The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1900-09-28
POINTED
PARAGRAPHS
About Things of Interest
Here and There.
YOUR UNCLE SAMUEL
In Leading Civilization in Science and
In Art.
THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
lsSpoken by more Persons in Germany
Comes Next With French the
Third on the List.
THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Third on the List.
A Chinese drink is made of lambs
flesh, bruised with rice and fer
mented.
Dried curds and goats cheese,
kept in wood ashes for a year, is a
favorite dish in Burgundy.
An apple orchard in Glenwood,
Ia, occupies 800 acres and contains
$4,000 bearing trees.
Africa has very nearly 700 differ
ent languages, and this fact presents
great difficulties to missionary eff
fort.
Meat has been preserved in a fro
zen state for thirty years and found
perfectly eatable at the end of that
time.
The strongest fortress in Euro
pean Russia is Cronstadt. 1t is the
Russian naval station of the Baltic
sea.
The canton Of Graunbunden,
Switzerland, has passed a law pro-
hlbiting the operation of automo-
biles within the limits Of the canton.
The Newfoundland sealing season
has been the best for the past twen-
ty-tive years, $4,000 seals having
been captured.
Ii man in China doesn't pay his
debts at the usual time, the new year,
his creditors carry away the door OF
his shop, thus permitting all the de-
mons and evil spirits to enter.
Germany is about to float an 8O,-
100000 mark loan in the United
States. There will be no difficulty
IN doing it on the present high tide
Of prosperity.
Before the outbreak Of the war
with Spain freight vessels were ly-
ing idle in many seaport at home
and abroad. Demands incident to
hostilities in South Africa and the
lar East that now not one is idle.
The average distance travelled by
English engine drivers is from 3d.
OOO to $4,000 miles a year. There
are about 10000 drivers in the Uni
ted Kingdom.
The largest pine deal ever made in
Chippewa Falls, Wis, was closed in
the office of the Chippewa Lumber
and Boom company, when the COM
pany purchased the entire amount
OF pine on the Manitowish, belong
ing to the Mississippi River Logging
company. The amount of pine is
250,O00,000 feet.
More than a hundred million dol
lars worth of india rubber has been
imported into the United States dur
ing the past four years, and more
than sixty million dollars worth in
the last two years. A decade ago the
annual impOrtations of india rubber
amounted to about $4,000, 900;
now they exceed $3O,OOO,OOO, and
are steadily increasing.
The Prussian department Of rail
ways has added to its rolling stock
number of hospital cars, which can
be hired in advance for any journey
by rail. The cars are fitted with
spring bedstretchers, invalids' chairs
and all necessary sanitary equip
ment.
Harriet William Brand, who late
ly died in Brooklyn in her ninety
second year, saw generations of her
family extending from her great
great-grandfather to her great great
grandson.
Unique properties are possessed by
the River Tinto, in Spain. 1t petri-
fes the sand Of its bed, and if a
stone falls | into the stream and
alights upon another, in a few
months they unite and become one
stone. Fish cannot live in its waters
The worst famines of modern
times were the famine in Ireland in
1861, in which 100000 perish
ed; the Indian famine of 1866,
which claimed 1,45O,OOO victims:
the Indian famine of 1877, in which
100000 people perished, and the
famine in China, in 1878, in which
100000 died.
1t is a curious coincidence that
while the old Confederate cruiser
Alabama was for long time known
as ''No. $780," the new battleship
Alabama was numbered $780, at the
builders yards before her name was