Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-06-15
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Seals cannot live in fresh water.
Spain has the Oldest lighthouse.
Havre has the largest lighthouse.
The eyes OF birds are microscopic.
Air is poor thing to raise the wind
on.
May is often called the virgins
month.
Failure has more prophets than
success.
The Chinese encyclopedia has 5000
volumes.
There is but one letter in egotism' g
alphabet.
New Zealand cats are used to de-
stroy rabbits.
Most of us have had occasion to
envy the deal.
A slip on marble steps has broken
many neck.
Tame turkeys can be trained 10
hunt wild enes.
In 1925 the site of the city OF Bost ton
Mass, sold for $3.50.
The big Washington monument
sways with the wind.
Easter will not again come in
March during this century.
In the aggregate petty crimes work
more evil than great ones.
About so gamblers commit suicide
at Monte Carlo every year.
The value OF a kindness does not
always depend upon its size.
Among flowers chrisanthemums live
the longest after being cut.
Ninety-seven out of every 100 Arctic
explorers have returned alive.
The only use of a birds tail is TO
serve as rudder during flight.
Is's mighty weak principle that
won't survive thousand apostates.
The population of the United States
doubles in period of about 81 years.
The flattening of the poles of Jupi-
ter can be seen through the telescope.
The King of Dahomey was educated
in France and speaks French fluently.
You can't fill a balloon OF any kind
with anything that will keep it up
long.
There are $4,000 species Of fishes,
one-tenth of which inhabit fresh
water.
Buffalo is the only city in the Unit
ed States that has furnished two Pres
idents.
Germany's proportion OF suicides is
larger than that of any other Euro
pean country.
In Corea umbrellas are OF oiled
paper, have no handles, and are simply
worn over the hat.
Many man has been weather.
fooled into exchanging his heavy fam
nels for shroud.
In the days Of Columbus only seven
metals were known to exist. Now
there are fifty-one.
Coal is dearer in South Africa than
in any other part of the world; il is
cheapest in China.
The value of real estate in London
is estimated at $4OOO,OOO,O0O that ol
Paris 81, SOC. 100000.
The United States has a lower per
centage of blind people than any other
country in the world.
The country is now struggling with
an oversupply of nearly every form oI
labor except farm labor.
OF people aged 30 2 per cent. are al.
ways sick; of those aged Is 10 per
cent. are always in bed.
There are, only 13 recorded cases in
the annals of surgery Of successful am.
putation OF the hip joint.
st. Louis is leading shoe manu-
featuring point, having thirty factories
making 100000 year.
Juneau, the largest town in Alaska
has two newspapers, an opera house, {
brewery and news company.
Nashville, Tenn. is the rock city
Fine building stone is very plentiful
and generally used in building.
The four equal arms of the Greel
cross symbolic the gospel preached ir
the four quarters OF the world.
I. Forest fires are raging in Ell
county, Pennsylvania, and q numbe
of oil rigs have been destroyed.
Nashville is the first city in the
world for hard wood lumber, and tn
largest milling city in the south.
Before big guns were fred on mod
ern battle.ships every man ON boar
has his ears stuffed with cotton balls.
Georgia sends out every year abou
100000 bales of cotton, and cut
every year 200, 100000 feet of lumber.
| The most costly medicine in tn
world is metallic gallium, which sell
at price equal to 100000 per pound
| sta.isticians estimate that fou
billion persons have perished in wa
since the beginning OF the Christian
era.
A sea gull has been domesticated b.
Frank Russell, of Sheboygan, Mich
1t has just Matched brood Of chick
ems.
The first cattle brought into tn
American colonies were landed q
jamestown, Va, in the summer {
1907.
Prior to 1875 all armored vessel