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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-06-01
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.


Last year 200 persons were lynched
in this country.
1t takes 700 insects to make one
pound OF cochineal.
The population of the earth doubles
itself every 20O years.
Spain is investigating the cholera
outbreak in Portugal.
There are $4,000 suffering children
in the schools of Germany.
The people OF Tyre were the most
expert dyers Of ancient times.
In a we'll stocked hive there are from
1900 to 10000 working bees.
There are JAP tunnels in the world,
with a total length Of Ola miles.
An Easton, Pa, girl drops asleep
whenever she gets in the bright sun
light.
The United Presbyterian church of
Scotland has membership of 1873 ,664.
The coal production Of 1892 in the
United States was valued at POT $780,
coo.
In 1873 s 1-2 pounds of cotton would
buy an ounce of silver. In 1880 it
took IL IL pounds.
The greatest length of the desert of
Sahara is 3,100 miles. The creates:
width is GOO miles.
The titel and position of cardinal is
the highest dignity in the Roman
Catholic church next to pope.
1t has been calculated that there are
at least 10000 proverbs circulating
among European nations alone.
Members of the French diplomatic
and consular service cannot marry
without the permission Of the govern
ment.
The United States has 1864 GAL
separate farms, averaging 137 acres
each. Almost half the farms are said
to be mortgaged.
About the thinnest thing in the
world is the film of a soap bubble OF
which it would take 5O,OOO,O0O to
N, aouyo an inch
Some species of fungi have neither
roots, stem, leaves, flowers nor seed,
and derive their nourishment through
pores.
The Americans are generally agreed
TO have surpassed all other nations in
the invention of rspid-fre guns.
DR.. Emily A. Bruce declares that
more women die because OF faulty dress
than from all the contagious diseases
combined.
It is said that Samuel Hutchinson
Of Prescott. WASH, is the tallest man
on the Pacific slope. He is seven feet
IL inches high.
The rice-psper tree. e native of China
now fourishes in Florida, where it wa.
introduced as an experiment some
years ago.
There are insects which pass severa
years in preparatory states Of existence
and, finally, when perfect live but {
few hours.
This being the jubiles OF Genera
Booths Christian life, an effort is be-
ing made to raise q special fund o
$3.50 600 for the Salvation Army.
The oldest architectural ruins il
the world are believed TO be the rocl
cut temples OF Ipsambul, on the LEI
bank of the Nile, in Nubia.
By the device of an italian seia
mologist, an earthquake shock is mad
to light An electric lamp for q quartz
of q second, causing the face of
chronometer TO be photographed, an,
thus registered the precise time.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-06-01

A lady went to get . check cashed
at bank where che was entirely un.
known.
at will be impossible for me to
give you the money, madam" said the
teller politely, "unless you can
identify yourself some way"
"But I am Miss c." said the
lady.
Certainly, but it will be necessary
for some one whom we know to give
you an introduction to u.s."
"But, sir" she said in what hal
been called "a tone OF spurn," ~ dc
not wish to know you!"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-06-01
Facts About a watch.
New Moon.

The watch carried by the average
man is composed of 9S pieces, and its
manufacture embraces more than
1000 distinct and separate operations.
Some of the smaller screws are so
minute that the unaided eye cannot
distinguish them from steel filings or
specks OF dirt.
Under powerful magnif, ing glass
perfect screw is revealed. The slit
in the head is 2-10OOths of an inch
wide. 1t takes 3OS 900 Of these screws
to weigh a pound, and a pound is
worth $1,5s5.
The hairspring is q strip of the fin
est steel, about 9 IL inches long,
l-1OOth OF an inch wide and 27-10,-
O0Oths of an inch thick. 1t is coiled
up in spiral form aud highly tempered.
The process of tempering these
springs was long held as secret by
the few fortunate ones possessing it.,
and even now is not generally known.
Their manufacture requires great
skill and care. The strip is gauged to
2O-1 ,0O0ths of an inch, but no measur-
ing instrument has as yet been devised
capable of fine enough gauging to de-
termine beforehand by the size of the
strip what the strength OF the finished
spring will be. A 20-1s 9th part OF
an inch difference in the thickness of
the stop makes a difference in the run
ming Of the watch of about six minutes
an hour.
The value of these springs, when fin
ished and placed in watches, is enor.
nous in proportion to tho material
from which they are made. A com.
parison will give a good idea.
A ton OF steel made up into hair.
springs when in watches is worth
more than twelve and a half times the
| value of the same weight in pure gold
Hairspring wires weigh one-twenti-
eth Of grain to an inch. One mile o.
wire weighs less than half pound.
The balance gives five vibration,
every second, $50 every minute, 1S,OO(
every hour, 432 900 every day and 157,
6SO,OOO every year.
At each vibration it revolves abou
one and one-fourth times, which MAKE
1877 100000 revolutions every year.
In order that we may better under
stand the stupendous amount OF labo
performed by these tiny works, let III
make pertinent comparison.
Take, for illustration, a locomotive
with six.foot driving wheels. Let it
wheels be run until they have giveI
the same number OF revolutions that
watch does in one year, and they vii
have covered distance equal +
twenty-eight complete circuits Of tn
earth.
All this watch does without othe
attention than winding once twenty
flour hours.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-06-01

