Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-03-27
Washin9ton Standard
ORiFTLETS.

Cabinet makers in England average
about Sll week.
Boss Croker is running an electric
creamery on his British estate.
The newly elected Mayor of Brock
ton, Mass, is Union plumber.
Union laborcrs at Port Jervais, y. V,
will ask for nlue-hour day at $3.50.
The concession street at the st. Louis
Worlds Fair will be over a mile long.
Great Britain has l ,9j4 900 domes.
tic servants, earning eGS, 100000 per
annum.
Preparations are being made for
building Labor temple at Linton,
Indiana.
The question OF alien immigration
is now far more serious in London than
it ever was in California
In some OF the farming districts of
China pigs are harnessed to small wag-
ons and made to draw them.
Emperor William has fifty-one roy
al residences within his domains, but
he can occupy only one of them at
time.
Thirty-two Chicago Unions, whose
members are employed in the stock
yards, have decided to build Labor
temple.
The fence around the fairgrounds
at st. Louis will be six miles long.
Steps have been taken to have it built
at once.
Eighty thousand cats are yearly ex-
ported from Great Britain. The total
number in the British Isles is estimated
at 100000.
A chariot worth $4,000 has been
found in the tomb of Thotmes at
Thebes. Automobiles are cheap in
comparison.
In France, consumption is killing
people at the rate of 100000 year.
This means that city the size OF Port
land is yearly wiped out by the disease.
The special grand stand for the Gen.
tennial ceremonies, at ST. Louis, on the
Both of April and May I'd and Sd, will
seat 10000 people. 1t will be 500 feet
long.
The worst mosquito infested country
in the world is the coast of Borneo.
The streams of that section are, at GER
tain seasons unnavigable, on account
of the scourge.
One hundred million sacks are made
out of India's yearly jute crop. Cali
fornia takes twenty million of these
and China fifteen millions. The crop
weighs 10000 tons.
The statue of Frederick the Great
will not be sent to this country till
next year. The feathers of both the
American and the German eagles are
somewhat ruffled just now.
1t is stated that during the year 1901
the Pope fiugred as legatee in over 700
wills throughout the Catholic world,
the aggregate amount left to him being
100000. The largest single bequest
was $50, 1000 and the next $4,000.
The throne-room of the Sultan, at
Constantinople, is a gorgeous sight.
The gliding is unequaled, and from the
ceiling hangs a chandelier of exquisite
Venitian workmanship. the 200 lights
OF which make CLEAN like sunlight.
The BARRIERS Union of Birmingham,
England have raised the price OF shaw.
ing from penny to two pence. And
at that price the service is somewhat
raw, being simply lather-and-scrape,
without hot-cloth massage, mustache.
curl or neckshave.
The late large vintages in France re.
call the years of 1874-5, when the wine
wine was so abundant that it was Civ
en- to the horses. 1t was claimed that
If the oats was soaked in wine the
horses would require only half the
usual quantity for the same amount
of work.
Leo Stevens, the American rival of
Santos-Dumont, has leased part OF
Cayuga Island, in the Niagara river, a
few miles above Niagara Falls, for his
experimental work in air-ship building,
with view of producing a machine
to compete in the aerial tournament
at the Worlds fair of 1904.
In the Dolomite mountains, near
Tyrol, Switzerland, lately, three women
lost their way in snowstorm and were
found frozen together in q stone.like
group. They had to be laid on sledge
together and dragged into the valley
where they we're thawed apart near a
dig nre before they could be prepared
for burial.
The aborigines of Malabar Islands
employ perfect whistling language.
by means of which they can commu
nicate with each other over long dis.
tances. A stranger wandering over the
islands is frequently surnrised tn hea
from a hilltop the sound OF loud whis-
Ting, which is quickly repeated on the
next hill, and so is carried from sum.
NIT to summit till it dies away in the
distance.
wrong Diagnosis.
"The trouble with you," the doctor
said after examining the younp man