Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1901-06-14
DRIFTWOOD
Gathered From the Current of Passing Ac.
Qualities.

OHIf IWOOO
Gathered From the Current of Passing Ac.
Qualities.
Lee Tricket OF Glenwood, Wis,
claims TO be the heaviest man in the
world. He weighs 500 pounds.
Germany is experimenting with ac-
etyline gas as an illuminant for light
houses.
The United States produces three
fourths OF all the cotton grown in the
world.
Farm hands are scarce in England.
The glories of war have tempted the
laborers away.
The biggest sailing ship in the
world is being built in Boston. 1t
will carry six masts.
The Illinois bird league has 10000
members. The object of the league is
to protect the birds.
Electric windlasses are now being
used to load and discharge cargoes by
great steamship lines.
The record height for a kangaroo
jump is eleven feet. The deer record
is nine feet six inches.
The new Theatre de Francais, Paris,
is the largest in the world. 1t covers
three acres of ground space.
Central America and the West In.
dies sell about $1,000 600 worth OF ba-
nanas to the United States each year.
A lamp chimney is small thing,
but 1000 people are employed in
making lamp chimneys in the United
States.
Africa has an area of 11,5O0,0OO
square miles-three times larger than
the United States and her colonial
possessions"
The highest known tides are in the
Bay of Funday. The lowest are at
Panama, where the rise and fall is less
than two feet.
Four hundred years ago Manhattan
island was bought for $24. The other
day garden patch on Manhattan is
land sold for 81 100000.
Two dozen of the leading bankers,
business and professional men OF
Richmond, Mo-, celebrated May Day
by parading in shirt waists.
Italy and Spain have the fewest
number of houses in proportion to
population. The Argentine Republic
has most, with Uruguay close Sec
ond.
The governments new mint at Phil
adelphia will be the largest, costliest
and finest money-making establish
ment in the world. 1t will cost
50 900 900 exclusive Of the furnishings.
Men who smoke Egyptian ciga-
rettes" think they are smoking to-
bacco raised in Egypt. Tobacco-rais-
ing has been prohibited in that coun-
try for upwards of forty years. The
only thing Egyptian about the Egyp-
tian cigarette" is the name.
In Sweden the State cares for and
owns over 100000 acres of forest
lands. Schools of forestry are main
taineo, and as result of wise fsre-
sight the proceeds from the sale of the
lumber product pay all the cost of the
schools and the caretakers, and the
net profits are four times greater than
the expenditures.
The bell which gave the signal to
Paul Revere from Old South Church,
Boston, OF British aggression in Revo-
lutionary times and started him on
his famous ride of call to arms, is
now offered for sale for $500. 1t is
now in possession OF St. James Epis-
copal church of North Cambridge,
and is out of active service, filling a
place as relic in the vestry.
DR.. Girdner, who has just published
an extraordinary book named Anew
yorkites," is a man OF unusual ability,
both in medicine and literature. His
professional career was rounded by
several years spent in noted medical
institutions of Europe. On his return
he participated in the consultation
held at the bedside OF President Gar
field, that prompted the Invention of
the Girdner Telephone Bullet-Finder
later on given to the world OF science,
and it is claimed that had it been in
existence at the time Mr.. Garfield was
shot, his life might have been saved.