1
weigh about the fifteen-trillionth part
OF a grain, and in size they are so
small that 100000 of them could
swim abreast through the eye of a
cambria needle, and it would take
about 14O,750OCo,OOO to make one
quart. II the same magnifying power
that it takes to render single bacil-
lus visible to the eye was applied to a
man he would appear to be from three
to four miles in height, and, standing
at the base, could eat snow from the
top of Pixies Peak or ladle lava from
the crater Of Vesuvius.
"But for the practical purpose of
successful investigation we must use q
much higher magnifyiug power than
what will only make the bacilli visible
to the eye. With this instrument a
single bacillus is magnified until it ap-
pears to be about one-half an inch in
diameter. An ordinary-sized human
being magnified in like ratio would
appear to be twenty-five miles in
height. If he used Cape May for a
pillow he could at the same time rest
his feet on Cape Henlopen lighthouse.
"One remarkable feature pertaining
to the life and character of the bacilli
is their enormous reproductive power.
Under conditions where proper heat,
moisture and an adequate supply OF
food is furnished q single bacillus will,
in one hour, divide itself into two sep
arate and distinct germs. These two
bacilli will, in two hours, divide into
four, and in three hours there will be
eight OF them, and after twenty-four
hours the number will exceed 16, 6,50O,-
600. At the end of two days there
will be 21S 500, 600, ,OC0, and at the end
of three days $1,000. 600, 600, 900, which |
equals the enormous reproduction Of
1856, ,1S4 ,799 new and distinct microbes
every single second OF the entire three
days. At the end OF the week the en-
tire number could be expressed by fig
ures of 81 places, and is absolutely in
comprehensive to our minds.
"They are everywhere, and there is
no getting rid of them. We breathe
them both while asleep and awake, and
eat millions of them every day in our
food, and the only reason We do not
die at once is that the fluids in a
healthy person destroy the germs al
most as fast as they are produced. 1t
is usually only when the system gets
out of order that we run the risk of
being injured by these, the smallest
enemies Of mankind. There are but
two known ways Of effectually destroy
ing bacteria-the one is by the appli-
cation Of heat and the other by the
use of che emicals. Cold has no appar-
ent influence on any of the species OF
bacilli except that variety producing
yellow fever. To destroy those germs
it has been proposed to build an enor-
nous refrigerating plant into which
ships can be run for disinfecting by
cold, but such scheme is believed to
be impracticable. AN the other varie-
ties of disease breeding germs must be
killed by means of heat"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-06-01

THE Farmers Alliance & Industrial
Union is preparing to build fiourin 8
mill at some point in the Palouse
country, having daily capacity of 15O
barrels. The location is not yet de-
cided upon, but it will be either Gar,
field, Pullman or Oakesdsle. They
have a proposition from Minneap-
oils firm to put in the machinery, the
alliance to furnish the building fol
$4,000 in three equal annual pay
ments. 1t is hoped to procure bonus
from one of the three towns mention
ed to assist in making the first pay
ment.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-06-01
KEEP WITHIN YOUR INCOME.
Coils p. HuntingtOn's Recipe for
Getting Rich-Ssme Instances of
Close Economy.

