The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1902-04-18

horse about Is pounds.
A close friendship between a cat
and parrot is one of the unnatural
things reported from Baltimore, Mary.
land
The subscription list of The Seattle
Republican is forging upwards, which
is conclusive evidence that it's a good
thing.
In 1871 it is estimated 1,0O6, 100 per.
sons spoke Welsh, but in 1891 the
number had fallen to 81, 2SO, an actual
decrease of 1851.
There is plant growing in Jamaica
that makes excellent tooth brushes.
and is extensively used in that connec.
ton by the natives
Telephone connections are now in
operation between Paris, France, and
Cologne by way of Berlin, which COW
ers a distance of 1000 miles.
King Edward has issued a ukase
through the government officials that
no one engaged in retail trade is eIigi-
BILE for presentation at court.
A Rhode Island granite sarcophagus
weighing thirty tons is soon to be
erected on the John Sherman lot in
the Mansfield, Ohio, cemetery.
Two German army officers have been
each sentenced to one year and nine
months Imprisonment for so persecut-
ing a private that he committed sui
eide to escape their persecution.
Ping pong, the new game that has
become such a craze throughout civil
ization, is still the rage Of the day,
and manufacturers thereof are making
fortunes from the sale of it.
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paupers from Antwerp to Canada,
promising them that they will make
it possible for them to cross the line
into the United States without detec-
ton.
The coca tree in South America has
to be very tenderly cared for in order
to prevent it from being killed by the
suns rays. Coca plantations are al
most completely covered by sort Of
canopy
A hotel waiter, Patrick O'Donald by
name, has sued a hotel company for
100000 damages for having been in
jured by premature explosion of a
the hotel.
A farmer near Marysville, Ohio,
tapped fourteen apple trees and OBJ
tanned seven barrels of sap therefrom,
which is said to be superior to that
taken from maple trees and will make
more and better sugar.
Male teachers in Michigan last year
received on an average of $7O.S6 per
month in graded schools and $29O3 in
ungraded schools. Women in graded
schools were paid $435O and in I'M.
graded schools $24.7S per month.
Alexander Lindbholm, of Saltwater,
Minnesota, is the possessor of a legal
document which was signed in 1853
and decided the legal ownership of a
large estate in Norway where now
stands Christiania, the present capital
of that country
Among the Pueblo Indians there are
5000 self-supporting scattered in
twenty-six villages, twenty of which
have day schools costing the United
States not less than $4,000 annually,
besides a much larger sum expended
upon the boarding schools
Philadelphia has 638 gardens oper-
ated on vacant lots by persons who
are unable to otherwise make their
own living. The idea was put in oper-
alton by the Philadelphia Vacant Lot
Association some years ago and has
proved a huge success.
The Earl of Airlie, whose father was
killed in the South African war, will
be the youngest peer that will take
part in the coronation. He is nine
years old and is the playmate of Prince
Edward Of Wales, who, should he live.
will be king of England as Edward
VIII.
A spring near Harrisburg, Kentucky.
over which two farmers quarreled and
threatened each others lives, sudden
ly went dry and remained so until one
of the farmers left the country, when
it suddenly began flowing again, fur
nishing as much water as it ever had
in the past and has so continued
For fashions sake over 1000. 900
birds were killed in Venezuela last
year. A recent consignment to a Lon
don dealer consisted of 10000 birds of
paradise, 5000 packages of osprey
feathers, $500 crested pigeons, $500
impeyan pheasants, 500 bird skins
270 cases of peacock feathers, $4,000