Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-11-10

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
In Prussia, strange to relate, the
railroad station master is required by
regulations to take off his hat when
addressing women subordinates in his
office. To offset this Difference to the
sex, however, it is noted that the ath-
letic trainer In the Girls High School
at Saarbruecken is sustained by the
provincial government in his order
that young women should not wear
corsets during gymnastic exercises.
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Father Rodriguez. of the Vatican
astronomical observatory of Rome,
announces q sun-spot of extraordinar.
lily large dimensions, so large in fact,
as TO be seen with the unaided eye.
The area covered by it is 10000, OOO,-
600 square miles. Probably this is
the big fellow who has been knock
ing the climatic conditions the past
year, giving us tough vegetables. flavor
less strawberries and cherry season
lasting but week.
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A basketball State league is the
next fad on the carpet. 1t will be
under the control Of the high schools
OF Seattle Tacoma, Bellingham, Olym-
pis, and possibly of some OF the cities
OF Eastern Washington. Now that
provision has been made for the head
from books and feet from football, it
seems peculiarly appropriate that the
other muscles of the body should be
brought into active service by that
means of athletic training.
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A woman is said to make living at
the national capital-and a good one
toby breeding white, piebald, black
and Japanese mice. They sell at the
rate of ten dollars per hundred, which
number she delivers once a week to
the leading bird and pet dealer, and
with transient orders makes a like
amount, in addition, or about $40 per
week. The rearing of fancy mice in
wolves little labor or care, supply Of
feed and water twice day being the
extent OF the demand upon their keep.
er's attention.
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Col. William Simms, a we'll known
stock dealer, fell dead in the Little
Queen Clubrooms, at Huntington, w.
Va, lately, while playing game Of
poker. The game was a big one and
Col. Simms had been winning steadily.
When the dealer passed the hands
Col. Simms drew one card, and. after
looking at it, gave a gasp and fell dead.
Examination proved that he clutched
in his stiffening hands what is known
i'll card parlance as a "royal hu"h,"
having the ace. king, queen, jack and
ten OF diamonds.
A trial is to be made OF storage OF
next seasons wheat crop in Eastern
Washington in steel tanks, to be erect
ed at points of delivery and on farms
in which it may be placed soon as
threshed, to and from which il will be
handled in tight wagon boxes, thus
doing away almost entirely with the
use of sacks, and after the tanks are
established, reducing materially the
cost under the old method OF harvest.
ing grain. The tanks will be erected
and operated by the Farmers' Grain
and Supply company, whose Office is
at Harrington.
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Our whaling fleet is now 90 small,
through the development of oil-wells,
that Jouah's friend is mainly valuable
for his bones. 1t is no longer difficult
to keep track OF our whaling fleet, and
it will be still less so il the report is
verified that eleven whaling vessels
practically the entire fleet-have been
caught in the ice of the Arctic ocean,
where they will be compelled to re-
main until the thaw, next July or
August. The crews, numbering about
400 men, will be compelled to face the
rigors of an Arctic winter, and, worse
still, be placed under short rations.
It seems almost beyond belief that
the district embraced in Hong Kong,
China, does the largest shipping bust
ness in the world, except that OF Lon
don which is slightly larger. It
cleared. however, in 1903, over nine
and a.half million tons, the entrances
going little over those figures. Ant
werp, Belgium, comes close after,
with little over nine millions tons OF
clearances and New York next with
S,847 900 tons. In the matter of en-
frances, New York was next to Hong
Kong, with 9;S47,0OO tons. and Ant.
werp second with 100000. Later
figures are not at hand, but they
would probably not materially change
the relative business transacted.