Getting Rich-Ssme Instances of
Close Economy.
According to Coils P. Cunnington
of the Southern Pacific railroad all an
ambitious young man has to do in order
to own railroad-in time-is to spend
less than he makes. Mr.. Huntington
is a firm believer in the truth OF
Micawber's statement: Income f100,
expenditure e99 19s Cd, result hap
piness income f100, expenditure f1OO
Os cd, result misery. The railroad
magnate in chatting with California
acquaintance the other day said !:
"When / was a lad I worked for q
very small salary, but I always had q
dollar and always have had. have
been in business for myself for SO years
and have never used tobacco in my
life. Neither do 1 touch intoxicants.
My sole recreation is reading, as it al
ways has been. I read Herodotus in
my fifteenth year and am reading
history still. l have two sons in New
York and each owns his own home
one costing 5000 and the other 49,.
500. At one time, when the elder OF
the two boys was getting $75 month,
1 got him to buy place worth $1,000
for which 1 paid cash. The young man
paid me $45 a month out of his salary
and lived on the balance-quite enough
for any young man. He has paid me
back long ago, but of course his salary
has been increased somewhat since he
assumed the debt. The other son did
the same. have no use for fellows
who don't work and live within their
means. All I need is what eat and
wear; apart from that 500 a year is
enough for me. All the members OF
my family spend money-they do as
they like-but don't.
GA friend whom 1 had known for
years came to NEWELL call him
George Weston-and said he was out
of work and money. He had for years
been getting $3.50 month salary, and
in view of that fact l told him / did
not think wanted his sort. He beg
ged hard, however, and J gave him a
position worth $l25 q month provided
he would do as my son had done-buy
. SIS 900 house, for which I would pay
he to liquidate his indebtedness SIS
month. He agreed, but shortly came
to me saying he could not live on wha'
was LETT. I gave him his choice o.
losing his position or doing as I sug
gested, and he stuck to it, the result
haino that he nwns his own hnnsn
He and his wife had to live close, but
they have their reward now, and both
OF them have thanked me since. I'm
willing to do the same thing by every
body in my employ, but I've no u.s.
for the man who lives up to his income
One day he'll get sick, and I'll eithe
have 10 turn him out or pay his bills
1 won't do either, so I prefer to dea
with men who won't put me into sucl
l q hole"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-06-01
MaN9En representative for our
NAM lEOl Family Treasury, the great

MaNTen A representative for our
U0U 6OS Family Treasury, the great
est book ever offered to the public.
A Christmas Present for both old and
Our coupon system, which We use in
selling this great work, enables each pur'
chaser to get the took FREE, SO every
one purchases.
For his first weeks work one agents
profit is $l68.OO. Another $l36. A lady
has just cleared Sl20 for her first week e
work.
Write for particulars. aud il you can be-
gin at once send 81 90 for outfit. We give
you exclusive territory, and pay large
commissions on the sales OF sub-agents,
Write at once for the agency for your
county.
Address all communications to
RAND, AIcNALLY 4 co.,
Chicago.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-06-01
The Wabkiakum papers want tn,

The Wahkiakum papers want the
southern part of Pacific county added
to Wahkiakum, and now tho Willipa
Pilot favors the annexation OF the
North river valley to Pacific county.
As the tendency nowadays seems to
be for everybody to want something
they haven't got, if there is any one
who has not yet spoken now is the op-
portunity.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-06-01

THE meeting OF the Wheat-Raisers'
Association, at Walla Walla Saturday,
was anything but harmonious, and
broke up in q row. 1t was called for
the purpose of taking steps to bring
about a reduction in freight rates,
The trouble arose over the proposition
to employ lawyer. All favored this,
but they would not agree upon the
lawyer to be engaged. The w sitsburg
shippers will meet tonight to consider
the advissbility OF engaging an attorney
to bring case in court testing the
existing law.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-06-01
Beginning Of the Associated Press.

