The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1900-10-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST

ITEMS OF INTEREST
A watch will tick 100, IA, 900
times in year if it is kept continu-
ously running.
In Japan it is customary for the
bride to give all her wedding pres
ents to her parents.
The advocates Of cremation in
Germany have their own periodical,
called Flamme (hame).
The lobster is his own most deadly
enemy. The young ones scorn ali
other food when they have chance
to eat one another.
In Florida sunstroke is entirely
unknown, although the temperature
often reaches ITO degrees Fahren-
heit. This is attributed to the ex-
IRENE moisture of the temperature.
The divine right Of kings isn't in
it with the right of the married
daughter who comes home for the
first time to show off her baby to her
parents.-AtchisOn Globe.
China is one of the most important
coal countries in the world. Every
one Of her eighteen provinces con-
tains large deposits. Eastern Shan
See has an anthracite area Of Is, 800
miles in extent
The word ''yule'' has in reality
nothing to do with Christmas. 1t is
an old Scandinavian word, signify
ing the winter solstice, which was
kept as a feast by the old heather
Cloths.
There are thirty-three jute mills
in india, employing 94,54O persons.
The mills contain 1881 looms and
over 216,OOO spindles Nearly all
the mills are in the neighborhood of
Calcutta.
Don't you admire determination
in d man character@' 1T all de-
ponds on the result" answered Mr..
Sirius Barker. IF it brings success,
1 praise it as a splendid perseverance.
1t it brings failure, | denounce it as
confounded obstinacy" Washing
ton Star.
The population Of the Philippines
is estimated at about 10000, 900
people. These are divided into hos
tile tribes, the chief among them be-
ing the Tagalos. Of the sixty tribes
into which the Philippine population
is divided many are continually at
war with each other.
The first shipment Of mahogany
from the Philippines to the United
States has been received by a New
York piano manufacturer, who has
christened it "LuzOn wood" and
made it into a piano case, which he
will sell at an exceedingly high price.
1t is estimated that the timber cut
in Eastern Maine this season will
be 160,OO0,0OO feet, 100000 feet
of which will go into pulp. This is
the largest cut in that region in
years.
In rebuilding their city, the citi-
zens of Lakeview, Or, which was de-
stroyed by fire late in last May, are
using $4,000 feet of lumber, at an
average price of $3.50 per 1000
feet.
Sixteen car loads Of government
mules were shipped from Chicago
over the Burlington road recently
to San Francisco. They will 90 to
the Philippines for army use. The
mules have been picked up here and
in the adjacent country.
During some excavations in the
Forum at Rome the laborers I'M
earthed the head and part Of the
body of marble horse. 1t is a mag
nificent piece of sculpture and great |
value has been placed upon it. Ac-
cording to experts, the relic dates
from about the second century be-
fore Christ.
The commissioner of immigration
has decided that tuberculosis is a dis
ease which can subject the patient to
quarantine A japanese with tuber-
culoSis arrived at San Francisco and
it was decided that the patient could
not land and must return to the port
from which he sailed.