South America will always beat the
rest OF the world in elevated railroads.
The South Peruvian line from Mol
lendo to Lake Titicaca attains o height
OF II, GAL feet.
During the reign of Elizabeth, Eng
lish dudes wore shoes three feet in
length, the toe pointed and fastened
up to the garter with golden chains,
to which little bell. were attached.
The pins that the Salem witches
used to stick into their victims. and
the seal with which their death war
rants were stamped, are preserved in
one of the public offices of the old
city.
The total population OF Europe is
36O, 200, 900; of these, taking the pro-
portions OF the sexes in the principal
countries as guide, about 167 ,4O0, 600
are males, and 192, GOO, 900 are females.
The greatest number of people ever
killed by an earthquake since the
dawn of history was 10000. The
date of the terrible disaster was 1903,
and the scene OF the most violent dis
turbance at Yeddo, Japan, and vi
cinity.
An omnibus has been started in
Glasgow with pneumatic tires, which
are protected from injury by sharp
stones or glass by canvas or wove
netting. 1t has proved a success.
There is no jolting and jarring, and
the noise is reduced to minimum.
AFTER suffering horribly for years
from scrofula in its worst form, a