Beginning Of the Assoc1ateo Press.
The associated press is the pioneer
of all the great news-gathering systems
of the world and is originated in the
usual small way. A set of pigeon
boxes, now old and dismantled, situated
at the foot of Fulton street, on the
East river, yet exists in evidence of
the first attempt by newspaper
proprietors to band together for the
purpose OF increasing the facilities for
getting news. Another pigeon.cote at
Navesink Highlands, still standing and
situated close to where the Western
Union telegraph company's observa-
ton tower now stands, marks the spot
from which the pigeons were dispatch
ed to the Fulton street boxes with news
of the shipping that was going into
harbor. This was the beginning OF
what was destined to lead finally to
q mighty system which now covers the
whole globe.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-06-01
Can You Pronounce Thesep

At q young folks party the other
evening it was proposed to have q pro-
nouncing test. The following SEN
tences were written on q blackboard
and each member asked to read il
aloud, one person acting as judge and
writing down each persons errors in
pronunciation. 1t was funny to see
how many even the best informed per-
sons made. Try it with a dictionary
beside you.
GA sacriles GUS son OF Belial, who
has suffered from Bronchitis, having
exhausted his finances, in order To
make good the deficit resolved to ally
himself to q comely, lenient aud do.
cile young lady Of the Malay OF
Caucasian race. He accordingly pur-
chased q calliope and coral necklace
OF . chameleon hue, and in securing q
suite OF rooms at q principal hotel he
engaged the head waiter ~ his coad-
jutor.
"He then dispatched a letter of the
most exceptional caligraphy extant
inviting the young lady to matinee
She revUlted at the idea, refused to
consider herself sacrificeable to his de-
sires, and sent polite note of refusal
on receiving which he procured 9
carbine and Bowie knife, said that he
would not now forge letters hymeneal
with the queen, went TO an isolated
spot, severed his jugular vein and dis
charged the contents of the carbint
into his abdomen. The debris was re
moved by the coroner"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-06-01

Assessor Coleman, OF Franklin
county, tells the Pasco News that he is
reducing assessments from so to rs
per cent. below last years's valuations.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-06-01

DIRECTORS.
F. r. Brown. Louis Bettman, Robt. Frost,
n. Ii. Owings, o. e. White, Geo. A. Barnes,
c. J. Lord.
T3ansacts q general banking business. For
gn and domestic exchange bought and sold.
relegiaphic transfers made on all principal cit
les. Collections . speciality.
Olympia Jan |, 1894.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-06-01
o. s. 3. HENRY,
q s. DEPUTY SURVEYOR

essidsncs, Sixth Street, swans Add.
tion to Olympia, Wash.
OURVEYING Of all kinds promptly at
- tended to. The re-establishing OF old
Government lines speciality. Townsites
surveyed and plated. Railroads located,
and levels run for drains. Lands exam
ined and character reported.
OLYMPIA, April le. 1894.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-06-01
9usiness Gards.

Capital National Bank,
OF OLYMPIA, WASH.
Capital, 100000.
Surplus. S45, 900.
ytcsiutut .........-.... y. D. LOnD
Vice President ...............N. H. OWINGS
Cashier r..................... .... W. J. FOSTER
Arizona republican., 1894-10-13
ARIZONA SOLDIERS.
Report of Adjutant General
Schwartz.
a Novel but Wise Recomme
for Increasing the Usefulness
of the National Guard.

Adiutant General Schwartz has COM
pleted the preparation OF his annual re-
port to The adjutant genera! U. s. A..
Besides deliberately detailed information
concerning the condition of the Arizana
National Guard, the report contains
many valuable suggestions for increas-
ing the efficiency of the guard.
He recommends an increase of the
a restoration of the former appropria-
tion OF 81 900 which has been reduced
to $1,000 The report calls attention
to the fact that practically no terrific
rial provision is made for the support of
the guard which has now a member
ship of 100 more than before the gov
eminent appropriation was reduced.
The adjutant general desires to i'm
prove the guard SO that the regiment
will consist Oh twelve companies, that
ak troops Of cavalry and two batteries
Of light artillery be added to the SER
vice and thai the guard be annually
inspected by an officer of the United
States army detailed for this work.
Attention is also called to the anoma-
lous circumstance OF milf airy code
effect. An illustration is offered in the
late strike troubles in Arizona during
which it was possible that the guard
would be called out without any pro-
vision ior the payment of military ex-
penses while in the field or without
even the means of transporting the
troops to the scene of operations
and here is offered a suggestion which
will perhaps be new to the department
but can hardly fail of a favorable recep-
ton even though it be not favorably
acted upon.
1t is that the guard be improved as
previously recommended, and that in
case of disorders calling the regular
troops into the field within or without
the territory, that it be employed to
garrison the posts temporarily vacated
by the regular soldiery. By this means
the whole force at the posts may be
rendered effective. The adoption of
this recommendation would remove one
objection frequently urged against the
National guard in the event of strikes
or other internal troubles. That is that
the guardsmen would be unwilling to
take up arms against persons with
whom they might sympathize. Under
the pronosad arrangement thew would
not be required to do so. The unsym-
pathetic regular soldiers would do the
fighting and the militia would only
have to make it possible for them to do
SO by taking their places at the posts.
Thus such disgraceful conduct as that
of California company at Sacramento
last uiy woulc De averted.
Arizona republican., 1894-10-13
COUNCIL MEETING.
An Adjourned Session Still Further
Adjourned.

