The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-01-22
FACTS OF INTEREST.

\ South Carolina COW is reported on good
authority 10 have given birth to two calves
with an interval of only three months be-
tween.
\ London broker announces as for rent
the house in Upper Holloway London. for
meriy occupied by Claude Duval and Dick
Turpin.
The Chinese call butter COWS milk oil ="
and cheese COWS milk cake" They have
the utmost adherence OF both. and never
eat either.
Mennonites have purchased huge tract
of land near Houston. Tex. and Mcnnon-
ties scattered throughout The West viii
coionize il.
The profits from the street railways Of
Munich. which are owned by the city
amounted to io5.7s2 marks for the year
ended July /.
A whalehack fleet r. TO he built for the
Mississippi river transportation. and viii
be another aid TO the growing export trade
OF the South
4 iA-year-old boy In Berlin hanged him
self because al his older sisters birthday
party che piece of cake he received was
smaller than hers.
The purchase hy the Russian govern
ment OF the Sehas;opol shipbuiding yard
has been completed. the price agreed upon
being l,SNS.Nn fnuhies.
THE king Of Korea has sent thirty young
men to Russia 10 learn the language Of
that country. ON their return they are TO
be- employed as officials.
The whaiehack steamer Christopher Co.
hmhus has broken the worlds record by
carrying during the rast season silfs pas
sensers on Lake Michigan.
The newsboy who died Of yellow fever In
hpr jay D.. ~ .
hy some people 70 have contracted the dis
ease from Now Orleans newspapers.
\ monument In memory Of Chopin IS 30
he erected IN rariS. after the model 81 pu-
bols made from the portrait by Eugene
pelacroix I; Is TO he finished In ls9e
Statistics show that railroads have ah-
sarhsa over 81 9A lsa tons az steel IN the
last twenty years. which Is about half the
total product manufactured in that time.
The Japanese address letters the reverse
OF what We do writing the country first.
the state or province aext then the city
the street uumts.r aud the name last Of all.
The Arabic used Tn the Koran differs -
much from the Arabic used ia ordinary
conversation IN TIRE East as the Latin alf-
fers from the Italian. The Koran Arabic
is that Of the literary classes. the colloquai
Arabic that % the common people.
Tooth brushes are 20 be made with re-
movable pads Ter the brtsfies. - that
one handle viii be sufficient for any NUM-
beer OF hriste pads which can be re-
placed as fast as the brush wears 0ut. or
eaa be lifted with a set Of brushes OF 1if-
ferent aTmnsss.
The "blks ssls'ad'' of the pe'iee force .,
New York consists 81 s{Nty-efxf,t raen. IN
Guiding pafrolmsu and osficsrS one
ss,orcher has been made a detective. aud
| wil combine himsCE - She work Ok ioosi-x
after stolen wheels tack and glass-ihrow~
srs and oshsr btcye}e hsteTS, who are gate
aaenrous All over the city
Hereafter Nouse numbers are - ~ oh-
Ncatory in New York. The numbers are
10 ee In White figures. ros less than fpa
inches high ~ a hack rs1ra ~ hlsle vsw~
celals ~ snilaF material They are not
"a p, placed or aacr~. het or fhr WsfI. OF
huildlnSx between the front door and the
nearest wfadas-