Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-01-11

In New York city 1900 women
support their husbands.
The yield of wheat in Texas last
year is 6,OOO, 600 bushels.
In the United States to day are l.
200 pulp and paper mills.
Illinois produces $27O,OOO,OOO OF
farm products every year.
The wealth OF England has increased
forty fold in two centuries.
There are 1850 miles OF rabbit
proof fencing in Australia.
Smoking cars for women are pro-
vided on Russian railroads.
Twenty-Five thousand men are en-
ployed at the Carnegie works.
Manchester, England, gets its water
supply ninety-five miles away.
A ton of Great Salt Lake water
holds about 3l4 pounds of salt.
In this country more than 6,GOO
women are managing postofices.
Compressed gas is used for locomo-
tive headlights in South America.
One man makes fortune to eight
that become bankrupt in England.
French trade with Madagascar
amounts to about $5.OOO,OOO year.
About 1000 servants arc attached to
the royal household of Great Britain.
Since 1880 the Patent Office has
granted over $500 patents to women.
One man can make 5000 tin cans a
day by the aid of improved machinery.
China raises and consumes more
ducks than any other country in the
world.
Three thousand persons are to be
employed by St. Louis tobacco fac.
tory.
Raw silk of the value O: $29 1886, 900
was imported during the last fiscal
year.
In Malaga and other Andalusian
cities negroes are crowding out white
labor.
Cotton has not been so cheap at
Liverpool as it is now for forty-six
years.
Extensive steel and iron works are
to be established in Iron Mountain,
Mexico.
Cheap woolen stockings are adulter-
ated by the addition of the fiber oi
wool pulp.
The cultivated lands of the United
States only occupy 289 acres out of
each 1000.
The manufactured products of Great
Britain amounts to about "a, 100 OOO,-
600 q year.
Tho value of the leaf tobacco ex-
ported by this country in 1890 was
$2O.64OOOO.
Spain spends $lOO.OOO,OOO to main-
tain an army and 81 10000 to edu-
cate its children.
The output of gold for the United
States during the past year is estimat.
ed at $43, 100000.
Twelve million postage stamps are
used every day by the inhabitants Of
the United States.
In New York there is talk OF build
ing 200 feet wide by 600 feet in length
and fifteen stories high.
Within the last three years go
miles OF electric track have been laid
in and around Baltimore.
In one of the large apartment house.
in New York city there are 226 pianos
one to every four persons.
Out of every 100 families living on
farms in the United States forty-seven
are free from incumbrance.
Sioux Indians OF South Dakota sell
more than 100000 worth of grain tc
the COVE. nment every year.
Every Dushel of grain which left
New York for Europe last year wa,
carried under a foreign flag.
China's foreign trade amounts &c
about $23S 100000 a year, of which 60
per cent. is with Great Britain.
1t is said that the gold product o
Montana last year will show IS pei
cent. increase over that OF 1898.
Italy gives TO the world outside her
borders 2.5OO,OOO.OOO oranges; Spain,
l ,4OO,OOO,OOO; Portugal, SO,OOO,OOO (;
Paraguay, 6O,OOO,OOO; Florida, nearly
as many many as Paraguay.