Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-10-06
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
At one time strawberries were sold
strung OH Straws; thus they got their
name.
There are 39l railway passenger
stations within twelve miles of St
Pauls, London.
About one pineapple in $4,000 has
seeds in it, and it is from these seeds
that new varieties are produced.
\ movement is on foot in Missouri
to secure State legislation for making
owners of automobiles responsible for
all damages caused by use of their
dangerous vehicles.
a man named George +. Fissell, OF
Stockholm, 20 years of age, has made
wager to walk from Philadelphia to
San Francisco and return on a bicycle
to New York, within four months and
ten days. If he is successful he will
win $4,000; if not he loses like
amount.
Baseball managers are coming to
the conclusion that an eight months
season is altogether too long. 1t can
not he made success without the
" fans" and they lose interest when
the game degenerates into a mere
business proposition on the part OF
tieldsmen.
A child only twelve years OF age,
Margaret Darboe, was granted di.
vorce in the Carroll Circuit Court, at
Carrolton, KY, a few days ago. If
the decree had gone far enough to
place the debaucher of childhood be-
hind prison bars, the ends of Justice
would have been better served.
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The general government has Sc.
cured an option on 6IO acres of land,
at $3.50 an acre, near Illiopolis, ILL.,,
on which to found hospital for treat.
ment Of patients afflicted with stom-
ach and bowel disorders, to have a
OF 5000. The buildings will
probably cost half q million dollars.
1t is for treatment of army and navy
patients.
The Chinese have pa radical char
acters, but the Sanscrit language has
the greatest number wiz, AZ OF let
tiers in its alphabet. The alphabets of
different nations contain the following
number OF letters: Hebrew, q; Ital-
ian, o.; French, 25; German, 26 !;
Arabic, %; Persian 80; Slavonic, AZ !;
Latin, %; Greek, q; English, 26;
Spanish, p; Turkish, Is; Russian,
80; Sanscrit, Al.
A monstrosity in the shape OF a
man, weighing nearly 500 pounds,
Thomas Hogan, was married last week
in York State" at Tarrytown, to a
Miss Helen Fitzgerald who weighs
only 100 pounds. Hogan saw his wife
only once before he married her and
that was four weeks ago. He pro.
posed to her, and while at first she
looked upon the proposal as a good
joke she finally accepted him.
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At Wichita, Kansas, l75 women,
armed with picks, shovels and spades,
broke the ground for the Dodge Ave.
nue. Methodist Church. The struc.
ture is to cost $4,000. Most of the
money has been raised by the women.
In order that no one could boast OF
the honor of throwing the first shovel
tul, each woman, at q given signal,
turned over q shovelful OF dirt. Sew
eral thousand witnessed the event.
There are 100000 Chinese speak
ing the same language, making Chin
ese the most spoken language. There
are many dialects, however, which
seem scarcely to belong to the same
tongue. The inhabitants of Mongolia
and Tibet can barely understand the
dialect Of the people OF Pekin. Other
widely spoken languages are as fol.
lows, in millions: English, l20; Ger.
man, 70; Russian, 6S; Spanish, A !;
Portuguese, 80.
As nearly all heightened IDEAS are
probably the bathing estab.
for aristocratic dogs, now
maintained in Dresden, will be adopt
ed by the Smart Set, this side the
water, who have already held monkey
parties. Like their masters and mis-
tresses these dogs have been provided
with first, second and third class &C.
commodations, swimming basins and
private baths, not forgetting a hair
dresser's establishment.
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Robert Hammers, "a years old,
walked into the county hospital in
Chicago and announced to the physic-
ians in charge, Doctor, two years ago
l swallowed q lead pencil and l be.
lieve it is bothering me q bit" His
case was diagnosed as appendicitis, and
as case that required immediate
operation. The pencil, 2 inches in
length, and sharpe ned at one end. was
found imbedded in the appendix,
as Hammers had predicted.
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Germany is becoming alarmed over
the increasing of suicides of children.
In Saxony the record shows that while
only seven persons under fourteen
years Of age died from their own wolf.
ton in 1912, the number rose to
twenty-one in 1851. The suicides
of adults increased in the same time
from 1882 to 1,427. The causes oil
suicide in Germany are regarded as
being exceedingly subtle. Socialists
blame distressing economic conditions.
The clerical view is the increase oil
irreligion and the growth of sensual
materialism, while critics of the
school system assert that children are
forced too much.
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We drank 57,6O0,0O0,OO0 cups OF
coffee last year. Americans are the
greatest coffee drinkers in the world.
They consume half OF the entire
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