The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1901-12-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


1t is estimated that this years CO
ton crop will number about 9.764 90
bales in the United States.
From statistics it is learned tha
the United States exports on An ave,
age of 100000 tons of coal per month
Ihere are in the state of Californi;
$4,000 Italians, and it is estimate,
that they own property there value,
at $5O,OO0,OOO.
New Orlears has a leper colony no
far from the city that has thirty-si,
inmates who contracted the disease
from the Cinnamon of mat city.
The proportion of male criminals
IN Germany has increased quite con
sideEably since 1882, while that of tho
female seems to have remained sta.
tionary.
Berlin, Germany, is to be equip.
ped with a telephone system like
unto that used in Chicago. which
system has already been on test there
for the past fifteen months.
Boston paper has discovered
over three hundred happy couples in
New England who have passed their
golden wedding anniversary, and it IS
still continuing its search.
During the present year TIT dis
asters to steamers occurred on the
Great Lakes, which has caused an
appalling loss of life and property.
Is there no remedy?
Askai Chin, in Thibet, is the high
est lake in the world. Its level is
$1,000 feet above the level of the sea.
The lowest is the Dead sea, which is
1920 feet below sea level.
Yankee ingenuity has found encour-
agement even in far away Egypt, as
a Yankee has invented an arrange
ment for hosting coal at Alexandria
by which 2,120 tons of coal can be un-
loaded from a steamer in ten hours.
Uncle Sam spends 100000 an
nually for the education of the deaf
and dumb. There are ffty-seven
schools that own property valued at
s11 1886, ,0S7, and there are at. present
1884 pupils and 1,15O institutions.
Capital aggregating to something
like 100000 are tied up in hotel
in London. During the
busy month the hotels of London ac-
commodated S,4O0 guests every night
and find employment for 4,5O0 SER
wants.
Dressmaking in Paris is more extern
sively carried on than in any other
city of the world. 1t is reported that
there are 10000 persons employed
IN dressmaking stablishmnts and 140.-
300 all told that are employed in some
form or manner in the dress manufac-
turing business.
A geologist in search of coal mines
in the mountains of Colorado, found
q deserted mine and at the bottom of
it was large Newfoundland dog, A
sheep and bear. Each of them had
fallen into the pit and was unable to
get out. The bear was practically
starved to death, while the dog and
the sheep were fat and fine.
Carefully compiled statistics of the
British Empire, compiled by a
trade paper, bring out the rather
startling fact that out of population
of nearly 4O0,OOO,OOO about 48,8SO, 900,
or less than one-eighth, are of British
birth and descent, nearly 100000 are
white men, and the color
ed race numbers 343,OOO,OOO.
Rice forms a larger part of human
food than the product of any other
one plant being the diet of India
China, and the Malayan islands and
occupying a place on the tables OF
80 per cent of the inhabitants of the
civilized world. One may safely ven
ture the assertion that SO0,000,OO0
people eat rice every day in the year
The word Infantry" had it's origin
the Spaniards in the war with
the Moors, who so designated the
body guards of the royal prince, or
1t was extended to the en-
tire body of foot soldiers and subse-
quently adopted throughout Europe.
1t is estimated that there are 1000
men and women employed to conduct
summer vacation schools and play
grounds in the province of Manhattan
and the Bronx. Last summer over
100000 boys and girls were in con-
slant attendance