Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-11-30

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part of the general conspiracy to
frighten them into voting for higher
tariff duties"
BUSINESS AND INDUSTRIAL.
London has S03 postoffices.
This country has S42 colored law
yers.
London consumes as much fish as
meat.
A great auk's egg recently sold for
81. 800.
There are over 5000 miles OF canals
in France.
Australian horses prefer cowhide to
iron shoes.
There are 200 building associations
in Baltimore.
London uses 2OO,OOO,OOO gallons OF
water per day.
Comfortable dresses are now made
of wooden fibre.
Montreal has established an electric
railway system.
Course wrapping paper is made OF
suntlower stalks.
The glass industry is growing very
rapidly in Russia.
A solid foot of water weighs sixty-two
and half pounds.
In Rome family people never bake
bread; they buy it.
The big ocean steamships consume
335 tons OF coal per day.
1t requires about pound of wool
to make yard of cloth.
New York has 10000 BARRIERS, who
shave 100000 people week.
Street railway cars in Paris are to
be propelled by compressed air.
The missionaries were first to make
the Coreans acquainted with soap.
A beet-sugar plant to cost 100000
is soon to be erected at Elroy, Wis.
France has over 10000 houses to
provide homes for her 3S,2lS,OOO peo.
pie.
There are between 300 and 400 edu.
Gated female pharmacists in the, United
States.
Over 100000 is invested by South
ern electric railway and light COM
panies.
Elephants skins are tanned to make
carpets. They never wear out. but
are expensive.
Iceland manages to do all her news
paper and job work with only five
printing presses.
The total amount OF deposits in the
savings banks of the country in 1898
was 81, ,7S5, ,l50,795.
A gas we'll recently drilled north OF
Muncie, Ind, is yielding over 7O0O,-
600 cubic feet day.
Irrigation by wells and windmills is
said to have been demon strated to be
practical in Kansas.
The traffic between Great Britain
and her colonies amounts to over
$500, ,0OO. 600 per annum.
In Athens, 400 years before Christ,
pair OF peacocks was valued at 1000
drachmae. or about $3.50.
John Jacob Astor will erect an $S,.
100000 hotel in New York. 1t will
be the finest in the world.
A German firm is manufacturing
photographic clocks which talk the
hour instead of striking it.
Uncle Sans army cannon foundries
have turned out twenty-eight big guns
for coast defence this year.
Sioux Indians OF South Dakota sell
more than 500, 900 worth OF grain to
the government every year.
The Argentine Republic is becom
ing a great shoe exporting country
One city there has forty-three factories
More than half the worlds supply
of tin is mined in the Straits Settle.
ment. at the tip of the Malay PENN.
sula.
Three-tenths OF the earnings OF a
Belgian convict are given to him on
the expiration of his term of punish
ment.
Every workman in Japan wears on
his cap and on his back an inscription
giving his business and his employers
name.
The capital invested in the lumber
industry in 1890 was $Gl5,0OO,OOC
with an annual product of more thar
$5S7 100000.
There are enormous profits on type
writing machines. 1t costs about ST.
TO manufacture most machines thai
sell for 500.
The power of Niagara Falls, carried
to Buffalo by electricity, is expected Il
do wonders in developing manufactur
ing industries.
Washington has prohibited tn
erection of buildings over ITO fee
high on business streets or over 9
feet high on other streets.
i Four cotton mills, having an aggre
gate capital of $52S, 600, are being sue
cessfully conducted at Charlotte, \
c., on co operative system.
u Up to 1873, when silver was d,