The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1899-09-13
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New Jersey ranks ar., in SILK
goods.
America makes 100000 false teeth
annually
American cotton mills employ "a
eoo women.
Congress created a national bureau
q labor in isst.
Aurora. ~. had "a mayors during
the lac, % YEAR,.
ifan and STEEL Industries employ
100. GO Americans.
Did the wedding pass OF niceiyT''
Yes. THERE was 9nls one hitch"
The largest pumping engine In the
world ia in the Calumet aud iiecla
mines
The money IA circulation In the
United states has doubled IN the last
twenty years.
-Four nicha rsispnE and siN 81 their
relatives have been governors Of
south Carolina.
Mormon missionari-s have been
70 h46dfm q preach their doctrine on
Tostnn Common.
The income ~ the Monte Carlo
gaming tables for the past year
reaches $3.50 90.
Intoxicating liquor 10 not allowed
to be soid At any 81 the military
camps ~ Canada.
There are ESQ central station
plants FER generating electricity in
the t'nited stufea
Berlin servant Kiris are forming a
union. and the social Democrats are
helping to organize tfsm.
The Minnesota nrh hatchery has
placed 30 600 brook trout IN the
iniaad waters % that state this year.
Has the dachshound pediFree1''
Pedigree Look az him. Il makes
him sag TO carry H."
The Shawnee. III. News tells OF a
man who places straw In the read
near hls home 90 keep the dus, from
dying
T'asscnTor-wfat time do these
ears leave this corner Conductor
Quarter after. hair after. quarter to.
and at.
According % the Voiksscliunr. %
neriin. the month Of July saw In
Germany ia prosecutions FOR iese
majesty.
Among the Parsees a murderer is
punished With % sirlpss on his bare
back. while master vino neglects
his dog receives 200 stripes.
n suppose you were touched when
your wife rave You that 80 easy
chair" s'Of course How else do you
suppose my wife could come by
tsoT''
A parachute Jumper recently land
ID on a Chicago trolley car creating
panic. In which one OF the women
passengers In the car had an arm
broken.
Passenger trains from Boston 90
Plymouth arr hauicd as far as
Bralutrce. and then divided into two
parts and drawn to Plymouth by n
thlrd-rail motor.
President Of thc French Court
You declare thla on your honor, as
rcnticmaug French Oficer-N no.
Monsieur ie President A an officer
Of h. Rrandc armec'
In the center Of the plaza in Lima
ia pretty bronze fountain that was
erected In 1873. gift from some
noble spaniard. and IL probably tho
oldest fountain IN America.
Don't leave the table" said the
landiady. as her new buardcr rose
from his scanty breakfast Il must.
madam: rs hardwood. and my teeth
are not what they used 10 be"
The United states purchased nine
million dollars worth OF sisai grass
from Mexico during the last fiscal
year. more than ire combined pur-
chaaes 81 the two previous years.
Two German societies Land
Wirths q esellschaft and the Verein
der Zuckerindustric--h combined
20 offer a prize OF s.. 500 for an in
ventlun Of q machine for harvesting
bects.
The British empire has a popula-
ton Of t06 600 600 people. OF this
number fe.t0t.0oo are in Europe,
30s 300 900 In Asia. $1,000 In Africa. in
Guiding Egypt 100 900 IN American
colonies and $500. 900 IN Oeeanica.
Canada lacks only $4,000 square
miles to be as large as the whole
continent OF Europe, II Is nearly
thirty times as large az Great Brit
ain and Ireland. and Is 100000 square
miles larger than the United states.
a seven year-old boy in Augusta.
Me. detected by his father and taxi
en- 10 task Tor smoking a cigarette.
/ listened abashed but finally said:
We'll. pa, 20 tell the truth. have
smoked SO long that l cannot leave
[ of
Last year $500. 900 pounds Of alum
mum. valued at ti,5l6,OOo, were pro-