The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1901-05-24

It is claimed that sugar is found
in the leaves Of nearly 900 different
kinds of trees.
Mr. Morgan is credited with hav-
ing made 25,OOO,OOO in a single
deal lately.
Oberlin has had the largest num-
Der of colored students, the Univer-
sity of Kansas second, Bates college
third.
A Connecticut woman not long
since disinherited an adopted daugh-
ter and several Of her cousins and
left 81, 900 to a yellow dog.
The Norwegians' odelsthetling,
the lower house of parliament,
has passed bill providing for com
munal suffrage for women paying
taxes on an income Of at least 800
crowns.
It is claimed that there are 3,82S
milliOnaires in this country, who
own $16,OOO,OOO,OOO of the $81, ,OOO,-
100000, at which the American
property is valued.
Down to 1900 there had been
1881 colored graduates in the Uni
ted States, and Of that number 1,941
were graduates from colored colleges.
So opposed to Jim crow cars is the
governor Of the state of West Vir-
ginia that he does not allow one Of
them to be hauled into the state by
any of the railroad companies com
ing from the South.
A New Jersey woman has recently
left 100000 to a colored Pullman
car porter who showed much kind
ness to her during her travels on his
train as an invalid. Her relatives
hope to break the will.
An exchange has the following to
say about the artificial woman: "It
must be a terrible blow to man
who has been deceived by the pads
around her hips to marry a woman
and find out that there is nothing to
her"
Last month the United States sold
abroad $49,OOO,OOO more than it
purchased in foreign countries,
which is a neat little balance in our
favor averaging $1,577,OOO day.
In the year 1900 the sale Of post
age stamps in the United States
amounted to $97,687,771, which is
twice the amount of the sales in
1888, and three times the amount of
sales in 1881.
The New York Central railway is
experimenting with a car kitchen. 1t
is attached to a regular train and is
run about as is the kitchen on the
tourist, and from it lunches are
served to the passengers in their
seats.
There are thirty-four electric rail
ways in the dominion Of Canada.
During the past year $50 miles Of
track was used and the total num-
Der of miles run by cars was 29,646,-
$50, which was equal to the carrying
Of every man, woman and child n
the dominion Of Canada twenty
times.
If 'Christian science" is not a
delusion and snare, why is it that
SO many people die annually on ac-
count Of this nonsense-have faith
in being cured? 1t is neither science
nor Christianity, and those who
propagate its doctrines are public de-
ceiVers.
On account of the frequency of
earthquakes in Venezuela bridge
company of this country has taken
the contract to build one hundred
steel houses for that country, and
the same will be ready for shipment
within few days.
The trustees Of the First Metho-
dist church of Cleveland have sold
the church property to spectators,
and received for it $5OO,OOO in cash.
Property valued at $16O,929,8O5
was consumed by fire in 1900, and
of that sum the insurance companies
lost $95, ,403, COS. On an average
there were 6,604 fires every month
during last year The heaviest fire
loss was in New York, where $21,-
1878 worth Of property was con-
sumed by fire. The state of Illinois
lost $10,126,615, while New Jersey
lost $11,671,355 and Pennsylvania
$16,497,025.