Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-10-06

/ feet to one side of the pressure. The
DETECTION was 2S inches. This was
practical and interesting demonstra-
ton OF the enormous strength and
elasticity OF Washington fir timber,
the best on earth for all kinds of
building purposes and especially for
shipbuilding.
ACQUISITION OF superlativc interest, to
all men especially, as to what consti-
tutes perfectly formed woman, has
been decided by committee of
learned doctors" in Chicago, by
competitive contest in which many
who had been accorded that distinc-
ton entered the lists for a decision.
With the spectators only two feet
away, the curtain was pulled aside,
displaying the beauties, one by one.
Miss Trenary, who was accorded the
prize, posed as the "Lost Pleiad"; an
! other represented Diana, Surprised
at the Bathing Pool" others Nancy
Lee" and THE Bather," and various
characters which would best serve the
purpose of physical display. Miss
Trenary's measurements were as fol.
lows: Neck 13 inches, chest normal
Al !, contracted 3Sss, bust IL, waist q,
right thigh 24l hips IL, right knee
l54, left cali l4a, right ankle 81, height
feet inches, weight $50 pounds.
Experts in the broom-cor district
OF Central Illinois estimate that the
harvest this year in the United States
Will aggregate sufficient material for
the making of forty-two million
brooms, valued at $I5,OOO,OOO. If
placed in cars for shipment, allowing
4,OOO brooms per car, 10000 cars
would be required to hold them. This
means two hundred freight trains OF
fifty cars each, or about one hundred
miles OF brooms. Central Illinois has
just harvested material for 100000
new brooms. The aristocratic brooms,
which retail for % cents or more, are
the product of Central Illinois. The
cheaper grades come from Oklahoma,
which has just harvested material for
Il 100000 brooms. Kansas produces
smaller amount, the estimate being
about 100000. Missouri, Tennessee,
Arkansas and other scattering broom
corn districts will add a million to the
supply. The whisk- brooms come from
Kansas, the big brooms from the other
States.
And now, amid the novelties of the
day, comes the phono. postal card.
The voice OF the sender is projected,
by specially contrived machine upon
a card, on one side of which prepare
ton called sonorine has been spread.
This is a substance which possesses
all the merits of wax as a sound re.
cOrder, but is OF sufficient hardness to
withstand the sometimes rough usage
OF the post. The record is made, OF
course, by the usual method of pass.
ing the card by clockwork under
Q sapphire point, which inscrites
the usual Photographic indentations.
About seventy-five or eighty words
may be placed on the card. All the
machines are made, OF course, to move
the card on precisely the lines where
the record is made, and very sensitive
diaphrams have been designed both
for registering and reproduction.
What wonderful triumph this is OF
human discovery and ingenuity, that
the popular voice in articular speech,
in tones of affection or reproof, may
annihilate space and cheer the ear OF
the absent or loved one, at Uncle
Sans lowest rate for postage! 1t is
claimed that the outfit for phono.
postals will be 30 cheap as to make
them available to everybody.