The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1901-08-09
OF
INTEREST
Ecclesiastical WaysideN Notes
Of the World.
BRIEFLY SAID

BKIEFLY SAID
Facts and Figures About Things I'm Gem
eral Culled and Collected by the
Worlds Master Minds-Much in Little
Concerning Things That Interest HUI
manity Most The United States
Leads in Points of Interest CONNER
ciany and Otherwise.
If reports be true, seventy per
cent. Of the tea gardens in India
now do not pay.
According to a botanist, the first
Lombardy poplar was planted in
America in 1885.
The Belgium authorities have Of
fered prize for the best picture
showing the evils of drunkenness.
Copenhagen has the largest in
closures for deer in the world-the
Royal Park, and it contains 1900
acres.
There are in the world 196,5OO,-
900 Mohammedans, and of this
number but 18,OOO,O00 live in Tur-
key
There is weekly paper published
in Athens, Greece, which is written
wholly in verse, even to the adver-
tlsements.
The Grown Prince of Denmark
has developed into a splendid jour
nalistic writer. His writings are al
ways under nom deiplume.
According to a medical report one
armOuth mussle of deteriorate
character contains no fewer than
100000 of harmful bacteria, while
the water really contains 803,2OU
A new battleship Maine has been
launched. 1t is to take the place in
the navy Of the Maine that was de-
strOyed at Havana. 1t has a dis
placement OF IL, 500 tons and is said
TO be a most excellent craft.
The German army has established
a swimming school for the troops,
which enables the soldiers to swim a
stream some several yards wide and
carry their rifles, clothes and am
munitiOn on their backs.
1t is estimated that the hair of
the beard grows at the rate OF one
and a half lines week, which COM
puted would make the beard grow
SIX and one-half inches in the course
OF year
NFOTIHldHH H1OA
| A tract OF 10000 acres Of land
near Tuscola, Illinois, for which no
one has received a patent from the
government, has caused much dis
tress among the 500 different pei
sons claiming property thereon
The disease which has been preva-
lent all over the country this year
and been known as smallpox, is SAID
to be new disease and not small
pox. Though it is contagious, it is
not necessarily fatal.
For the last twelve months ship
building shows that more tonnage
was launched than in any previous
year in the history Of the shipbuild-
ing industry save two, there being
more than 100000 tons added to the
American register.
1t is learned from an official re-
port that the average pay of the Chi
nese soldier is two and a half cents
per day. That must account for the
Chinaman's hard fighting, hoping to
win in order to get in the other fell
lows haYersack.
bacteria of the colon basilIi type, all
of which is productive Of typhoid
The last legislature of Tennessee
passed law making it a misdemean-
or for an employer to advertise for
men while strike is in progress in
his establishment.
A ship canal extending from st.
Petersburg to the White Sea is be-
ing contemplated by the Russian
government for early construction.
A doctor in some of the Western
states says to take apple cider vine
gar in small quantities is a sure pre-
yentive of smallpox
Agriculture in Sweden has stead
lily grown. In 1912 there were l.
100000 acres Of land in cultivation.
At the present time there are 49,
100000 acres under the plow. and
this grows 105, 100000 bushels Of
grain year
The eagles, which have been the
terror Of the country surrounding
Killarney, owing to the fact that
they proved very destructive to the
fouls and kids about the farm
hOuSnS have al bnon finally ox+or