Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-10-20

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Smoking is permitted in the prison
OF Belgium only as reward for good
behavior.
In some OF the cantons of Switzer-
land all the dead, rich as well as poor,
are buried at the public expense.
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While Germany has 100000 wo-
men who earn their own living. Italy,
with only one-half the population, has
$5,250,00O.
A new mill, dimensions 50x2J0,
capacity 100000 feet of lumber for
every ten hours OF actual running time,
is being erected by the Eastern Rail-
way 4 Lumber Company at Centralia.
Leonard Selbert died at his home in
Bloomington, ILL.,, last week, at the
age of IS years. He was veteran
employe of the Alton shops and built
the first Pullman sleeping car, work
ing under the personal supervision of
George NJ. Pullman.
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Tacoma, OF late, seems u be an ill.
. fated place. On Tuesday a hy-wheel
burst and injured James Nelly in St.
Paul mill, James Littleton was struck
10y an automobile and painfully in
jured and Byron Mclaughlin had
three ribs broken in collision. A
week before two men were killed in
railroad accidents.
Cotton manufacturers abroad have
discovered that they are more and
more becoming dependent upon Amer
lean raw materials and at the same
time moie in danger of competition
from American manufactured cotton
goods. Evidently cotton is again
king and on larger field. American
cotton rules the world.
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Chicagoans are very much down.
hearted because the municipal owner
ship expert imported from Glasgow
says that city enterprise must be con-
Quoted upon strictly business princi.
pies or be doomed to failure. That
looks as though Chicago on Earth has
been vainly expecting the millennium
to open up in 1906.
THE English invaders of Tibet have
discovered some curious facts about
the language OF the natives. The
Tibetsns use an extraordinarily large
number OF consonants. The most
of the words can be articulated with
the mouth almost entirely closed.
This is said to bs due to the cutting
cold air Of the region, which makes it
necessary to keep the lips semi-closed
while speaking.
Robert Gardiner, who was placed on
trial in Chicago, charged with the muir.
der of Agnes Morrison, may escape the
death penalty because of a peculiar freak
of nature. Gardiner is suffering from
Justification of the vertebrse and of the
neck. His attorney, William Buck
ner, startled the court by announcing
that the hardening process had pro.
ceeded so far that it would be impos-
sible to bring any stain upon Gardi-
ner's neck sufficiently severe to cause
any particular discomfort.
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Physicians in Plainfield, N. j., are
much puzzled over the case of Garrett
Durham, who was thrown from troll.
ley car several weeks ago. He struck
on his head. Durham is now apparent
ly as we'll as ever, except that he is un-
able to pronounce nouns. He has no
difficulty with verbs, but when it
comes to naming objects he is all at
sea. Mr.. Dunham's case, according to
an expert, is extremely rare-psralysis
of the naming center-a part Of the
brain directly over the left ear.
A banquet in honor OF President
Roosevelt will be given on the forty
seventh anniversary of bis birth, Oc-
tober u, in the room in which the
President was born, at % East Twen-
tieth street, near Broadway, New York.
The President has been invited. A
club has been formed to preserve the
house in which he was born as q place
OF historical interest. The club mum.
bers about 300 members. 1t was or.
ganized on October II, 1904. by twen-
ty-five admirers of the President.
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Frank Monyhan, of Spokane county. {
appeals TO the Supreme Court for re- {
lief from peculiar grievance. He
declares that an electric railway CON-
pany has CONDEMNED right OF way
that runs through his bedroom; that
he has not had his day in court, ser.
vice having been made by publication {
that he did not know Of the suit till ,
the day before trial, and that he made
objections which were ignored by the ,
court. He asks for a writ of certiorari, ,
whereby the action OF the lower court
be reviewed. II
The Mill Greek railway, ak miles in
length, in Walls Walls county, per.
formed the unique feat of raising
enough wheat on its right-of.way to
pay its bonded interest and leave a
surplus. Still it went out of business
q short time ago. 1t was built several
years ago, somewhat like the Olympia.
Tenino road, as feeder to the North.
ern Pacific by sub Incorporation, and
has now passed into the posses lion OF
the Northwestern Improvement Co.
and will probably be part of the Hill
road down the north bank of the
Columbia.
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The United States Government be.
gun issuing postage stamps in 1S47.
Private postage stamps first appeared
in 1871. The first were issued by d.
0. Blood & Co., of Philadelphia. The
City Dispatch Post OF New York, next
issued stamps in 1912. Pomeroy's