Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-09-29
. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES e

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The name of the Russian diplomat,
now so prominent in the popular eye,
is pronounced as if spelled Vit-te.
Indian Territory is now becoming
better known as Segroyah, which will
probably be the name adopted by
Statehood.
The oldest tree in the world, is said
to be a cypress in Chapultepee, Mex
leo, which according to the recognized
signs Of longevity, is G,2G0 years old.
New York has under contemplation
a hotel forty stories high. The top
story cannot fail to be an ideal place
for those who would really dwell In
Cloudland.
A heavy fall of rain in Missouri,
last week, OF five and fourteenth inches
in four days, injured considerable corn,
which has rotted in the fields, las much
of it was down or partly down. The
storm-center was Holden, whence the
report is sent out.
In several provinces of Russia the
sale of wives is a rapidly growing traffic
and frequently it is at the wife's own
desire. The cause is extreme poverty,
sometimes accompanied by cruelty
and drunkenness, which makes any
change acceptable to the weaker part
ner. The price paid is from $40 to
$75-never higher-and the woman
must be good field-worker as we'll as
a capable housewife.
The experiments in the shops OF the
Chicago typothetae since the printers
strike, began promise new field OF
industry for girl stenographers. From
the typewriter keyboard to that Of a
big type setting machine, the employ.
ers say, is only short remove. So
successful have the young women
proved as Operators" in the large
printing shops that the proprietors are
seeking for more of them.
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The Postal Department has ordered
the numbering of rural delivery boxes.
Each rural box, that under the regu-
lations is entitled to service, will be
numbered by the carrier beginning at
number l, which will be the first box
on his route reached by him after
leaving from the starting point. The
carrier will be required to keep a rec
ord of the location of the boxes and
notify the owner OF his number.
Two miles above Bellevue, Neb., the
other day the wreck OF the old steamer
City of New Orleans was uncovered by
q change in the waters of the Missouri.
She was wrecked in 1852, when carry.
ing a cargo OF 16O barrels of whiskey
from St. Louis to Sioux City. The
barrels were found intact. The whisky
was worth $4,000 fifty.three years
ago, estimated. 1t would take con-
noissur to estimate its value now.
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In Jackson township, Indiana, the
Of a turnpike road has
has been stopped on narrow strip of
jand between two lakes. 1t was found
that a subterranean connection existed
between the two bodies of water, with
a covering SO thin and frail that it
would uot bear the weight of the
gravel. A sounding through the
crust failed to find bottom at the
depth of sixty feet, and the route had
TO be abandoned.
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At Dunkirk, N. Y, hairpin was
found in a chunk OF soft coal, solidly
imbedded, on breaking it up for COM
bus.ion. The theory OF scientists that
coal requires countless centuries for
formation carries with il wonderful
antiquity for the bairpin. The un-
usual place where it was found, how.
ever, precludes any thought of un.
pleasant pecadillos. had not the lapse
of ages given assurance that parties
interested had gone to their reward,
whether good or bad.
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The conditions among the poorer
classes of London this year are said to
be appalling. An American tourist,
Just returned, says a. never saw so
many beggars anywhere, except in
Italy. Several thoroughfares literally
swarm with those who are in the last
stages of poverty and misery. From
all over Great Britain come reports
of thousands of unemployed organized
to demand relief. The situation is
worst in London, and in the police
courts evidence of the desperate char
acter OF the situation is furniohed each
day.
The difference between Theory and
Practice is illustrated by compar ison
Of the w. c. T. U. work, in the
line of persistent temperance reform
with that from the edicts of railroad
and other corporations, that none but
strictly temperate men be employed,
and that the bare fact OF taking a
" bracer," while on or off duty. is sui.
ficient justification for a discharge
1t works like a charm. Some corpor'
atoms have excluded cigarette.smok.
ing and chewing, which we think
should head the list, when barely pro-
prieties are considered.
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The State flower OF Arkansas and
Michigan is the apple-blossom, the
former established by act OF the Legis'
lature and the latter by vote OF the
school children. BY the latter means
the magnolia has been made the flower
of Mississippi, the wild rose OF Iowa
the golden rod of Kentucky and Ne
braska, and corn of Indiana. By leg
islative act, or common consent,
Texas has adopted the buffalo clover
or blue bonnet, Florida the magnolia
Kansas the sunflower, California the
eschscholtzia, Oregon the wild grape
and Washington the rhododendron.
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Some of the honored veterans have
attained the ripe age of centenarians