An Adjourned Session Still Further
Adjourned.
A special meeting of the city council
was held last night. Its object was to
consider an omnibus ordinance relating
to the streets. 1t will regulate the
rights of merchants and pedestrians in
the matter of displays of merchandise,
signs and sign posts.
The present city ordinances are de-
fective in many respects. and there ap-
pears to be no way of reaching many
violations of what seem to be city laws.
The new ordinance is very comprehen-
sive and covers every possible con-
tingency.
On account of the illness of City
Attorney Israel the ordinance was not
brought up and it's consideration was
set for next Monday night. The coun-
Gil passed upon a half dozen bills
which had escaped the regularsmeeting,
and adjourned.
Something happened that never hap.
pened before. That alert sidewalk con-
tractor, R. G. Lowell, got left, was
caught mapping. Mr.. Lowell was there
and had with him d sidewalk PROPOSE
lion. He shared the delusion of all the
spectators that the council was not in
session but was awaiting the arrival of
tho o4sy ..Uv..oy. Tnv conversation
going on about the council table was
supposed to be general and informal.
The motion to adjourn was unheard by
any except the members and the first
the outsiders knew that the meeting
was over was when the mem bers put on
their hats
Arizona republican., 1894-10-13

The Miller hat presents more prom
ounced novelty than any of the other
leaders. This is particularly evident in
the brim, which is rounded very wide
at the sides. The curl is 34-inch
D'Orsay, run in heavy at the quarters,
giving a pointed appearance front and
rear
The brim is we'll rolled. sharp at the
aides and pitched front and rear. The
binding is reversed and gives the hat a
verv nnrrliar end marked appearance
at the side view.
1t is made by the John B. Stetson Co.,
and the sole agent in Phoenix is
Arizona republican., 1894-10-13

Being solicited by numerous electors
OF the Phoenix precinct to stand as a
candidate as constable of the same, l
hereby announce myself and respect
fully request your support. l promise
and pledge myself to faithfully per-
form the duties incumbent on me as
constable in the event l should be
elected. DAN CANNON.
Arizona republican., 1894-10-13
Restaurant.
REST AURANI'

Mrs. 7. G. Thomas has opened the
neatest and cleanest little restaurant
in Phoenix, on Jefferson street between
Center and First. The patrons say the
fare is better than they have had for
long time. Meals 25 cents; Weekly
board $500
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-02-24
A BLOODY BATTLE
Between Mexican Rebels and Regulars-
The Former Literally Slaughtered.

b0tWePn Mtxichu NeOeiS hDu hfsuIaTA-
The Former Literally Slaughtered.
DEMING, n. NJ. Feb. 17.-Reports
from Old Mexico, which reached here
yesterday evening, state that the Te.
mochians have been about wiped out
of existence, in addition to the battle
which occurred out from the city Of
chihuahua some time ago, the govern
ment troops TO the number Of 200 met
the rebels on February s. south OF
Elvia, about forty miles south of Casas
Grande, and 200 miles south of Deming,
and killed seventy-five of the Temo.
chians. Twenty-Five were taken pris.
oners and Immediately after the hard
fighting were taken out and shot.
The information was brought into
the Mormon colony below Palomas,
and in turn to Deming The country
in which the fight occurred is very
wild and mountainous and like the
Chihuahua defeat, the rebels were
caught and killed in a canyon.
The Temochians were composed of
the small bands which have been MD
ing out in the mountains to the south
Of Palomas, but which recently con-
centratcd for the purpose OF meeting
the troops. The soldiers had about
fifty killed and wounded.