The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1901-10-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The favorite pastime Of John D
Rockefeller, the oil magnate, is
pitching quoits.
Silk thread fabrics were taken
from South Persia and India tc
Greece as early as 325 B. G.
Prof. Hodge, of Clarke university
estimates toads to be worth S19.88
each for the work they perform in
destroying cut worms.
An ocean cable has been laid con
Meeting every island of the Philip
pine group with the seat of govern
ment at Manila.
Farmers in certain parts of Indian
territory are much troubled with tor
toise, which are very destructive to
the melon and canteloupe patches.
Medical experts have conclusively
proven that persons living in a mouse
where a coinsumptive is sooner or
later contract the disease themselves.
For the purpose Of oil fuel for the
street railway companies Of San
Francisco an oil tank holding 2OO,-
900 gallons has just been built.
Artificial wool made from turf
fiber is now being turned out at
Dusseldorf, Germany. Cloth, band
ages, hats, rugs and such articles are
made from it.
Good gardens during summer are
to be found all along the Yukon val
ley, in which potatoes, cabbage,
caulifower, beets and similar vege-
tables are raised in abundance.
The sheriff of Cumberland county,
Me-, is clergyman, and he frequent
ly holds revival meetings on barges
and in tents, where he is the chief
evangelist.
Prof. W. J. McGee, Of the Smith
sonian Institution, says human
bodies do not petrify, the many re-
ports to the contrary notwithstand-
ing.
One of the greatest conveniences
in travelling through the country Of
Norway is the vast number of gates
one has to open. There are upwards
of 10000 gates in the country acress
public highways.
Aberdeen, Wash, is said to pos
sess the largest saw mill in the world.
France is not waging any particu-
lar war in South Africa, neverthe-
less she has ten regiments of soldiers
in that country.
There is a wine crisis in Portugal,
owing to the fact that the store
rooms are now overcrowded with old
wine and no place left for the store
age Of this years crop. There are
at present 132, 100000 gallons Of old
wine in storage.
Fall River, Mass, produces more
than three-fourths of all the print
cloth made in the United States and
has one-seventh of all the spindles in
the country. It's mills turn out
more than 1900 miles Of cotton
cloth every working day.
The state Of Minnesota leads the
country in the milling industry.
There are over 100000 barrels of
flour turned out daily in Minnesota,
and fully 2O,OOO,OOO bushels of
wheat are used in the Minneapolis
mills annually.
Out of 119 counties in Kentucky
forty-eight Of them are "dry," and
twenty-one have only one point in
the entire county in which liquor is
sold. In seventeen others liquor can
only be obtained at two points, and
thirty-seven out Of the entire num-
Der are ''wet."
America leads in the number of
women doctors. Elizabeth Black
was the first woman to graduate in
medicine in 1849. Since that time
the number has steadily increased,
until at present there are fully 5000
women physicians in the United
States.
The railway systems of Belgium
are now contemplating the advisable
ity of designating a coach on thei1
trains for women smokers, as one
railroad has already been sued by g
woman who was elected from the
ladies' coach on account Of smoking
and the habit is extensively prac-
ticed.
According to the census there are
two farm animals for every man, wo
man and child in the United States
There are 4O,0O0,OOO each of sheer
and swine, 45,OOO,OOO COWS and cat
tie and 100000 horses and mules
At a Presbyterian communion ser
vice recently held in Washington
city, the bread and wine were passed
by two admirals, a general, two su
preme court justices and a former
secretary of state,