Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-06-29

Newport, r. l., has a 17-pound
lobster.
Tennessee manufactures flour for
export.
There we're 23,S7O patents issued
last year.
The electric bicycle finds favor in
England.
Chinese coolies are invited to Brit
ish Guinea.
The trolley street sprinkler is used
in Louisville.
A silver coin is usually in currency
for q years.
There are 14,O56,75O horses in the
United States.
Electric pianos make good music all
by themselves.
One Boston pie factory turns out
10000 pies day.
Siberia has 100000 square miles
OF good farm land.
1t takes gallon OF milk to pro-
duce a pound of cheese.
Pine timber is thinning out rapidly
in the Michigan forests.
England needs more sailors, Amer
ica needs more shipping.
Mortar made of pulverized bricks
and lime is gaining favor.
A gold coin depreciates 5 per cent.
in value in sixteen years OF constant
use.
Fully one-third of the female popu-
lation of France are laborers on
farms.
Great Britain's manufactured pro-
duct amounts to about $4,1OO,OOO,OOO
a year.
1t is said that there are $50 patent
medicine factories in South Bend,
Indiana.
London has 200 female compositors,
and the number in England is in
creasing.
The house property in London
is annually increased by the sum OF
E11O,OOO.OOO.
Great Britain manufactures every
year $3.50 @ y 600 Of iron and $780,
100000 of steel.
The gross Indebtedness, stock and
bonds of the United States is in excess
Of $40 OOO,OOO,OOO.
Next to Niagara the largest water
power plant in this country is in Or
egon City, Oregon.
True friends Of temperance will be
sorry to learn that whisky can be made
of grass and wine OF potatoes.
Liverpool's electric elevated road is
six miles long. The fare is cents
third class and 6 cents first class.
An ordinary locomotive has 800
horse power and burns ton of coke
every 80 miles of passenger travel.
The shipping interest in this coun-
try, so far as tonnage is concerned, is
less than it was eighty-three years ago.
The telephone, which is not quite
twenty years old, is now in common
use in all civilized countries on the
globe.
There are more miles OF railroad
track in the United States than in all
the other countries OF the world COM
bined.
A Chicago wine company has
bought 12,94S acres Of land in Howell
county, twelve miles south OF West
Plains.
The railroads OF the United States
carry in year 6OO 100000 passengers
and transport sO0,OO0,OOO tons of
freight.
The amount OF money tied up in
gold plate in the houses and safes of
wealthy New Workers is not less than
$3,OOO,OOO.
The Suez canal is only lightweight
miles long, but it reduced the distance
from England to India, by sea, nearly
1000 miles.
The first furrow plowed by electric
plows in America was on March 80,
1892, at the Kansas Sorghum Ex-
pertinent Station.
The first steel needles made in
Europe were manufactured about the
year 1907. They were as large as the
modern darning needles.
The highest recorded price ever
paid for horse is $1O5,OOO for q COW
$4,000, for a ram 5000, for dog
81 600, and for chicken $15O.
The physicians of the United States
now number 1l8,453. New York
leads with 1l,l71; Pennsylvania has
9,2l0, and Illinois ranks third with g.
OO2.
The United States manufactures
more iron, steel, lead and copper than
any other country on the globe, Great
Britain being a little ahead on zinc
and tin.
Most of the Belgian blocks used for
paving in this country east of the
Alleghanies came from Stone Noun
tain, a solid granite elevation in
Georgia.
The annual coal product of Illinois
is valued at SIG, 10000. Nearly 34,-
600 men and boys are employed in the
mines and 300, 900 kegs OF powder are
used annually.
1t ia predicted by Edison that in q
few years the forge and anvil of the